# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/81 "2011-09-25T20:38:50Z")
> [@George\_Kaplin](#): > > “Whoever told you that you could work with men?” - Al Pacino to Kevin Spacey - Glengarry Glen Ross. “You _chiiiillld_.” ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/82 "2011-09-25T23:47:51Z")
Hmm. Just one? a few of my movie favourites have already been thrown out there. (Princess Bride, Lost Boys, Aliens). How about a TV favourite of mine \ ***Wild Bill Hickok:** That dropped eye of yours looks like the hood on a cunt to me, Jack. When you talk, your mouth looks like a cunt moving. **Jack McCall:** I ain’t gonna get in no gun fight with you, Hickok. **Wild Bill Hickok:** But you will run your cunt mouth at me. And I will take it, to play poker. \* ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/83 "2011-09-26T01:36:09Z")
“That’s a very nice hat you’re wearing, and I don’t mean that in an Eddie Haskel kind of way.” _Cliff Poncier, as portrayed by Matt Dillon in Cameron Crowe’s ‘Singles’_ ---
**Author:** ![ClevelandProud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@ClevelandProud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClevelandProud)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/84 "2011-09-26T03:08:41Z")
“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate.” - Spoken by The Captain, the prison warden played by Strother Martin - _Cool Hand Luke_ (1967) > **[Cool Hand Luke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_we%27ve_got_here_is_%28a%29_failure_to_communicate)** > > Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. Set in the early 1950s, it is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke. > Roger Ebert called Cool Hand Luke an anti-establishment film shot during emerging popular opposition to the Vietnam War. Filming took place... ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/85 "2011-09-26T03:34:37Z")
From IMDB, the setup and the line: Jimmy Dugan: Evelyn, could you come here for a second? Which team do you play for? Evelyn Gardner: Well, I’m a Peach. Jimmy Dugan: Well I was just wonderin’ why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. That’s the lump that’s three feet above your ass. [Evelyn starts to cry] Jimmy Dugan: Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/86 "2011-09-26T03:58:51Z")
“Emily, you should wear more sweaters.” ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/87 "2011-09-26T05:02:20Z")
This whole scene is awesome [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56vwZ_oclw&feature=related) but the line I like is"Christ almighty it’s like i’m sitting here playing cards with my brothers kids or something…you nerve rackin’ sonsa bitches. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/88 "2011-09-26T06:23:48Z")
["_When you have to shoot, shoot… don’t talk._](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUslGSoEH8I) ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/89 "2011-09-26T09:36:36Z")
Sunset Boulevard: “I asked a couple of yes men at Fox, to me they said no.” “Jimmy didn’t have to ask how you were, he just looked at your heels and he knew the score.” (from memory might be a little off) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/90 "2011-09-26T09:50:43Z")
[Joey Joe Joe!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChC96i6s1U) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/91 "2011-09-26T21:23:09Z")
From The Little Mermaid: “Well then, I guess there’s just one problem left.” “And what’s that, Your Majesty?” “How much I’m going to miss her.” ---
**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 26, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/92 "2011-09-26T21:41:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > No, \*this \*is the line you’re thinking of: > > Little Bill Daggett: “I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.” > Will Munny: “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” \*Unforgiven \*has many great lines, like “Well you sure killed the hell outta that fella today.” and I particularly like this exchange: Will Munny: “It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” The Schofield Kid: “Yeah, well I guess they had it coming.” Will Munny: “We all got it coming, kid.” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/93 "2011-09-26T22:01:10Z")
**Batty:** 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. **Wyatt Earp:** How are you? **Doc Holliday:** I’m dying, how are you? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VTdjoA8HeAM/hqdefault.jpg "Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985) -The "little bitty spot" speech") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdjoA8HeAM) **Manny:** [after listening to Buck’s dream] That’s bullshit. You’re not gonna do nothin’ like that. I’ll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That’s what you gonna do. You’re gonna get a little job. Some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria. Or cleaning out toilets. And you’re gonna hold onto that job like gold. Because it is gold. Let me tell you, Jack, that is gold. You listenin’ to me? And when that man walks in at the end of the day. And he comes to see how you done, you ain’t gonna look in his eyes. You gonna look at the floor. Because you don’t want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up & grab his face, and slam him to the floor, and make him scream & cry for his life. So you look right at the floor, Jack. Pay attention to what I’m sayin’, motherfucker! And then he’s gonna look around the room - see how you done. And he’s gonna say “Oh, you missed a little spot over there. Jeez, you didn’t get this one here. What about this little bitty spot?” And you’re gonna suck all that pain inside you, and you’re gonna clean that spot. And you’re gonna clean that spot. Until you get that shiny clean. And on Friday, you pick up your paycheck. And if you could do that, if you could do that, you could be president of Chase Manhattan… corporations! If you could do that. **Buck:** Not me, man! I wouldn’t do that kind of shit. I’d rather be in fuckin’ jail. **Manny:** More’s the pity, youngster. More’s the pity. **Buck:** Could you do that kind of shit? **Manny:** I wish I could. ---
**Author:** ![all1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@all1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all1966)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/94 "2011-09-26T22:44:00Z")
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. (in full agreement with prior post #80) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/95 "2011-09-26T23:10:53Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > “Kirk to Enterprise. It’s been two hours, are you ready?” > – Admiral Kirk, _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_ Right movie, wrong quote: **KHAAAAAAN!** ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/96 "2011-09-27T03:14:46Z")
“Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/97 "2011-09-27T03:28:04Z")
“No, she couldn’t. And sooner or later Glory will re-emerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy… and the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn’t take a human life. She’s a hero, you see. She’s not like us.” “Us?” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/98 "2011-09-27T04:11:26Z")
[Got to be the greatest line, or they wouldn’t use it so often. “Silence!”]([A Supercut Of People Saying 'Silence!' In Movies | HuffPost Culture](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/people-saying-silence-in-movies_n_933025.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C89059)) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/99 "2011-09-27T04:38:43Z")
[BladeRunner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8) Tears in the rain speech. ---
**Author:** ![Post\_Miss\_Post](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Post\_Miss\_Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Post_Miss_Post)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431/100 "2011-09-27T06:30:25Z")
**Aunt Ada Doom:** “I saw something nasty in the woodshed.” **Mr. Neck:** “Of course you did, but did it see you, baby?” (Damn, and by looking up IMDB to check a name I just realised that my user name is spelled wrong. Should be Post, Miss Poste!" :smack:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-line-from-any-movie-or-tv/597431.md?page=6)