# Movie one liners **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737 "2012-01-07T15:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/41 "2012-01-08T19:51:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > “And don’t wear the same color suits. This isn’t the Matrix.” Doesn’t look like it will be reflected in awards, but this is my favourite Hollywood story of 2011 by a mile. > **[Limitless screenplay – Act Four Screenplays](https://actfourscreenplays.com/screenwriting-blog/limitless-screenplay/)** > **[Video Interview: Limitless Writer-Producer Leslie Dixon](https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Video-Interview-Limitless-Writer-Producer-Leslie-Dixon-23651.html)** > > Writer Leslie Dixon has had a hand on quite a few prominent films from Overboard to Freaky Friday. Based on her extensive repertoire, it’s quite obvious Dixon is a natural storyteller, but that ability isn’t limited to writing screenplays; Dixon is... ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/42 "2012-01-08T21:24:57Z")
“Jumping butterballs!” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/43 "2012-01-08T21:57:57Z")
“Consider that a divorce” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/44 "2012-01-08T22:36:31Z")
“Your mother mates out of season.” ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/45 "2012-01-08T22:38:22Z")
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin’ palm tree overboard! Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight? Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy. You just keep thinkin’, Butch. That’s what you’re good at. Well, he should have armed himself if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/46 "2012-01-08T22:39:57Z")
“Oh, no. 'Twas Beauty killed the Beast.” “No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to Die!” “You’re the son of a Farmer, aren’t you?” “Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/47 "2012-01-08T22:43:46Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > I’m not an actor. I’m a movie star! Peter O’Toole, _My Favorite Year_ I freakin’ love these kinds of threads. With every quote, you get that little jolt of joy from remembering a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/48 "2012-01-08T22:44:25Z")
“He left me for another woman. A deceased one. They’re always the stiffest competition.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/49 "2012-01-08T22:44:30Z")
> [@eunoia](#): > > Doesn’t look like it will be reflected in awards, but this is my favourite Hollywood story of 2011 by a mile. > > [Limitless screenplay – Act Four Screenplays](http://actfourscreenplays.com/screenwriting-blog/limitless-screenplay/) > > [Video Interview: Limitless Writer-Producer Leslie Dixon | Cinemablend](http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Video-Interview-Limitless-Writer-Producer-Leslie-Dixon-23651.html) Yes! It’s actually my favorite movie of last year, as well. You might like this thread: [Limitless film (spoilers after OP) - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=601289) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/50 "2012-01-08T23:34:00Z")
I’d like to run barefoot through your hair. Here’s lookin’ at you, kid. I am shocked, _shocked_ to learn that there has been gambling going on in here! It’s pronounced “EYE-gore”. Deservin’s got nuthin’ to do with it. “Half”. Badges? We don’t got no badges! We don’t need no _steenking_ badges! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/51 "2012-01-09T00:07:47Z")
'As you wish" ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/52 "2012-01-09T01:19:37Z")
“Nobody’s perfect.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/53 "2012-01-09T01:29:57Z")
All time favorite of the Dope: “I suggest we nuke 'em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/54 "2012-01-09T01:30:30Z")
“Scarlett’s gonna have puppies!” “One’s blue, the other’s yellow, and they both say ‘Yankee go home’!” ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/55 "2012-01-09T04:01:08Z")
> [@SuperNelson](#): > > “Nobody’s perfect.” Yeah, I considered adding that one. 😃 I wonder how obscure it is anyone under the age of fifty. I like this game of posting unattributed quotes. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/56 "2012-01-09T04:27:33Z")
“Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?” “More! You should have been a cleric!” “Like yourself, your Grace?” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/57 "2012-01-09T04:50:51Z")
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/58 "2012-01-09T04:53:15Z")
“Clearly I miscalculated a few things.” “Whoa.” “She saves him right back.” “They lack our altruism, sir.” “Yes, but they were _all bad_.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/59 "2012-01-09T05:03:54Z")
“. . . Has anyone seen that building out there before?!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-one-liners/608737/60 "2012-01-09T05:36:19Z")
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