# favorite line from a movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257>\
**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:** 2\
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**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/101 "2001-04-28T21:47:14Z")

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One of my newer favorites is from _Shanghai Noon_ where they are in the jail cell and Roy says, “No…you said ‘wet shirt don’t break’ not ‘piss shirt bend bar!’”

I don’t know why I find that so funny but I do!

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-line-from-a-movie/61257/102 "2001-04-28T21:53:44Z")

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The Rock

Nicholas Cages character: I’ll do my best.

Sean Connerys character: Your best? Loosers always whine about ‘doing their best’. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Nicholas Cages character: Carla was the prom queen.

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