I’m talking about those movies where you can tell who the fans are because they’re quoting half the movie in every conversation. The kind where someone says a random lie, and everyone else in the room finishes the dialogue.
Monty Python’s anything is obviously going to get a spot up there. And there’s The Princess Bride, and, from what I’ve heard, The Big Lebowsky.
What, in your opinion, is the most quotable movie ever?
“Gone With the Wind”:
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
“I’ll think about that tomorrow.”
“War, war, war. Is that all you boys ever talk about?”
“I don’t know nothing about birthing babies!”
“Why you’re nothing but white trash.”
Star Wars, the original movie.
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” “He can go about his business.” “Move along.”
“It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. She’s fast enough for you, old man.”
“What a piece of junk!” “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.”
“Plotting a course into hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy!”
“That’s no moon…”
“Who’s more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?”
“May the Force be with you.”
“Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
“Somebody has to save our skins!”
“Wonderful girl! Either I’m gonna kill her or I’m beginning to like her!”
“When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” “Only the master of evil!”
“That’s impossible, even for a computer!”
“Look at the size of that thing!”
“The Force is strong with this one.”
“Great shot kid, that was one in a million!”
Some of them are pretty situational, but that just means when the situation does arise it’s even more apt.
I can pretty much quote Anchorman on a daily basis.
Airplane! is up there too
*Pardon me, but your husband is showing.
Statistics show that there are more women in the world than anything else. Except insects.
I can never get a zipper to close. Maybe that stands for something, what do you think?
I hate you so much I think I’m going to die from it. Darling…
Johnny is such a hard name to remember and so easy to forget.
I hate you so much that I would destroy myself to take you down with me. *
–and the piece of resistance:
If I’d been a ranch, they would’ve named me “The Bar None.”
Casablanca
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
“I’m shocked . . . shocked to find out that gambling is going on here.”
“Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’” (and variations).
“I was misinformed.”
“Round up the usual suspects.”
“I stick my neck out for nobody.”
“This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.”
"It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. "
“I was misinformed.”
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pulp Fiction - “That’s a pretty fucking good milkshake. I don’t know if it’s worth $5, but it’s pretty fucking good.”
**Vacation **- “This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy!”
Revenge of the Nerds -
Booger: Did you get in her pants?
Gibert: She’s not that kind of girl, Booger.
Booger: Why? Does she have a penis?
Better Off Dead - “Gee, I’m real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.”
Groundhog Day - I think it competes with anything in terms of sheer volume and is the winner hands down in terms of percentage of quotable dialogue since so much of it is repeated several times.
Maybe not the most quotable - especially since Monty Python’s Grail (“And that my lord is how we know the world to be banana shaped”) and Brian (“You lucky bastard!”) would probably fight over the #1 spot - but still…
In Bruges.
“I want a normal gun for a normal person.”
“You can’t sell horse tranquilizers to a midget!”
I’ll second “In Bruges”
Ray: I don’t hit women. I would never hit a woman, Chloe. I’d hit a woman who was trying to hit me with a bottle. That’s different. That’s self-defense, isn’t it? Or a woman who could do karate. I would never hit a woman generally, Chloe.
Monty Python “Holy Grail” and “Life of Brian” are way up there, but in the parlance of our time I think Lebowsky definitely takes the prize. Unless and until new shit comes to light.
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*Army of Darkness.
Big Trouble in Little China.*
At least, those are the ones my friends and I quote on a regular basis…TRM
Blazing Saddles, natch!
The most quotable sports movie is Caddyshack.
“Ooo! My arm! It’s broken!”
“My college roommate Mitch Cumstein was night putting… with the Dean’s daughter.”
“Wang, this is a restricted club, so don’t tell 'em you’re Jewish.”
“I was born to rub you / I was born to lick your face / i was born to rub you / but you were born to rub me first”
"So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice. "
Other favorites are Big Lebowski, Airplane!, and most recently, who can forget The Hangover!
“Drunk driving. Classic.”
“Not you, fat Jesus.”
“Toodleoo, motherfuckeeeeeerrrrs!”
“We shouldn’t let him gamble or drink too much.
Shit, he’s like a fucking gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit.”
Animal House, judging by this thread.
The Princess Bride, definitely, in my house, surpassed only by O Brother Where Art Thou?
Young Frankenstien
I quote The Big Lebowski on a daily basis.
I also like to quote Star Trek: First Contact quite a bit.
“The line must be drawn HERE!”
“If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!”
Most importantly… “Resistance is futile.”
Aliens
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
There was a hilarious thread here a while back that was mostly all Aliens quotes, anyone remember that?