I’m looking for your favorite one-word or one-line characters from a movie that spoke one line (one word is preferred, but one line is sufficient). The character has to exist throughout the movie, not someone you see in only one scene. The character doesn’t have to be the main character, or a strong supporting actor… just someone who is in the background enough that you notice him/her and the one word/line spoken is meaningful and isn’t out of place. Also, I’m not looking for movies about people with physical speech problems (can’t think of an example off-hand). My two examples:
Dogma - Silent Bob after tossing Loki from the train, to stunned passenger - “No ticket.” The Longest Yard - The warden’s assistant, when Eddie Albert is stunned that his power theory didn’t work, looks at Albert at the end of the game and says “his-to-ry”. A perfect one word, one liner.
In My Favorite Year, there’s a character (one of the writers on the King Kaiser Show) who only speaks by whispering in another character’s ear. Toward the end, though, in the big climactic scene, he suddenly says, “Oh, God, this makes me happy!”
Maybe this should be an exception. I think this line still comes immediately to mind when that movie pops up. Although that was the lady’s only appearance in the movie, it’s a great line!
I know this is outside the scope of the OP, but I thought the trivia value might make it worth the post.
Best “No Dialogue” Titles has 112 titles where the movie has no dialogue. I clicked on that tab in the listing for the old Ray Milland movie The Thief (1952) which I saw on TV and was blown away with. Plenty of sound but no spoken lines.
In the movie The Ritz, there is a single line spoken by a character who, while shown throughout the film, says absolutely nothing until the next to the last scene, then speaks one (longish) line that it not only hilarious, but also casts the entire film in a different light.
