# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/61 "2001-04-16T02:27:51Z")
Of course, I HAD to read all these at work. Just to make sure I don’t repeat any, of course! Oh, please consider these paraphrases. Blazing Saddles Gene Wilder (spoken to two passing Klansmen): “Boys! Oh boys!” Clevon Little: “Where da white wimmen at?” Railroad foreman: “What in the name of the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on here? We’re out here to get some track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!” (And, of course, “Pardon me while I whip this out!”) Aliens: “Game over man! Game over!” Patton: “No poor dumb bastard has ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the _other_ poor dumb bastard die for his.” “When you put your hand, into a face full of _goo_ that used to be your best friend’s face … well, you’ll know what to do.” MASH: (spoken during the football game.) “All right you sonofabitch, your fuckin’ head’s comin’ right off.” (First time I heard these words. Made an impression on the wee bairn.) Oh, and when Gould and Sutherland bursting into the operating room. Nurse: “What are you two hoodlums doing here?” Gould: “Lady, we are the _pros_ from Dover, and we figure to crack this kid’s chest and make it out to the golf course before dark. So I want you to get this kid prepped for surgery, and then call down to the kitchen for some sandwiches. Ham will be fine, steak even better, and see if you can find one nurse who can work in close without getting her **tits** in my way!” From one of the “Pink Panther” movies. Clouseau’s in a mansion and he gets his hand caught in a greave with a ball and chain attached. He manages to swing it wildly and destroy a concert grand piano. Woman: “That was a valuable antique!” Clouseau: “Natt anny moire” (That became a common phrase with me.) Ghostbusters: Bill Murray: “Let’s show this bitch how we do things downtown.” Annie Potts: “I like to read, too. Do you like to read?” One of the Ghostbusters: “Print is dead!” ---
**Author:** ![dp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dp)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/62 "2001-04-16T04:44:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\*Well…i adore **Blue Velvet** , so naturally most of my favorite quotes come from it: > > Frank-“Right Ben. LET’S GO FUCK. I’ll fuck anything that moves!!!” > > Frank-“Don’t be a good neighbor to her or I’m gonna send you a love letter. straight from my heart, fucker. You know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet. straight from my gun, fucker. Once you get a love letter from me, you’re fucked forever.Understand, Fuck?” > > God bless Dennis Hopper…🙂 > \*\* I am a Hopper fan myself. I think that you probably have seen this but just in case that you haven’t:Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank found the character to repulsive and too intense.Dennis Hopper,by contrast,is reported to have exclaimed, “I got to play Frank because I AM Frank!” ---
**Author:** ![ModernRonin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@ModernRonin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ModernRonin2)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/63 "2001-04-16T05:03:01Z")
I have to second the Ripley “nuke the site from orbit” quote from Aliens, and the “loudmouthed braggards” quote from Evil Dead 3. Also: Mia Wallace: “Who told you that?” Jules: ““They” did.” Mia Wallace: “They talk a lot, don’t they?” - Pulp Fiction Hooper (angry black man from hell): “Take Darth Vader. BLACKEST brother in the galaxy. NUBIAN GOD! He’s a spiritual brother, down with the force an’ all that good shit. But then you get cracker farm-boy Luke Skywalker - blonde hair, blue eyes - nazi poster child! He gets a whole _KLAN_ of whites together, and they go and bust up Vader’s hood - the Death Star. NOW WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT?” Banky (small voice): “Intergalactic civil war?” Hooper (pounding on the podium he’s standing at): “GENTRIFICATION!!!” Hooper (continuing): “And then in Jedi, THE MOST INSULTING INSTALLMENT, Darth Vader’s beautiful black visage is SULLIED, when his helmet is removed to reveal a crusty, feeble, old white man! They tellin’ us that deep down inside, WE ALL WANTS TO BE WHITE!!” Banky: “Well, isn’t that true?” Hooper (pulls out gun and starts shooting into the air): “BLACK RAGE! \ BLACK RAGE! \ I’LL KILL ANY WHITE PERSON I LAY MY MOTHER-FUCKIN’ EYES ON!!!” (If you know this movie, you’re probably rolling on the floor by now. If you don’t get it, then rent “Chasing Amy”. It’s an awesome movie.) and Amy (over the phone to Holden, who she’s just paged): “One minute and five seconds. You are such my bitch. ;]” -Chasing Amy And I could fill the whole post up with Clerks quotes, too, but everyone else already got 'em. Jack Burton: “Just listen to the old Pork Chop Express and take his advice on a dark and stormy night, all right? When some wild-eyed, eight foot tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against a bar-room wall and looks you crooked in the eye and asks you “Have you paid your dues?”, well you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton says at a time like that: “Have you paid your dues, Jack?” “Yes sir, the check is in the mail…”” -Big Trouble in Little China “I hate Illinois Nazis…” -The Blues Brothers “I dunno… I’m making this up as I go along.” -Indiana Jones “Oooh! Ahhhh! Ohhh! Arggghh! Owwww! Eeeee! Ohhh! Ahhh!” (and so on for about ten minutes) -Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as the vampire with a stake through his chest who’s taking forever to die. “His breath is enough to knock out most men.” -Mad Max: Beyond ThunderDome And I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned these yet: “We are men of action - lies do not become us.” “Life IS pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” “Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?” “Yes.” “Morons.” (And a little while later) “Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.” “Let me esplain. \ No, is too much. Let me “sum up”.” -The Princess Bride “I never TRY anything, I just DO it. Wanna try me…?” -Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! as sampled by Rob Zombie -Ben ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/64 "2001-04-16T05:09:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pesch \* > One of the Ghostbusters: “Print is dead!” It was Egon, who collects spores, molds, and fungus. