“Everybody be cool - YOU - be cool” - George Clooney in From Dusk Till Dawn. Used when trying to calm down a conversation getting loud.
“Gettin’ loud!” - Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets. Same situation.
“Inconceivable!” - ? in The Princess Bride. The line preceding Mandy Patinkin’s “You keep using that word. . . .” Used whenever some un-anticipated event screws up plans.
Some favorite non-sequiturs:
“Did you know the human head weighs 8 pounds?” - Jerry Maguire
“Sheeeit, negro - that’s all you had to say!” - Pulp Fiction
Some favorite lines not already shared (all useable in everyday life):
“Roll 'em up!” - National Lampoon’s Vacation
“Funny? What do you mean funny? Am I a clown to you? Do I amuse you?” - Goodfellas
“That’s not art, it’s sex!” - Slap Shot
“Mr. Man! Mr. Man!”
and
“We get both kinds: country AND western” - from The Blues Brothers
Of course, a whole bunch from Mel Brooks:
“Go to vork!” (in your best Swedish accent) - The Producers
“Don’t know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
“Harumph, harumph, harumph, harumph…” (also “Murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur” from The Man With Two Brains
“Kinky!”
“Sounds like steam escaping.”
from Blazing Saddles
“It’s good to be the king.”
History of the World
“Could be worse…could be raining.”
“You just made a yummy sound…”
“We’re going to need some more FBI guys.” - Die Hard. For anytime someone’s pulled a clusterfuck so big, they go down in flames.
“I grovel in mortification.” - Death on the Nile. Used by my family and I anytime we screw up really bad. Haven’t had to use that here. Yet.
“Bad, evil, wicked, naughty Zoot! She must be spanked!” - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When a friend has flaked out in a minor way but is catching too much flack about it.
“You’ll get nothing and like it!” - Caddyshack. Whenever my cat is whining at me for something she’s not going to get.
“Put ze candle BECK!” - Young Frankenstein. All purpose “stop whatever you are doing immediately” phrase.
“That’ll be the day!” - The Searchers. Must be said with intense John Wayne accent whenever a skeptical comeback is needed.
“What is dis idiot babbling about?” - The Little Mermaid. Pretty self explanatory. Works best with a Jamaican accent.
“Burn the witch!” “May we burn her?” - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I get this one a lot whenever clever python fans learn of my religion.
“SSssssssNEAKIN’!” - Return of the King (LoTR). Whenever someone asks me what I’m doing. It’s Golum’s line.
And lots, lots more . . .
“I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before, that you’re lovely, that you’re perfect, and that somebody wants you.” - Semisonic, f.n.p
We might like to quote " My Prescious", don’t we My Prescious?
(From The Hobbit, anywhere or anytime, usually for no particular reason. It’s more fun that way)
“Laundry day today, nothing clean right? Nothing clean right.”
(From The Terminator, usually when someone has forgotten to give me something they were supposed to bring with them)
Gracious me. Was I raving? Please forgive me. I’m mad.
-Patient X, in The Exorcist III
Oh, for goodness’ sake get down off that crucifix. Someone needs the wood.
-Felicia, in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
I’m sorry; if you were right, I would agree with you.
-Dr. Sayer, in Awakenings
You are gay! You are a homosexual! I know it, your family knows it, dogs know it! The only one who doesn’t know it is you!
-The Doctor, in Brain Candy
You’re not listening to me! I am *fucking gay! *
-Alyssa Jones, in *Chasing Amy *
Blind and deaf people know you’re gay. Dead people know you’re gay.
-Will, from Will & Grace
This is how we do things on the Planet Maturia. We have much to teach you.
-Lucia, in The Opposite of Sex
With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “The Drumhead,” Star Trek: The Next Generation
A favorite of mine is from the Simpsons episode, where Bart destroyed Lisa’s science project and she begins to compare Bart’s intelligence with a hamster’s. The hamster, of course, shuns the electrified cupcake after the first shock; Bart keeps after it:
BZZZT. “Ow!” BZZZT. “Ow!”
I say it whenever someone does something stupid more than once.
BTW, my fave Black Adder quote goes something like, “You wouldn’t know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing, ‘Subtle Plans Are Here Again’.”
‘Truth, much like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you want, I’ll believe what I know’. --Kevin Spacey in ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’.
“You remind me of the babe.” – Labyrinth
[mostly for no reason, to spark the whole exchange from either my sister or random other people who happen to know the movie.]
“Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please.” – Tank Girl
[um, very randomly, too…mostly in an I’ve enough of this, lets get out of here NOW situation. Though I’ve used it other times too.]
And lots of others…some of which I forget that I use, and many that have already been mentioned…