What is your favorite "classic" movie line?

Though all the lines above were great in their own way, my favorite line of all time is when Brando tells Rod Steiger in the backseat of that taxi in ON THE WATERFRONT: "You don't understand! I could've had class! I could've been somebody! I could've been a contender -- instead of a bum...which is what I am, let's face it!"

Another great line I caught when it aired on TV recently is when Clark Gable tells Marilyn Monroe in THE MISFITS: "Those afraid of dyin' are afraid to live" (this after she mistakenly thinks Montgomery Clift was killed after getting thrown off a bucking bronco at a rodeo.)

Next, there's the great scene in WILD RIVER when Montgomery Clift, clean and sober, calls upon the elderly Jo Van Fleet following the night before when he stopped by her house all drunk, and she tells him: "Last night when you stopped by...the first and only time I ever liked ya," and then closes the door on him.

Finally, there's the really great thing Spencer Tracy says to Burt Lancaster in JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG after the trial is over and he visits him in his cell, which I won't spoil for those who haven't seen the movie yet.

But those would be my top three picks.

Oops! I mean four!

There's more than 100 years of great movies lines to consider, but I always keep coming back to CASABLANCA, my favorite classic black and white movie of all time.

Some other classic lines from that film:

"I stick my neck out for nobody!"
"We'll always have Paris."
"I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
"Play it, Sam. Play, As Time Goes By."

And just a few OTHERS I've always loved, and not all necessarily classic:

"Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill ya!" - STRIPES
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" - ANIMAL HOUSE
"We all go a little mad sometimes." - PSYCHO
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish." - CADDYSHACK
"I do not like the panties hanging on the rod!" - THE GOODBYE GIRL
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you?" - THE GRADUATE

I could probably go on all day, so I'll stop for now.

How could you omit The Wizard of Oz?

"There's no place like home."
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
"I guess we're not in KS anymore."

Frankenstein (1933)

"Its alive...its alive!"

I don't know who said or wrote it first, but the line in "The Opposite Sex" I always treasure is "With her for a friend you don't need any enemies".

The first line that started it all...

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin' yet!" - THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

"All right, Mr. DeMille ! I'm ready for my close-up !" preferably at the Loew's Jersey City !!!

"Singing in the Rain" is always among the top ten I am surprised you left it off your list.brucec

As part of the internet generation, I'd say "That's so fetch" from Mean Girls. Also, "Free your mind" from The Matrix.

How about these...
"That was a priceless Steinway piano."... "Not any more!" Peter Sellers in THE PINK PANTHER.
"You dirty rat" James Cagney.
"I'm walking here" Dustin Hoffman in MIDNIGHT COWBOY
"You shall not pass" Ian "Gandolf" McCleanan LORD OF THE RINGS.
"Come up and see me sometime" Mae West THE BANK DICK.
"You talking to me?" Robert Dinero

That fourth one was the best line in the movie, which was actually part one, The Fellowship of the Ring. I also like "I am your father" from Star Wars as well as "Spartans, tonight we dine in hell" from 300.

From "Some like it hot" when Tony Curtis reveals he`s not a woman & Joe E Brown replies....."Well nobodys perfect" always gets a laff!!

There are just too many. After all, look how many movies there are, and many of them have more than just one memorable line.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!! -Jack Nicholson, The Shining

:D

I don't have any favorite lines from movies, but two that have always stuck with me are when Joan Blondell (in "Footlight Parade") throws Claire Dodd out of her apartment with the line

"Out Countess! As long as they've got sidewalks you've got a job!".

The other is from "Love Me Tonight" when Jeanette MacDonald models the riding habit which tailor Maurice Chevalier has made for her (she believing up until now that Mr. Chevalier was in fact a Baron), and states...

"It's perfect!....It's too perfect......How were you able to make me a new riding habit in three hours? How were you able to do it at all??"

Now I don't know why these lines should stand out for me, but they do.

Some of my favorites:

"2001, A Space Odyssey:" where Hal 9000 says: -"I'm afraid, Dave; my mind is going. I can feel it."

