# Action movie one-liners **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680 "2007-06-27T20:37:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/1 "2007-06-27T20:37:07Z")
A wonderfully fun article at Slate: [Yippee-Ki-Yay: The greatest one-liner in movie history.](http://www.slate.com/id/2168927/) The author, Eric Lichtenfeld, is a friend of mine, and he’s trying to score “hits” on the IMDB. If you’re registered there, and if you like the article, and if you’d like to post a comment: > **[IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows](https://www.imdb.com/)** > > IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming... My favorite action picture line is not included in the article. It’s John Wayne: “Never apologize, it’s a sign of weakness.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/2 "2007-06-27T21:17:43Z")
Fun article. I’ve heard it said here that the movie “Aliens” is just one long, beautiful bunch of one-liners strung together. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/3 "2007-06-27T21:32:22Z")
I liked Willis’ variation on the theme on _The Daily Show_ last night. “Yabba-dabba-do, motherfucker.” ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/4 "2007-06-27T21:32:52Z")
I liked the article too, but come on, how can you not include _Casablanca_? Best one-liners **ever**! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/5 "2007-06-27T21:58:52Z")
My all time favorite is “Who _are_ those guys?” from _ **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.** _ It gets a giggle every time and reinforces the essential connectedness of the characters–it’s kind of a two person one liner, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/6 "2007-06-27T22:08:04Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I liked Willis’ variation on the theme on _The Daily Show_ last night. “Yabba-dabba-do, motherfucker.” [/QUOTE] My friend and I were watching the preview for Live Free or Die Harder and they show him uttering the immortal line…the crowd cheers and she leans over and says “What did he say?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/7 "2007-06-27T22:09:27Z")
[QUOTE=5que] I liked the article too, but come on, how can you not include _Casablanca_? Best one-liners **ever**! [/QUOTE] Not really much of an action movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/8 "2007-06-27T22:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] My all time favorite is “Who _are_ those guys?” from _ **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.** _ It gets a giggle every time and reinforces the essential connectedness of the characters–it’s kind of a two person one liner, if you will. [/QUOTE] Butch Cassidy also contains my favorite line, one I tend to get quite a bit of use of during the course of a debate season: “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.” ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/9 "2007-06-28T05:14:55Z")
The Long Kiss Goodnight is sublime for one-liners. Though, otherwise, no one seems to have liked it. > **[The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/quotes/)** > > The Long Kiss Goodnight: Directed by Renny Harlin. With Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko. Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no... ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/10 "2007-06-28T05:29:05Z")
“Shit, we gettin beaten up by the inventors of Scrabble.” Damon Wayans, _The Last Boy Scout_ ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/11 "2007-06-28T06:07:36Z")
My favorite: I have had it with these motha-fucking snakes on this motha-fucking plane! ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/12 "2007-06-28T10:13:23Z")
There were a lot of things he could say. ‘Son of a bitch!’ would have been a good one. Or he could say, ‘Welcome to civilization!’ He could have said, ‘Laugh this one off!’ He might have said, ‘Fetch!’ But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder. - Terry Pratchett, showing his opinion of action movie one-liners in _The Fifth Elephant_. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/13 "2007-06-28T12:02:13Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] My all time favorite is “Who _are_ those guys?” from _ **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.** _ It gets a giggle every time and reinforces the essential connectedness of the characters–it’s kind of a two person one liner, if you will. [/QUOTE] Is it a one-liner if it is repeated? An overlooked Arnold one-liner is in the movie “Eraser”. He shoots the alligator and then says, “You’re luggage.” A one-liner to a dead alligator. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/14 "2007-06-28T14:08:25Z")
“Look at the big brain on Brad.” Jules in Pulp. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/15 "2007-06-28T14:51:14Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] My favorite: I have had it with these motha-fucking snakes on this motha-fucking plane! [/QUOTE] Which movie is that from? Yeah, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/16 "2007-06-28T15:03:52Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] “Look at the big brain on Brad.” Jules in Pulp. [/QUOTE] “…which one is yours?” - Tim Roth “…The one that say’s, ‘Bad Mother-Fucker’ on it” - Jules. ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/17 "2007-06-28T15:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] An overlooked Arnold one-liner is in the movie “Eraser”. He shoots the alligator and then says, “You’re luggage.” A one-liner to a dead alligator. Awesome. [/QUOTE] Different strokes and all that, but I thought that was the most over-stretched one-liner I’d ever heard. For me, it marked the end of Arnie as action hero. From “The Matrix” – “I know kung fu.” “Show me.” Classic. Just classic. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/18 "2007-06-28T15:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=kurilla] Different strokes and all that, but I thought that was the most over-stretched one-liner I’d ever heard. For me, it marked the end of Arnie as action hero. [/QUOTE] Were you there for Commando, Raw Deal, Red Heat – you know – the BAD stuff? “You’re luggage” is what Arnold made his bones on. . .not “hasta la vista, baby.” ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/19 "2007-06-28T16:02:09Z")
We need guns… lots of guns ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680/20 "2007-06-28T16:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Were you there for Commando, Raw Deal, Red Heat – you know – the BAD stuff? “You’re luggage” is what Arnold made his bones on. . .not “hasta la vista, baby.” [/QUOTE] I’ve seen them all. Several times. DH is a HUGE fan. “I’ll be back” is what he’s known for, though. Heck, they’ve even got a classical music based joke from that one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/action-movie-one-liners/409680.md?page=2)