# New and Improved... Best Movie Lines! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 1999, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920 "1999-12-16T21:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/21 "1999-12-17T14:59:00Z")
Only one thing in the world could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window. - Ralphie in A Christmas Story Run the picket fence, but don’t get caught watching the paint dry - Shooter, Hoosiers I’m your huckleberry - Doc Holliday, Tombstone Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. - Dean Wormer, Animal House Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! - Bluto, Animal House * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/22 "1999-12-17T17:54:00Z")
In a world without love,its better to be dead-George Hamilton in Love At First Bite. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/23 "1999-12-17T17:56:00Z")
Beulah, peel me a grape.— Mae West * * * It’s immoral to allow a sucker to keep his money. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/24 "1999-12-18T06:04:00Z")
Current fave: “I’m thuper! Thankth for asthking! I couldn’t be much better I must thay . . .” continuing with the line "I’m tho thorry, Mr. Cripple . . . " Ah, God, I loved that movie. 🙂 * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/25 "1999-12-17T19:52:00Z")
“Say Hello, to my little friend.” “Let her go. Let her go. Another Qualude, she gonna love me again.” “You are not even human fucking beings! You are disorganized, grab-asstic, pieces of amphibian shit!” “If God had wanted you over that obstacle, he would have miracled your fucking ass over it, wouldn’t he Private Pyle?” * * * -Jesus Saves He passes to Mike Modano. THEY SCORE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/26 "1999-12-17T21:04:00Z")
“Are we awake? I don’t know…are we black? Yes. Then we are awake, but very confused!” “Do you need any help? Oh, all I can get!” “Hey! Where all d’white women at?!” “Shut up, you teutonic twat!” Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, and Harvey Kormann in Blazing Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/27 "1999-12-17T21:06:00Z")
Oh, and: “here’s yer paper!, here’s yer paper!, here’s yer paper!” “That boy gets no tip!” Shower scene from High Anxiety “It’s GOOD to be the king!” History of the World, Part I ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/28 "1999-12-17T21:16:00Z")
“You ignorant puffed up smidgen of blowfish sh\*t.” ---
**Author:** ![Derf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Derf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/29 "1999-12-17T21:39:00Z")
“This has got to be the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen” “No I once saw a guy who broke his neck trying to perform fellation on himself” “That’s why I manually masturbate animals for artificial insemination” “Do you want some advice? Here it is: Beer, it’s your friend, drink alot of it. Classes, nothing before eleven. Do you have a car? Someone on your hall will, make friends with them the first day. Girls? Well girls are pretty much out of the question: You’re a freshman.” “Why you no good stuck-up, scruffy looking nerfherder!” “Whose scruffy looking?” “When 900 years old your reach, look as good you will not, eh?” “That movie has warped my fragile little mind” “Do you know the only thing you did wrong? You let somebody _see_ you” (Lee Marvin to Charles Bronson in _The Dirty Dozen_ And last but certainly not least: “I wish you wouldn’t do me anymore favors for me Captain” (Captain cusses and beats the hell outta’ Luke and says 🙂 “What we’ve got here is, failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach, so you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. . . Well he gets it. I don’t like it anymore than you men.” Ahh movies. . . * * * “To be great is to be misunderstood” – Ralph Waldo Emerson ---
**Author:** ![N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N_oR_jVIaL)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/30 "1999-12-18T03:01:00Z")
“I think I got the best one” ~ Raising Arizona ~ ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/31 "1999-12-18T03:12:00Z")
“Son - fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.” The Dean to John Belushi in National Lampoon’s Animal House. * * * Wishing all you at the SDMB Happy Xmas and a GREAT 2000 and beyond! ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/32 "1999-12-18T03:32:00Z")
“You’re young, you got your health, whatch you need with a job?”-Raising Arizona “I’ll show you the Life of the Mind…”-Barton Fink :::SWOON::: Oh, them Bros. Cohen! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/33 "1999-12-18T07:18:00Z")
Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw Josey Whales” to the carpetbagger in the white suit who’s trying to sell him snake-oil: “works on just about anything, huh?” [spits tobacco juice on his suit] “How’s it work on stains?” Pretty dark, but Martin Sheen in “Apocalypse Now”: “I told you not to stop. Now let’s go.” “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Ugly [reading note]: “See you soon, idi… idi… idio…” Good: “Idiots. It’s for you.” ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/34 "1999-12-18T07:53:00Z")
Alpha Mike Foxtrot How’s that for obscure? * * * JB Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/35 "1999-12-19T02:58:00Z")
“Thish one, I’ll grant you, ish not a shuicide.” “FRANK AND BEANS!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Utinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Utinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Utinni)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/36 "1999-12-19T03:40:00Z")
“This…is my BOOMSTICK!” “A black sheriff?” “Why not? It worked in _Blazing Saddles_.” “So be it…Jedi.” “May the Schwartz be with you.” * * * “War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.” ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/37 "1999-12-19T04:29:00Z")
A few people mentioned Raising Arizona…I love this movie!! My favorite line from that movie is “Son…you’ve got a panty on your head.” * * * “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/38 "1999-12-19T04:51:00Z")
“It is my opinion… That this man is dead.” [list=1]–Sherlock Holmes, A.K.A. Reginald Kinkaid in _Without A Clue_[/list=1] * * * It’s more important to understand than it is to agree. [http://members.tripod.com/~Bob\_Baloo/index.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/39 "1999-12-19T05:14:00Z")
“Stop the car!” “We can’t just stop the car, this is a CAR CHASE!” - Playing God * * * “Jesus Mary Joseph…you’re a biker chick!” - co-worker, upon hearing of my tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![dekayx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dekayx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dekayx)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 1999, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920/40 "1999-12-29T23:38:00Z")
grace- good selection. recognized the first 3…Wonerful Life, Wall Street , and GWTW. How about the 3rd? And why didn’t anyone mention the obvious…“What we have here …is failure to communicate…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-best-movie-lines/12920.md?page=3)