memorable lines in movies

Kelly's Heroes (1970) - you'll probably only appreciate this is you've seen the movie!

Oddball (Donald Sutherland): Hi, man.
Big Joe (Telly Savalas): What are you doing?
Oddball: I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
Big Joe: What's happening?
Oddball: Well, the tank's broke and they're trying to fix it.
Big Joe: Well, then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them?
Oddball: [chuckles] I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Big Joe: Christ!
Oddball: Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.
 
I'm not going to repeat the entire quote here (I couldn't if I wanted to!) but a personal favourite of mine is the scene from Jaws where Quint is recounting his experience on the USS Indianapolis .
 
"Just when I think I' getting out - they pull me back in"
- Al Pacino's Godfather 3 quote recently reused to a new audience in the Soprano's.
Personally it is one of my favourites as it comes up again and again in daily life.
 
My Fave film - Pulp Fiction -
Jules: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherRAB the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. :D
 
Serenity

"define interesting?"
"oh god, oh god we're all going to die"

Heathers

"F**k me gently with a chainsaw"

True Lies

"Harry?, Harry?, you do not have time to tango buddy, you copy?"

And of course the best one

"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die"
 
And this one too from same film:
[Vincent goes up to Butch at the bar]
Butch: Starin' at something, friend?
Vincent: I ain't your friend, palooka.
Butch: What did you say?
Vincent: I think you heard me just fine, punchy.
 
Orson Welles in the The Third Man:

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, blooRABhed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, fire, a hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce
 
"You gotta be f**king kidding"- The Thing

From Aliens:-
HuRABon: Seventeen days?! Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...
Ripley: HuRABon!
HuRABon: ...and they're gonna come in here AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!
Ripley: HURABON! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training.
[to Newt]
Ripley: Right?
[Newt apes a salute]
HuRABon: So why don't you put her in charge?

From the great Glenn Ford western The Sheepman:
Angelo: How come you get into the sheep business, boss?
Jason Sweet: Well, I'll tell ya, Angelo. You see, it's this way. I just got tired of kicking cows around. You know how dumb they are.
Angelo: And you think sheep are smarter?
Jason Sweet: Oh, no, no. They're dumber. Only their easier kicking...and woolier.


From Dr. Strangelove:
Colonel "Bat" Guano: You wanna know what I think?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Yes!
Colonel "Bat" Guano: I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.

From the Randolph Scott western The Tall T:
Pat Brennan: I'm going to finish this. If they come, I'm going to finish this once and for all.
Doretta Mims: Oh, but why?
Pat Brennan: Some things a man can't ride around.


From my favourite western, El Dorado:
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin' here?
Cole: I'm lookin' at a tin star with a... drunk pinned on it.

Cole: Did you get him?
Mississippi: Who?
Cole: The fella that ran outta the church!
Mississippi: Well, yes and no.
Cole: Yes and no? Did you or didn't you?
Mississippi: I hit the sign, and the sign hit him.
Cole: Well, that's great.
Mississippi: He was limping when he left!
Cole: He was limping when he got here!

"When ya pull a gun, kill a man"- My Darling Clementine

From Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy:-
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, I'm a professional, and I would like to be able to do my job.
Ron Burgundy: Big deal. I am very professional.
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I'm not a baby, I am a man. I am an anchorman.
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke.
Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.
Veronica Corningstone: I will have you know that I have more talent and more intelligence in my little finger than you do in your entire body, sir.
Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker.
Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry.
Ron Burgundy: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?
 
"Choke on 'em!!!...Choke on 'em!!! - Captain Rhodes - (Day of the Dead - 1985 - this is his last worRAB when he is being litterally ripped in half by zombies and they start to devour his insides.)
 
From The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Jack Lemmon comes home and his wife Ann Bancroft tells him "We've been burgled!" He has difficulty taking this in. "Burgled?" He repeats, puzzled.

"Yeah, you know. We had em, now they got em"
 
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