# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/81 "2001-04-18T23:36:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by winterhawk11 \* > \*\* Thanks for jogging my memory… From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Wonka: “So much time, so little to do…no, wait, reverse that.” Wonka: “If man was meant to walk, God woudln’t have invented rollerskates.” From Jurassic Park: (on the opening day failures of Disneyland) Malcolm: “Yeah, but when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down the pirates don’t eat the tourists.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/82 "2001-04-19T03:39:38Z")
**arisu** , Schmendrick is one of my all-time favorites. I just blocked on his lines the last couple of times I posted to this thread. Of course, _The Last Unicorn_ is full of good lines…so, naturally, here are a few more: Butterfly: “It’s just you and me, moth…hand to hand to hand to hand to hand to hand…” Mommy Fortuna: “The harpy’s as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to capture, if you want to know.” Unicorn: “Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage…and she hears you.” Schmendrick: “My dear, you deserve the services of a first-rate magician, but I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with a second-rate pickpocket.” Schmendrick: “Oh my god, I’m engaged to a Douglas Fir!” Molly: “Why must you always speak in riddles?” Peg-legged, Eye-patched Cat: “Because I be what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer, arrr.” Lir: “She just _looked_ at me, and I was sorry I had killed the thing…sorry for killing a _dragon_.” Wizard: “Schmendrick, my boy, so good to see you!” Haggard: “He is here to take your place. He is now my royal magician.” Wizard: “Schmendrick? The ‘Runeless Wonder’?” Brigand, yanking Schmendrick out of a tree: “Mind your heads, lads. It’s rainin’ ninnies.” Lir: “Do something! You have the power! I will kill you if you don’t do something!” Schmendrick: “I cannot! Not all the magic in the world can help her now.” Molly: “Then what is magic for? What is the use of wizardry, if it cannot even save a unicorn?” Schmendrick: “That’s what heroes are for.” and, of course, Schmendrick: “She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is - and love.” ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/83 "2001-04-19T09:09:01Z")
_Explosion_ “‘Low Profile’…” _Another explosion as the building behind them smokes_ “…do you KNOW the meaning of the words ‘Low Profile’??” -From Dusk 'Til Dawn ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/84 "2001-04-19T09:30:38Z")
From **Babe** : “Christmas means _carnage!!!_” ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/85 "2001-04-19T13:45:25Z")
“Where did you get this motorbike?” “From Zed.” “Who is Zed.” “Zed’s dead, baby.” “Of course he has a knife. We all have knives. It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians.” “Sir, is it true that your real name is Nathan Huffheinz?” “Yeah, so, what of it?” “Well, sir, why did you change it?” “Would you buy furniture from a store called ‘Unpainted Huffheinz?’” “The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” “You are an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.” “Eat lead, you son of a bitch.” “You wore blue, the Germans wore gray.” “Its the stuff that dreams are made of.” “I’m not really bad, I’m just drawn that way.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/86 "2001-04-19T13:59:35Z")
1. “Sorry, son. But I thought you were one of them.” “They come in through the door, Dad.” 2. “And YOU…don’t like me, anyway.” 3. “He reminds me a lot of Donna Reed, especially around the eyes.” 4. “I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” (Bonus points if you can name this movie!) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/87 "2001-04-19T14:58:16Z")
From _ **Pulp Fiction** _ “This watch.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/88 "2001-04-25T04:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*1) “Sorry, son. But I thought you were one of them.” > “They come in through the door, Dad.” > > 1. “And YOU…don’t like me, anyway.” > > 2. “He reminds me a lot of Donna Reed, especially around the eyes.” > > 3. “I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” (Bonus points if you can name this movie!) \*\* 1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2. 1. Don’t remember 3. They Live! Starring Roddy Piper Another good line Big Trouble in Little China Jack Burton: Is this going to get ugly, Wang? Cause what I thought we had here (racial diferences not withstanding) was just a couple of old friends catching up on old times. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/89 "2001-04-25T14:44:25Z")
> [@](#): > > jsc1953 said: > **"I’ll alert the media." (I use that every chance I get)** I like that one, too! I use it every chance I get, too. 🙂 Also the one in my sig from _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/90 "2001-04-25T21:23:53Z")
Has no one here seen The Crow? _It can’t rain all the time._ _Victims… Aren’t we all?_ _Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children._ All above by Eric Draven _Follow the White Rabbit_ _letters on a computer screen_ Spoon Boy: _There is no spoon._ Neo: _No spoon?_ Spoon Boy: _Once you realize there is no spoon you realize it is not the spoon that bends… but you._ Above from the Matrix ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/91 "2001-04-26T04:44:11Z")
