Can You Name Any Famous Lines Made By Women in Movies

In My Humble Opinion
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If you think about it, it is hard to remember any. I guess guys seem to have all the good lines in movies. I mean we could post all day lines from guys. “I’ll be Back”, “we are going to need a bigger boat”, yippi ka ya m**** f*****" etc. ect.

But what lines can you remember woman saying that are famous. I have tried to think of some but it is hard. I can remember what Sally said in “When Harry Met Sally” but I don’t know if having a fake orgasm counts as a line. There has got to be some from Sigorney Weaver in the “Alien” series but I can’t think of any. It is weird.

So what about it? Can y’all think of some famous lines from women in the movies or it is just me? And if you can’t why do yo think that is?

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“I’ll think about it tomorrow… for tomorrow is another day”.
Granted, not nearly as popular as Clark Gable’s “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” line, but it’s still widely mocked, so people do remember it.
Isn’t Katherine Hepburn the one who says “Guess who’s coming for dinner”?

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Mae West - I forget the movie…

“Come up and see me sometime”

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Mae West “Come up and see me sometime” (though that might not have been in a movie)

Bette Davis “we’re in for a bumpy ride”

Carl Reiner’s mom (in when Harry met Sally) “I’ll have what she’s having”

there are more.

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Bill, I like to always give you the benefit of the doubt, but your OP irks me, as an actress and a woman. Please tell me honestly that you’re not trying to say that men are better actors than women.

anyhoo…

“I’m not bad…I’m just drawn that way” Jessica Rabbit

“I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore” Dorothy, Wizard of Oz

“Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” Mae West (?)

“Buckle your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” Bette Davis

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” Blanche Du Bois, Streetcar Named Desire

“NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!” Mommy Dearest…

Are six I came up with in twenty seconds. I’m sure there’ll be more…

jarbaby

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“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

“You know how to wistle don’t you? Just put your lips together and blow.”

“Why don’t you come up some time, see me?”

Oh, my god. There were two posts and I hit post reply, and wrote that and scrolled down and most of them were already there. However I think mine are more acurate so I’ll leave them.

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Jarbabyj,

No no. Don’t let it irk you. I didn’t mean it that way at all. What I was saying is that it weird that you can’t remember as many lines from women as you can from men. And I was wondering why? Maybe it is because men get better lines or deeper voices are easier to remember. I don’t know. It is just something that came up the other night at dinner with some friends so I thought it would be interesting to see why and a little survey here.

And if you don’t believe that it is true, list as many lines as you can from women and then from men and see which one has more.

We did it with the people at the restaurant and there was a big disparity between the two.

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You’re Terminated, MF !!

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No, Bill, the reason you can’t emember any lines from women in the movies is 'cause of the ** movies** that you watch - come on, really, Prison movies, action flicks, Bond movies? That’s why you have a hard time remembering memorable lines from women in the movies.

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Two from Sunset Boulevard:

“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

From Pillow Talk:

“Mr. Allen, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are some men who don’t end every sentence with a proposition.”

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BTW, the Mae West quote (usually misquoted as “Come up and see me sometime”) was in a movie and she said it to Cary Grant :slight_smile: .
One more Bette Davis:

“But you are, Blanche, you are.”
Oh, and

“Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

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From “Casablanca,” Ingrid Bergman offered the most misquoted line in movie history:

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake.
Sam: I don’t know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: (whispered) Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’

No one EVER says “Play it again, Sam.”

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. . . which is why he can’t think of any quotes. Bill watches “guy movies.”

“Fasten your seatbelts–it’s going to be a bumpy night!” Bette Davis, All About Eve

“You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together, and blow.” Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not

“As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!” Viven Leigh, Gone With the Wind

“When I’m good, I’m very good; but when I’m bad, I’m better,” and “It’s not the men in my life, it’s the life in my men.” Mae West, I’m No Angel

“This isn’t a hospital, it’s an insane asylum!!!” Sally Kellerman, MASH*

“What I want is to suck his cock.” Julie Christie, Shampoo

“She’s my sister and my daughter!” Faye Dunaway, Chinatown

I could go on and on . . .

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I think Sigourney Weaver yells “Take that, you f’n b***!!!” when she kills the queen alien in Aliens.

Not a movie line, but Flo telling Mel “Kiss mah grits!” on Alice was a classic.

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“You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” Lauren Bacall
“I’m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille.” Gloria Swanson
“I’ll get you my pretty. And your little dog, too.” Margaret Hamilton
“Hey, boy…what you doing with my Mama’s car?” Faye Dunaway
“I bought you some peach ice cream. You better hurry up and eat it…its starting to run.” Madonna
“Beulah, peel me a grape.” Mae West
“Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’” Ingrid Bergman

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In Gone With the Wind:

“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!!”
(Forgive me) Love Story:

“Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry”

Sigourney Weaver in “Aliens”:

“Get away from her, you BITCH!!”

You do have to wonder, though, why there are no memorable lines from, say, “Thelma and Louise”

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Also from GWTW

“I don’t know nothing 'bout birthing babies.” Butterfly McQueen

“It ain’t fittin’, I tells ya, it just ain’t fittin’.” Hattie McDaniel

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Three by Lina Lamont (Singin’ In the Rain):
“Whaddaya think I aaaam, dumb ‘r sumthin’?”

“Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge, put t’g’ther!”

“If we bring a li’l joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if all our hard work ain’t been in vain fer nuthin’!”

The little girl from Poltergiest:
“They’re heeeeere.”

Princess Leia
“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!”

“Lord Vader, I thought I recognized your foul stench”

“Aren’t you a little short for a storm-trooper?”

Grizelda from the Court Jester:
“No! The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!”

and, Ripley from Aliens
“I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them f*cking each other over for a goddamn percentage!”

“Get away from her, you bitch!”

Just off the top of my head

Fenris

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::in the voice of bugs bunny:: “eh… could be.” :smiley:

But in my defense I have seen “Terms of Endearment”(both) and the “Sound Of Music”(my mom made me watch it) turns out I ended up liking it. I don’t like sentimental women movies to much though. They are too mushy and sad. (makes my sinuses feel kinda funny) I liked the Alien Series and any Goldie Hawn movie. Actually, I think Goldie is the funniest female in Hollywood.

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Thanks, Bete, for accurately quoting that Mae West line! Just a few pre-1940 gems, off the top of my head:

“Kiss me, my fool!”—Theda Bara, “A Fool There Was” (1915)

“I ask you, as one lady to another, isn’t that a load of clams?”—Jean Harlow, “Bombshell,” 1933

“Would you be terribly shocked if I slipped into something more comfortable?”—Jean Harlow, “Hell’s Angels” (1930)

“Hold on a minute, gangrene just set in.”—Ginger Rogers, “Stage Door” (1939)

“As long as there’s pavements, sister, YOU’VE got a job.”—Joan Blondell, “Footlight Parade” (1933)

“Whadda these Latin Americans got below the equator that we don’t?”—bit player, “Flying Down to Rio” (1933)

“Ah’d love ta kiss ya, but Ah jes’ washed mah hair!”—Bette Davis, “Cabin in the Cotton” (1932)

“There’s Anytime Annie—the only time she said no, she didn’t hear the question.”—Una Merkel, “Gold Diggers of 1933”

“Go. I am wee-wee of you now.”—Mawene Dietwich, “Shanghai Expwess” (1932)