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Topic by: underdog
Posted: August 22, 2008 - 11:15 AM PDT
Last Reply: September 17, 2008 - 10:08 AM PDT
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topic: Best Lines Ever |
underdog
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post #1
on August 22, 2008 - 11:15 AM PDT
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Post your favorite movie lines, ones you quote to other people or never forget, here. New movies and older movies, it doesn't matter. Whatever you think is a great line of dialogue (and maybe why you love it so much). I'm trying to think of my own favorites as I prep to teach a scriptwriting workshop in the fall.
I'll never forget -- and, lord if it isn't still relevant today -- this famous speech from Network:
"I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!""
I actually said this the other day to someone, in jest of course (I didn't have a switchblade out):
"You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat."
Remember who said that line in Chinatown? |
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underdog
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post #2
on August 22, 2008 - 11:22 AM PDT
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We could actually make this a guessing game if you want. Post a favorite quote and see who can guess the film (though with the IMDB it's pretty easy to cheat).
"Yeah, I'm fine. I snapped my chin down onto some guy's fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose."
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"Whoever wrote this episode should die!" |
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underdog
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post #3
on August 22, 2008 - 11:29 AM PDT
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"I'm not afraid of death, but I am afraid of murder."
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"You're not a detective, you're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for 6 bits plus tax." |
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hamano
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hamano
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post #5
on August 22, 2008 - 11:58 AM PDT
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| Oh, wait.. What, this is a game now? |
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janeskid
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post #6
on August 22, 2008 - 12:10 PM PDT
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"Crazy,
Toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away....."
This is from a DVD but I don't know if it is called a movie or not. |
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underdog
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post #7
on August 22, 2008 - 12:16 PM PDT
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> On August 22, 2008 - 12:10 PM PDT janeskid wrote:
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> "Crazy,
> Toys in the attic I am crazy,
> Truly gone fishing.
> They must have taken my marbles away....."
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> This is from a DVD but I don't know if it is called a movie or not.
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From Pink Floyd's the Wall, yah?
And nope, Hamano, not officially a game. People can name their source or not, just thought it would be fun to try to guess first. My quotes above are from Play It Again, Sam; Galaxy Quest; The Conversation; and Murder, My Sweet, in order. |
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shiftless
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post #8
on August 22, 2008 - 3:19 PM PDT
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OK, not a movie, but still out on DVD:
"When I said I wanted 'ugly', I wanted Maryanne on Gilligan's Island ugly, not Cornelius on Planet of the Apes ugly. TV ugly, not ugly ugly." |
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weezy
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post #9
on August 23, 2008 - 2:56 PM PDT
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| My favorite closing line: "That'll do pig, that'll do." |
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Vanamonde
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post #10
on August 23, 2008 - 5:38 PM PDT
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> On August 23, 2008 - 2:56 PM PDT weezy wrote:
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> My favorite closing line: "That'll do pig, that'll do."
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James Cromwell as The Farmer talking to Babe
my line for you all is
"The only one who can't shoot straight with this gun is the bastard who can afford it". |
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Battie
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post #11
on August 24, 2008 - 2:49 PM PDT
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Aside from a dozen lines from The Dark Knight, there's also:
"Hold my watch, because if it breaks I'll kill everyone on this train."
"Just shove them out of the way."
"They're human beings, John, not sheep!"
"If you insist on splitting hairs."
"I do, actually."
"*pause* That one looks like a sheep."
I've probably had both of those on my profile at one time or another. :P |
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doozer
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post #12
on August 24, 2008 - 3:57 PM PDT
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"Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings."
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DLeonard
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post #13
on August 24, 2008 - 5:17 PM PDT
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> On August 22, 2008 - 11:15 AM PDT underdog wrote:
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> Post your favorite movie lines, ones you quote to other people or never forget, here.
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> I actually said this the other day to someone, in jest of course (I didn't have a switchblade out):
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> "You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat."
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> Remember who said that line in Chinatown?
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Ha, that was Polanski talking to Jack just before he cuts his nose. Don't know if I have the quote quite right, but I tend to throw out his next line, "you know what happens to nosy people?"
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AstroAppa
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post #14
on August 24, 2008 - 5:32 PM PDT
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"now...where was i?"
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die"
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Catullus
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post #15
on August 27, 2008 - 12:47 AM PDT
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"You might have killed millions of people, but at the very least, you made me happy"
Legend of Galactic Heroes <- anime |
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doozer
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post #16
on August 27, 2008 - 3:13 PM PDT
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| "You're talking to me all wrong... It's the wrong tone. You do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron. Hey, tell me, does your mother sew? BOOM. Get her to sew that!" |
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underdog
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post #17
on August 27, 2008 - 5:50 PM PDT
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> On August 27, 2008 - 3:13 PM PDT doozer wrote:
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> "You're talking to me all wrong... It's the wrong tone. You do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron. Hey, tell me, does your mother sew? BOOM. Get her to sew that!"
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I admit I had to look this one up. Balls of Fury?
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underdog
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post #18
on August 27, 2008 - 5:53 PM PDT
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Life of Brian is full of great quotes.
"Alms for an ex-leper?"
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"Wewease Wodewick!"
etc.
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doozer
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post #19
on August 27, 2008 - 9:03 PM PDT
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> On August 27, 2008 - 5:50 PM PDT underdog wrote:
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> I admit I had to look this one up. Balls of Fury?
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It's Christopher Walken in Joe Dirt. It was on tv the other night, and I happened to catch it hanging out with my roommate (he's quite ill, so watching bad movies is the extent of his capabilities right now and he gets bored doing it alone). If I remember correctly, he says it to a fire extinguisher. |
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weezy
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post #20
on August 28, 2008 - 10:10 AM PDT
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> On August 27, 2008 - 9:03 PM PDT doozer wrote:
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> > On August 27, 2008 - 5:50 PM PDT underdog wrote:
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> > I admit I had to look this one up. Balls of Fury?
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I'm impressed that you figured out it was a Walken line! |
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