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What is a memorable line in movies which can often be heard in everyday life?

Asked by ucme (50047points) January 11th, 2010

Life imitates art. Some iconic lines from the movies find a way into our culture. Whether at home or at work For fun or just a habit .What are your personal experiences of this. Do you find yourself doing it to?

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Dr_Dredd's avatar

“Go ahead, make my day.” :-)

ucme's avatar

@Dr_Dredd Well i’m busy at the moment maybe later~ Good example though!

Likeradar's avatar

“I’ll be back”
“They’re at work right now” from Knocked Up The boy and I say it all the time

john65pennington's avatar

“Frankly my dear, i don’t give a damn”. Gone With The Wind.

erichw1504's avatar

“You had me at hello.” Jerry Maguire

erichw1504's avatar

“May the force be with you!” Star Wars

john65pennington's avatar

“Love is not having to say you are sorry”. Love Storey.

ucme's avatar

@john65pennington What floor was that on officer

Austinlad's avatar

I adore this quote: “What I wouldn’t give for a large sock filled with horse manure.” (“Annie Hall”) I use it when I’m annoyed with someone. ;-)

gailcalled's avatar

“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” Bette Davis; All About Eve.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.” Peter Finch in some movie.

Some Like it Hot, Joe E Brown to Jack Lemon; “Well, nobody’s perfect.”

“Plastics”.” The Graduate
“I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz.

ucme's avatar

@gailcalled I love Some like it hot. Curtis’ Cary Grant voice hilarious. That Bette Davis line should have been the title of her autobiography.

ubersiren's avatar

You can’t handle the truth.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Life is like a box of chocolates.

wonderingwhy's avatar

“D’OH!”

though I guess technically that’s a TV show.

SeventhSense's avatar

“Alrighty then!”
Jim Carey in Ace Ventura

Grisaille's avatar

I find myself saying “does he look like a bitch?” often

ucme's avatar

@ Ahh a flock of seagulls.

Siren's avatar

“Talk to the hand”

And…Bobby De Niro with “Are you talking to me??? Are you talking to me????” (Taxi Driver). I love that one.

ucme's avatar

I could write a chapter with all these great lines together!

SeventhSense's avatar

“You talkin” to me?”..“YOU TALKIN TO ME!

forestGeek's avatar

“Ohhh, the files are in the computer!”

njnyjobs's avatar

Hasta la vista, baby!

ucme's avatar

@SeventhSense Well judging by your name i’d have thought you would have known the answer to that.

kruger_d's avatar

I’m too old for this #&$@!

ucme's avatar

@kruger_d Was that Ghandi?

kruger_d's avatar

Run away! Run away! from Holy Grail

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@SeventhSense I use “Alrighty, then!”, too. :-)

kruger_d's avatar

We’re gonna need a bigger boat. Jaws

stratman37's avatar

Well, sometimes I gets the menstrual cramps real hard! Spoken by a man in Raising Arizona

njnyjobs's avatar

Bond….James Bond

. . . martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

dalepetrie's avatar

“I’ll buy THAT for a dollar!” – Robocop

“Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays” – Office Space (used sarcastically to fuck with someone who’s already in a bad mood).

“Having your nuts bit off by a Laplander. That’s the way I want to go.” – Naked Gun (used whenever someone asks me how I want to die)

“I think I tore my sack.” – Kingpin (said whenever I fall down).

“I’m going to take a pillowcase and fill it full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you.” – Step Brothers (my new favorite threat).

“Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.” – Rush Hour (said when someone makes me repeat myself one too many times).

kruger_d's avatar

Sallah, I said no camels. That’s five camels. Can’t you count?
Indiana Jones

erichw1504's avatar

“Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!” Dumb & Dumber

OpryLeigh's avatar

@erichw1504 Classic, Dumb and Dumber was the film of my childhood, my friend and I could repeat the whole film word for word. Sad but true!

My personal favourite is “Hello Gorgeous!” – Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, I use it often as do many of my friends who don’t share the same appreciation for Babs as I do!

dalepetrie's avatar

My favorite Dumb and Dumber quote was “I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy” but that one doesn’t come up in everyday conversation all that often.

OpryLeigh's avatar

@dalepetrie Mine is “we’ve got no food, we’ve got no jobs our pets heads are falling off!” but I can’t think of many situations where one might use that either!!!

Trillian's avatar

“I believe you took my stapler.” Office Space
“Game over man, game over!” Aliens

Austinlad's avatar

From “Some Like It Hot” ... Nobody’s perfect.

dalepetrie's avatar

@Leanne1986 – I have however successfully snuck “John Denver is full of shit” into a conversation.

scotsbloke's avatar

“Beam me up Scotty” – Ok, I know it was never said by Shatner but how many times have you said/heard it used. Quadrillions I bet!

“You’ll never take our Freedom” – Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart.

“It’s a Bird…......It’s aPlane….......” (no, it’s a bird! lol) – Superman

One of my favourite quotes and I must admit I use it a lot – “You gotta be Shittin me!” – I cannie mind what film it was from though.

“Space, the final Front ear”..........

“Nobody put’s Baby in the corner!” – Dirty boogie woogie Dancing

dalepetrie's avatar

@Trillian – I do sometimes if I’m feeling pushed around, walk away mumbling, “OK, but I’m going to set the building on fire…”

janbb's avatar

“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
“We’ll always have Paris.”
and
“This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”

All from the iconic Casablanca.

scotsbloke's avatar

“I’ve got a golden ticket” – Charlie and the chocolate factory (you reallly have to sing that one)

“Yesh Mish Moneypenny” – Bond, James Bond.

