# Line readings from movies that stay with you FOREVER. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228 "2012-07-14T18:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/21 "2012-07-14T22:48:41Z")
“Something protects him. That awful Pooka.” (Harvey) “Jack Burton. Me.” (Big Trouble In Little China) “I’m coming in!” (What’s Up, Doc?) “That’s Capricorn, is it?” (Life of Brian) “I know, I know, he thinks he knows everything” (Tremors) and so on. Great thread. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/22 "2012-07-14T22:51:20Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It’s slightly modified mostly because I misremembered it until I looked it up a few years back, but I like it this way and it still means the same thing. It doesn’t mean anything to me, I just like the subtle logic in it. “You don’t win a war by dying for your country…you win a war by making the other guy die for _his_ country” Here’s how I remember it: (Patton) “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for _his_ country.” ---
**Author:** ![Craz3d117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c4cdca/32.png) [@Craz3d117](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craz3d117)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/23 "2012-07-14T23:01:36Z")
“She was only sixteen years old. She was only sixteen! You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” - Delivered by Steve Coogan in his impression of Michael Caine from movie The Trip. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/24 "2012-07-14T23:05:55Z")
Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive: “I don’t care!” ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/25 "2012-07-14T23:23:23Z")
Samuel L Jackson in _The Incredibles_: “I’m thirsty… I’m just getting a drink.” ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/26 "2012-07-14T23:58:17Z")
Dennis Hopper in **Blue Velvet**. “Don’t be a good neighbor to her. I’ll send you a love letter straight from my heart, fucker. Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fuckin’ gun, fucker. If you receive a love letter from me, you are fucked forever. Do you understand, fuck? I’ll send ya straight to Hell, fucker!” ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/27 "2012-07-15T00:07:41Z")
To continue the Lynch theme from the post right above: _Inland Empire_: “Look at me and tell me if you’ve known me before” - it’s said a few times by different characters over the course of the movie, each time with an increasingly sinister overtone. _Twin Peaks: Fire-Walk with Me_: “I love you, James!” (shrieked by Laura Palmer at a particularly intense moment) ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/28 "2012-07-15T00:21:39Z")
Oh, Madeline Kahn. We miss you. [Flames. Flames! On the side of my face!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8d8y4BLWtI&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/29 "2012-07-15T00:22:01Z")
Superman Returns. Lex Luthor. ‘WRONG!!!’ It’s a memorable for completely the wrong reason, but…there’s no denying that it is UNFORGETTABLE. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/30 "2012-07-15T00:26:16Z")
John Astin on Night Court, after he shows Harry a picture where he (John Astin) is in a barrel going over Niagra Falls “But I’m feeling much better now!” That line became a running gag in the show and never failed to crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/31 "2012-07-15T00:26:43Z")
Giles: “Why would anyone want to kill Cordelia?” Willow: “Because they met her?” I know this is TV and not the movies, but I cannot get this exchange out of my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/32 "2012-07-15T01:04:29Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > John Astin on Night Court, after he shows Harry a picture where he (John Astin) is in a barrel going over Niagra Falls “But I’m feeling much better now!” That line became a running gag in the show and never failed to crack me up. +1. I’ve never forgotten that line and his very slightly crazed delivery. I use the line all the time, and NOBODY gets it. ☹ I always liked “Game OVER, man, GAME OVER!” from Aliens. Iconic, and another line we use a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/33 "2012-07-15T08:00:21Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > +1. I’ve never forgotten that line and his very slightly crazed delivery. I use the line all the time, and NOBODY gets it. ☹ Ditto. I used it this week in fact; nobody got it. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/34 "2012-07-15T09:48:58Z")
“I would like to have seen Montana.” Sam Niell in _The Hunt for Red October_ ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/35 "2012-07-15T14:53:06Z")
Early in Star Wars, Vader says “Leave that to me,” and it’s punctuated with the sound of a door closing. I love that line. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/36 "2012-07-15T17:15:38Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Early in Star Wars, Vader says “Leave that to me,” and it’s punctuated with the sound of a door closing. I love that line. Wow, I’m watching **Star Wars** right now and that scene played just minutes ago. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/37 "2012-07-15T17:24:41Z")
“They were cones!” - The Wedding Singer “No one fucks with the Jesus.” - The Big Lebowski ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/38 "2012-07-15T18:01:57Z")
Most of Peter Dinklage’s lines in GoT. But the one I hear in my head every time I have to kludge something together: (In response to the line: “There are no goats, Halfman!” “[Make do](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q84QOeq60OE)!” No huge spoilers, if you haven’t seen it. Also the line comes in about :25. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/39 "2012-07-15T18:12:47Z")
“They have a cave troll.” Sean Bean in The Fellowship of the Ring. I laugh every time. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/40 "2012-07-15T18:15:51Z")
“Well, what the hell we supposed to do, you moron?” Best delivery in Animal House. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228.md?page=3)