# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/61 "2011-09-25T03:31:30Z")
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners, I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.” – Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart); _The Big Sleep_ (1946) ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/62 "2011-09-25T03:46:32Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > “Name it.” > – John Rambo, _First Blood_, on being asked “What do you hunt with a knife?” “Yeah, and come to think of it, that’s not the first time you’ve described your life in the way of John Rambo’s life.” Dennis Reynolds It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/63 "2011-09-25T05:43:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You have that last one wrong. Someone else back thread has it correct. It’s “Frankly, _my dear_, I don’t give a damn.” Of course, I knew something about that didnt’ seem right. > [@MacTech](#): > > [And what you fail to realize is my ship…is dragging _MINES_!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvCa0xhzyA&feature=related) (2:50 in) Oh well, now you made me remember a great one: “By Grabthar’s hammer…what a savings.” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/64 "2011-09-25T06:40:46Z")
From _To Have and Have Not_: [QUOTE=Lauren Bacall (playing Marie “Slim” Browning)] You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow. [/QUOTE] Bacall married Bogart within months of their meeting in this film. Their first child was named Steve. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/65 "2011-09-25T11:00:58Z")
A more recent one from Ben Affleck’s _The Town_: Claire: I’m sure I’d recognize their voices, if I heard them again. Doug: I dunno. It may be harder than you think. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/66 "2011-09-25T11:35:30Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > SPIKE: Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch. If we’re doing Spike then “cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost shag, cuppa tea” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/67 "2011-09-25T11:40:42Z")
Mind you if we count TV: Jeremy Clarkson on _Top Gear_, while driving a truck, said: ‘It really is a hard job and I’m not just saying that to gain favour with truck drivers. You’ve got to change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror… murder a prostitute. Change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day.’ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/68 "2011-09-25T12:07:04Z")
Mind you if we count TV: Jeremy Clarkson on _Top Gear_, while driving a truck, said: ‘It really is a hard job and I’m not just saying that to gain favour with truck drivers. You’ve got to change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror… murder a prostitute. Change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day.’ ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/69 "2011-09-25T12:27:38Z")
From _Absence of Malice_… James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: “Now we’ll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there’s gonna be two things true that ain’t true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is going to know what in the good Christ - excuse me, Angie - is going on around here. And the other is I’m gonna have somebody’s ass in my briefcase.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/70 "2011-09-25T12:33:26Z")
Col Jessup: “You can’t handle the truth!” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/71 "2011-09-25T12:45:05Z")
There’s a Vampire movie called Lost Boys I think. But its not your usual vampire movie. Its about two teenage brothers sent to live with their Grandpa for the summer in California. Lets say its Oakland. Well, the older brother falls in with a bad crowd of other boys. Turns out they are vampires. Well, older bro gets turned into one or is being turned into one. Older bro doesnt want this to happen. Younger bro sure doesnt and is freaking out. Well, somehow they fight the vampires and reverse/stop older brother vampirization. I don’t think gramps helped with any of the vampire stuff or knew about it going on. And at the end of the movie they are leaving and saying their goodbyes. Somebody asks if they had a good time. They say yes (or something like that). Then gramps says “Yeah, Oakland is great place, except for all the damn vampires” Oh, and at one point I think young bro says something like “I’m going to tell mom you’re fucking vampire!” ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/72 "2011-09-25T13:30:22Z")
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/73 "2011-09-25T17:12:49Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > There’s a Vampire movie called Lost Boys I think. But its not your usual vampire movie. Its about two teenage brothers sent to live with their Grandpa for the summer in California. Lets say its Oakland. Well, the older brother falls in with a bad crowd of other boys. Turns out they are vampires. Well, older bro gets turned into one or is being turned into one. Older bro doesnt want this to happen. Younger bro sure doesnt and is freaking out. Well, somehow they fight the vampires and reverse/stop older brother vampirization. I don’t think gramps helped with any of the vampire stuff or knew about it going on. And at the end of the movie they are leaving and saying their goodbyes. Somebody asks if they had a good time. They say yes (or something like that). > > Then gramps says “Yeah, Oakland is great place, except for all the damn vampires” > > Oh, and at one point I think young bro says something like “I’m going to tell mom you’re fucking vampire!” And let’s not forget the immortal words of Corey Haim: “Death by Stereo!” ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/74 "2011-09-25T17:46:34Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > [And what you fail to realize is my ship…is dragging _MINES_!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvCa0xhzyA&feature=related) (2:50 in) _Please_ explain to me how I never noticed that, later in the scene, as everyone around him is running about and being slaughtered, Guy is standing there frozen in panic, he alone completely unharmed. /off-topic ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/75 "2011-09-25T18:22:21Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > _Please_ explain to me how I never noticed that, later in the scene, as everyone around him is running about and being slaughtered, Guy is standing there frozen in panic, he alone completely unharmed. > > /off-topic I can’t believe how much I love that movie. It is so adorable, I want to wrap it in a blankie and kiss it on the nose. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/76 "2011-09-25T18:33:36Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > If we’re doing Spike then > > “cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost shag, cuppa tea” Giles: “We few, we happy few…” Spike: “We band of buggered!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/77 "2011-09-25T19:30:10Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > “Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sofia Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.” > > Susan Ivanova > Babyylon 5 It reads well, [But it sounds much better.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaSmassvv4w&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/78 "2011-09-25T19:30:54Z")
“great ass !!! and you got your head all the way up it” Al Pacino [Heat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCjxDTyOIA) ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/79 "2011-09-25T19:58:29Z")
“Whoever told you that you could work with men?” - Al Pacino to Kevin Spacey - Glengarry Glen Ross. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/80 "2011-09-25T20:32:55Z")
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