“I’ve seen things you people would’nt believe….........” Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Bladerunner.

“you cant handle the truth” – A few Good men

“Who you gonna call” – Ghost Busters

jca's avatar

i am surprised nobody said this one and i hear it all the time:

“Show me the money.”

ubersiren's avatar

“My bad!” from Clueless

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” Apocalypse Now

“Mongo do baaaad things” Blazing Saddles

“May the Shwartz be with you” Spaceballs

janbb's avatar

@jca And for that matter, “Help me help you.”

Finley's avatar

“Ayyyy”- The Fonz from Happy Days

used when entering a room or to get someones attention. Ay.

Supacase's avatar

Anybody want a peanut? The Princess Bride

janbb's avatar

My family uses the line from Princess Bride, “Have fun shtorming the castle” a surprising amount.

ccrow's avatar

Oh yes, @scotsbloke , we use ‘nobody puts baby in the corner’ here too!!
“What in the wide, wide world of sports is a’goin on here?”
“I didn’t get a ‘harumph’ out of you!” both from Blazing Saddles
“I’ll be back” from Ah-nuld
“It’s never done that before!”
“You haven’t had an idea in thousands of years” both from Time Bandits

hungertoragejr's avatar

“Not at the table, Carlos.” lol… The Hangover.

Trillian's avatar

“Help! Help! I’m being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“Camelot!’ “Camelot!” “It’s only a model” “Shhhhh” MP and the HG

filmfann's avatar

The lines I repeat most often:
Phone’s ringing, dude (from Big Lebowski)
It’s only a flesh wound (from Holy Grail)
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. (2001)
Do you find me sadistic? (Kill Bill)

Finley's avatar

@scotsbloke that quote is from sweet home alabama when she asks for a divorce.

SeventhSense's avatar

From Office Space
“The thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.”

SeventhSense's avatar

and of course…..
’‘We get caught laundering money, we’re not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We’re going to federal pound me in the ass prison.’’ —Michael Bolton

Trillian's avatar

@SeventhSense. “Now hold on there professor.”

rottenit's avatar

Yippie-kaye-aye mother fucker – die hard

SeventhSense's avatar

Lumbergh Oiled up having sex with a cup of coffe in his hand from dream sequence
You can just go ahead and move a little bit to the left. Yeah, that’s it. Great.
~Bill Lumbergh

aprilsimnel's avatar

Inconceivable!

jca's avatar

sometimes i do the little “fingers to the eyes” motion that De Niro did in Meet the Parents – “watching you.”

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@Trillian “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”

stratman37's avatar

“Excuse me while I whip this out.” Sherrif Bart from Blazing Saddles

dalepetrie's avatar

@stratman37 – my favorite line from Blazing Saddles was on the only line actually cut from the film.

In the “love” scene between Lili Von Shtupp and Sheriff Bart

Lili: “Is it..uh..twoo what they say about the way you people are…gifted?

<Sound of zipper>

Lili: “Oh, it’s twoo. It’s TWOO. IT’S TWOO IT’S TWOO.”

Immediately after that there was one line that didn’t make the final cut….

Sheriff Bart: “You’re sucking on my elbow.”

I guess the powers that be weren’t going to let them release the film because of it’s content and they insisted on cuts, so they cut that one line out and re-submitted it and for whatever reason it worked.

Trillian's avatar

@Dr_Dredd (snicker) “Did you dress her up like this?” “No, no, no, yeah, a bit a bit…..She has got a wart.”
“What besides witches, burns?” “More witches!”
“There was an animal called a bomb….or did I dream it?”
“You’re all different.” “Yes, we’re all different.”“I’m not”
“What’s so funny about Biggus Dickus?”

Dr_Dredd's avatar

Ahhh… I love Monty Python!

dalepetrie's avatar

Whenever I want to block my son’s forward progress, I boom loudly, “NONE SHALL PASS.” He’s only 8 and hasn’t seen the movie yet, but it’s still fun. Some day he’s going to realize how many of the off the wall things I just up and say come from movies…don’t know if that will make him respect his old man more or less…guess it depends on whether he turns out to be a movie buff. Python is definitely something you hear quoted a lot whether it makes sense or not. Can’t tell you how many times someone has brought up the concept of an unladen swallow, or shouted out “you’ve got two coconuts and you’re bangin’ em together.” If I hurt myself badly, once I compose myself I usually say, “it’s just a flesh wound.” And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told someone that I fart in their general direction, or that their father was a hamster and their mother smelt of eldeberries, so they should go away before I’m forced to taunt them a second time.

Dr_Dredd's avatar

@dalepetrie Did you see Spamalot? My dad and I saw it, and we were both rolling in the aisles. And, he’d never even seen Python before!

Trillian's avatar

@Dr_Dredd & @dalepetrie . I also throw MP quotes around frequently, to dumbfounded, “I don’t get it” expressions. In recent years I’ve added quips from Office Space like: “CorporateaccountspayableNinaspeaking….JUST a moment.”
A really great thing to get to say that doesn’t happen often is when you get body slammed or fall down in public. Sit up , look around and shout “Oh, my nose! Now I’ll never be a teen model!” (Marcia Brady)

dalepetrie's avatar

@Dr_Dredd – haven’t seen it yet, hope I’ll get to some day.

Supacase's avatar

@jca We do the fingers to the eye thing too.

liliesndaisies's avatar

“If you love someone… you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise… the moment just passes you by.”

- From My Best Friends Wedding

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