Bugs Bunny: "You’ll be sor-ree!
I don’t think this expression has been replaced or improved upon, for the purpose of warning/taunting someone.
Yep. Various great quotes from that one.
Generally, I don’t read this as just “quotes you love from movies” as if so I could add many from Josey Wales, Fletch, Airplane etc etc etc…to me the gist of this was those that had a deeper meaning or struck you to the core more, so to speak. Given that, 2 that come to mind are:
“It’s what’s inside people that makes them afraid” (High Plains Drifter)
“I just wish I could pay the fine and go home” (The Fisher King)
That was a perfect tone he hit.
If this is where he pronounces it “ya MOE-ron” I agree with you.
Not a movie, but John Cleese hits it dead on in “The Kipper and the Corpse” episode of Fawlty Towers.
“Oh, spiffing. Absolutely spiffing. Well done. Two dead, twenty-five to go.”
Charlton Heston in The Four Musketeers:
“One must be careful of what one writes. (Tears up letter) And to who one gives it. (pause) I must keep those rules in mind.”
Absolutely dead-pan delivery.
“Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him.”
“Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you.”
Moonraker was one of the worse Bond movies, but Michael Lonsdale was a great villain.
A couple from Raizing Arizona:
“We released ourselves on our own recognizance.”
“What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.”
“Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.”
Sam Elliot does this a lot:
“The Dude abides.” (The Big Lebowski)
“That sure hurts, don’t it?” (Road House)
“This is good ground.” (Gettysburg)
Another from Gettysburg:
“You know what’s gonna happen? I’ll tell you what’s gonna happen. Troops are now forming behind the line of trees. When they come out, they’ll be under enemy long-range artillery fire. Solid shot. Percussion. Every gun they have. Troops will come out under fire with more than a mile to walk. And still, within the open field, among the range of aimed muskets. They’ll be slowed by that fence out there, and the formation - what’s left of it - will begin to come apart. When they cross that road, they’ll be under short-range artillery. Canister fire. Thousands of little bits of shrapnel wiping the holes in the lines. If they get to the wall without breaking up, there won’t be many left. A mathematical equation… But maybe, just maybe, our own artillery will break up their defenses. There’s always that hope.
[sighs]
That’s Hancock out there, and he ain’t gonna run. So it’s mathematical after all. If they get to that road, or beyond it, we’ll suffer over fifty percent casualties. But, Harrison, I don’t believe my boys will reach that wall.”
“You’re a silly girl!” - Chris Sarandon in The Princess Bride
“Fuck the cup - put it in my hand for a dime!” - Chris Rock in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” - Robert Shaw in Jaws just after Roy Scheider declares him certifiable.
And possibly my all time favorite throwaway line: “We’ll wait for ya, baby” - guy on the street in It’s a Wonderful Life, said to Gloria Grahame after she says “Stick around boys…” and chases after Jimmy Stewart.
A minor line, but fantastic delivery: the coroner in Silence of the Lambs, during the examination of the waterlogged corpse, intones
“Wrongful death.”
The words drop from his mouth immediately, almost involuntarily, in a deep, slow drawl, and the implication is that something is fundamentally wrong, we’re not dealing with “ordinary” murder here. A bit part (apparently the actor was Kenneth Utt as Dr. Atkins, according to my Google-fu), but a great delivery.
I don’t think Raul Julia ever said anything that wasn’t a great line reading. Watch Presumed Innocent again and see Julia act Harrison Ford right off the screen. The guy was an amazing actor who died way too soon.
Watch out for snakes!
“OTISBURG?” - Hackman is always good.
Pretty much everything Wilford Brimley has ever uttered.
“Outer Space, my lad, Outer Space. We won’t get any older and we won’t ever die.”
Near the end of the movie 1776, Congress is preparing to sign the Declaration of Independence and sharing some levity when the Courier arrives with another dispatch from General Washington. Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson rings the bell to call everyone to attention. His delivery begins mechanically, as always, but as the content hits him, it becomes a struggle to finish.
". . .I can now report, with some certainty, that the eve of battle is near at hand. Toward this end, I have ordered the evacuation of Manhattan, and directed our defenses to take up stronger positions along the Brooklyn heights. At this time, my troops consist entirely of Hazlett’s Delaware militia, and smallwoods Marylanders, a total of five thousand troops to stand against twenty-five thousand of the enemy, and I begin to notice that many of us are lads under fifteen and old men, none of whom could truly be called soldiers. . .
. . .As I write these words the enemy is plainly in sight beyond the river. How it will end only Providence can direct, but dear God, what brave men I shall lose before this business ends.
Your obedient,
G. Washington"
Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour… except crime! (Goldfinger)
That yell at the end gets me every time.
More memorable line readings…
From Full Metal Jacket:
“Me so horny. Me love you long time.”
Every line from R. Lee Ermey, of course.
From Robocop:
“I LIKE IT!!”
From The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:
Lots of good laconic Clint lines, like
“Sorry, Shorty.”
““Idiots.” It’s for you”
“You dig.”
From Slapshot:
“Hey, Reg, I want a chair by the pool.” “I want some snatch by the pool.”
(The sleaziness he puts into that one word…undescribable.)
He was in a hurry and could not tarry.
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Yeah, but who said it?
Deliverance:
“You got a purty mouth!”
Finding Nemo was full of quotable lines but the one that stuck out to me based purely on delivery alone was when Nemo was going to touch the boat and one of the other fish yelled, “Look, Nemo’s schwimming out to shee!” Cracks me up every time.
From Raiders
Sallah: Asps… very dangerous. You go first.