This week, TWQ (The Weekend Question) looks at memorable lines from the movies:
What famous movie quotes do you like most?
My answers are:
Apart from those in 'Casablanca', which seem to be one memorable quote after another, others that come to mind are:
'Make him an offer he couldn't refuse' (The Godfather movies)
'Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore' (The Wizard Of Oz)
'What we've got here is failure to communicate' (Cool Hand Luke)
'Made it Ma! Top Of the world!' (White Heat)
Now it's over to you; what are YOUR favourites?
No matter where you go, there you are. (Buckaroo Banzai)
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ReplyDelete"I'll have what she's having" from When Harry Met Sally"
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Darth Vader - You powers are weak old man (Star Wars)
ReplyDeleteWallace - [gulp] Not even Wensleydale? (A Close Shave)
Danny Ocean - Danny: Thirteen million and you drive this piece of shit cross country to pick me up? (Oceans 11)
I like that Buckaroo Bonzai one too. One of my favorites is a really silly one by the bad guy in Superman 3. "It's not enough that I win, everyone else must lose."
ReplyDelete"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy."
ReplyDeleteMonty Python's Life Of Brian
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I feel the need.
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(Top Gun)
Ah, it's been too long since I popped that wretched-yet-addictive movie into my DVD player. It's time.
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ReplyDeleteFrom Pretty Woman...."Slippery little suckers, aren't they?"
"You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery. ENJOY IT. EMBRACE IT. Discard it. Then, proceed." Elizabethtown
ReplyDelete"Oh Rafi, you're coming alive again. You just want all the things that you had to forget that you could have. That's a very good place to move into." Prime
(The one from Prime I relate to as I am going through a divorce.)
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so many....
ReplyDeleteFrom Galaxy Quest "Does the rolling help?" and "Hold Please..."
From Serenity "Define interesting" and "She is starting to damage my calm" ( Although pretty much anything from this film often gets quoted in this house.
The Princess Bride "I do nothing that word means what you think it means..."
The Marix trilogy "There is no spoon" and "Everything that has a beginning has an end."
From Star Wars ESB: "The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am..."
truble is in this house we watch a lot of films over and over so the sound bytes get incorporated into daily conversation...there are an awful lot.
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Not much of a movie goer but I think I'll go with your 2nd one.
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"Mr. Wizard, get me the hell outta here!" -- The Matrix
ReplyDelete"I came to chew bubble gum and kick ass... and I'm all outta bubble gum." -- They Live
"...And I'm the king of Cashmir." -Val Kilmer (Madmartigan), Willow.
ReplyDelete"Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya, You killed my father, prepare to die." -Princess Bride
"We hates them we does precious!" -Gollum, Lord of the Rings
"That's no moon! Its a Space Station!" -Star Wars
Everyone knows and loves movie quotes, don't they? Me... Well, I can't name any LOL
ReplyDeleteCasablanca's my favorite movie!
ReplyDeleteSeagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. from Finding Nemo
'As you whishhhhhh" Princess Bride
ReplyDelete"Last thing you need, Mr. Pink, is another F@cking ccup of coffee" Resivour dogs
"Who Hired this Crew" Muppet Treasure Island
'Laugh now Monkey boy" Buckaroo Bonzi
"I', not bad, I'm just drawn that way" Who framed Rodger Rabbit
"That's no moon, it's a space station!"
ReplyDeleteHan Solo-Star Wars
"Mr. Data... shut up!"
Capt. Picard, Nemesis
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The Bette Davis film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
ReplyDeleteBlanche: "You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair."
Jane: "But ya ARE, Blanche, ya ARE in that chair."
and
Casablanca
Major Strasser: What is your nationality?
Rick Blaine: I'm a drunkard.
Captain Louis Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
Oh man, Jonathan Lithgow was so funny in Buckaroo Bonzai. I think I've got to go watch that again.
ReplyDelete"Life is pain; anyone who says otherwise is selling something" - Westley in The Princess Bride
ReplyDeleteI also love "I won't let go Jack", mainly because it reminds me of the French and Saunders sketch - "I won't let go Jack... ooops!"
Oh, and in Star Trek Generations when Data says, "Shit!" Cracked me up. I was 11 at the time (ooh, showing my age). My sweet conscientious friend told me she wouldn't go see it if it had swearing in it.
Oh, and "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a woman being pretty? You wouldn't marry a woman just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?" From Gentlemen prefer blondes. I love that film. So silly. "You only love him because he's poor" Heh.
ReplyDeleteI'll be your huckleberry....
ReplyDeleteI can not think of a better quote!
or movie.
i've seen that movie gazillions of times.
