And yet another from Tombstone:
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why you doin’ this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: …I don’t.
And, along with many of the lines in Snatch, Farina’s off-handed, “Tony, do something terrible.”
Farina has a gift for plain-talking some really gruesome things.
Also from Snatch, Brick-Top’s line, “No thank you, Turkish. I’m sweet enough as it is.”
The implied menace is staggering.
Nice choice, Miller. The interaction between Henry and the hapless messenger is one my favourite moments. You can actually see the color drain out of the messenger’s face as he realizes what’s he’s just called down on his entire country.
Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara: “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”
and in the same movie, Hattie McDaniel: “I’s talking about Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He’ll be coming to Atlanta when he gets his leave - and you sittin’ there waitin’ for him jes’ like a spider.”
Silverado:
John Cleese plays Sheriff Langston, leading a posse chasing Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner. When they stop to check for tracks, John Glover lets them know he has them perfectly within his sights with his rifle.
While we’re on Tombstone, don’t forget Doc’s last words (spoken while looking at his bootless feet): “This is funny.”
Continuing with the Snatch theme (I swear I was thinking about this before I even read those!):
For pure delivery, since the line isn’t that special on its own:“Protection from what, Tommy? Ze Germans?”
And to continue the theme of the movie, the moment Tommy does, indeed, ‘use’ the gun (the scene when Turkish is getting the hell beaten out of him) “Have you got the minerals?”
It’s Tommy’s moment. He’s brave because his friend -needs- him to be brave in order to live. After this, he drops back to being comic relief, but for that one line, we see that Tommy would (literally) threaten four armed men with a gun he knows doesn’t work in order to save Turkish.
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die”
Did you know Shaw wrote that dialog? From IMDB:
A bit pissy on the date of the sinking, but oh well.
My favorite is more than just a line. It’s Wilfrid Brimley’s entire scene near the end of Absence of Malice.
One gem:
"Now we’ll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there’s gonna be two things true that ain’t true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin’ to know what in the good Christ - e’scuse me, Angie - is goin’ on around here. And the other’s I’m gonna have somebody’s ass in muh briefcase. "
Like The Princess Bride and Tombstone, I think O Brother Where Art Thou? Is also chock full of 'em. I don’t know if it’s the writing or the delivery, in most cases; I only know that George Clooney, John Tuturro and Tim Blake Nelson deliver all their funniest lines just perfectly.
Everett: The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now clearly, seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; it’s not so surprising, then, that an organism deprived of its earthly vision…
Pete: He said we wouldn’t get it! He said we wouldn’t get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stack-les.
(The best line)
Everett: Well, what the hell does he know? He’s just an ignorant old man.
Amy Acker as Winifred “Fred” Burkle to : *I’m not scared. I’m not scared. I’m not scared. Why can’t I stay?" {dies}
Again as Illyria “Would you like me to lie to you now?” (and Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce when he gives the heart aching reply “Yes, thank you, yes.”)
It’s not in the movie proper, but Nathan Fillion takes the cake when he ad-libs:
“Kaylee, find that kid who’s taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus. We need a hood ornament.” -Captain Malcom Reynolds, Serenity
One of my all-time favorites is in The Thing. A body the alien has replicated lies burning on a table. The head stretches off the body, falls to the floor, sprouts legs, and tries to scurry off. One of the characters says, sort of resentfully exhausted:
You gotta be f*ckin’ kiddin’
In an obscure movie House of the Long Shadows (a rework of Seven Keys to Baldpate). Vincent Price sweeps in and goes into a weird speech “There was never laughter…” Desi Arnaz Jr.(!) asks what he’s doing there, and Price replies, in scornfully aloof Shakespearean tones,
Please. Don’t interrupt me whilst I am soliliquizing.
That’s another that’s full of great lines. One that’s always good is Paul Sorvino looking up at Cliff as he’s framed by the spotlight, about to take off and rescue the girl:
“Go get 'em, kid.”
Evil Nazi actor guy, about to exit the burning zeppelin with Cliff’s rocketpack: “I’ll miss Hollywood.”
Cliff, who has taken precautions against this: “I don’t think so.”
The scriptwriter was evidently a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. From The Mikado:
And later, in the same scene…
Sundance we gotta jump
butch I cant swim
sundance the fall will probably kill us
Approximately but very logical
my fave from LOTR is:
“So tell me… friend. When did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?”
The way “friend” crumbles to ashes in his mouth and the disdain he places on “wise” are simply brilliant.
I’m back with another one. Realized how much it hit me last night. In the HBO series Carnivale, ‘Management’, a shadowy figure, has the line: (spoiler for the final episode of season one)
That is where you are wrong. G-d had nothing to do with Ruthie’s fate. It was Professor Lodz who murdered your friend.
Lodz’s dumbfounded response gets me, too, but the chillingness of the way Management says this all just grabs me. I figured out how much it did so when I started quoting that line a lot in City of Heroes when fighting badguys who would say things like, “You’ll never catch me!” or, “I’ll destroy you!”