# Favorite tough lines in the movies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867 "2000-09-03T15:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/21 "2000-09-04T18:39:53Z")
From the second most-quotable movie I know, _The Maltese Falcon_: > [@](#): > > When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/22 "2000-09-04T23:22:21Z")
from Mr. White… “You shoot this man, and you die next. Repeat, you shoot this man, you die next.” ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/23 "2000-09-05T00:14:09Z")
Just remembered another good one from Deliverence. One redneck cracker ( the one with the knife to Jon Voight’s throat) to the other cracker. "Ifn this’en here moves, shoot that’en there. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/24 "2000-09-05T00:24:40Z")
from _Heat_… “…because she’s got a GREAT ASS!!! And you’ve got your head… ALL THE WAY UP IT!!!” ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/25 "2000-09-05T02:40:07Z")
'Nother one from “Reservoir Dogs”: “You shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize.” Redford in “Butch Cassidy”: “Ask me to stay.” Han Solo: “Yer all clear kid, now let’s blow this thing and go home!” End of “The Wild Bunch”: All the guys get up, look at each other and Warren Oates says: “Why not?” Nazi: “What brings you to Casablanca?” Rick: “I came for the waters.” Nazi: “There are no waters here.” Rick: “I was misinformed.” Georgie Scott as Georgie Patton: “They’re ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.” “It’s a hundred miles to Chicago. We gotta half a pack a cigarettes, a full tank a gas, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.” “Hit It!” Hanks in SPR: “The Statue of Liberty is Kaput? That’s disconcerting.” Duval in “Apocalyse Now”: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning…it smells like Victory.” And the baddest ass of all: “Fill yore hand you son of a bitch!” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/26 "2000-09-05T02:58:30Z")
Jessie “the body” Ventura in _Predator_ when told he was bleeding . " I ain’t got time to bleed " To which his comrade in arms sends a genade up to blow up a ledge that’s over them and says “You got time to duck?” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/27 "2000-09-05T03:16:37Z")
From the end of _Unforgiven_ “That’s right. I’ve killed just about anything that walked or crawled at one time or another, and I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.” And later on “All right, I’m coming out. Any man I see out there I’m gonna kill him. Any son of a bitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only going to kill him, I’m going to kill his wife and all his friends and burn his damn house down. (He stands and walks cautiously out of the bar) Nobody better shoot.” ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/28 "2000-09-05T03:32:55Z")
Well, the best damn Evil Dead line has been taken. _sniff_ But: “Who’s laughing NOW?” Ash just before cutting off his hand. “Me and old double ought’ll blow your butts to Kingdom Come… See if we don’t.” Not sure that’s exactly right. “Yo! She-Bitch!” to a possessed woman. “Lady, I’m gonna have to ask you to leave the store.” to a different possessed woman. “Name’s Ash. Housewares.” the same one. “Alright. Who wants some? … Who’s next? Who wants to have a little? You. You want some? Huh? Do ya? You want a little?” to a castleful of knights. “Are all men from the future loud mouthed braggarts?” “Nope. Just me, baby. Just me.” –John ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/29 "2000-09-05T04:33:39Z")
My name is Ash, and this is my BOOM STICK! -Evil Dead: Army of Darkness ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/30 "2000-09-05T14:43:48Z")
The one I hope I have the presence of mind you use if I am ever shot but not seriously wounded: > [@](#): > > \*from \*The Magnificent Seven: > Vin: You elected? > Chris: Na. I got nominated real good. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/31 "2000-09-05T15:15:58Z")
“Don’t worry, Princess—as long as there’s sidewalks, YOU’VE got a job.”—Joan Blondell, “Footlight Parade” “Don’t fuck with mke, boys, this ain’t my first time at the rodeo.”—Faye Dunaway, “Mommie Dearest” “Listen, sister, where I spit, no grass grows, ever.”—Paulette Goddard, “The Women” ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867/32 "2000-09-05T15:23:07Z")
Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Ford: You’d better be prepared for the jump to hyperspace, it’s unpleasantly like being drunk. Arthur: What’s so unpleasant about being drunk? Ford: Ask the glass of water. In the book, radio series -and- movie (the bbc one that was really 6 tv episodes spliced together) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tough-lines-in-the-movies/31867.md?page=1)