# Best Line Delivery \[Possible Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950 "2006-08-23T22:28:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/41 "2006-08-24T22:04:19Z")
_The Princess Bride_ I like Buttercup’s response Westley’s “I told you I would always come for you. Why didn’t you wait for me?” “Well… you were dead.” The matter-of-fact, yet slightly confused tone is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/42 "2006-08-24T22:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] Its a great movie moment- The hero has to face the bad guy. The bad guy is better than the hero. The hero knows this but has to face him anyway. The villain Johnny Ringo shows up and expects to find Wyatt Earp, the hero. Instead he finds Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday and Johnny is afraid. “I’m your huckleberry.” [/QUOTE] Definitely a great moment, but I think I would choose their first confrontation in the film, in which Doc utters my favorite line: “I’ve got two guns; one for each of ya.” ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/43 "2006-08-24T22:55:09Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > - This bit of dialog from X-Men is a real jewel: I’ve always loved McKellen’s delivery of the line: “I will bring you hope, old friend, and I ask only one thing in return - don’t get in my way.” So chilling, and yet you can feel the old but strained friendship. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/44 "2006-08-24T23:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] Silkly smooth Darth Vader: “You think perhaps you are being treated unfairly?” [/QUOTE] Or, we could just do a **Darth Vader’s Greatest Hits** [sup]TM[/sup]: “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” “Apology accepted, Captain Needa.” “If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?” Hmm…all of my quotes coincided with someone getting choked or Force-choked. Maybe it isn’t what you say, nor how you say it, but whether or not your listener can breathe at the moment. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/45 "2006-08-25T00:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] _The Princess Bride_ I like Buttercup’s response Westley’s “I told you I would always come for you. Why didn’t you wait for me?” “Well… you were dead.” The matter-of-fact, yet slightly confused tone is perfect. [/QUOTE] This movie is so chock full of them, you can list the whole damn script and be right on. “Are you hurt?” “Hurt? You’re alive! If you want I can fly.” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/46 "2006-08-25T02:30:31Z")
From a fledgling actress, no less… Emma Watson in the first _Harry Potter_ flick, on meeting Ron Weasley: a split-second look up and down, and a very British “Charmed,” that indicates flawlessly but subtly she was anything but. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/47 "2006-08-25T03:35:57Z")
Not a movie, but a TV series – so sue me 🙂 In the most recent episode of **Deadwood** , Ian McShane says to Trixie the Whorewho he came close to killing once and generally abused many times but that was when he was irredeemable, after she tried but failed to kill a bad guy for the good of the camp: **You loopy f** _ing c_\*\*\*\*, with so much affection and love that you’d think you were watching An Affair to Remember. ---
**Author:** ![Jean\_Poutine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@Jean\_Poutine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jean_Poutine)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/48 "2006-08-25T13:58:43Z")
Alec Baldwin “I \*am \* God” ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/49 "2006-08-25T14:14:12Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] “You can’t handle the truth!” [/QUOTE] I was always partial to “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!” The court room goes silent, and Tom Cruise does a great job of looking surprised while also restraining his glee. He collects himself and then orders Jack to be arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/50 "2006-08-25T14:27:50Z")
From **Unforgiven** “I’ll see you in hell, William Munny.” “Yeah” With that one word, Eastwood’s character has stopped running from his past, and has accepted that he is a “bad” man. He has stopped blaming his past on the alchohol, and stopped kidding himself that he has changed. He has also realized and accepted all the consequences of that. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/51 "2006-08-25T20:16:37Z")
Cliff Secord has just had his first big flight using the rocketpack; after a series of misadventures, it ends ignominiously as he skitters across a lake and ends up lying in the mud in a clump of cattails. His friend Peevy finds him: “Cliff! Cliff! You all right?” Cliff takes off the helmet and draws a shakey breath: “I…like it!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/52 "2006-08-25T23:34:58Z")
Ellen Ripley’s ( **Aliens** ) incredulous “They can _bill_ me!” when told that the alien infested colony she wants to nuke has “a substantial dollar value” attached to it. And a spoiler tag on the extreme off chance that anyone ever actually watches the animated **The Plague Dogs** without reading the novel first: [spoiler]The two dogs, Rowf and Snitter are being chased by the military trying to destroy them and are cornered on a beach. In order to convince Rowf to swim for it, Snitter tells him of an island paradise out in the distance. They both strike out into the water and swim out to sea until eventually they begin to tire and flounder. Rowf says that they must be close to the island by now to which Snitter flatly replies: “There is no island, Rowf”.[/spoiler] Just typing it chokes me up. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/53 "2006-08-26T01:21:54Z")
Gert Frobe’s genial dismissal to Sean Connory in _Goldfinger._ “Do you expect me to talk?” “No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.” Tony Curtis, proving that every actor has one great line in them. “I’m Spartacus!” Harrison Ford to Carrie Fisher, _The Empire Strikes Back_. “I love you.” “I know.” ---
**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/54 "2006-08-26T01:31:28Z")
From O’ Brother, Where Art Thou Everett: “Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere.” ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/55 "2006-08-26T07:18:01Z")
“Well, nobody’s perfect” - Joe E. Brown in _Some Like It Hot_ “FUCK YOU - that’s my name” - Alec Baldwin in _Glengarry Geln Ross_ and a small moment from a sadly negelcted film - Eli Wallach’s “This is the hero who put Joe Zasa in his grave” from _Godfather III_. So marvellously oleagenous. mm ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/56 "2006-08-26T07:58:17Z")
A few of my all time favorites: Vir talking to Mr. Morden: “Someday, someone is going to put your head on top of a pike as a reminder that some favors come with too high a price. and I will look up into your dead eyes and wave like this” [makes little finger waving gesture]. The next season Londo tells Vir that there is a present for him out in the garden. It is of course Mordens head on a pike. He waves at the head and flounces off. Anthony Soprano Jr seems to have a couple beautiful hits in the series: “Dad, is that what a crack ho looks like?” “So what? No Fuckin Ziti?” Moonstruck has a couple of my wife **Cyn** ’s favorites “Feed another bite of my food to that dog old man and I will kick you till you’re dead” and “Someday you’ll be dead, and I will come to your funeral in a red dress” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/57 "2006-08-26T21:00:35Z")
Prizzis honor,when Turners character tells Charlie she has been doin 3 or 4 hits a year. He says that many. She says thats not so many when you consider the size of the male population. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/58 "2006-08-26T21:27:44Z")
Continuing the gangster theme, Gabriel Byrne at the climax of _Miller’s Crossing_: “What heart?” And then he shoots. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/59 "2006-08-26T23:34:50Z")
In “_Downfall_”, there’s a scene where Weiderlein (the one of the last German Generals left standing in Berlin) is reporting to Hitler on the hoplessness of the situation, telling him that 15,000 - 20,000 young officers have been killed in the battle so far. Hitler (Bruno Ganz in an amazing performance) simply looks at him with a look of patronising, weary disdain and says “that’s what young men are for” in such a fashion that immediatley reaffirms Hitler as the universal gold standard for crazy/evil. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950/60 "2006-08-27T00:12:11Z")
Aliens, during the climax when Ripley is driving the loader and is about to confront the monster, which is itself about to attack Newt: **Get away from her, you _bitch_!** Tombstone, when Cowboy Bill has just killed the sheriff and Wyatt has him in custody, Ike is threatening Wyatt, who puts his gun to Ike’s forehead. **You’re friends might get me, but not before I turn your head into a canoe.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-line-delivery-possible-spoilers/369950.md?page=4)