# favorite line from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 8, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257 "2001-04-08T15:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/1 "2001-04-08T15:28:17Z")
what is your favorite line from a movie? I always liked the last line from incredible shrinking man, but can’t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/2 "2001-04-08T15:43:03Z")
I am not sure how the others dopers feel about a particular word in my fav. line, so I will assume you know what it is. > [@](#): > > [sub]From _Pulp Fiction_ > Jimmy - _Ya know what’s on my mind right now? It’s **AIN’T** the coffee in my kitchen, it’s the dead [word here] in my garage!_ > > Jules - _Oh, Jimmy, don’t even worry about it-_ > > Jimmy - _No no no no, listen to me… when you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign in the front of my house that said “Dead [word here] storage”?_ > > Jules - _Jimmy, you know I didn’t see no shit-_ > > Jimmy - _DID YOU NOTCIE A SIGN IN THE FRONT OF MY HOUSE THAT SAID “DEAD [word here] STORAGE”?_ > > Jules - _[pause]no, I didn’t…_ > > Jimmy - _You know why you didn’t see that sign?_ > > Jules - _…why?_ > > Jimmy - _Cause it isn’t there cause storing dead [word here] ain’t my f_cking business!\* > > Jules - B_ut Jimmy, we aren’t gonna store the mutha f_cka\* [/sub] That cracks me up everytime…I think it’s because Sam Jackson is a superior actor, directed by a superior director (Edited to fix coding) [Edited by TVeblen on 04-09-2001 at 09:41 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Maxwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jack\_Maxwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Maxwell)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/3 "2001-04-08T18:18:53Z")
My fav right now is from Boondock Saints. “Your what? Your precious little what? I will shoot myself in the head right now if you can tell me the name of that cat. Oh, what color was it bitch?” You know that’s not nearly as funny just reading it. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/4 "2001-04-08T18:27:42Z")
From Body Heat: “You’re not very bright, are you? I like that in a man.” Kathleen Turner slides it past _sooooo_ smoothly. She made a terrific villaness. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/5 "2001-04-08T18:54:52Z")
**Gas Station Attendant:** Just passing through, huh? Boy, that motor’s sure hot! You gals really must have been moving on these little machines. Yessir, the thrill of the open road. New places, new people, new sights of interest. Now that’s what I believe in, seeing America first! Yes ma’am, what can I do for you today? **Varla:** Just your job, squirrel. Fill her up. – from Russ Meyers’ FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/6 "2001-04-08T19:15:32Z")
My first favorite is my signature, which I first heard from the movie **Steel Magnolias** , uttered by the character Claree (Olympia Dukakis). I love it so much that I had it tattooed on my hip as a present to myself for my 39th birthday. (Stop laughing at me…) My second favorite is from the movie **Arthur**. Dudley Moore is very morose, and says to Liza Minelli: _“Not all of us drink because we’re poets. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.”_ I just love that line. It gives me chills every time I hear it. Of course, it was way too long for a tattoo, so I had to go with the other one. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/7 "2001-04-08T19:18:19Z")
There are so many that I like. I mean, there are serious ones, funny ones, romantic ones. One of my favorite serious ones is from _The American President_ > [@](#): > > You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/8 "2001-04-08T19:47:04Z")
Lots of great film quotes within their contexts are at [http://www.filmsite.org/moments0.html](http://www.filmsite.org/moments0.html) ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/9 "2001-04-08T20:01:46Z")
What we have here, is failure to communicate. I just like that movie. Can’t eat hard boiled eggs any more tho. Oh ya, “Cool Hand Luke” was the movie ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/10 "2001-04-08T20:16:43Z")
Some of my favorites: “I don’t know if I started drinking because my wife left me, or if my wife left me because I started drinking.” – _Leaving Las Vegas_ “How did you get the money, anyway?” “I guess you could say I sold my soul.” “Yeah, I get a lot of that.” – _Tomcats_ “Do I amuse you?” – Joe Pesci in _Goodfellas_ “Respect the cock! Tame the cunt!” – Tom Cruise in _Magnolia_ “He’ll see the Big Board!” – _Dr. Strangelove_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/11 "2001-04-08T22:09:14Z")
From “Excalibur”: King Arthur to Guenevere, “I have often thought that, in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future and can be just a man, that we may meet, and you will come to me and claim me as yours, and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have.” ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/12 "2001-04-08T22:09:44Z")
“Oh, man! I just shot Marvin in the face!” From the immortal Pulp Fiction “You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” ~Dr. Strangelove “I do have fast food experience.” “Yeah, from 20 years ago.” “Well surely you must have some sort of training program to explain such technological advances.” ~American Beauty ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/13 "2001-04-08T22:18:01Z")
Raymond in “Rain Man”: “I’m an excellent driver.” ---
**Author:** ![riley\_dieffenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@riley\_dieffenbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riley_dieffenbach)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/14 "2001-04-08T22:41:55Z")
Would have to be Fargo - Scene where two prostitutes are asked to give a description of Steve Buscemi’s character. “Well he’s kinda funny lookin.” “Funnier than most even!” Such a perfect description of him despite the vagueness. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/15 "2001-04-09T00:53:19Z")
“Now there’s something you don’t see every day.” --Bill Murray in Ghostbusters “It’s a hundred and four miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it’s dark out, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.” --the Blues Brothers Multiple bits from The Big Lebowski, notably Maude: “My art has been called vaginal, and that makes some men very uncomfortable. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.” Dude: \ Oh yeah? Jesus the Pederast Bowler: Let me tell you something man. You pull any of that shit on the lanes, you flash a pistol, I take it from you and shove it up your ass and pull the trigger till it goes ‘click’. Donny: Jesus. Jesus: “That’s right man! Don’t fuck with zee Jesus!” Dude: Hey, easy man! I got a beverage here! Walter: Fair? Fair??! Who’s the fucking nihilist here? (I love that film.) “I for one do not think that problem was that the band was ‘down’. I think that the problem may have been that we had a Stonehenge monument onstage that was in danger of being crushed, by a dwarf!” --David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/16 "2001-04-09T01:54:04Z")
Psieker is going to love this one. My favorite line from a movie right now is from _Army of Darkness_. “You ain’t leading but two things right now: Jack and Shit. And Jack just left town.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/17 "2001-04-09T02:02:22Z")
“This is the most uncomfortable coffin I’ve ever been in.” –Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau) in ED WOOD “I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful” (repeated)–Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) in WHAT ABOUT BOB? “We’re not going anywhere, we’re not going anywhere, we’re not going anywhere…Where are you going?”–Arnie Grape (Leonardo DiCaprio) in WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE Practically anything that Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) growls in SLING BLADE, especially: “Some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a Kaiser blade. It’s shaped kinda like a bananner.” ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/18 "2001-04-09T02:03:50Z")
“I knew it, I’m surrounded by assholes!” -_ **Spaceballs** _ ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/19 "2001-04-09T02:10:06Z")
Just read the sig line… ---
**Author:** ![riley\_dieffenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@riley\_dieffenbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riley_dieffenbach)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/20 "2001-04-09T02:23:21Z")
Hardy - I could copy the dialogue from either Clerks or Fargo. Any line would qualify as a favorite. I’m especially fond of the scene in Clerks with the mother asking Randall to order a children’s video fo her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257.md?page=2)