"Touch of Evil" - There are so many great lines, but I am especially fond of two that Marlene Dietrich says at the end of the film: -"Your future is all used up" and "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"

and from "North by Northwest"-"How does a girl like you get to be girl like you?"

"If they move, kill 'em!"...William Holden in The Wild Bunch.

Ok, I could come up with a dozen more in a minute, but here's a few that ran through my head:

“Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!” - All About Eve

“I am Spartacus!”

“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!” – Goldfinger

“What we got here is... failure to communicate.” – Cool Hand Luke

“Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.” – 2001

“Leave the gun… take the cannolis” - Godfather

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” – Godfather 2

“Man’s got to know his limitations” - Magnum Force

JSA

Another favorite line that comes to mind, "God uses the good ones, and the bad ones use God," as uttered by Matty Appleyard (James Stewart) in THE FOOL'S PARADE.

And who can forget, "They're called boobs, Ed," (when Albert Finney is mystified by Julia Roberts' uncanny ability to acquire highly sensitive info that he himself had failed to in ERIN BROCKOVICH.)

Next, George Harrison plucking a modern musical verticle-wire sculpture in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, and saying: "I haven't seen one of these in years."

And finally, "Snap out of it!" -- which Cher shouts at Nicholas Cage when slapping him hard across the face in MOONSTRUCK right after he tells her how much he's in love with her.

Any line in "Casablanca" supercedes all other options, as I enjoy this movie so much. When I watch the movie, I find myself wondering about the "unsung" others who briefly pop up at Rick's Cafe. For example, as the gendarmes rush Ugarte off, a man without name (described as "customer" in the screenplay) briefly pops up and says, "When they come to get me, Rick, I hope you'll be more of a help!" I always wondered who that man was and what he did! The truth is that there are classic cinematic marvels that do not seem to generate memorable lines ("Lawrence of Arabia)and less memorable films that generate a ton of unique dialogue (this is especially true of "B" films). Also, many of the screen's greatest lines were not "heard"! Example: William S. Hart in "Tumbleweeds" ("It's the end of the West!")And no discussion of great lines could omit Laurel & Hardy. Forget about "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into!"-Anything these guys said in conversation instantly became classic!

"The bed looks like a dead animal act."-- Thelma Ritter in All About Eve

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!!" James Cagney as Cody Jarrett in White Heat

"I ain't so tough..." James Cagney as Tom Powers in The Public Enemy

"It's a madhouse! A madhouse!!" Charlton Heston as Taylor in Planet of the Apes

"You stay! We belong dead!" Boris Karloff as the monster in Bride of Frankenstein

"My name is Bond. James Bond." Almost any 007 film you could name.

Two corrections:

1. James Cagney never said "You Dirty Rat".

2. Laurel & Hardy's quote, actually Hardy's, was "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into." (i.e., not "fine" mess).

Small points, but since the topic is quotes, they should be accurate.

As Ernest Borgnine exclaimed in "Marty": "I can't stop talking!" So, coming out of chute number two:
-Many memorable lines from Lost Weekend, including "Most men live lives of quiet desperation-I can't stand quiet desperation!'

-"I promised to tell you why I would never eat fish..."-Jack Nicholson in "King of Marvin Gardens"

-"You face a decision which no man has ever faced-You have your fears, which may become reality, and Godzilla, which is reality.." from the Americanization of "Gojira'

Then, there is Orson Welle's famous (improvised, I believe) dialogue from "The Third Man" about how countries that are warlike and violent have contributed all the great things of this world, and Switzerland, which has remained peaceable, only contributed the cuckoo clock-A powerful line, wish I knew it verbatim.

From Citizen Kane (1941)
"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of." - Bernstein to Thompson
"I always gagged on that silver spoon." - Kane
"Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money." - Berstein

Sorry-This is the dialogue I absolutely massacred from "The Third Man": "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."

