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md
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Favorite non-famous lines from movies
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Mar 19 21:15 UTC 1996 |
I'm not sure how to describe this item. The following examples might
give you an idea. These are all movie quotes -- not the famous ones
like "I never wanted this for you, Michael," or "Something tells me
we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto," but non-famous quotes that sort
of stay in your head. I suspect I've garbled a few of them and
welcome any corrections. What I'm really hoping for is lots of
everyone else's favorite non-famous quotes.
"Can't do it, Sally." -- Robert Duvall's answer to Abe Vigoda
when Vigoda realizes that he's being led away to his death and
pleads with Duvall to get him off the hook, in "The Godfather."
"I got you. . . you son of a bitch." -- whispered by a drained,
exhausted and very mistaken Sigourney Weaver near the end of
"Alien."
"Evidently, there *is* a God." -- pronounced by James Mason as he
looks down at the freshly murdered James Coburn, still clothed in
blasphemous nun's habit, in "The Last of Sheila."
"I *beg* your body. Sardon . . . fardon . . . forry . . .
sorry, very, I, am." -- decrescendo mumbled apology by Peter
O'Toole to the voluptuous nurse he crashes hands-first into while
attempting to flee from the room where his latest mistress lies
in bed after having tried to commit suicide, in Woody Allen's
"What's New, Pussycat?"
"Ma femme. Non: MA FEMME. Ma femme! MA FEMM-UH. O mon dieu,
ma femme! MA FEMME!" -- the French comedian, whose name I
forget, trying, with wildly escalating rage, to get the stupid
and/or deaf person at the other end of the phone line to simply
hand the receiver to his wife, in "What's New, Pussycat?"
"I perceive you are a woman blessed with great economy of words.
I await your next syllable with eager anticipation." -- John
Gielgud's reply to the grunt of greeting emitted by the whore
Dudley Moore brought home with him in "Arthur."
"Whaddaya got?" -- Marlon Brando's answer to the waitress's
question "What are *you* rebelling against?" in "The Wild One."
"The trick is not *minding* that it hurts." -- Peter O'Toole
again, this time in "Lawrence of Arabia." A young admirer, not
realizing that Lawrence is a closet masochist homosexual kinkoid,
has just tried to replicate Lawrence's trick of slooowly putting
out a match flame with his bare fingers. "Ouch!" he cries, "It
hurts!" "Of course it hurts," says Lawrence benignly. "So,"
asks the young admirer, "what's the trick?"
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bruin
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response 1 of 21:
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Mar 19 21:45 UTC 1996 |
"No clothes on anybody! Sickening!" -- Macauley Culkin in "Home Alone"
when taking a peak at his cinema brother's _Playboys_.
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remmers
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response 2 of 21:
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Mar 20 00:12 UTC 1996 |
"Time is a crook" -- Peter Lorre in "Beat the Devil".
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bruin
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response 3 of 21:
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Mar 20 00:48 UTC 1996 |
"Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."
- Foghorn Leghorn
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matthew
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response 4 of 21:
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Mar 22 07:28 UTC 1996 |
"I've got a bad feeling about this !"
-just about every major protagonist in the Star Wars movies.
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katie
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response 5 of 21:
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Mar 22 19:38 UTC 1996 |
"It's not a too-mah!" -Arnols Schwarzenegger, in Kindergarten Cop
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md
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response 6 of 21:
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Mar 22 19:58 UTC 1996 |
"That was a four-hundred-dollar vahz, you bitch."
-- from "The Secret of my Success" only I can't remember
the actress's name. Her musical "you bitch" on a ascending
minor third was priceless.
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md
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response 7 of 21:
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Mar 22 21:30 UTC 1996 |
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." -- Gert Frobe, as Goldfinger
in the movie of that name, when the laser beam is about to start
slicing Sean Connery in half and Connery asks, "Do you expect me
to talk?"
"Who'd've thunk it?" -- Just-deflowered Joan Hackett, spoken to
herself in a bathroom mirror in "The Group."
"This is important. This means something." -- Richard Dreyfus,
pointing with his fork to the mound of mashed potatoes on his
plate in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Speaking of Dreyfuses, here's a TV one:
"Get OUT of here!" -- Julia-Louis Dreyfus on several "Seinfeld"
episodes. Jerry will tell her something shocking -- eg, George is
engaged to be married -- whereupon she shouts out the above line and,
on the word "OUT," shoves Jerry with both hands so violently that he
staggers backward. (In one episode, he falls down.) If J-L has a
"signature line," this would be it.
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omni
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response 8 of 21:
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Mar 24 22:51 UTC 1996 |
I saw this one in The Hunt for Red October
"Ok Mr Ryan, here we are with our fly open, but if your friend over there
so much as twitches, I'm gonna blow his ass straight to Mars"
-Cdr Bart Mancuso, USS Dallas
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hross
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response 9 of 21:
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Jul 6 07:04 UTC 1996 |
"Were gonna need a bigger boat!"
