Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
That’s right, Matrix! You did!
I lied.
(from Commando)
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Fate, It Seems, Is Not Without A Sense Of Irony.”
Got frop?
“Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.” - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Love me, hate me, kill me—anything. Just let me know it.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand.
Nah, calling it your job don’t make it right, Boss.
–Luke Jackson
“You can imagine what happens next.”
“He fixes the cable?”
-The Big Lebowski
Danger doesn’t exist for Teela Brown.
Sweetheart, acting is acting like you’re not acting.
“An edible complex is when a guy likes his mom’s cooking better than eating out.”
–Hawkeye in M*A*S*H* (TV)
Elisha Cook Jr’s character’s name was Wilmer Cook, as in the book.
Almost all of John Houston’s dialog is taken verbatim from the book. He said he couldn’t improve it.
Yeah, I’d read the book could remember whole passages when I heard them in the movie.
“Don’t think that, just because I speak with an accent, I think with an accent.”
You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in… 60 years.
- Charles Foster Kaine
“I don’t deserve this, to die like this.”
“Deserves got nothing to do with it.”
Memorable, if not necessarily in the way the makers would have expected :
“Watch out for Sodomite patrols!” (From the movie Sodom And Gomorrah)
Good. Bad. I’m the guy with the gun.
Here’s a fresh one. A great description of NYC from yesterday’s Night Court:
Your whole life you hear about how magical New York is. And when you get here, it’s just scaffolding and weird puddles.
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool
Neil Young-Rockin’ in the Free World
A bit surprised no one has mentioned:
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, “Never get involved in a land war in Asia” but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”
That whole movie has a lot of memorable lines.