They ALL are good, but my favorites are "you talking to me?" from Taxi Driver, "Go ahead, make my day" from Sudden impact, and "Your eyes are full of hate 41, thats good,hate keeps a man alive. It gives him hope" said by Jack Hawkins to Charlton Heston in the galley in Ben-Hur.

Almost forgot "Hasta la vista baby" from Terminator II.

Joe Gillis-"Hey aren't you Norma Desmond. You used to be in pictures,used to be big." Norma Desmond- "I still am big; its the pictures that got small!"

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? - Chico Marx, "Duck Soup"

" Ive struggled with reality for forty (forty something)years, and I finally won out over it" James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowde in Harvey

Some gems from THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940):

[Gasoline Attendant] "You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable."

[Grandpa Joad] "It's my dirt! Eh-heh! No good, but it's....it's mine, all mine!"

[Tom Joad] "That Casy, he might've been a preacher, but he seen things clear."

[Tom Joad] "I'll be all around in the dark -- I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look -- wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build -- I'll be there, too."

[Casy the Preacher] "Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say."

[Ma Joad] "Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta...well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream -- little eddies and waterfalls -- but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way."

[Ma Joad] "Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."


And from CITIZEN KANE (1941):

[Charles Foster Kane] "You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."

[Thatcher] "You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles." [Charles Foster Kane] "You're too old to be called anything else."

" NO WIRE HANGERS! " from Mommie Dearest, " Fasten your seatbelts its gonna be a bumpy night " from All About Eve, " Something hit us,help us please!, please help us !" Karen Black in Airport 75.

"Whadaya mean, funny? Funny, how?" - Joe Pesci in GOODFELLAS

Here's one more, and it's much more than a single line:

DR. STRANGELOVE: "Now then, Dimitri. You know, how we've always talked about the possibility, of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well, what happened was, one of our base commanders, he went, well, he sort of went a litte funny in the head. You know, just a little funny. And, he went and did a silly thing. Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered our planes...to attack your country."
- Peter Sellers as the President of the United States

"Where the white women at?" -- Blazing Saddles

"Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with is, uh, a perfect engine...an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim, and eat, and make little sharks. And that's all!"
- Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS

Oh, man, I can't help it! They just keep coming to me!

"The one thing that bothered me; that bothered me, it stayed in my mind and I couldn't get rid of it, that haunted me...was why? Why would she lie? If my client is innocent, then she's lying. What was her motive for lying? Was it blackmail? No. Was it jealousy? No. Yesterday, I found out why. She doesn't have a motive. You know why? Because she's not lying. And ladies and gentlemen of the jury...the prosecution is not gonna get that man today! No! Because I'M gonna get 'em! My client, the honorable Henry T. Flemming should go right to fucking jail! The son-of-a-bitch is guilty!"
- Al Pacino in AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Casablanca is in the top three of my all time favorites, thus I had to choose Heres looking at you kid. My other two favorite movies,(in case your wondering), The Taking Of Pelham, One Two Three & National Lampoon's Animal House.

You're damaged goods and this is a fire sale! --from Scum of the Earth

Speaking of DR. STRANGELOVE -- starring Peter Sellers -- there's this hilarious Peter Sellers movie, can't remember which one now (perhaps it's one in the PINK PANTHER series?), where there's this huge massive train wreck, and one of the survivors dangling from between two smoky passenger cars wedged together in the sky yells: "Help! I think there's been an accident!" Ah, the classic one-liners in English humor!

Another great short movie diologue that comes to mind, this from LITTLE DARLINGS (1980):

[Kristy McNichol, to Matt Dillon about a car he has with another girl sitting in it] "So where'd you get the car?"
[Matt Dillon] "The car? I borrowed it."
[Kristy McNichol] "What about the girl?"
[Matt Dillon] "She came with the car."

Finally, speaking of Al Pacino, who can forget this priceless Pacino dialogue from THE GODFATHER:

[Al Pacino, as Michael Carleone] "My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator."
[Diane Keaton] "Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed."
[Al Pacino] "Oh? Who's being naive, Kay?"

My favorite is from Silence of the Lambs "I'm having a friend for dinner" Lex Luther. It was a truly spooky line.

