I’m watching The Avengers again, and I love the scene when Banner wakes up after falling from the sky.
Worker: “Are you an alien?.. From outer space, an alien.”
Banner: “No.”
Worker: “Well then, son… You’ve got a condition.”
A line I often quote is from Blazing Saddles. Having recruited Mongo to his side, Bart asks if he knows the bad guys’s plans.
“Mongo not know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
I just watched that (again) two nights ago. 1 of many great lines and gags in the film.
Similarly –
In Eraser, Arnold bails out of a jet that then tries to kill him in mid-air but just fouls his 'chute. He gets the spare deployed with one second to go but lands on a junked car, stoving in the roof:
Taxi in the the Elegant Iggy episode.
Jim is playing piano at a very fancy party. He is playing London Bridge poorly and then says “Oh, the hell with it” and starts playing beautifully. He stops one more time, looks up and say, “I must have had music lessons?”
Or the classic from the first episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
“You’ve got Spunk, I hate Spunk.”
The whole scene is incredible actually.
Living in Oblivion is a pretty funny indie movie about making a terrible indie movie. Peter Dinklage owns the screen for his bit part:
I could be here all day. “Oh, no, you can’t!” from Mrs. burpo.
Lost in Space – Dr Smith is sent back in time to the launch of the Jupiter 2 where he has to choose to stowaway again or stay behind and the Robinsons will be killed by a meteor. Of course, the Robot gets sent back, too, to convince Smith to get aboard. As they both scramble to embark, Smith gets his foot caught in the main hatch with 30 seconds to go, the Robot is still on the pad:
Smith: If we don’t get inside, we’ll be incinerated!
Robot: I will be incinerated, you will just look silly hanging by your toes in space.
Grosse Point Blank, after the convenience store blows up:
Blank: Are you okay?
Convenience store clerk: No! I’m hurt, I’m tired, and I need a new job!
I Heart Huckabees. A man visits existential detectives as played by Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin.
Tomlin: Have you ever transcended space and time?
Schwartzman: No. Yes. Uh, time not space. No. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Dawn Campbell: There’s glass between us. You can’t deal with my infinite nature, can you?
Brad Stand: That is so not true. Wait, what does that even mean?
“How could I not be myself?” is a running household gag whenever one of us does something silly and quintessentially us.
I treasure that movie.
Altered States (1980) - An X-ray of Eddie is examined shortly after his “tank trip”:
Mason Parrish: It looks to me like the architecture is slightly abnormal.
Dr. Wissenschaft: Somewhat? This guy’s a fucking gorilla!
Bicentennial Man. Bradley Whitford as Little Miss’s son. How he suddenly turns cooperative with Andrew’s quest to find the rest of his models when he realizes it’ll take Andrew years, maybe even a decade, to complete.
“I looked at the trap, Ray.”
Bah. Egon Spengler was hardly a bit part.
Guess I missed the “bit part” part.
Eve Arden in Mildred Pierce:
“Personally, Vida’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.”
From MASH the TV show (Hawkeye speaking):
“Never let it be said I didn’t do the least I could have done.”
mmm
Me too. Do you mean character lines where the character only makes a brief appearance?
Yes; the character might not even have a name. Or it could be their only line. You’d have to dig pretty far into the credits to find them, anyway.