Doc Holiday... Tombstone
Well, since you nixed my Casablanca option ;)
ReplyDelete"Assimilate this!" Mr Worf - STNG: First Contact
Obi-Wan:...So what I told you was TRUE... from a certain point of view.
ReplyDeleteLuke: A certain point of view?
Obi-Wan: Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
Profound words when I first heard it.
"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar." Serenity
ReplyDelete"I'm a bad llama" Emperor's New Groove
"Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?" Serenity
"It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book." The Mummy
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" Patton
how very apt.
ReplyDelete"oh captain, my captain."
- dead poets society
You're sending some brilliant quotes; some I haven't heard before, but sound just great!
ReplyDeleteMichele sent me back to read all the comments, Jean-Luc. You have some great examples here!
ReplyDeleteAlmost everything said by Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing.
ReplyDelete"He vas....my BOYFRIEND!!" (Young Frankenstein)
ReplyDelete"You take the blonde, I'll take the one with the toiban" (also YF)
"Dontchya hate Perry's wife?" (Arthur)
Almost too many good ones to mention here!!!
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Willy Wonka: Oh, well then you know all about it and what a terrible country it is. Nothing but desolate wastes and fierce beasts. And the poor little Oompa Loompas were so small and helpless, they would get gobbled up right and left. A Wangdoodle would eat ten of them for breakfast and think nothing of it. And so, I said, "Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Wangdoodles and Hornswogglers and Snozzwangers and rotten Vermicious Knids."
ReplyDeleteMr. Salt: Snozzwangers? Vermicious Knids? What kind of rubbish is that?
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
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It's possible pig. (The Princess Bride)
ReplyDeleteIf you can't say anything nice, come sit by me. (Steel Magnolias)
My sisters and I often communicate through movie quotes; however, it's often only funny to us.
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I only know them culturally, not from the movies but my favs are either the oz one or the Cool Hand Luke one.
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Back from Michele's....can't think of another quote, but have enjoyed reading all the new ones added.
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh there are so many!!
ReplyDeletehmm lets see. i think i shall go with something from office space.
"It's a "Jump to Conclusions mat". You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO."
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I was just checkin the specks on the rotary-derder - I'm retarded.
ReplyDeleteTommy Boy = one of the funniest movies ever
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Westley: This is true love - you think this happens every day?
ReplyDelete- The Princess Bride
Samantha: What if I was different? What if I was just like everybody else, James? How would you feel about me then?
James: You just don't get it. Things aren't different.
Samantha: What if they were? I think you owe me at least this.
Forget image. Forget politics. Forget... Forget everything else
but who I am right now in here.
If things were different.
James: If things were different... I'd still follow you around all the time...because I wanted to, not because I had to.
- First Daughter
"I changed my book in boots" from the terribly british Brief Encounter.
ReplyDelete"Who is Mrs Lobsides?" The Lady Killers, the Alex Guiness version.
"Life, don't talk to me about life." Marvin the Paranoid Android, HHGG
"I shot an arrow in the air, she came to land in Berkley Square." Kind Hearts and Coronets.
"I'm a Doctor not a tap dancer!" Star Trek Insurrection.
I say "Oh captain my captain" from dead poets society to my boss at work a lot.
ReplyDelete"Live Long and Prosper" followed by the response "Peace and Long Life"
From Ghostbusters:
ReplyDelete"Hey, where do these stairs go?"
"They go up."
Just for the record, it was Obi-Wan who tried to warn Han Solo that "That's no moon. It's a space station."
ReplyDeleteA great selection! The Princess Bride seems to have been from where a lot of quotes have come.
ReplyDeleteClint Eastwood movies have great quotes. I could go on and on, but I will submit one of the more famouus quotes, from Dirty Harry:
ReplyDelete"I know what you're thinking, did he fire 5 bullets or 6. Do you feel lucky? Well do ya punk?"
"That's not a knife ... THAT'S a knife." from Crocodile Dundee.
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Take care, Meow
Hmm... only one quote so far from "Gone with the Wind", surprising. Here are a few more:
ReplyDeleteFrankly my dear, I don't give a damn - Rhett to Scarlett on his way out the door
After all, tomorrow is another day - Scarlett to herself, the very last line
That's all I can come up with at the moment.
The Jammer: you are right...
ReplyDeleteI'm not used to that universe :: blushes ::
I can't believe I couldn't remember this quote yesterday. Not only is it one of my favourites, it's also, to me, one of the most memorable quotes in cinematic history.
ReplyDelete"Rosebud."
- Citizen Kane