I turned on the TV just in time to catch this awful line of dialogue from the 1965 film Genghis Kahn:
If I were free from this yoke, my hands would still your jackal breath forever!
I was dumbfounded. Didn’t know whether to laugh or groan, so I did both.
Whaddya got?
That’s a GREAT line, and it’s steal, not still.
I’ll see your Genghis Khan and raise you The Conqueror:
I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.
From the Star Wars prequel, Attack of the Clones:
Anakin: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.”
This was in a romantic scene between Anakin and Padme, and an example of the fact that while George Lucas was an incredible creator of ideas, he had no idea how to write lines for actual human beings to deliver.
@terentii’s comment in this other thread is a decent start:
Actually I’d bet both movies cited in that thread so far will have some real stinkers.
Switching gears …
I suppose it’s not fair to include lines from pornos in a competition like this. That’d be like shooting fish in a barrel.
NOOOOOO!
X-Men, Storm to Toad
“Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.”
Ugh.
Ryan O’Neal’s delivery of “OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD” from Tough Guys Don’t Dance has got to be up there.
I don’t know what the dialogue was as written but I think “still” works better, as in, if his hands were free he’d strangle him.
Anyhow, the line that always jumps to my mind is from Four Weddings and a Funeral, Andie MacDowell saying “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed”
It could be just a slip from Mr. Curtis or it could be the delivery from well-known charisma-vaccuum MacDowell. Could be a bit of both.
Warning: NSFW (naughty language and subject)
Samurai Cop
I’m not sure this film qualifies as an ‘artistic work’, but it’s too good (bad) not to include.
Written and directed by Norman Mailer.
Denzel Washington in Philadelphia
“ Ive brought some cheese “
We sniggered and admitted with relief that this oscar fooling film was actually a bit crap
Anything’s fine. I started to title the thread “…from books, plays, film, TV…” and ended up shortening it to “…from artistic works.”
As long as I’m here, awful dialogue is what I’m after, not bad acting. For example, in Point Break, Keanu Reeves’ delivery of “That’s how it’s gotta be!” sounds wooden and dumb, but it’s not really an awful line. Once in a while, I’ll see a film or something that’s actually good but will have an awful line or two.
But anyone can post anything they like, as long as they make an actual contribution. @Maserschmidt, maybe there’s a film or something you can mention here. A comic book, maybe?
“Because you can’t win, Rock! This guy will kill ya to death inside of three rounds!” - Burgess Meredith in Rocky 3
Man, imagine being killed to death.
Heh-heh, that is pretty awful! 
Shakespearean actor Richard Burton as Father Lamont in Exorcist II: The Heretic:
“Pazuzu, king of the evil spirits of the air, help me to find Kokumo!”
Apparently audiences convulsed in laughter at seeing Burton brought down to this line.
Harrison Ford famously said of the screenplay for the original “George, you can type this shit, but you can’t say it.”
In an old Popeye cartoon, Olive Oyl was afraid Swee’ Pea would be killed to death…