Favorite Lines From A Movie

[JordyG]

Guys, what is your favorite line from any movie, domestic or international? I'll start with one from the many I love. This from Groundhog's Day when Phil Conners says over the phone, "How do you know there will be a tomorrow, there wasn't one today!".

 

[pacific 44]

Warden to Paul Newman:"What we have heeere is a fayulyur to communicate."

 

[rbny1]

"I'll have what she's having."

 

[Go/huskies]

Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It’s not going to happen!

Regina George, Mean Girls.

 

[CtQuip]

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

 

[oldude]

"I'm shocked, shocked to find there's gambling going on in here" (Casablanca)

&

"There's no crying in baseball."
(A League of Their Own)

 

[nwhoopfan]

Great thread. This could go on indefinitely.

"Like I told my last wife, I says 'Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.'"

Big Trouble in Little China

 

[RockyMTblue2]

"Plastics Benjamin, Plastics." The Graduate. And "I wish you had more time." Man on Fire

 

[BlueDolphin]

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

 

[oldude]

"I've got the motive which is money and the body which is dead."
(In the Heat of the Night)

 

[nwhoopfan]

"You can't handle the truth!"

don't think that one even needs to be identified

 

[oldude]

"The only arithmetic he ever got was hearing the referee count up to ten."
(On the Waterfront)

 

[pinotbear]

Since this topic is "favorite lines" rather than "best known", I'll submit this.

I don't know if I have ever - and, I mean, ever - unexpectedly laughed harder at a movie. Perhaps it's because we had a very large male harlequin Dane, and I know how dignified they can be.

"Whenever Mrs Kissel breaks wind, we beat the dog."



From, of all places, the movie "10".

 

[nwhoopfan]

An infinitely quotable movie--Airplane!

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

"We have clearance, Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"

 

[nwhoopfan]

"You were never in 'Nam, you jive turkey."

Semi-Pro

 

[Kaizen]

Scarlett O'Hara: After all, tomorrow is another day!

Gone with the wind.

 

[oldude]

On being a Baltimore fan:

"Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day."
(Twelve Angry Men)

 

[Ron and Vida]

Bette Davis Fasten your seat belts . It's going to be a bumpy ride!

 

[Carnac]

"A man has got to know his limitations" (An observation that I've lived by daily since hearing it)
Movie: Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry

"I never liked strangers much. That's cause no stranger ever "good news'd" me"
Spoken by Walter Brennan to John Wayne in Red River (1948) as two riders approached them on horseback, one of whom was later shot/killed by Wayne, and became part of the landscape.

 

[Scud49]

Lee Van Cleef, in the movie "For a Few Dollars More" - "This train'll stop at Tucumcari"

 

[bags27]

Love this thread: all these are fabulous, and could go on forever. Here's 2:

Stanley Kowalski: Hey, Stella! Hey, Stellaaa!

And a tip 'o the hat to Scoop, above: "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

 

[Carnac]

Love this thread: all these are fabulous, and could go on forever. Here's 2:

Stanley Kowalski: Hey, Stella! Hey, Stellaaa!

And a tip 'o the hat to Scoop, above: "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

That movie was full of one-liners!!!

 

[oldude]

"This man wishes to have the same privilege as a sponge, he wishes to think."
(Inherit the Wind)

 

[huskyd]

Peter O'Toole (drunk) walking into the ladies room unzipping his fly. Woman (indignant): This is for ladies, sir. O'Toole: So is this, madam, but sometimes I have to run water through it. (from "My Favorite Year")

 

[Carnac]

Peter O'Toole (drunk) walking into the ladies room unzipping his fly. Woman (indignant): This is for ladies, sir. O'Toole: So is this, madam, but sometimes I have to run water through it. (from "My Favorite Year")

I never saw this movie. When I read this, I laughed out loud. That was a man that could think on his feet!! A like does not do this justice, I loved it!!!