Greatest movie and literary lines never spoken

In the entire run of Cosmos, Carl Sagan never once said “Billllions and billllions.”

He said both. The book doesn’t have “frankly,”, but the movie does.

If I remember Star Trek IV he does say “Scotty, beam me up” when he’s about to leave San Francisco to go find the whales (and that whale doctor jumps on him).

I’ve always been annoyed by this quote, as it was portrayed in the movie versus the book. It’s so famous! But also in the wrong spirit, in my opinion.

In the movie, Rhett says it in a very “f*ck you” tone of voice, like, “La-la, sorry for your troubles, chicky, buh-bye!”

In the book, he’s very worn down by a life of hiding his love from Scarlett, because he knows that she’d just use it against him as she has used other people for so long. Also, he was afraid of rejection. But, by the novel’s end, he’s just worn out. Well past middle age, once firm stomach sagging, borderline (if not full-blown) alcoholic. But Scarlett is overjoyed! She realizes she loves him! He must love her too–he just must! But, he doesn’t. He says, ruefully, that they’ve been at cross purposes. If only she’d come to the realization sooner–but no. “But-but-but,” Scarlett sputters. [I’m not quoting exactly, here] … But I love you!" As if this makes any difference. He no longer cares. He no longer gives a damn.

He says it softly, almost to himself. “My dear, I just don’t give a damn.”*

*Possibly not exact quote. I don’t have the book in front of me.

We still don’t have a cite for “That’s the beauty of it–it doesn’t do anything!”, do we? I nominate that one. :slight_smile:

If I remember right, the Astronauts say “Houston, we’ve had a problem here”, Or is it (Houston, *I think * we have had a problem here" ?) then Houston sez “Apollo13, say again?” Then the astronaut says "Houston… we have a problem". :confused: But I am willing to be told I am wrong. :wink:

What’s her face never said “Why don’t you come up and see me, sometime?”

IIRC, it was “Why don’t youcome upsometime and see me?”

Thesecodn one might not be right either,buit I know the way it’s often quoted (the first version) is wrong. And I also can’t recall who said it or from what movie, but I predict two posts until I get the answer.

Mae West.

Yea, but if we don’t know what movie it’s not from, how do we know it wasn’t spoken?

That’s funny. In his autobiography,* ‘Tony Curtis The Autobiography’*, Curtis himself claims he said it in “The Son of Ali Baba” (“Yondah lies de castle of my Faddah de Caliph”).

Perhaps this merits further investigation. Leonard Maltin wrote that “His accent was all too apparent, though the legend that he said “Yonda lies da castle of my fodda” is simply untrue.” Maltin mentions that movie in the next sentence. IMDb has no trivia, comments or quotes for Son of Ali Baba, and Wikipedia has no entry.

Does anybody know if Mae West really said “Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” And if she did, how in the world did they fly that one under the radar of the censors?

Black Shield of Falworth.

Also from IMDB
Jim Lovell: "Houston, we have a problem. "

and "The famous understatement was actually uttered twice by two astronauts. Jack Swigert said “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Mission Control said “Say again, please.” Then Jim Lovell said “Ahh, Houston, we’ve had a problem.” On the recording, Swigart is garbled at the beginning, while Lovell is clear, so the recording of Lovell is often heard, leading to the impression he said it, even though Swigart said it first. It’s commonly misquoted as “Houston, we’ve got a problem,” or “Houston, we have a problem.” Because “we’ve had” implies the problem has passed, Ron Howard chose to use “we have”.

There’s also never a “Quick, Watson! The needle!” At least not in Doyle’s stories.

Sorry- are you saying you’ve seen it and it’s in there?

Speaking of Mae West, I don’t think she ever said “Come up and see me sometime.”

Mae West says, “Why don’t you come up some time and see me?” to Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933).

She said it in her last movie, Sextette (1978), where we’re to believe the sight of an 85-year-old woman would give a man a boner.

Jill Watts, in Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, says that West coined the line in 1936, when she was greeting an LAPD officer assigned to escort her home upon her return to Hollywood from a visit to Chicago.

Tangent: W.C. Fields says “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” to Mae West at the end of My Little Chickadee.