“You know, it’s a damn shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.” - Better Off Dead
“Define ‘irony’: a bunch of idiots on an airplane dancing around to a song made famous by a band that died in an airplane crash.” - Con Air
I also nominate all of Clue, Noises Off, and Orgazmo.
“So that would be your friend back there in the chipper?” Fargo
“I’m not only the president of The Hair Club for Men, I’m a customer.”, Jack Nicholson to his reflection in “Wolf”
“I’d like to run barefoot through your hair.” --can’t remember the movie
The old man: Fra-gee-lee. Must be Italian.
Mother: I think is says fragile, dear.---- A Christmas Story.
I’m watching it right now because it’s hot outside.
“I did nothing and it was every bit as good as I thought it could be.” --Peter Gibbons, Office Space
“It’s great to be young and insane.” --Billy Caulfield, The Dream Team
“My name is Muerte. Don’ you forget it!” --Muerte, Undercover Blues
“My name is Wild Bill Kelso, and don’t you forget it!” – 1941
“I saw the two of you sitting together all lovey-dovey, talking and laughing and borrowing each other’s lipstick!”–SOME LIKE IT HOT
“Plastics.”–THE GRADUATE
“How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we’re standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know!”–BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
“Now look at me! I’m wearing * a carboard belt! *”
Er–that last one was from THE PRODUCERS, of course. Sorry.
“Mein Fûhrer! I can walk!” -Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Berger: What are you thinking?
Conrad: I think I jerk off too much.
DB: Does it help?
C: For the time.
“Is it safe?” -Marathon Man
I’ll be back.
No, that’s not my addition. I mean I’ll be back later.
“Toss me.” - The Two Towers. You have to know the history behind it, of course, but I laughed out loud at this one.
“It’s not whether you’re paranoid… it’s whether you’re paranoid enough.” - Strange Days
“A man who found salvation in the strangest of places – at the bottom of an inkwell, at the tip of a quill.” - Quills
“Mr., if I had a rubber hose I’d beat you with it.” Police chief in Christmas Vacation
“To the Pain!” Princess Bride
“Get busy living, or get busy dying”. Morgan Freeman in Shawsank Redemption
“Is that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?” Fenster-The Usual Suspects
“Can you milk me Greg?” Robert DeNiro–Meet the Parents
“Come on Focker!” Robert DeNiro–Meet the Parents
“Do you care now Bobby?” Robert DeNiro–The Fan
“Back in his day he was the bitch’s bastard.” Things you do in Denver when you’re dead.
“You slip me the cash, and I’ll slip you the weiner.” “I don’t have any cash!” “Then I don’t have a weiner!” Adventures in Babysitting.
In keeping with the Raising Arizona, here’s my favorite…
“Hey, do these balloons blow up into any funny shapes at all?”
“Well, no … not unless round is funny.”
“Could be worse. Could be raining.” - Young Frankenstein
“It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take away all he’s got… and all he’s ever gonna have.” Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven.
“Which one is your wallet?”
“It’s the one that says ‘Bad Mother Fucker’” – Pulp Fiction.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” – Jaws
Mr.Blonde - talking into the cut off ear: “Hey, Can you hear that” *Resevoir Dogs *
“NO” * Silent Movie - said by mime Marcel Marceau *
“All right … all right … but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order … what HAVE the Romans done for US?” - Life of Brian
Ohh, Dr. Strangelove:
“There’ll be no fighting in the war room!”
You’re missing the classics:
"And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. " – G. Marx, Animal Crackers
Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta: Reading a book??
Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear. That’s something you need never worry about. – Jean Harlow & Marie Dressler, Dinner at Eight
“'Taint a fit night out for man nor beast.” – W. C. Fields The Fatal Glass of Beer
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” (Do I really have to identify it?)
“Well, it’s no trick to make a lot of money… if all you want to do is make a lot of money.” – Everett Sloan, Citizen Kane
“I think it might be fun to run a newspaper” – Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
“The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.” – Danny Kaye, The Court Jester
"“Ever been bit by a dead bee?” – Walter Brennan, To Have and Have Not
"“You’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” – Warner Baxter, 42nd Street
“You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!” – Hardware Wars
“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” (if you don’t know this, you don’t know movies).
“Why, everybody in Mandrake Falls is pixilated – except us.” – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha … you can’t fool me. There ain’t no sanity clause.” – C. Marx, A Night at the Opera
“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” – Jimmy Cagney in White Heat
I’ll stop now.
“What’s the matter, Auggie Ben-Doggie? Did you suddenly feel a stirring in the force, as if billions of people have just died?”
“No. Just a headache.”
and…
“Ah, ya matyr, ya!”
– Hardware Wars
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” – To Have and Have Not
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I can’t think of a favorite at the moment, but this one amused me:
(Disclaimer: Let me first just say that I was flipping around, looking for something to watch and came upon this accidentally. I caught this line, laughed for a moment and moved on. I have never intentionally watched this movie.)
From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: “You’ll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.”
Great line from a crappy movie:
“I just want to get one thing straight. I don’t work on January 8…'cause that’s Elvis’s birthday.”
from DC Cab.