Friday afternoon and not much shaking in the world – nothing that really grabs me by the short hairs and starts to pull anyway.
How about a nice little diversion – one guaranteed to start the contrarian juices in all my lefty trolls running hot and heavy. And one that’s a certified winner with my conservative readers because most of these quotes will highlight good old fashioned American values (well, most of them anyway).
How about everyone list a few of their favoite one liners from movies?
No speeches. Gotta be one line (okay – we’ll make allowances if the two lines are inseparable.) And we like to be accurate here so here’s a link to the Internet Movie Database where I’m sure you can find the exact quote.
The very fact that these lines are favorites probably means they are already cliches. But in the context of watching the movie, they are still special and deserve to be honored. If you are going to be obscure about it, that’s fine but I hope you get in the spirit of the game and allow everyone the pleasure of fondly recalling the line in question.
As much as I’d like to claim authorship of this idea, Andrew Sullivan beat me to it. Sully weighs in with his favorite:
“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
(Dolores Claiborne)
Well done. I know women like that. And as Sully says in his post, this will not be Hillary’s campaign slogan!
10. “I hope this doesn’t make my cold any worse.”
(Jane Fonda before having sex with Donald Sutherland in Klute)
9. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
(The Great and Powerful Oz in The Wizard of Oz)
8. “Welcome to Sherwood!”
(Errol Flynn in Robin Hood)
7. “One God, that I can understand, but one wife, that is not civilized.”
(Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur)
6. “It’s entirely innocent, I am!”
(Errol Flynn in Captain Blood)
5. “Republic. I like the sound of the word.”
(John Wayne in The Alamo)
4. “A policeman’s job is only easy in a police state.”
(Charlton Heston in A Touch of Evil)
3. “Say allo to mah litta frient!”
(Al Pacino in Scarface)
2. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
(Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind)
1. “Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.”
(Richard S. Castellano in The Godfather)
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5:20 pm
1. “Yippie Kay Yay M-F” Bruce Willis, Die Hard.
2. “Luke I am your father,” James Earl Jones, Empire Strikes Back.
3. “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage,” Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones.
4. “I want you to check every outhouse, henhouse, and whorehouse within fifteen miles.” Tommy Lee Jones, the Fugitive.
5. “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,” Alec Guinness, Star Wars.
5:26 pm
Because I can’t stand Goober and Mae and those five screaming monkeys!
(Burl Ives in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof)
6:18 pm
“Houston – we have a problem” (tom hanks apollo 13)
“Earn this” ” tom hanks – saving private ryan”
“Forget it jake, its chinatown” joe mantell Chinatown.
” I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn’t miscarry or that their daughter doesn’t bleed to death or that their mother doesn’t suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they’re praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you’re looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn’t like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God. ” Alec Baldwin: Malice
– “coffee is for closers” alec baldwin: glen garry glen ross
” Peter Boyle: Young frankenstein.
– “Charlie don’t surf!” robert duvall: apocalypse now
– “anybody moves – kill em” – william holden: the wild bunch
– “I don’t think we need the writer any longer” Willem Dafoe: shadow of the vampire
– “Tell me something, would you? Are you fellas really with the Internal Revenue Service?” Charlton Heston: The Omega Man
– “Madness!” James Donald: Bridge on the River Kwai
– ” ‘UTTIN’ ON THE ‘IIIIITZ
-”A riot is an ungly thing… undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun.” Kenneth Mars: Young Frankenstein.
6:52 pm
“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
-Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, 1993
“Give ‘em Hell, 54th!”
-Union Soldier in Glory, 1989
“There may be honor among thieves, but there’s none in politicians. ”
-Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
“Someone is either a smoker or a nonsmoker. There’s no in-between. The trick is to find out which one you are, and be that.”
-Robin Williams in Dead Again, 1991
“When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them… he was my father.”
-Tyler Hoechlin in Road to Perdition, 2002
“Do I look like I give a damn?”
-Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, 2006
8:28 pm
As embarassing as it is to admit this:
Wolverines
(C. Thomas Howell in Red Dawn)
9:09 pm
“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”
John Cleese as French Soldier in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“Bond, James Bond”
No attribution necessary, is there? Plus, it would be too long. The quote is not very imaginative, but certainly iconic.
9:18 pm
“Round up the usual suspects.”
(Claude Rains; Casablanca)
“Do you mind? We’ve just been married.”
(Alan Rickman; Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves)
“I’m invincible!” “You’re a looney.”
(John Cleese, Graham Chapman; Monty Python and The Holy Grail)
“We’re gonna need guns. Lots of guns.”
(Keanu Reeeves; The Matrix)
“Wire main office, tell them I said Owww!”
(Slim Pickens; Blazing Saddles)
“You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
(Lauren Bacall; To Have And Have Not)
“I’m getting a new tucker-inner! You’re banished, banished, banished!”
(Jack Lemmon; The Great Race)
9:57 pm
“Just a bit outside.”
(Bob Eucker; Major League)
and I know this isn’t a movie, but still – “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
(Gordon Jump; WKRP In Cincinnati)
10:42 pm
“And remember, folks. Be good to your parents. They were good to you.”
(Mel Brookes, High Anxiety)
“Hey, hey, hey. Don’t be mean. We don’t have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
(Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
“What we got here is… failure to communicate.”
(Strother Martin, Cool Hand Luke)
From The Quiet Man:
“He’ll regret it till his dying day, if ever he lives that long.”
(Victor McLaglen)
“There’ll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate… except those in your own mercenary little heart!”
(John Wayne)
“Sir!... Sir!... Here’s a good stick, to beat the lovely lady.”
(May Craig)
“Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.”
(Keanu Reeves, The Matrix)
From Tombstone:
“It’s true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist.”
(Val Kilmer)
“[T]he law is comin’! You tell ‘em I’m comin’ . . . and Hell’s comin’ with me! You hear?! Hell’s comin’ with me!”
(Kurt Russell)
“We’re on a mission from God.”
(Dan Aykroid, The Blues Brothers)
“Never give up. Never surrender.”
(Tim Allen, Galaxy Quest)
“It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man.”
(Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven)
8:11 am
“I’m shocked!, shocked! that there’s gambling going on.”
Claude Rains – Casablanca
“You a bounty hunter?” (Answer)A man’s got to do something for a living.
“Dying, ain’t much of a living.”
Clint Eastwood – The outlaw Josey Wales
“I think someone got in there before Rock.”
Kirk Douglas – To Rock Torrey’s son – In Harms Way
A man’s got to know his limitations
Clint Eastwood
8:53 am
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…
robert duvall: apocalypse now
9:15 am
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9:49 am
TOP TEN MOVIE LINES OF ALL TIME…
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11:12 am
“Kidnapped!” I can’t be kidnapped I have 3 ex-wives and several bartenders dependent on me”
Cary Grant, North by Northwest
2:35 am
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Chief Brody, Jaws
1:17 pm
“Go ahead… make my day”—Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry.
“By saying that everyone is special, you’re saying nobody is”—Dash, The Incredibles.
“Don’t eat that, trust me.”—Christopher Walken, Prophecy II (in reference to a scrawny tree with apples on it outside the gates of what used to be the Garden of Eden)
“Fatty food can kill me, a mugger can kill me, you’re not so special down here, ‘Jones’”—Christopher Walken, Prophecy III.
1:38 pm
If anything happens to my daughter, I have a .45 and a shovel and I don’t think anyone would miss you.
“Clueless”
1:40 am
Sabrina Teenage Witch Fuck…
Sabrina Teenage Witch Fuck…