“Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!” - Kitty Farmer in ‘Donnie Darko’
“I’m in a prayer group with the D.A., I’m a member of the NRA and I’m always PACKIN’!”- Sandra Bullock (as Leigh Anne Tuohy) in ‘The Blind Side’
“Room full of empty people!” Murder by Death.
“I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.” El Dorado
“Now, I don’t wanna kill you, and you don’t wanna be dead.” Silverado
*We shouldn’t be cock-blocking McLovin
I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver’s full of shit, man. *
Ya, I’m a sucker for those froshsoph comedies.
From a Woody Allen film:
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.
"Ah, Ryan. I don’t know anything about Ryan. I don’t care. The man means nothing to me. It’s just a name. But if… You know if going to Ramelle and finding him so that he can go home. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that’s my mission. "-Saving Private Ryan
“You’ve had two pairs of gloves the whole time?” “Yeah, we’re in the Rockies!”-Dumb and Dumber
Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God. . . . And I absolutely hate the fucker. — Riddick, Pitch Black
This is the captain. We’re having a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then . . . explode. — Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity
Off to Cafe Society.
“Now, ya don’t fuck around with the infinite”
Mean Streets (1973) - our first taste of the extraordinary Scorcese/DeNiro onslaught
You wanna know how I did it, Anton? This is how I did it. I never saved anything for the swim back."—Vincent Freeman in Gattaca.
“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
Lemme ask you somethin’, Jack, when was it you first started thinkin’ you were better than me?
Robert DeNiro, The Score.
“Nothing? Nothing, tra la la?”
“What can I say? You’re a hell of a bonder.” (and from the same movie: “They didn’t teach ya that in law school either?”)
From Labyrinth and My Cousin Vinny…probably my two favorite movies ever.
That movie was one of my favorite comedies! I liked the continuing joke of the drunk trying to catch the horse!
I don’t feel like thinking of a favorite quote of my own, so I’ll use one my wife likes, from the movie Naked.
Louise: How did you get here?
Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.
Maybe not my absolute favorite but I always love hearing it.
"All right you alien assholes, in the words of my generation ‘UP YOURS!’ "
I think my favorite is “I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.”
“Fell off the jetway again.” - Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber
“Shut that cunt’s mouth or I’ll come over there and fuck-start her head!” - Parker, The Way of the Gun
“I don’t know what the hell’s in there. But it’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is.” - Clark, The Thing
“Surely you can’t be serious!”
“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”
“Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless little flea, and then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives - hahahaha! I’ll smash it with a hammer!”
I want my two dollars!
– Better Off Dead
The Big Sleep (1946) is chock full of juicy lines. My top three faves:
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners, I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.”
“My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! You know, you’re the second guy I’ve met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail.”
“You know what he’ll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out, then kick me in the stomach for mumbling.”
“Or, to save on postage, I’ll just poison him with THIS!”