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go do myself severe bodily harm for remembering that. Also, from the eminently quotable Winston Zedmore: “When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say…‘YES’!” and “Tell him about the Twinkie.” ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/65 "2001-04-16T06:01:17Z")
One of the most quotable movies I’ve ever seen is **Real Men** , with James Belushi and John Ritter. Really. No kidding. Seriously. Bob: I didn’t know you smoked. Nick: Just after sex, Bob. I’m trying to give it up. Bob: Well, at least you don’t smoke that much. Nick: About a pack a day. Bob: That’ll kill ya! Nick: Bob, it won’t kill ya. But it will make you very sore. Bob: Are they going to shoot at us? Nick: Probably, Bob. That’s what they brought the guns for. And, of course, there’s **Real Genius** , with the early Val Kilmer, pre-Ego. Lines like: Dr. Dodd: Why is that toy on your head? Chris Knight: Because if I wear it any place else, it chafes. Chris Knight: Kent put his name on his license plate. Mitch Taylor: My mother does that to my underwear. Chris Knight: Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit? Mitch Taylor: The weirdest thing just happened to me. Chris Knight: Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? Mitch Taylor: No… Chris Knight: Why, am I the only one who has that dream? Oh, and **Top Secret** , another Kilmer Klassic… Hillary: My uncle was born in America. Nick Rivers: Oh, really? Hillary: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency. Hillary: People change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate. Oh, I could go on for hours… ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/66 "2001-04-16T06:28:05Z")
“I have no equal” ---
**Author:** ![Magnum\_s\_Mustache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Magnum\_s\_Mustache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnum_s_Mustache)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/67 "2001-04-16T06:43:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > \*\* > “Yippie ki yay, motherfucker.” John McClane to Hans Gruber: **Die Hard** _\* Or as the ‘editied for content’ version has it: “Yippie ki yay, Mr. Falcon.” I like that one much more because they got a deep-voiced black man to do the dubbing for Willis. Sounded nothing like him. Big laffs! SF ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/68 "2001-04-16T07:07:17Z")
From _Speed_- Not sure of the exact wording, but it’s close. Keanu: “I’ve heard that relationships based on intense circumstances don’t work out” Sandra: “Well then we’ll have to base it on sex.” ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/69 "2001-04-16T10:00:46Z")
From Clerks: “This job would be perfect if it wasn’t for the customers” From One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest: “I’m not talking about one thing, I’m talking about everything! God, the devil, hell, heaven! Do you understand, finally?” From Pulp Fiction: Pitt: Marcellus Wallace, what does he look like? Brad: He-he’s bald, black… Pitt: Does he look like a bitch? Brad: What? Pitt: DO\_HE\_LOOK\_LIKE\_A\_BITCH? Brad: What? Pitt: What country are you from, motherfucker? Brad: Wh-what? Pitt: What? That don’t sound like no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in What? Brad: Wh-wh-what? Pitt: ENGLISH. DO THEY SPEAK IT IN WHAT? Brad: Wh-what? Pitt: I dare you to say ‘what’ one more time. I double-dog dare you! ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/70 "2001-04-16T11:48:45Z")
From M:I2 “What? To sleep with a man and lie to him? She’s a woman, she has all the training she needs.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/71 "2001-04-16T17:15:38Z")
From Braveheart Hamish: Where are you going? Wallace: I’m going to go pick a fight. Hamish: What do you want us to do? Wallace: Just be yourselves. Hamish (to the Irishman): Well we didn’t get all dressed up for nothin. From Full Metal Jacket Sgt Hartman: THERE IS NO BIGOTY HERE! THERE ARE NO NIGGERS, SPICKS, KIKES, WOPS, OR GREASERS! HERE YOU ARE _ALL_ EQUALLY WORTHLESS!!! Sgt Hartman: HELL, I LIKE YOU!! YOU CAN COME OVER AND FUCK MY SISTER!! From A Fish Called Wanda Otto (Kevin Klein): Oh No! K-K-K-ken is coming to k-k-k-kill me! (Ken had a stuttering problem) From Swingers Trent: She’s strictly ‘business class’. Mike: Business class? Rob: Her ass is too big to fit in ‘coach’. From Office Space Any reference to ‘pound me in the ass’ prison. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@DaddyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyMack)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/72 "2001-04-16T23:42:26Z")
An American Tale. I cannot remember the little rat that became the leader but he gave a rousing speach about bravery and how they could defeat the american cats. His speach ended with the phrase **“Are we men are are we mice?”** I smiled for days. ---
