# The greatest line from any movie or TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431 "2011-09-24T04:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/181 "2011-10-04T12:12:07Z")
My favourite line from a movie: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.” ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/182 "2011-10-04T12:54:59Z")
Obi Wan- “Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.” ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/183 "2011-10-04T17:36:24Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > My favourite line from a movie: > > “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.” Rik Emmet said he woke up to that scene and decided to write a song to expound upon it. Triumph’s “Tears in the Rain” is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/184 "2011-10-04T18:19:42Z")
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?” - Max Fischer, _Rushmore_ ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/185 "2011-10-04T18:21:08Z")
“I \*\*had \*\*something for this!” – Sterling Mallory Archer, _Archer_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/186 "2011-10-04T18:44:00Z")
“I gonna boil yo ass in molasses!” ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/187 "2011-10-04T18:44:09Z")
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/188 "2011-10-04T18:54:53Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Reaching back to 1944 for this one: > > (the last line is _the_ line; the others provided for set-up) > Walter: “You’ll be here too?” > > Phyllis: “I guess so. I usually am.” > > Walter: “Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?” > > Phyllis: “I wonder if I know what you mean.” > > Walter: “I wonder if you wonder.” > _(from Double Indemnity)_ > > mmm Yeah, Raymond Chandler could sure write, couldn’t he. There are so many from the movie **Tombstone** Wyatt Earp: So run, you cur… RUN! Tell all the other curs the law’s comin’! You tell 'em I’M coming… and hell’s coming with me, you hear?.. Hell’s coming with me! Doc Holliday: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne. Billy Clanton: A which? Doc Holliday: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin Billy Clanton: Why, it’s the drunk piano player. You’re so drunk, you can’t hit nothin’. In fact, you’re probably seeing double. [Billy Clanton draws a knife] Doc Holliday: [takes out a second gun] I have two guns, one for each of ya Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does? Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it. Wyatt Earp: What does he need? Doc Holliday: Revenge. Wyatt Earp: For what? Doc Holliday: Bein’ born Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why you doin’ this, Doc? Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends. Doc Holliday: …I don’t. Doc Holliday: Make no mistake, it’s not revenge he’s after. It’s a reckonin’. Crawley Dake: Ah, I see. To strike it rich. Well, all right, that’s fine. Tell you one thing, though… I never saw a rich man who didn’t wind up with a guilty conscience. Wyatt Earp: Already got a guilty conscience. Might as well have the money, too. Good day, now. Johnny Ringo: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/189 "2011-10-04T23:56:29Z")
There’s a certain thread running through all of those Tombstone lines… Of course, Doc Holliday’s best line wasn’t even spoken–just needed a tin cup and his finger. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/190 "2011-10-05T00:12:11Z")
“fredo, you’re my older brother and i love you. but never side with anyone against the family again, ever.” ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/191 "2011-10-05T02:16:05Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > There’s a certain thread running through all of those Tombstone lines… > > Of course, Doc Holliday’s best line wasn’t even spoken–just needed a tin cup and his finger. And his second best line was just “Hmph” at the very end, staring at his socks. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/192 "2011-10-05T02:20:49Z")
What do we do NOW?! We die. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/193 "2011-10-05T02:25:56Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > And his second best line was just “Hmph” at the very end, staring at his socks. I fear the bar has sunk lower as this thread has gotten longer. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/194 "2011-10-05T02:51:35Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > There are so many from the movie **Tombstone**. “I’m your huckleberry” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/195 "2011-10-05T02:53:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I fear the bar has sunk lower as this thread has gotten longer. And Leon’s getting LAAAAAAAAARGER!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/196 "2011-10-05T03:13:57Z")
“Oh it’s a big pretty white plane with curtains in the windows…and wheels…and it looks like a big tylonol” ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/197 "2011-10-05T04:33:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And Leon’s getting LAAAAAAAAARGER!!! Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen! Found it! PDTs. err Thread winner ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/198 "2011-10-05T04:55:16Z")
One line I will always love… We’ve got a blind date with destiny, and she just ordered the lobster. - The Shoveler, Mystery Men ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/199 "2011-10-05T15:59:51Z")
Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful. Man in Black: Thank you; I’ve worked hard to become so. Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don’t know. Man in Black: And what is that? Inigo Montoya: I… am not left-handed. Man in Black: You are amazing. Inigo Montoya: I ought to be, after 20 years. Man in Black: Oh, there’s something I ought to tell you. Inigo Montoya: Tell me. Man in Black: I’m not left-handed either. Another great one from Princess Bride, that movie’s a “treasure trove of linguistic anomalies” (a line from Oscar :D) ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/200 "2011-10-05T16:57:23Z")
From George Clooney’s character in _From Dusk To Dawn_: > [@](#): > > Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. **Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don’t give a fuck how crazy they are!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431.md?page=11)