Craig, are you sure you didn't mean Hannibal Lechter? Lex Luthor is from Superman.

How could anyone forget "-The stuff that dreams are made of.." from the edning scene in "Maltese Falcon"? When i was in Claifornia in the 80's, a friend showed me thae actual elevator Bogie rode in for that scene. As I recall, it was in Los Angeles (not San Francisco!)in a place known as The Bradbury Building.

I live on Long Island, New York and I've also heard of this Bradbury Building! It's also featured in BLADE RUNNER as J.F. Sebastian's place of residence.

Yes, Love Movies...I have heard it has been used for other movies, as well, but don't know all. There are many landmarks out there in lalaland that people who live by them aren't even aware of, but which mean so much to movie fans everwhere!

How could we possibly do a "classic movie lines" thread without quoting the legendary Groucho Marx??? Here's some from my personal favorite, DUCK SOUP:

"Here are the plans of war. They're as valuable as your life. And that's putting them pretty cheap."

"I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school!"

"Mrs. Teasdale, can I have a lock of your hair?"
"Why Mr. Firefly, you're so romantic."
"You're getting off lucky. I was going to ask for the whole wig."

"Why the Fireflys are a proud family. They came over on the Mayflower along with the Horseflys. The Fireflys were on the lower decks and the Horseflys were on the Fireflys."

"Not that I care, but where is your husband?"
"Why, he's dead."
"I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse."
"I was with him to the very end."
"No wonder he passed away."
"I held him in my arms and kissed him."
"Oh, I see, then it was murder."

TheaterBuff1: I am 99% certain that the oh-so-British film that you are thinking of is not a Pink Panther film but a wonderful 1966 film directed by Bryan Forbes called "The Wrong Box". It starred a very young Michael Caine and Dudley Moore as well as Sir Ralph Richardson
and John Mills. Peter Sellers was indeed in it but played the perpetually inebriated Dr. Pratt, whose office is filled with cats; I still howl over the scene where he uses a kitten instead of a blotter when he signs his name to a death certificate.

In the movie "BEDAZZLED" , there are dozens of memorable lines that always make me smile. Two that come to mind: Raquel Welch (as Lilian Lust) with a breakfast tray, entering the bedroom of Dudley Moore: "Hot toast- or buttered buns?" The devil (Peter Cook} entering the apartment of Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore) seeing that he's trying to kill himself: "You know that suicide is a criminal offense? In less enlightened times they would have hung you for it". "Really, Mr. Moon...suicide- that's the last thing you should do".

Every one has put up some very wonderful quotes but one that i recall is the quote from i think the name of the movie is BROADCAST or BROADCAST NEWS i can`t recall the name right now but the qoute is something like .... " I`M AS MAS AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!!" can any one help me with the name of the movie ?
Thank you .

It was NETWORK, CHI74.

To CWalczak: I was thinking right after I posted that commentary last night that it might've been from AFTER THE FOX, but you could be right. Most of the Peter Sellers movies, aside from THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT, THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, LOLITA (1962), ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1972) and HOFFMAN, are like one long continuum to me. Meaning that in his case I lose track after a while of what movie he and other players said what line in. All great British comedy movies though!

Meantime, I'm surprised no one as of yet has mentioned the memorable exchange in Rob Reiner's A FEW GOOD MEN in that heated military courtroom scene:

[Tom Cruise] "I want the truth!"
[Jack Nicholson] "You can't handle the truth!"


And speaking of Nicholson, I'll never forget that great campfire conversation he had with Dennis Hopper in EASY RIDER:

[Nicholson] "You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it."
[Hopper] "Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened. Hey, we can't even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or something. They're scared, man."
[Nicholson] "They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to them."
[Hopper] "Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
[Nicholson] "Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom."
[Hopper] "What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about."
[Nicholson] "Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
[Hopper] "Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared."
[Nicholson] "No, it makes 'em dangerous!"

I mean wow! Talk about a whole cluster of great one-liners just in that one exchange alone!