Roy schieder in _JAWS_
The other guy in _Clerks_
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scott
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response 10 of 21:
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Jul 6 12:17 UTC 1996 |
"They lose me right after the bunker scene"
-an actor dressed as Hitler, in the movie lot cafeteria in "Blazing
Saddles"
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md
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response 11 of 21:
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Jul 9 13:27 UTC 1996 |
"Mitch?" -- Tippi Hedren, spoken in the brief gap of time between
the solitary sparrow appearing on the floor in front of the
fireplace and a thousand of them flooding angrily down the
chimney and into the room, in "The Birds."
"I'd like to paint you nude." -- Spoken with faux-clinical
lewdness by John Forsythe, as he pulls Shirley McLain's '50s-
style flounce skirt against her legs the better to show her
shape, in "The Trouble with Harry."
"All of them witches." -- Spoken by Mia Farrow, flipping through
a book of that name and slowly realizing that her neighbors in
the Dakota are witches. All of them. In "Rosemary's Baby."
"Honey? You wouldn't hurt me, would you? I'm your wife." --
Sharon Stone's instantaneous transformation from murderous bitch
to sweetly loving wife, in "Total Recall," seconds before Arnold
Schwartzenegger shoots her in the head. Still her best
performance, wonderfully witty and on-to-herself. Two minutes
before, she'd been stomping a downed and writhing Schwartzenegger
on the 'nads and screaming, "*Now* you've done it! Do you know
much I hate this *fucking* planet?"
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md
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response 12 of 21:
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Jul 11 14:06 UTC 1996 |
"It's true, officer: this man has no dick." Bill Murray in
Ghostbusters. Dan Akroyd points to the meddlesome government
inspector and says, "Everything was fine until dickless here
pulled the plug." The police officer turns to Murray and says,
"Is this true?" -- and Murray delivers the punch line.
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matthew
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response 13 of 21:
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Jul 12 02:22 UTC 1996 |
"Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads." (repeat for a while)
Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz, or maybe Guildenster, in the movie about
them being dead.
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orinoco
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response 14 of 21:
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Jan 3 04:06 UTC 1998 |
"Some civilizations are defined by their relationship with cheese"
- from Benny and Joon
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lumen
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response 15 of 21:
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Nov 5 02:42 UTC 1998 |
Kid: I have a joke to tell, Mommy.
Sally Field: Do you, baby.
Kid: Yeah. I think it's grown up enough.
Sally Field: I'm sure it is, dear.
Kid: Would you like to hear it?
Field, then John Goodman: Sure.
Kid: My friend Vickie told me this one-- "What did one cocksucker say to the
other?"
Alone, it's not funny, but in context, it's hilarious. John Goodman's
character is an insurance saleman married to Sally Field, a New Jersey
housewife who ventures into stand-up comedy and meets a failing med school
undergrad played by Tom Hanks.
This particular scene occurs at dinner-- Goodman's character expected Field
to impress some Catholic clergymen looking for insurance on their churches
by cooking dinner. After an afternoon with Steven Gold (Hanks), Milah (Field)
rushes home to make a shotgun dinner-- using fishtank water.
The clergymen are there simply for the dinner and are silent. Goodman's
character couldn't even strike up a decent conversation with them, so the
kid's raunchy joke really broke the monotony.
Maybe I have a tasteless sense of humor, but I liked seeing some kid
unwittingly stick it to some tightasses :)
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md
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response 16 of 21:
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Nov 6 03:21 UTC 1998 |
"Pass the salt."
""Pass-the-salt' *what*, Wednesday?"
"Pass the salt *now.*"
-- Dialog between Christina Ricci and Angelica Houston
in The Addams Family.
"'Dead-on-balls-accurate'?"
"It's an industry term."
-- Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinnie
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coyote
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response 17 of 21:
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Nov 7 04:51 UTC 1998 |
"You know, for kids!"
-Tim Robbins in The Hudsucker Proxy
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remmers
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response 18 of 21:
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Nov 8 12:20 UTC 1998 |
(Hey, that's one of my favorite lines too!)
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coyote
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response 19 of 21:
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Nov 8 16:08 UTC 1998 |
(The Coen brothers do great stuff -- well, at least all of those that I've
seen so far)
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lumen
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response 20 of 21:
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Nov 10 02:08 UTC 1998 |
"Why you..scruffy-looking, no-good, low-down smelly..NERFHERDER!"
"Who's scruffy-looking?"
"I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but from now on, you're
going to do as I say..'kay?"
"What..not even a goodbye kiss?"
"I'd rather kiss a Wookie."
"That can be arranged!"
-- dialogues between Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in _Star Wars_ and _The
Empire Strikes Back_
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snib
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response 21 of 21:
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Aug 2 21:55 UTC 2000 |
1.21 Gigawatts! - Doc Brown in Back to the Future
Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor,
doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, and doctor. There, did we miss anyone? -
Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd in Spies like us
You are semi-evil. You are quasi-evil. You are the diet coke of evil. Just
one calorie - not evil enough. - Dr. Evil in Austin Powers 2
Only a man whose heart is pure can wield the knife, and only a man whose ass
is narrow can fit down this staircase, and if mine is such an ass, then I
shall have it! - Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child
Why are you asking me all these questions?
I'm a kid, it's my job - John Candy and Macaulay Culkin in Uncle Buck
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