# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/101 "2012-07-17T22:15:08Z")
Mine is from the TV show _Friends_, [Yes, yes it is…IN PRISON!" (1:10 mark)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANwTBK3Ylg) The whole setup is perfect and then Ross comes in with a great look on his face the perfect reaction. Also my favorite that sticks with me from _Tombstone_ is Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why you doin’ this, Doc? Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends. **Doc Holliday: …I don’t.** ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/102 "2012-07-17T22:19:21Z")
John Merrick: There’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you for some time now. Dr. Frederick Treves: What’s that? John Merrick: Can you cure me? Dr. Frederick Treves: No. We can care for you, but we can’t cure you. John Merrick: [matter-of-factly] No. I thought not. Both actors superb, but that last line still hits me like a brick. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/103 "2012-07-18T00:37:18Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > John Merrick: There’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you for some time now. > Dr. Frederick Treves: What’s that? > John Merrick: Can you cure me? > Dr. Frederick Treves: No. We can care for you, but we can’t cure you. > John Merrick: [matter-of-factly] No. I thought not. > > Both actors superb, but that last line still hits me like a brick. The one that brings tears to my eyes, even though it’s been at least 15 years since I’ve seen it: Dr. Frederick Treves: Am I a good man? Or a bad man? It was the first film my wife and I saw together, both of us crying at the end. Of course, the film is a sort of Voight-Kampt empathy test, and if it doesn’t move you to tears, you just may be a Replicant. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/104 "2012-07-18T01:25:04Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The one that brings tears to my eyes, even though it’s been at least 15 years since I’ve seen it: > > Dr. Frederick Treves: Am I a good man? Or a bad man? > > It was the first film my wife and I saw together, both of us crying at the end. Of course, the film is a sort of Voight-Kampt empathy test, and if it doesn’t move you to tears, you just may be a Replicant. I say that things like this should replace CAPTCHA as the test of humanity. If you can watch the first 20 minutes of UP without crying…you’re definitely a robot ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/105 "2012-07-18T02:27:07Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > If you can watch the first 20 minutes of UP without crying…you’re definitely a robot Good idea, but it would make logging into sites slow. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/106 "2012-07-18T02:30:36Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > “I’m your huckleberry.” Damn you, you beat me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/107 "2012-07-18T04:22:05Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I say that things like this should replace CAPTCHA as the test of humanity. > > If you can watch the first 20 minutes of UP without crying…you’re definitely a robot Agreed, although the last 100 minutes seem like they were written by a robot. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/108 "2012-07-18T05:05:55Z")
“Much to learn you still have, my young Padawan.” I love the line because Yoda said it to Christopher Lee (Darth something or other). Damn, Yoda is old. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/109 "2012-07-18T17:32:02Z")
KINDERGARTEN COP. No, not the line about the tumor; not any of Schwarzenegger’s lines, even. _“You’re not so tough without your car, are ya?”_ It’s all in the delivery. (Okay, one-third of it is the perfect set-up, but her delivery is two-thirds of it.) ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/110 "2012-07-20T04:41:19Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why you doin’ this, Doc? > Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend. > Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends. > **Doc Holliday: …I don’t.** Probably my favorite passage from an eminently quotable movie. Well, that and another line that I occasionally use in my own life: “That is a hell of a thing to say to me!” And for sheer perfect enunciation, one of my favorite lines ever: “What a buncha fuckin’ bullshit.” – Dennis Farina, _Get Shorty_ ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/111 "2012-07-20T05:06:12Z")
“I \*was \*first in line. Until the little hairball was born.” – Jeremy Irons as Scar in _The Lion King_. Every line he has in that movie is great, but there’s something about Irons’ petulant, threatening tone that really gets across Scar’s menace. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/112 "2012-07-20T23:24:48Z")
😃 > [@lisacurl](#): > > Oh, Madeline Kahn. We miss you. > > [Flames. Flames! On the side of my face!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8d8y4BLWtI&feature=related) Vilkomen! Bienvenue! Welcome! C’mon in! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/113 "2012-07-21T06:40:25Z")
I’ll see your “I don’t care” from \*The Fugitive \*and raise you two words from _Men in Black_: Will Smith walks in as Tommy Lee Jones is watching his long-lost love via computer. Tommy Lee hastily clears the screen in embarrassment. Smith natters on about how it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Tommy Lee freezes him with a stare and says “Try it.” The amount of loss and frustration and world-weariness he packs into two words is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/114 "2012-07-21T07:35:19Z")
> [@Clark\_K](#): > > I’ll see your “I don’t care” from \*The Fugitive \*and raise you two words from _Men in Black_: > > Will Smith walks in as Tommy Lee Jones is watching his long-lost love via computer. Tommy Lee hastily clears the screen in embarrassment. Smith natters on about how it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Tommy Lee freezes him with a stare and says “Try it.” > > The amount of loss and frustration and world-weariness he packs into two words is amazing. “Don’t 'Sir” me, young man, you have no idea who you’re dealing with" ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/115 "2012-07-22T15:19:55Z")
I can do a pretty spot-on Sean Connery impression. Frequently, when I’m asked if we’ll meet our quarterly numbers, I will inflect my best Scottish brogue and announce: “Pershonally, I give ush one chanshe in three (Personally, I give us one chance in three).” - Sean Connery, Hunt for Red October ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/116 "2012-07-22T15:28:32Z")
“Please, dad.” > [@Little Roles That Moved You Big](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-roles-that-moved-you-big/365370/1): > > Up late last night and watched _Midnight Run_ - hadn’t seen it since it was out in 198(8? 9?). But I was struck again with a reaction I remember having sixteen or so years ago… the great, albeit extremely brief, performance given by the girl who played DeNiro’s daughter. Skip tracer DeNiro has captured embezzling accountant Charles Grodin, and is trying to return him to LA to collect the bounty. Their journey is derailed by all sorts of problems, and DeNiro runs out of money near Chicago, where his ex-wife and daughter live; he hasn’t seen them in several years. But he’s forced into the embarrassing position of having to show up on his ex-wife’s doorstep and ask her to borrow money. They quickly end up yelling at each other, re-hashing old wounds. In the middle of this, they freeze as they realize the daughter, now an eighth-grader, is there. > > The ex gives DeNiro a little cash and lets him take her car. As he’s leaving, the daughter comes out and offers her dad another hundred, her babysitting money. DeNiro says he can’t take it. The girl tries to insist; he keeps refusing. And painted almost perfectly on her face is the aching desire to do something, make some connection with the father she hasn’t seen in years. But she doesn’t know how, and DeNiro’s character doesn’t know how either. > > That was it. Total screen time less then three minutes, I think. But DAMN. I don’t know who the little girl was, but she nailed that role. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-readings-from-movies-that-stay-with-you-forever/628228/117 "2012-07-22T15:50:18Z")
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