What are your favorite lines of dialogue from a movie?

Here’s one: “Damn! We’re in a tight spot!”—O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I’m sure I have better favorites than that, but I can’t think of them tonight. That one always makes me laugh, and a couple of others from that movie, the one about “remains unaffiliated” and also “bag o’ hammers.”

From Melancholia

(Justine to Leo and Claire as Melancholia approaches:)
Hold my hand. Close your eyes.

So good it was in two movies:

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Blazing Saddles

You’re Killin’ me Smalls!

The Sandlot

“I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.”
—Liam Neeson, Taken

“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”

One of my many favorites. Beatty delivering Chayefsky’s lines.

https://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs

And this, from J.F.K. : Where the John Candy character is trying to persuade his friend Jim Garrison, played by Keven Costner, to drop his case. He tells Garrison, “Forget about it, man! Oswald did it! You’re backing a dead man Daddyo, the Government’s still breathin’! And they’re gonna jump up and down on your head, and yell cocka doodle doo!”

“These go to eleven” Spinal Tap

@Forever_Free I always thought that quote was about badgers and never understood why anyone would ever need badgers! Thanks for elucidating.

@kneesox Also from O Brother Wher Art Thou, “We thought you was a TOAD!” and “He’s a suitor. He’s bona fide.”

As an aside, how long did it take you to realized O Brother Where Art Thou was based on the Odyssey? I don’t remember the scene where it hit me, but I started yelling “This is The Odyssey by Homer!”
Rick and his daughter were looking at me like I’d lost my mind. I’m sure neither one had even heard of The Odyssey much less read it like I did.

^^ I had known it already from reviews.

I had never seen the reviews.

@Dutchess_III Yeah, I understood that you meant that. I was just saying that I had known that going in. It must have been more fun to make the discovery yourself.

Sorry for the derail.

No derail, no worries. It’s only Showbiz anyway. Not pondering the evils of the world here : ) @Dutchess_III

I got one! It’s from Bad Boyz 2.
Mike is played by Will Smith.
Marcus is played by Martin Lawrence.
Marcus says “Mike, you’re an enigma.”
Mike says “Yeah. I can see that.”
I must have watched the movie 10 times before I caught it! :D

From Winter Light

Algot Frövik, Sexton: The passion of Christ, his suffering… Wouldn’t you say the focus on his suffering is all wrong?

Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: What do you mean?

Algot Frövik, Sexton: This emphasis on physical pain. It couldn’t have been all that bad. It may sound presumptuous of me – but in my humble way, I’ve suffered as much physical pain as Jesus. And his torments were rather brief. Lasting some four hours, I gather? I feel that he was tormented far worse on an other level. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong. But just think of Gethsemane, Vicar. Christ’s disciples fell asleep. They hadn’t understood the meaning of the last supper, or anything. And when the servants of the law appeared, they ran away. And Peter denied him. Christ had known his disciples for three years. They’d lived together day in and day out – but they never grasped what he meant. They abandoned him, to the last man. And he was left alone. That must have been painful. Realizing that no one understands. To be abandoned when you need someone to rely on – that must be excruciatingly painful. But the worse was yet to come. When Jesus was nailed to the cross – and hung there in torment – he cried out – “God, my God!” “Why hast thou forsaken me?” He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he’d ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence.

You killed my father, prepare to die.
– Princess Bride

Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious
Rumack: I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.

Rumack: I won’t deceive you, Mr. Striker. We’re running out of time.
Ted Striker: Surely there must be something you can do.
Rumack: I’m doing everything I can… and stop calling me Shirley!

I think this is from Kentucky Fried Movie:

How do you make pickle bread?
With dill dough!

@tent

Airplane! is my favorite movie comedy. :)

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue…

Says every GB Packers fan this week. Lol

Not my favorite, but a great line:

“I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

-The Big Lebowski

From On Dangerous Ground

Jim Wilson: So I get thrown off the force! What kind of job is this, anyway? Garbage, that’s all we handle: garbage!

Pop Daly: Don’t you know? That’s the kind of job it is.

Jim Wilson: You’ve been doing it for sixteen years; you ought to know. How do you do it? How do you live with yourself?

Pop Daly: I don’t! I live with other people. When I go home I don’t take this stuff with me, I leave it outside. But you! The way you carry it around with you, you must like it!

Context: Jim Wilson is a police officer who gets violent at criminals. This dialogue takes place when he has just beaten up a criminal and his college is horrified by it.

@Mimishu1995

Is On Dangerous Ground one of your favorite film noirs?

Was the criminal a detestable murder suspect?

@Brian1946 I watched it a long time ago so my memory isn’t that good. I just remember that the scene happens before Jim is sent to investigate the murder. I don’t remember what the criminal does to provoke Jim so much, but I think it’s just a petty crime.

It wasn’t high on my favorite film noir list, but as I got older, I start appreciate it more. It forces the typical film noir hero to reconsider his way of violence, unlike most film noirs where the unemotional tough guy is the best.

Nothing can top that scene

@tent

“I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue…

Says every GB Packers fan this week.”

Airhead Rogers picked the wrong time of year to publicize his Covidiocy.

@janbb we don’t need no stinking badgers!
this is now part of my venacular

@Forever_Free It’s been part of mine for years but I always wondered why??

It seems this subject has come up at least twice before.

From Kelly’s Heroes:
Oddball to Crap Game: “To a New Yorker like you a hero is some kind of weird sandwich!”

Watching “Escape Plan” with Arnold Schwatzenegger and Rocky.
They just staged a fight in prison and Arnold told Rocky he “hit like a vegetarian.” :D

@Dutchess_III

“Arnold told Rocky he “hit like a vegetarian.”

Bulls, gorillas, rams, elephants, and rhinos hit “like” vegetarians. ;)
I think if Arnold got hit by any of them, he’d be hurtin’ for certain!

I just thought it was funny.

It was. But IRL I think Rocky could take out the Arnold in one punch. Sure wouldn’t care to do a pay per view for that fight. Likely a one rounder. (Brought to you by Gillette. Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Mister, how are you fixed for blades?)

“Go ahead, make my day!”

W.C Fields 1934 It’s A Gift

Said To Fields:“Sir, you are drunk.”
Fields – “And you, Bessie, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”

@Forever_Free That’s often attributed to Winston Churchill!

From The Life of David Gale.

Bitsey Bloom:

“Hate’s no fun if you keep it to yourself.”

These lines of dialogue sent a shiver down my spine:

Anton Chigurh : Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor : Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh : Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor : How’s that?
Anton Chigurh : You stand to win everything. Call it.

One of my favorites:

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine!
Rick Blaine (played by Humphrey Bogart)

Also from Casablanca: “I have no politics, I blow with the wind. At present, the wind prevails from Vichy”. Police Major Louis Renault, played by Claude Raynes.

Casablanca was full of quotable lines:

Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?

Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.

Rick: I was misinformed.