# What movie line sticks with you for no reason? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729 "2001-07-25T12:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/41 "2001-07-26T17:58:33Z")
From The Gauntlet…Clint is taking a motorcycle from a biker gang. The biker says, “HEY! that’s my chopper Charlie” and Clint pulls out his .44, this is my gun Clyde" Also, some folks have quoted the “its just a bunny” line from the Holy Grail, but some of the best stuff from the scene was in the background. Eric says, “he made me shit me pants” then after the first attack by the rabbit, he says, “Did it again” Finally, “Who is he?” “He’s the king” “how do you know?” “he’s not covered in shit” ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/42 "2001-07-27T06:43:13Z")
“Lamb, you ran away. Naughty lamb.” Drove me nuts! FOR FORTY YEARS! I kid you not! Heard it as a child in the 40s but never remembered what it was from. Thought it was from one of the LASSIE ones so watched every one of those through the years. Nope! About the age of 45 I watched an old MGM movie that I thought I’d never seen. MARGARET O’BRIEN’S first movie A JOURNEY FOR MARGARET. Smack in the middle of it there was this darling blonde, curly-haired little English boy—he’d lost his toy and then found it. YEE HAA!!! To this day, MANY years later; I STILL have no idea why that line had impressed me so. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/43 "2001-07-27T07:22:22Z")
From Metropolitan: “That was really embarassing. Thank you for including me.” “Jane’s father is dead. Very suddenly last year.” “How terrible. It must have been very hard on her.” “Yes. It was tough on him, too.” “Rick von Sloniker is tall, rich, good-looling, stupid, dishonest, a bully, liar, thief, and drunk; in short, highly attractive to women.” ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/44 "2001-07-27T10:44:36Z")
_Billy Bob Thorton_ in **Sling Blade** “Aw right then.” & “I’m reckonin’ to kill yew with it.” _Eddie Murphy_ in **48 hours** “TV’s changed, Jack.” _Anthony Hopkins_ in **The Silence of the Lambs** “Tell me Clorisse, are the lambs still screaming?” & “I ate his liver with some farva beans and a nice chianti.” _Jack Nicholson_ in **The Shining** “Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” _Jack Nicholson_ in **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** “Nurse Ratchett, I believe you should let us watch the ball game…” _The Dean_ in **Animal House** “Son… fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” _Lloyd Bridges_ in **Airplane** “It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.” And finally… Clint - “Go ahead, make my day.” “So tell me something punk, do ya feel lucky? - Well DO YA?” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/45 "2001-07-27T11:08:50Z")
**Quint** ( cackling as he delivers line ) > [@](#): > > Cage goes in the water. You go in cage. Shark is in the water. Shark is near the cage. HA! - **JAWS** **The Man** > [@](#): > > I’m not gonna come back, I’m gonna send in a coupla Samoan friends I know, let them get Medieval on his ass - **PULP FICTION** **Spock** > [@](#): > > The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or, the one. - **Star Trek IV** **Bill Murray** [quote] Back off, man. I’m a scientist.\*\*- **Ghostbusters** **Richard Dreyfuss** > [@](#): > > WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE??? – **Close Encounters of The Third Kind**. **Dr. Henry Jones** > [@](#): > > Don’t you understand? If these people win, the forces of darkness will MARCH ACROSS THE FACE OF THE EARTH ! - **Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade** **Lauren Bacall** > [@](#): > > You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together. And, blow. – I can’t remember , but I know it’s her first film. \ ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Daniel\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/46 "2001-07-27T12:45:16Z")
“No, sheriff, I don’t think I’m gonna let you arrest us today.” Kurt Russell, Tombstone “Ah’m yer huckleberry.” Val Kilmer, Tombstone ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/47 "2001-07-27T19:33:53Z")
**Clerks** “I’m the firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class…especially since I rule.” “You know,come leaves streaks if you don’t clean it properly.” “In light of this lurid tale, I don’t see how you can romanticize your relationship with Caitin. She broke your heart and inadvertantly drove men to deviant lifestyles.” **Chasing Amy** “What’s a Nubian?” The whole monologue Holden says to Alyssa in the car but especially… “There isn’t another soul on this fucking planet who has made me half the person I am with you.” “Please know I am forever changed because of who you are and what you’ve meant to me.” ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/48 "2001-07-27T20:24:10Z")
Personally, I am a sucker for any line of techno-babble or any such complicated speech as delivered by Dan Aykroyd. The man’s a master at the tongue-twisters. Examples: “Well, the Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square digit key, transposed in Boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I cracked it with this.” - Spies Like Us “Gozer the Gozerian: Good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activities and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.” -Ghostbusters “I don’t care what undercover rock you crawled out from, there’s a dress code for detectives in Robbery-Homicide. Section 3-605.10.20.22.24.26.50.70.80. It specifies: clean shirt, short hair, tie, pressed trousers, sports jacket or suit, and leather shoes, preferably with a high shine on them.” -Dragnet Also, these lines seem to stick with me: “Say, Lou, did you hear the one about the guy who couldn’t afford personalized license plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L-2404?” -Marge Gunderson in Fargo “I’m prepared to scour the earth for that motherfucker. If Butch goes to Indochina, I want a nigger hidin’ in a bowl of rice, ready to pop a cap in his ass.” -Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction “This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated.” -Chris Knight in Real Genius “Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!” -John McClane in Die Hard “Careful? Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in ze heart with a clothes hanger while I was still in ze womb?” The Mole in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut “You know, I can’t think of nothing finer than a fine naked woman holding a gun.” - Frankie Figs in The Whole Nine Yards And now for one I’ve heard, but I don’t know where it’s from. It sticks with me, too: “Saxophones?! You gotta fucking be kidding me!” That’s just a few; If I gave you the whole list, we’d be here for hours. I have a knack for identifying lines from movies, and that causes nearly every memorable movie line to stick with me. ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/49 "2001-07-27T20:59:07Z")
