Good Movie Lines

Ok All,


I promised a friend I would start this thread. To start there will not be a movie qualifier (type of movie). For the first one I list in this initial thread, I do not 100% guarantee exact accuracy but it should be really close. Please follow the format of Quote, Movie, then actor/actress - and sometimes preceeding line.


These are not intended to be listed in any specific order.


"How do your write about women so well"?

"First, I think of a man, then take away reason and accountability."

As Good as it Gets - Jack Nicholson


Just some thoughts...


Michael D.

Woodcutter: Selfish!


Commoner: What's wrong with that? That's the way we are, the way we live. You just can't live unless you're what you call selfish.


Rashomon (1950)

Ok - here's one more before I go to bed.


"My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human Fulfillment. I grossed over $8000 in one night"


Risky Business - Tom Cruise


Following/Last line of Movie - "Time of your life huh Kid"?


Risky Business - Guido the Killer Pimp


Just some thoughts...


Michael D.

"So I say, hey Llama! How 'bout a little something for the effort."


And he says..


"Oh, there will be no tip. But on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."


"So uh, I got THAT going for me."


Bill Murray

Caddy Shack

included...


what we got here is a failure to communicate,,,


i'll leave it to others to expound...


gl

that...


how many had visions of the scantily clad babe washing a car while the cons worked...


come on be honest guys


lol


gl

Man: Hey, what's doin?

Man #2 : Nothing much.


Many movies

Many characters


But what a line!

"If a raffle ticket on a turkey was a penny, I couldn't afford a chance on a jaybird's ass."


98 Degrees in the Shade


"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years democracy, and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."


The Third Man

'Sa Da Tay'


PootieTang in PootieTang

1.Ash,(Bruce Campbell" after cutting off his own hand in the Evil Dead II:


"Who's laughing now!"


Those of you who have seen this movie know what i am talking about.


2."as long as people are still having sex with many anonymous partners..(i forget the middle) in a consequence free environment, I'll be as sound as a pound."


-Austin Powers


Pat

Vanessa Kensington: Mr. Powers, my job is to acclimatize you to the nineties. You know, a lot's changed since 1967.


Austin Powers: No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound!

Absence of Malice (1981)


James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ -- e'scuse me, Angie -- is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in muh briefcase.


MS Sunshine

Student: "Teacher, what is subtraction."


Mae West: "Subtraction is when a man has a hundred, and when you leave him he has two."

...


"which is nice"

"There are two types of people in the world I hate. Those that are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."


Michael Caine

Goldmember

"Best lines" are for plays. So my candidate is the lineless final scene of "Cinema Paradiso," which says more about movies than all the movie lines in history.


Lawrence of Arabia is a compendium of good lines, including this one by Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Tayi, responding to Lawrence's accusation of servitude under the Turks:


"I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 75 men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemy's tents. I take away the flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure yet I am poor, because I am a river to my people.


Also, you wouldn't think "oh hell" is much of a line until you see Peter Sellers use it in Dr. Strangelove.


And Kate Hepburn in The Lion in Winter:


John: A knife! He's got a knife!

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians.

"Lineless" scenes: both from Sullivan's Travells.


Great montage sequence where Joel McCrea's character sees the brutality and degradation of the Depression era, and the scene in which the prisoners watch the cartoon, which says as much about the movies as any scene.


John

"You owe me money!" George C. Scott in The Hustler to Newman as Fast Eddie. Delivery had something to do with it.


And from the Godfather of course, "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

'HOOwaahhh' - Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman


'Don't worry Donnie, these men are cowards' - John Goodman in The Big Lebowski (pretty much every line in TBL is a great movie quote.)


'The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you tell people when you're uncool' - Phillip Seymour Hoffman (as Lester Bangs) in Almost Famous


'I didn't sell out, son. I bought in.' - Christopher Mcdonald in SLC Punk


'Noone tosses a dwarf!' John Rhys-Davies - The Fellowship of the Ring

From The Night of the Living Dead


To scientist: "How do you kill zombies?"


Scientist: "Well, uh, they're dead, you know."

"Shall I tear you another asshole?"


"Only after you eat the peanuts out of my shit!"


FULL METAL JACKET

The final scene in Big Night where Stanley Tucci scrambles some eggs and the two brothers embrace.

. . .it's strictly business.

I'm mixing character names with real names, and I may not have 'em all exactly correct, but some of my favorites:


1. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night"


-Bette Davis in All About Eve.


2. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"


-Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz.


3. "You look so beautiful tonight I can hardly keep my eye on the meter."


-Woody Allen to Mariel (Margaux?) Hemingway, riding in a taxi in Manhattan.


4. "I packed you an extra pair of eyes."


-Mrs. Potato Head to Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story.


5. "Are you here for an affair, sir?"


-Buck Henry to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.


6. "The fall will probably kill you."


-Butch Cassidy to the Sundance Kid, after the Kid complains he won't jump off a cliff into a river because he can't swim.


7. "Your dancing is superb. Excellent. Very good. Good."


-Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin) to Jack Oakie's wife (I can't remember the Mussolini character's name--something lke Napaloni?) in The Great Dictator.


8. "I'm definitely not wearing any underpants."


-Dustin Hoffman (Rainman) to Tom Cruise.


9. "You should see the other guy."


-Steve Buscemi in Fargo.


10. "Nobody's perfect."


-Final line in Some Like It Hot.


11. "I'm ready for my close-up Mr. Demille."


-Final line in Sunset Blvd.


12. "Is it safe?"


-Laurence Oliver in Marathon Man.


13. "Did you miss me fellas?"


-Mel Brooks to, well, they're not fellas, in Blazing Saddles.

Perhaps the greatest ever, the look on the tramp's face at the end of City Lights

It's heartbreaking.


One more: zoom of John Wayne as he turns around for a last look at the two insane white girls in The Searchers. Chilling.


John

....and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family again.

"Wow, this sucks." Spc. Danny Grimes (Ewan McGregor) in Blackhawk Down.


"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Presiden Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellars) in Dr. Strangelove


Outside of the bowling alley as The Dude identifies the three attackers as the Nihilists that pissed on his carpet, (Walter Sobchack)"Nihilists dude?" (Dude) "Nihilists" (Walter) "Fuck me..." (Donny) "Are these guys Nazis Walter?" (Walter)"They're Nihilsts Donny." (Donny) "Nihilists? I thought they were Nazis?" (Walter) "They're Nihilists Donny. Say what you will about National Socialism, but fuck me, at least it's an ethos."


The Baron

"Anybody that doesn't want to get killed best clear on out the back." - Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven


"I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth. That's just me. That's just something that I enjoy." - Philip Baker Hall in Boogie Nights


"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum." - Roddy Piper in They Live

If you wanna talk lifeless scenes, you gotta go to sequels -- or anything Steven Seagal.

I'd go for the final long static lineless shot at the end of The Third Man. A woman's moral rejection of the protagonist, a fate worse than cheating him in love, which she also did. Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli.

Cyrus,


I love in that shot how the parallel lines meet at the vanishing point while one person walks right past the other--no meeting there.


John