Can you name a line in a movie that stuck with you all of your life?
I am watching the first version of “Star Wars.” Last time I saw it was in 1978, in the theater, with my college boyfriend. Watching it now, 30 years later I hear “Don’t go with the hate, Luke. Hate leads to the Dark Side.” OMG. No kidding.
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“Blane’s not a name. It’s a major appliance.”
Sometimes you just have to say “what the fcuk.” Make your move.
Joel, in his Princeton interview. Risky Business.
“I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.”
“No. I am your father.”
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“I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, ‘bad’?”
“Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.”
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“What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?”
“No, we’re exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelve.”
“That’s gotta be some cockroach.”
“Bite your head off, man.”
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“Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, ‘yes!’”
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“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
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“Look, it’s real simple. Whatever mileage we put on, we’ll take off.”
“How?”
“We’ll drive home backwards.”
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of govenment! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield ‘supreme power’ just because some wartery tart threw a sword at you!”
@rojo Man I Know that I’ve either read or heard that somewhere before. What movie’s it from?
Monty Python and the holy grail. Spoken by Dennis, the peasant who lives in an autonomous collective.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown. Chinatown
I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. Casablanca
The kid on the tricycle racing up and down the corridors repeating, “re-rum! re-rum!”
Can’t think of the name of the Jack Nicholson movie, but someone here will. And I will say, “Oh, yes, of course.” as soon as it’s mentioned.
My apologies
My brain just worked. The Shining. Here’s Johnny!
You talking to me?
I’m singing in the rain.
Say hello to my little friend.
Run, Forrest, Run.
I’ll be back.
I’m back.
Everything from Princess Bride.
‘It’s never done that before!’
“Take the gun. Leave the canole.”
“Who is your daddy and what does he do?”
“Nothing is written.”
“CK Dexter Haven, you have unsuspected depth.”
“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”
“When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it!”
@Sunny2 I thought the kid was saying “red-rum, red-rum”, i.e., murder spelling backwards.
My favorite is “Sometimes, the only way out is through,” from Swamp Thing . . .
“You are, who you choose to be.”
“Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble.”
@glacial: Your last line – Maltese Falcon?
@Kayak8 You’re right, of course! I don’t spell backwards very well, I guess. Thanks for the correction.
“Excuse me. Is that your finger?”—Some Robin Hood movie. Or Monty Python.
@Symbeline Any line that has the word “tart” in it, referring to a woman, HAS to be Monty Python!
”‘Scuse me while I whip dis out!”—Blazing Saddles.
Pretty much every line in Blazing Saddles. And Monty Python.
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
“Tomorrow’s another day.”
“Make my day.”
“Give him a reason he can’t refuse.”
“We’re not in Kansas anymore.”
“I’m the dude.”
“I never roll on Shabbos.” ...My all-time favorite, except for the line from “Some Like it Hot.”
@gailcalled Did you know that, in the book, Rhett just said, “I don’t give a damn.” The movie added the “Frankly my dear…” part. This I know because I’ve read the book twice.
I didn’t know. I read the book very rapidly, once, but have seen the movie many times.
The rhythm and meter of the line is better in the movie.
@cprevite Correct!
and LOL at the PTaA lne. :)
“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have.”
“I think I’ll call my paper: ‘Symptoms in Some Cephalopoda Approximating Apoplexy” -Doc (Canery Row)
“When you have to shoot, shoot! Don’t talk!” -Tuco (the Good The Bad and The Ugly)
“Gort…Klaatu barada nikto”, (The Day The Earth Stood Still)
No one caught my sloppy misquote:
“Make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
“We’ll always have Paris.”
“Play it, Sam.” This is accurate.
@cprevite Me too – one of my all time favourites. The dialogue is still brilliant; it just doesn’t get old.
@gondwanalon “Klaatu barada nikto” sticks with me from a different film. :D
@gailcalled It’s the stuff dreams are made of.
EDIT: oops, that should have gone to @cprevite
So many of my favorites have already been mentioned, it’s hard to think of one that hasn’t, so I’ll go with:
You’re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
In some re run of a movie titled “She”, something or another about warrior women and their subservient male population. At one point in a scene with male prisoners on their knees, one of the warrior women snarls out, “eyes down!” There must’ve been a group of friends over because several of us have never forgotten that line and have used it ourselves towards pets, kids, co workers, etc.
I forget the movie, but the line is, “Life is full of little trade offs!” It is one of the most prophetic utterances I have ever heard!
Does anyone know the movie?
“If they find out you’ve seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.” Top Secret.
“Losers always whine about doing their best, winners go home & fuck the prom queen!” The Rock
“You shoot me in a dream you better wake up & apologise.” Reservoir Dogs.
In helpless laughter, Billy D Williams as Gayle Sayer, to his wife and referring to Brian Piccalo, ‘He tried…he tried….he tried to call me a nigger!”
Go ahead, make my day.-Clint Eastwood
Here’s some of mine, that I’ve used, or that I just can’t toss out of my cluttered brain…:
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” – “Casablanca”
“Round up the usual suspects” – “Casablanca”
“Do or do not, There is no ‘try’.” – “The Empire Strikes Back”
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” – “Cool Hand Luke”
“Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” – “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” – “The Lion in Winter”
“Please sir, I want some more.” – “Oliver!”
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” – “2001: A Space Odyssey”
“We’re on a mission from God.” – “The Blues Brothers”
and, of course…
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” – “Network”
“I’ll have what shes’ having.” When Harry met Sally
“No matter where you go, there you are” Buckaroo Banzai
Sorry, I stand corrected.
“You can’t handle the truth!” A Few Good Men.
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