CHI74- That quote is from the movie "NETWORK". Spoken by Peter Finch.

Here are some for you conceredition...

" I WAS CURED,ALL RIGHT" A clockwork orange
" IT MEANS LUCA BRASI SLEEP WITH THE FISHES" the godfather
" FORGET IT, JAKE , IT`S CHINATOWN " chinatown
" I KNOW IT WAS YOU , FREDO. YOU BROKE MY HEART ! YOU BROKE MY HEART!
the godfather part 2

" ATTICA! ATTICA! " dog day afternoon

" I AM BIG . IT`S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL" sunset boulevard
" PLASTICS " the graduate
" I VANT TO BE ALONE " grand hotel
" GO, AND NEVER DARKEN MY TOWELS AGAIN! duck soup
and of corse .....

" YO, ADRIENNE ! " rocky

and it just came to me the move i was looking for in the post above is NETWORK from 1976.

Thank you fro your time and keep typing :)

Thank you KenC


pleasr fogive the mispelling .

thank you.

And spoken not only by Peter Finch, but all of New York City when it caught on like wildfire. Or yelled, I should say.

Here are a few that i hope you recall.....

NATIONAL LAMPOONS EUROPEAN VACTION :

STEWARDESS : Can i get you anything to drink ?
CLARK : Honey ? I guess i`ll have a Coke.
STEWARDESS: Do you want that in the can?
CLARK : No, I`ll have it right here .


THE BLUES BROTHERS ...

" IT`S 106 MILES TO CHICAGO , WE`VE GOT A FULL TANK OF GAS, HALF A PACK OF CIGARETTES,IT`S DARK AND WERE WARING SUNGLASES...HIT IT! "


FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH....

SPICOLI : No shirts, No shoes, No dice!
HAMILTION : Right. Learn it, Know It, Live It !


CATYSHACK.....

TY WEBB : " A flute without holes is not a flute.
A doughunt with out a hole is a danish"


FERRIS BURLERS DAY OFF......

FERRIS : " I asked for a car , i got a computer.
How`s that for being born under a bad sign?"


RESERVOIR DOGS........

JOE : All right rambler`s, lets get rambling!



Thank You for you time, i hope that you recall some of thies :)

From PULP FICTION, perhaps the single best film of the '90s:

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue. You were saying something about best intentions. Oh, you were finished! Well then, allow me to retort...what does Marcellus Wallus look like?"
- Samuel L. Jackson

From DOUBLE INDEMNITY:

Phyllis: Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.
Walter Neff: Who?
Phyllis: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him weren't you?
Walter Neff: Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.
Phyllis: There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.
Walter Neff: How fast was I going, officer?
Phyllis: I'd say around ninety.
Walter Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
Walter Neff: Suppose it doesn't take.
Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
Walter Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder.
Walter Neff: That tears it.

It's the end of the week, so I thought I'd add an obsevation: It's amazing that certain actors have made their mark so well that their lines have been acclaimed as "classic" and memorable" for their work in several films, each time portraying a distinct and different character: For example, there's Ernest Borgnine from Marty: "“ You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog. And I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees. I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me. If we make a party on New Year's, I got a date for that party. You don't like her? That's too bad. " That same Borgnine played a differenct character in "Wild Bunch" and had some other great lines "It's not your word-It's who you give it to!" And on, and on, through many movies and many lines! You get the picture. So many versatile actors-Bogie, Peter Sellers, Jack Nicholson, have gifted us with memorable and convincingly-delivered lines, and have caused these lines to live, in a variety of genres, be it comedy, drama, or somewhere in between.

Fedoozle - well said!

And now some that i hope you recall...

CADDYSHACK....
SANDY: Carl i want you to kill all the gophers on th golf course.
CARL SPACKLER : Correct me if i`m wrong Sandy, but if i kill all the golfers they`ll lock me up and throw away the key.
SANDY : Not golfers, you great fool!Gophers, rodents!

between Judge Smails And Ty Webb.....

