# Favorite Movie Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707 "2012-11-21T09:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/41 "2012-11-23T12:47:05Z")
A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen. What kind of Supreme Being would condone such irony? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/42 "2012-11-23T13:34:47Z")
> [@Dano83860](#): > > What we have here is a failure to communicate! _Almost_. The correct quote doesn’t have “a” in it, and it’s phrased a little differently. It should be > [@](#): > > What we’ve got here is failure to communicate > **[Cool Hand Luke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_we%27ve_got_here_is_(a)_failure_to_communicate)** > > Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. Set in the early 1950s, it is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke. > Roger Ebert called Cool Hand Luke an anti-establishment film shot during emerging popular opposition to the Vietnam War. Filming took plac... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/43 "2012-11-23T13:38:37Z")
As I’ve said before, one of my favorites is Orson Welles as Harry Line in _The Third Man_: > [@](#): > > Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/44 "2012-11-23T15:46:43Z")
“It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It’s worse than Detroit.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/45 "2012-11-23T17:12:44Z")
“Hi Curly. Kill anyone today?” “Day’s not over yet.” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/46 "2012-11-23T19:27:06Z")
That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten. ~ The Wolf ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/47 "2012-11-23T19:31:52Z")
“We can’t stop here. This is bat country.” ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/48 "2012-11-23T19:56:58Z")
“When the fuck did we get ice cream?”- The Ringer. Makes me laugh everytime,I watch the movie just for that line…and “Did you know Christ was a Jew?” from the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/49 "2012-11-23T20:45:26Z")
Mildred: Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against? Johnny: Whadda you got? Kathie: Well, what d’ya do? I mean, do you just ride around or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something? Johnny: A picnic? Man, you are too square. I’m… I… I’ll have to straighten you out. Now, listen, you don’t go any one special place. That’s cornball style. You just go. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/50 "2012-11-23T21:04:25Z")
“Blucher!” ::whinny:: - Young Frankenstein “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” -Treasure of the Sierra Madre “Shitter’s Full!” - Christmas Vacation “God hates me.” “Hate him back; it works for me.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/51 "2012-11-23T21:13:12Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > “It’s a hell of a thing killin’ a man. You not only take everything he’s got, but everything he’s ever gonna have.”–William Muny in Unforgiven I like the next two lines, too. > [@](#): > > The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming. > Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/52 "2012-11-23T21:16:28Z")
Dukey, if this thing blows up, the Feds will be the least of our problems ~ _The Sting_ What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others? ~ Ditto ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/53 "2012-11-23T22:28:48Z")
“Where were you last night?” _“It’s so long ago I don’t remember.”_ “What are you doing tonight?” _“I never plan that far ahead.”_ Two of, perhaps, the lesser quoted lines of probably the most quoted great movie of all time, “Casablanca”. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/54 "2012-11-26T15:32:27Z")
“What can I say? You fucked up! You trusted us.” ~ Eric “Damn glad to meet you” Stratton ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/55 "2012-11-27T05:41:33Z")
Loach: What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slammed a bedroom window on it? Jake Gittes: Nope. Your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. You understand what I mean, pal? Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion? Mr. Palmer: I’m sorry, we do not. Jake Gittes: Don’t apologize - neither does Dad. Gittes: Mulvihill! What are you doing here? Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What’s it to you? Gittes: How’d you find out about it? You don’t drink it; you don’t take a bath in it… They wrote you a letter. But then you have to be able to read. Gittes: When Mulvihill here was Sheriff of Ventura County, the rum-runners landed hundreds of tons of booze on the beach and never lost a drop. (To Yelburton) He ought to be able to hold onto your water for ya. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/56 "2012-11-27T05:53:45Z")
Dyin’ ain’t much of living, boy. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/57 "2012-11-28T21:20:40Z")
“My name is Pussy…Pussy Galore” ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/58 "2012-11-28T22:00:07Z")
“that’s OK, we can walk to the curb from here.” from Annie Hall “Son, you got a panty on your head.” from Raising Arizona ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/59 "2012-11-29T02:39:59Z")
to add to Colibri, “deserves got nothing to do with it” ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707/60 "2012-11-30T16:28:54Z")
\*I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-quotes/641707.md?page=4)