Robert Duvall to John Wayne in True Grit: "Bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."
John Wayne to Duvall: "Fill your hand you sonafabitch."
Richard Crenna to Stallone in Rambo II"
"How will you live, John?"
Rambo: "Day by day."
"If you run, they will catch you and kill you, if you believe anything, you believe that".
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
"An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles!"
"Say "what" again! SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! I dare you, I double dare you, m----------er! Say "what" one more g-----n time...."
"Mister Robbins, you're forgetting something....I'm a SMOKER!"
Ahhh...You're gonna need a Bigger Boat!
Jaws, of course.
Just about anything Mae West said:
from Night After Night
Woman: Goodness, what beautiful diamonds
MW: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
from She Done Him Wrong
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
"Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost."
Lord Gainsford: "Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-la"
LOST HORIZONS
"...and stop calling me Shirley"
"Well I'm not afraid to be lazy."
Capt. Augustus McRae.
"My mother told me you can be oh so smart, or you can be pleasant. I prefer pleasant, and you can quote me on that." - James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, in Harvey
I just love Harvey.
Nicholson was on his way to wealth and superstardom, but it was the restaurant scene in Five Easy Pieces that had even the most jaded moviegoers rolling in the aisles. For those fans whose memories need refreshing, the young pianist, played by Nicholson, was in a diner, trying to order toast. Plain toast. The waitress, played beautifully by Karen Black, said she couldn't give him toast because it was past the hour when breakfast was being served. The punch line, delivered after he asks for a tuna sandwhich on toast without the tuna and she asks what should she do with the tuna--"Stick it between your legs"--has gone down in film history.
"Lighten up, Francis."
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"
"What do you make of this?"
"Why I can make a boat, or a hat, or ..."
"Thank you gentleman, you're everything we've come to expect from years of government training."
...Men in Black
Casablanca is going to rule this list. Here are some of the top quotes:
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
"I'm make 'em an offer he can't refuse."
"You lookin' at me?"
"I couldda had class. I couldda been a contender."
"Here's looking at you kid."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
"Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?"
"Play it once Sam. For old time's sake."
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Debbi: Duke, let's go do some crimes.
Duke: Yeah! Let's go get sushi and not pay.
This is for the season... (anyone else a Marx Brothers fan?)
Fiorello: Hey, wait, wait. What does this say here? This thing here.
Driftwood: Oh, that? Oh, that's the usual clause. That's in every contract. That just says uh, it says uh, "If any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified."
Fiorello: Well, I dunno.
Driftwood: It's all right, that's, that's in every contract. That's, that's what they call a 'sanity clause.'
Fiorello: Ha, Ha, Ha. Ha. Ha. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
"Jules, if you give that f**in' nimrod fifteen hundred dollars, I'm gonna shoot him on general principle."
"Sometimes ya just gotta say 'What the f**k'"
"Where do we get such men?"
"I give you these fifteen commandme...***CRASH***!...ten...ten commandments!"
"While I was trying to figure why he said what he said, Nicky just hit him!"
"That's a 20 footer!" "25...and 3 tons of it!"
You're dating a woman who's too young if you ask them what they were doing when Kennedy was shot, and they say "Omigod, Teddy Kennedy was shot??!!"
"Life is like a box a choklits..."
"What, this old thing? Why, I only wear this when I don't care what I look like!"
"You made a time machine...out of a DeLorean?!"
"Great story dad...ya think mom'll buy ?"
I'll bet the top quotes turn out to be:
1. Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
2. Here's lookin' at you, Kid.
BenLurkin posted:
"That is the thing dreams are made of."
I’m assuming that this is the Bogart line from Maltese Falcon, but I remember it differently:
Cop to Bogart (referring to Maltese Falcon): “What’s that?”
Bogart to copy: “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
One of the greatest lines in one of the greatest movies ever made.
BenLurkin also posted:
"Of all the gin joints . . . "
Which is Bogart to either Sam, talking about Ilsa, or directly to Ilsa, in Casablanca, also one of the greatest (you have good tastes, Ben).
TalonDJ sited:
"You shot him in the back!"
"His back was to me."
This is from “El Diablo” – really good HBO movie, and this exchange is between Anthony Edwards and Louis Gossett Jr. I think they said it once to each other at different points in the movie.
Rennes Templar posted:
Clint: "Go ahead, make my day".
Which is from Sudden Impact, the last and least satisfying of the Dirty Harry movies (mostly because of Sondra Locke and the sicko plot, I think dreamed up by her). I’ve always argued that this was meant to be ironic, not encouraging. Harry Callahan had been having a REALLY BAD DAY and having to shoot someone and go through all the hassles involved in that would be a fitting, but bad, capper to the day. He didn’t want to shoot the creep. If he did he would have just shot him.
AppyPappy posted:
"That's not a knife. THIS is a knife".
Which is from the original Crocodile Dundee.
AppyPappy also posted:
"We got ourselves a motherloving navy war"
Which is from In Harms Way and was said by Kirk Douglas to John Wayne. Great war movie. I suggested to George Takei once that he try to sell this as a plot for one of the Star Trek movies.
AppyPappy also posted:
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness"
I know lots of movies and movie lines, but I had to look this one up. It’s from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and was said by John Wayne to a young cavalry trooper.
Jersey Republican Biker Chick posted
The biggest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didnt exist
Which is Kevin Spacy, The Usual Suspects. I know this is a great movie, it just never appealed to me.
Sartorius posted:
"He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother!"
==Boys Town, Spencer Tracy.
My only quibble is that it was said to Spencer Tracy’s Father Flannagen, while this implies he said it. As I understand it this is a real quote from a real boys town resident in the early days and is the motto on a statue at the school.
I’m going to stop now, except for one more comment:
"Rosebud" Citizen Kane
The main thing for me about this is finding out what the real “Rosebud” was in the real life of William Randolph Hearst, the real life and only thinly disguised model for Citizen Kane. I won’t tell you (it would get my post pulled) but it referred to a part of Marion Davies anatomy. Found that out in the great HBO movie RKO 281. Welles was determined to include the reference, however disguised, in the movie, so that all who knew that little vulgarity would know that he knew, including Hearst.