**Author:** ![dp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/73 "2001-04-17T02:47:52Z")
From Terminator: Faak you aaass horle ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/74 "2001-04-17T04:11:59Z")
Forgive me, but I had to cut and paste some of my favorites from “A Fish Called Wanda,” one of my all-time favorite movies. Taken from the sound bites section of [montypython.net](http://montypython.net). Otto (Kevin Kline): Don’t call me ‘stupid’. Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis): Oh right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I’ve know sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you’re an intellectual don’t you, ape? Otto: Apes don’t read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. Uha! The central message of Buddhism is not ‘every man for himself’. You mean… And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. Otto (spoken in a halting, manner, as if he’s straining really, really hard to come up with the worst words he could think of): You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English giant twerp, scumbag, f\*ckface, dickhead, asshole. I think Cleese put in all of those insults against England in his confrontation at the end with Otto just so he could lob this one: Archie: Oh, yeah, what about Vietnam? Otto: That wasn’t a loss. That was a draw! Archie: (In Texas accent) I’m telling ya baby, they kicked yer little ass there. Boy, they whupped yer hide real good! What really made the movie for me, as if Cleese, Palin and the script weren’t enough, was seeing Otto. His first appearance, doing yoga in a room littered with martial arts gee-gaws, was the splitting image of a friend of mine, only considerably more intelligent. The fact that the rest of the crew had the exact same thought at the same time only confirmed just how on-target they were. Oh yes, one more line: “Ass-HOLE!” (Spoken by Otto every time he runs into a bicyclist.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/75 "2001-04-17T10:36:51Z")
Paraphrased from Blow: (George and Diego are counting and sorting the money they made selling cocaine) George: Where shoud I put this box? Diego: Is it three million or two and a half? George: I think it’s three. Diego: Let me see that. (Diego takes the box, estimating its weight) It’s two and a half. Three weighs 60 lbs., and this only weighs 50. George: Fine. Where should I set this? Diego: In the bedroom. George: It’s full. Diego: Try the closet. George: It’s full too. _Sigh_ We’re gonna need a bigger boat. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/76 "2001-04-17T16:57:52Z")
From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Wonka: “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Violet: “By gum, it’s _gum_!” Wonka: “Wrong!” (it’s the tone that does it) Wonka: “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.” Mr. Salt: “What is this, Wonka–some kind of funhouse?” Wonka: “Why? Having fun?” From Jurassic Park: Malcolm: “You think they’ll have _that_ on the tour?” From Star Wars: Solo: “That’s because droids don’t pull people’s _arms_ off when they lose.” C3PO: “I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: let the Wookiee win.” From The Lost World: Malcolm: “That’s the worst idea in the long sad history of bad ideas.” From Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Woman whose name I can’t remember): “Next thing you’re gonna be telling me you’re from outer space.” Kirk: “No…I’m from Iowa. I _work_ in outer space.” Spock: “The hell they are, Captain.” Kirk: “Everybody remember where we parked.” Chekov: “Where are the nuclear wessels?” ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Jo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sue\_Jo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Jo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/77 "2001-04-17T18:45:09Z")
Mae West in I’m No Angel (1933) “Beulah, peel me a grape.” “When I’m good, I’m very good. But, when I’m bad, I’m better.” “It’s not the men in your life that counts, it’s the life in your men.” ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/78 "2001-04-18T16:30:18Z")
from Young Frankenstein Gene Wilder. “What knockers!” Terri Garr “Thank you, doctor!” from Blazing Saddles Bart “Hey Charlie.” Charlie “Hmm?” Bart “Let me ask you sump’n.” Charlie “Hmm-m.” Bart "What is is that ain’t exactly water, and it ain’t exactly earth? Both shouting “QUICKSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!” Mr Taggert “Awwwww dang-it! Quicksand! Now we ARE in trouble!” Bart “‘They’re’ in trouble?!” also from Blazing Saddles Lilly vonSchtupp “Wilkommen, welcome, bienvenue…c’mon in!” and another Waco Kid to Bart, as Bart’s putting on his gunbelt to go arrest Mongo… “If you shoot him, you’ll only make him mad!” and finally… Lyle “How about some more beans Mr Taggert?” Taggert “I think you boys have had enough!” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/79 "2001-04-18T22:35:10Z")
Please refer to sig… ---
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> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > > > [@](#): > > > > “My name iss muerte!” > > “Hey, Morty!” > That’s from _Undercover Blues_. Thank you very much. Some quotes from my absolute favorite guy, the only movie character i wish to marry, the one, the only, Schmendrick the Magician, Last of the Red Hot Swamis.(_The Last Unicorn_) S-man: “The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger…” Molly: “You are an idiot!” “There are no happy endings because nothing ends.” “Be rary of wousing a rizard’s wrath - rousing a rizard’s - Be wary of making a magician angry!” I bow and grovel before his greatness. Love him, love him, love him. And he’s even better in the book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257.md?page=5)