Heroin addict Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster:
“Don’t be afraid of Lobo, he’s as harmless as a kitchen.”
“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”
Until she watched it with me last Christmas (for the first time in more than ten years), my 17-year-old daughter had no idea this was from The Wizard of Oz.
“Well, fiddle-de-deeee!”
Larry Storch in The Great Race. Another great line that be used in almost any situation.
"I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style. Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory… lasts forever. " Shane Falco - The Replacements.
“Talk to me, Goose.”
“Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?”
“This isn’t flying. It’s falling with style!”
“I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”
Alan Swann in My Favorite Year.
I knew it wasn’t exactly right, but not too far off.
“You know what I think I’m gonna do then? Just for the hell of it? … I’m gonna take this right foot, and I’m gonna whop you on that side of your face…” - points to Posner’s right cheek - “…and you wanna know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re gonna be able to do about it.”
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Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be a joke.
“No thank you, Delmar. One third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it down.”
“Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole… gopher village.”
Don’t you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there’s nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That’s why I never even started anything like that… that’s why I never will.
–O’Reilly, The Magnificent Seven
More Hombre:
Mr., you gotta lot of hard bark on you.
That Grimes, he don’t bring no water… Only wheekskee.
You like to pull the trigger, eh?
I can do it again for you.
'Cause I can cut it lady.
Miracle Max: Have fun stormin’ da castle.
Valerie: Think it’ll work?
Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
George Kennedy in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot:
look kid, go fuck a duck.
Patton
Reporter [paraphrase]: General, I see you have a bible by your bunk. Do you find time too read it?
Patton:Every goddamn day
God willing we’ll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money.
It’s an absolutely brilliant line because at first it seems like just a cheap potshot at how sequels are always made to make more money for movie companies and such, but it’s also flat out talking about the plot of Spaceballs and how the plot of the next movie will be exactly the same. So it works extremely well on all levels.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940). The Oakies are going out to confront the union-busters with clubs and other blunt instruments:
“If you’re a-gonna hit 'em, hit 'em where it won’t show!”
As I’ve said before here, it’s Orson welles as Harry Lime in the Third Man:
Came here to say this.
This would be from an episode of Babylon 5, spoken by the head Technomage.
Here’s one that always makes me smile:
Matthew Quigley: I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn’t know how to use it.
-DF