Not a movie, but from the Red Dwarf series V episode “The Inquisitor”… (need to know: Lister and Kryten are about to be killed by the Inquisitor when another Kryten from the future pops into existence behind the Inquisitor and knocks him over, followed by a bit of hasty dialogue, then…) Present Krtyen: “But what happens to you… me… us?” Future Kryten: “I’m afraid we get killed.” Present Kryten: “Killed?! How?” Future Kryten: “While I’m standing here explaining this to you the Inquisitor jumps me from behind like this… argh!” Seen it a million times but it always cracks me up. _grins_ Better though is (the original) Kryten’s line from his episode in serries II: “Swivel on it punk!”, but you need to have seen the whole episode to appreciate that one. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/92 "2001-04-26T06:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > Has no one here seen The Crow? I’ve seen _The Crow_, and remember many lines from it. Unfortunately, most of them depress me, so I don’t use them. I prefer humorous or profound quotes to just plain grim ones. (Yes, I know there are non-grim quotes, like “It can’t rain all the time.”, but it’s the grim ones that spring to mind). I have been known to call people “saprophyte mother!&@%\*^$”, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crocefan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Crocefan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocefan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/93 "2001-04-27T02:27:51Z")
A couple from Harrison Ford: “Whacking–I’m hell at whacking.”-Witness “It’s not the years-it’s the mileage.”-Raiders of the Lost Ark ---
**Author:** ![Crocefan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Crocefan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocefan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/94 "2001-04-27T03:43:58Z")
How could I possibly forget… “I’m gonna torture him, I’m gonna crucify him…real bad!!”–Mr.T in Rocky 3 ---
**Author:** ![bagdnissan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@bagdnissan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagdnissan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/95 "2001-04-27T09:23:56Z")
Wesley Snipes in the movie “Blade” " Some mother fuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/96 "2001-04-27T16:15:04Z")
Balance yah thinking about that if you watch it lots and know lots then they would come to mind. I’ve only seen it twice though (I only saw it for the first time last month) and so I only remember the ones I posted up. A few more: _I talked to the Father and he says he can get me out of this but he’s pretty sure your fucked._ the Irish guy from Braveheart _Dreams die hard and we hold them in our hands long after they have turned to dust._ Bowen in Dragonheart Draco: _I long for death… but I do fear it._ Bowen: _Why? What do you have to lose but your miserable life?_ Draco: _My soul…_ Dragonheart again. ---
**Author:** ![Bindlestiff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bindlestiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bindlestiff)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/97 "2001-04-27T16:27:17Z")
From Silver Streak: Jill Clayburgh - If you’ve edited so many sex manuals, you must be a real expert. Gene Wilder - Well, I know what goes where - and why. From Little Fauss and Big Halsey: Robert Redford - It ain’t how ya done, it’s where ya been. (that one’s big with some of us underacheivers) From The Carpet Baggers: George Peppard (to Elizabeth Ashley right after they get married) What do you want to see on your honeymoon? Ashley - Lots and lots of lovely ceilings. ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/98 "2001-04-28T15:37:36Z")
Obsidian: Yah, those lines are good ones. I loved that Irish guy in Braveheart. More Red Dwarf!! Lister: “They’re lining up in some sort of firing squad… hang on, someone’s being brought out… they’re tying him to a stake… it’s Winnie the Pooh!” Cat: “What?!” Lister: “I swear! … He’s refusing the blindfold!” Cat: “They’re tying Winnie the Pooh to the stake?!” [sounds of gunshots] Lister: “… That is something no one should ever have to see.” ---
**Author:** ![Joaquim\_Matilda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@Joaquim\_Matilda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joaquim_Matilda)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/99 "2001-04-28T18:16:32Z")
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” Treasure of the Sierra Madre. “Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above.” The African Queen “You do know how to whistle, Steve. You just put your lips together and blow.” The Big Sleep “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” Norma Desmond “Twas beauty that killed the beast.” King Kong “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke. “You can’t handle the truth!” A Few Good Men ---
**Author:** ![Folkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Folkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folkie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/100 "2001-04-28T19:48:19Z")
From Crossing Delancey: “That was very nice of you.” “No it wasn’t.” Princess Bride: “Bye bye, boys! Have fun storming the castle!” O Brother Where Art Thou: “Damn! We’re in a tight spot!” and: “Lots of respectable men have been hit by trains.” Miller’s Crossing: “There’s nothing more ridiculous than a man chasing his hat.” From Start Trek 4: “He did a little too much LDS.” and “one damn minute, admiral.” and “Where are the nuclear wessels?” and “I know he’s a Russian but he’s some kind of retart Russian.” and “I’m from Iowa. I only WORK in outer space.” Hoping you the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257.md?page=6)