Only because Groucho Mark never played God, mine is Sir Ralph Richardson from The Time Bandits as The Supreme Being.
Kid: Is he God?
Time Bandit: Well, we don’t really know him that well. We just work for him.
His best line: “I think Evile turned out rather well, don’t you?” regarding the charred remains of what he just blasted.
No. no. the Supreme Being’s best line was “Whose are these?”, while holding up a pair of underwear!
“Well, I am the Supreme Being. I’m not entirely dim.”
No great lines, but the 5th Element is pretty hot.
Have to go with Time Bandits but George Burns is up there as well. “So help me, Me.”
I was going to say Sir Ralph Richardson too, but since that’s covered, I’ll go with the Lord as portrayed in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
“Good idea, Lord.”
“OF COURSE it’s a good idea!”
I’m going to have to split my vote between:
*Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic *with Rishi Kapoor as God. Not a great movie, but nice to see that God can dance.
and:
Alanis Morissette as God in Kevin Smith’s Dogma.
[after meeting God]
Jay: You want to hear something sick? I got half a stock when she kissed me.
The original poster is incorrect. Groucho Marx did play God. This was in the 1968 film SKIDOO. Groucho places a mobster named God. In this Otto Preminger salute to youth culture and LSD, star Jackie Gleason is ordered by Groucho to go undercover to prison to kill Mickey Rooney. Also apprearing are Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Frankie Avalon, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin. (That’s right, four Batman villains are associated with this film. The sequence where Gleason licks envelopes laced with LSD and goes on a trip must be seen to be believed.
One way or another, how is this not a classic?
“Oh, I hate having to appear like that [after appearing as the glowing, floating head]. Really is a dreadfully noisy manifestation. Still, rather expected of one, I suppose.”
“Right! Back to creation…they’ll think I’ve lost control again and put it all down to evolution!”
I caught this on the revival-house circuit back in the eighties. I would swear I got a taste of Gleason’s envelope myself… Wow. One has to wonder about the film executives seeing this and saying “Did we spend actual money on this?”
George Burns in the 1979 movie “Oh God”
Jerry Landers: If you’re God, how can You permit all the suffering that goes on in the world?
God: I don’t permit the suffering - you do.
(Month Python Holy Grail)
God to Arthur: “Of course it’s a good idea!”
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Jerry Landers is responsible for cancer?
That jerk!
Well, he was played by John Denver, and it’s medically proven that men listening to his music in 2011 have no balls. Testicular cancer is a tragic thing.
I loved Morgan Freeman’s “Naw” line in Bruce Almighty:
Bruce: [being overwhelmed with hearing prayers] Give me a break!
[Bruce is instantly transported to meet with God]
God: Really something, isn’t it?
Bruce: Is this heaven?
God: No, this is Mount Everest. You should flip on the Discovery Channel from time to time. But I guess you can’t now, being dead and all.
[pause]
Bruce: I’m dead?
God: Naw, I’m just messing with ya.
Bruce: That’s not funny, Man! That is not funny.
Summoned by name I must appear, but I’m not the best person to ask the question of; I don’t like most movies. The only two movies I can remember seeing with God as a character are Bruce Almighty and Dogma, and while I prefer the latter to the former, I don’t think Alanis Morissette has any lines as God.
So I’ll go with The Fifth Element, on account of Mila Jovovich being who she is. The line will be “Chicken!” from which she makes a roast chicken in the high-tech replicator thingie. And yes, “thingie” is the appropriate term.
“multi-pass”
Wow – so the board won’t let me captilise all letters in a word? How ridiculous – I’m leaving it as all-lowercase then as protest.
(Actually it just won’t let you have a post that’s all caps. You could’ve cheated and used a lower-case ‘l’ as the upper-case ‘I’ though.)
For me probably Alanis Morissette in Dogma. I think the best ‘line’ is her doing cartwheels through the flowers. Or the nose-boop (did she actually make a noise there or am I misremembering?)
Did James Mason ever play God, or was that just one of Eddie Izzard’s impersonations?
“Steambath” (1973)
Jose Perez (God)
Best line: “… and give Debbie Reynolds an earache.”
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