We can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back. -Laura Dern (Jurassic Park) ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/50 "2001-07-27T21:29:24Z")
From _The Terminator_: Get out. - the Terminator (also said by the T-1000 in T2, but it sounds better coming from Arnold) From _Demolition Man_: What’s your boggle, citizen? - museum staff person From John Carpenter’s _Vampires_: That’s it Padre, fuck with 'im! - Jack Crow From _The Princess Bride_: STOP SAYING THAT! - Count Rugen From John Carpenter’s _The Thing_: I don’t know, 'cause they’re different from us! - MacReady From _Conan the Barbarian_: Contemplate this…on The Tree of Woe. - Thulsa Doom ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/51 "2001-07-27T21:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beckwall \* > \*\*I don’t want to buy anything. I don’t want to sell anything. I don’t want to buy anything that’s been bought or sold - John Cusack, Say Anything (this is not verbatim, I may have been in an altered state while viewing the film, I think he also uses the word “processed” in there somewhere) > > Lloyd, Lloyd, null and void - friends of John Cusack in Say Anything > > \*\* Well, sir, I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot. I don’t want to buy anything, sell anything or process anything as a career. I don’t want to buy anything sold or processsed, sell anything bought or processed, or…process anything sold, bought, or processed. Or repair anything sold, bought or processed. You know, as a career, I just don’t want to do anything. I have it as an MP3. I love, love, love that movie. As a side note, I work with a guy named Lloyd, and I call him the aforementioned whenever he amuses me. As for my random picks: from \* What About Bob \* “I’m SAILING!!!” From \* Holy Grail \* Father: One day, all this [gestures widely] will be yours. Son: What, the curtains? My sister and I do this quite often when referring to small apartments, tiny houses or the like. From \* A Philadelphia Story \* (Hepburn) Kate: I’m going crazy. I’m standing here solidly on my own two hands, going crazy. there’s oodles more, but those are the randomest. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/52 "2001-07-27T21:59:00Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* \*\* > [@](#): > > You know, as a career, I just don’t want to do anything. > \*\* Moron-girl. That’ll teach me to preview. It’s “You know, as a career, I just don’t want to do that.” Lloyd may be a slacker, but he’s not THAT bad. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/53 "2001-07-27T22:02:52Z")
For some reason, after seeing this movie a few weeks ago, my friends and I can’t stop repeating this line, “Blue monkey! Blue monkey!” (the movie is evolution, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/54 "2001-07-28T04:08:26Z")
**Torch Song Trilogy:** Bertha: Just wait till you see my act. Bertha Venation and her Dance of the Virgin. Murray: Which she does COMPLETELY from memory. Bertha: Bitch! **Casablanca:** Louis: He puts it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient. Ilsa: Of what value is that? (I say “It is very convenient” and “Of what value is that?” all the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Folkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Folkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folkie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/55 "2001-07-28T04:30:02Z")
Animal House. Bluto (Belushi) has just grabbed the guitar away from the pathetic folksinger and smashed it to a pulp. He hands it back and says: “Sorry.” I loved that. Tootsie: Bill Murray: “I think we’re getting into a weird area here.” Start Trek 4: (someone correct me, I’m paraphrasing…) Kirk is explaining the use of obscenity. “Read the authors of the time. Jacqueline Suzanne. Harold Robbins.” Spock: “Oh yes. The giants.” ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/56 "2001-07-28T04:37:10Z")
Flounder: “I can’t believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer.” Boone: “Face it man, you threw up **on** Dean Wormer.” Another Animal House, Bluto: “Did the Americans give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” Otter: “Germans?” Boone: “Forget it, he’s on a roll.” ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/57 "2001-07-28T05:18:52Z")
_A League of Their Own_ “Are you crying?? **There’s no crying in baseball!** ” _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy” Do shorts count? _some Stooge flick_ Curly: I was as pure as the driven snow… Moe: Yeah, but ya drifted… **smack** ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/58 "2001-07-28T07:36:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > \*\*From Metropolitan: > > “That was really embarassing. Thank you for including me.” > > “Jane’s father is dead. Very suddenly last year.” > “How terrible. It must have been very hard on her.” > “Yes. It was tough on him, too.” > > “Rick von Sloniker is tall, rich, good-looling, stupid, dishonest, a bully, liar, thief, and drunk; in short, highly attractive to women.” \*\* **Number Six** , I love you. I was beginning to think I was the only person who had ever **seen** Metropolitan, let alone liked it. How about “I guess you could say it’s extremely decadent and vulgar. I like it a lot.” Or “We know you’re a hypocrite. We know your Polly Perkins story was a fabrication, that you’re completely impossible and out of control with some kind of drug problem and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker’s wickedness. You’re a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious and tiresome, and lately you’ve gotten just weird. Why should we believe anything you say?” “I am not tiresome.” No, I didn’t memorize all that; I have the screenplay. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/59 "2001-07-28T08:16:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\ ***Dead Alive** > Father McGruder: I kick ass for the Lord! > \*\* Sweet. Guess what line I have for my Windows start up sound… You can get it from this site if you like [http://www.badmovies.org/movies/deadalive/index.html](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/deadalive/index.html) BTW, besides Jabootu, one of the best B-movie review sites going. ---
**Author:** ![idiotb0x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@idiotb0x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotb0x)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729/60 "2001-07-28T10:36:04Z")
I always seem to get Brian Blessed’s voice saying: “GORDON’S ALIVE?!?!?” from Flash Gordon. And “My knees! Look at my knees!” from Eraserhead. I worry myself sometimes… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-line-sticks-with-you-for-no-reason/73729.md?page=4)