“I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something.”
The Odd Couple
Now it’s garbage.
Days Of Wine And Roses
I walked by Union Square Bar. I was going to go in. Then I saw myself, my reflection in the window, and I thought, “I wonder who that bum is.” And then I saw it was ME! Now look at me- I’m a bum!
Apocalypse Now
" I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror… Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces… seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn’t know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it… I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God… the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment! Because it’s judgment that defeats us."
Hot Shots part deux
These men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy, like their fathers, and their fathers before them…
The Breakfast Club
Someday when you’re out of here and you’ve forgotten all about this place, and they’ve forgotten all about you, and you’re wrapped up in your own pathetic life? I’m gonna be there. That’s right. And I’m gonna kick the living shit out of you.*
***Die Hard ***
“All right, listen up guys. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except… the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation.”
Unbreakable
“It was the kids! They called me Mr. Glass.”
Tangled
“Look in that mirror. I see a strong, confident, beautiful young lady. Oh look, you’re here too.”
Shrek
Oh, no no no no! Dead broad OFF the table!
Wayne’s World
If she was a president she’d be Babe-raham Lincoln.
Saint Elmo’s Fire
“Jules, y’know, honey… this isn’t real. You know what it is? It’s St. Elmo’s Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them… there was no fire. There wasn’t even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you’re making up all of this. We’re all going through this. It’s our time at the edge.”
GI Jane
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mr. Hayes. If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress too?”
Thelma and Louise
“I don’t ever remember feeling this awake.”
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
“Hush little baby daddy’s going to eat you…”
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
“I smell bullshit.”
Star Trek: First Contact
You want to know my vision? Dollar signs. Money. I want to retire on some tropical island filled with naked women. THAT’S my vision. That’s Zefram Cochrane. This historical guy you keep talking about? I’ve never met him. Can’t say I ever will.
Babe***
“In those days pigs believed that the sooner they grew large and fat, the sooner they’d be taken into Pig Paradise, a place so wonderful that no pig had ever thought to come back.”
The Natural
“I believe we have two lives: the one we learn with, and the one we live with after that.”
Quiz Show
I’m happy that you’ve made the statement. But I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. See, I don’t think an adult of your intelligence should be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.
The Legend of Bagger Vance***