# Little lines in movies that you love or saved the movie for you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917 "2006-02-24T13:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/1 "2006-02-24T13:10:34Z")
In **The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** our hero Arthur Dent, is at the Alien Equvalient to Department of Motor Vehicles and there is a long line. He mutters, " I’m British. I know how to queue." That line kept me giggling to this day. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/2 "2006-02-24T13:17:28Z")
“Ok. So, she’s a dog” ``` - **Ghostbusters** ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/3 "2006-02-24T13:33:35Z")
To me the most sublime bit of dialog ever written is the wonderful > [@](#): > > Nathan: Alice, please? Your dog, Alice - it and my appetite are mutually exclusive. > Alice: Well, what’s wrong with the dog? > Nathan: Simple: he’s been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour’s attention and I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge, is either gone for good… or there to stay. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/4 "2006-02-24T13:36:10Z")
All of the Monty Python quotes in **Sliding Doors** , but the best one is the one at the very end of the movie. Got to _love_ a movie where the last words spoken are a Monty Python quote. I like the movie anyway, but that made it one of my favorites. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![robdavsuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@robdavsuss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robdavsuss)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/5 "2006-02-24T14:04:07Z")
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” **– The Godfather** ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/6 "2006-02-24T15:27:31Z")
“I don’t believe in it anyway!” “What?” “England.” “Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?” – **Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead** It’s just the way the “conspiracy” line is delivered. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/7 "2006-02-24T15:37:40Z")
**Sage Rat** , you beat me to it. _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was a fairly lame movie, but that particular snippet of dialog was its redemption. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/8 "2006-02-24T15:37:51Z")
Mine’s from _The Last Starfighter_ > [@](#): > > How many starfighters do we have left? > Including yourself? > Yes! > One. Just the utter dead-pan way the last line is delivered makes it. A friend of mine said we got our money’s worth from that film with that one exchange. (Mediocre movie at best, but it does have a number of really good lines…) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/9 "2006-02-24T15:38:45Z")
Said by Jude Law in the movie **Closer** : “Lying is the currency of the world.” I didn’t like the movie a whole lot, it didn’t exactly make it better that I’m not particularily fond of either Natalie Portman or Julia Roberts. But I loved that line. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/10 "2006-02-24T15:42:12Z")
“There’s no way that should have worked.” – Sahara ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/11 "2006-02-24T15:44:49Z")
If I’m reading the OP right, it isn’t a line that made an already good movie memorable, but a movie that you didn’t much care for saved by an outstanding line or snippet of dialogue. I’ll come back to this. I have trouble remembering breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/12 "2006-02-24T15:48:11Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > **Sage Rat** , you beat me to it. _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was a fairly lame movie, but that particular snippet of dialog was its redemption. That’s so funny. I just watched that movie last Saturday for the first time ever, and I couldn’t place where **Sage Rat** ’s quote came from. There are other lines in that movie. There’s a part where Sam Jack gets kicked in the balls. After something else happens, Geena Davis says to him, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Sam: “I hope not, because I’m thinking about how much my balls hurt.” That movie has some winners in it, even though it’s mostly crap. ---
**Author:** ![Just1Lurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@Just1Lurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just1Lurk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/13 "2006-02-24T15:51:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Otanx** : > All of the Monty Python quotes in **Sliding Doors** , but the best one is the one at the very end of the movie. Got to _love_ a movie where the last words spoken are a Monty Python quote. I like the movie anyway, but that made it one of my favorites. I never saw **Sliding Doors**. What was the quote? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/14 "2006-02-24T16:02:21Z")
I’m not going to be able to provide a direct quote. I hope I’m able to paraphrase closely enough. In _Valley Girl_, Nick Cage and his buddy are on the side of the road looking out over the valley and one of them says something along the lines of. “Just think. Out there somewhere at this moment \ is waiting for me (or you – I forget which).” There’s proabably another line or two and then Cage looks directly at his buddy and says in as deadpan and expressionless a way that (as far as I know) has never been duplicated, “I didn’t know that.” (There is a similar line with the same method of delivery in _National Treasure_ which I feel must be an homage to that very scene.) I’d love to see the scene again to get all the words right, but I remember VG as being exceptionally weak but for that scene. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/15 "2006-02-24T16:11:19Z")
Schlocky '60s Psycho-ripoffs time. Bette Davis in two different movies. In _Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ , to Olivia de Havilland, referring to deHavilland’s job title, “Public relations! Sounds awwwfully dirty to me!” I hear Bette every time I see some spin doctor on my TV. In _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_ , Jane(Davis) walks into her sister Blanche’s room (Joan Crawford). An old" Blanche Hudson" tear-jerker on the tube is nearing the end. Jane leers at Blanche and says “Ya finished with yaself?” That one always cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/16 "2006-02-24T16:23:19Z")
Line that I love: “That’ll do pig.” Babe “Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about?” Clueless Can’t think of any movie savers offhand. ---
**Author:** ![Dubious\_Weasle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@Dubious\_Weasle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dubious_Weasle)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/17 "2006-02-24T17:39:32Z")
_Split Second_ “We need bigger guns! We need big big fucking guns!” Not what you’d call great cinema but lines like this made it great. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/18 "2006-02-24T18:01:07Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > In _Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ , … [hijack] MAD Magazine had a knock-off of this they called, “Hack, Hack, Sweet Hasbeen.” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/19 "2006-02-24T18:21:26Z")
_Lara Croft, Tomb Raider_. A line spoken by the actor who, because of it, I suspect will make a _great_ James Bond: “And now for a _cold_ shower…” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/20 "2006-02-24T19:57:31Z")
Mine are from _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_, though since I adore the movie they didn’t save it for me–I just like them a lot. VIOLET: By gum, it’s gum! WONKA: Wrong! (the greatness is all in the tone in which he delivers the line–as if he’s saying “Right!”) and “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917.md?page=2)