He lives inside his own heart. That’s an awful big place to live in…
Sling Blade
I didn’t remember that joke, but he probably did. In that show House of Cards*, Kevin Spacey’s name is Frank Underwood and I believe he has cuff-links that say F and U that he wears. Same joke, but better done in the Odd Couple.
*American version
“Professor Elwell, you are the only man I know who can say ‘malignant’ the way other people say ‘Bingo!’”
—Dr. Praetorius (Cary Grant) to Prof. Elwell (Hume Cronyn) in People Will Talk (1951)
“Walter, you’re wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way.”
—Rosalind Russell to Cary Grant in His Girl Friday (1940).
Life. Don’t talk to me about life.
-Marvin the Paranoid Android
“I’m a clerk. Gold frames look good on clerks. I like the way I look, so don’t hassle me you little fool.” - Kung Fu Hustle
"It’s easy to confuse what is with what ought to be. Especially when what is has worked in your favor."
Game of Thrones, the TV show. Was written for the show, not appearing in the books. I’ve quoted it often.
“Danny’s only a man. But he break wind at both ends simultaneous - which is more, I reckon, than any god can do.”
Michael Caine (praising Sean Connery) in the 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King.
Another good one from GoT:
“I choose violence” - Cersei Lannister
Simon said, on many occasions, that he didn’t create the name Felix Unger specifically for that joke, but that the joke occurred to him later as he was writing that scene. It seems a little implausible, but if it’s a fib, it’s one he stuck to for his entire life.
I think in the original he was Francis Urquhart? Not sure he had the same cufflinks though!
As I recall, in one of his expository monologues, he made a point of mentioning the nickname F.U. as being particularly appropriate for the party’s Chief Whip.
“I looked at the trap, Ray.”
It’s a stupid, throwaway joke but it’s hilarious.
“Then it exploded.”
Galaxy Quest.
I thought it was “psalm-singing,” which seems to make more sense.
“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.” – Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
The first sentence in the book, even.
“I’m fixin’ to do somthing dumber than hell, but I’m goin’ anyways.”
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!
Blockquote
after the movie opens a long shot of NYC squalor and it says “new york city 1921” the camera pans to a squat old lady trudging in the snow who looks up and says in a tired-sounding voice “the lower east side … it really sucks”
the first line spoken in johnny dangerously
“Say what again, SAY WHAT AGAIN, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker.” -Jules