JUDGE SMAILS : Ty, what did you shoot today ?
TY WEBB : Oh, Judge, i don`t keep score.
JUDGE SMILS : Then how do you measure youeself with other golfers ?
TY WEBB : By hight.

FROM... ANCHOEMAN : THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY

RON BURGUNDY : I love scotch, schotchy,scotch,scotch. Here it goes down into my belly..

FROM ..... HAPPY GILMORE

VIRGINIA : What`s this about you breaking a rake and throwing it in the woods?

HAPPY: I didn`t "Break" it, i was mearly testing its durability, and i "PLACED" it in the woods cause it`s made of wood and i wanted it to be near it`s family.

FROM... SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

CARRIE : " I think i`m in love with your belt buckle"!

BANDIT : What do you think thay do for excitement in this town?
CLEDUS SNOW : Probaly sit around and watch the cars rust.


FROM NATIONAL LAMPOONS EUROPEAN VACATION.....

CLARK GRISWOLD: Aw, there`s Buckingham Palace, kids, that`s where the Queen lives and works.
AUDREY GRISWOLD : What does she do ?
CLARK GRISWOLD : She queens, AND she vacuums.

And lets now forget....

FROM THE WEDDING SINGER......

ROBBIE : Now please get out of my Van Halen T-Shirt before you jinx the band and thay break up.

ROBBIE : Once again : things that should have been brought to mt attention YESTERDAY !

GUEST : You are the worst wedding singer in the world, buddy !
ROBBIE HEART : Sir, one more outburst from you , i will strangle you with my microphone wire, do you understand me ?


FROM....DEMOLTION MAN....

SIMON PHOENIX : This is the future, Where the phaser guns?

POLICE OFFICER : Were police officers! We`re not trained to handle this kind of violence!


FROM......DIE HARD : WITH A VEGEANCE.....

SIMON: As i was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks,eack sack had seven cats,each cat had seven kits. Kits,cats,sacks,wives,how many were going to St. Ives?


FROM.......GOODFELLAS....

HENRY HILL (narrating) : And then there was Jimmy Two Times,who got the nickname beacuse he said everything twice,like:
JIMMY TWO TIMES: I`m gonna go get the papers,get the papers.


I hope that you can recall some if not all of thies i will try to recall some ome later on and when i do i will post them for you .

THANK YOU FOR YOU TIME , KEEP TYPING! :)

Here are a few that i just found.

FROM........PLATOON......

(King is writing a letter to his girlfriend)

FRANCIS : It aint`t D-E-R-E, it`s D-E-A-R. And "Sarah" ain`t got no two R`s King,DAMN you`re dumb.

KING : It don`t maake no difference,she know what i mean. She don`tread too good nohow.


SGT. ELIAS : Police up your spare rounds and frags. Don`t leave nothin`for thew dinks.


FROM........ THE BREAKFAST CLUB........


JOHN BENDER : Screws just fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

JOHN BENDER : Brian,this is a very nutrious lunch. All the food groups are represented. Did you mom marry Mr. Rogers ?

BRIAN JHONSON : Uh,no. Mr. Johnson

I hope that you enjoyed this thay are som very memeoribel quots .

Thank you fro you time , keep typing :0

Correctomundo!

"I'm an excellent driver." from Rainman.

A correction to a post that i wote about the WEDDING SINGER
i wote " AND NOW LET FORGET" what i wanted to say was...
" AND NOW LET US NOT FORGET" .
Just wanted to fix the record.

Thank You for your time .

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Here is one that i hope that you all can recall,
if you saw the movie you will know what i mean.

FROM.....NATIONAL LAMPOONS "VACATION" (1983)


If i recall right this take place after the Griswold`s "DROP OFF"
Aunt Edna.

It has become know as " CLARKS RANT" or " CLARKS QUEST FOR FUN"

If you saw the flim you can understand WHY i can not type it .

But i can type this.....

FROM......NATIONAL LAMPOONS "VACATION (1983)


ED ( the car salsman):
Now, I owe it to myself to tell you, Mr.Griswold, that if you are thinking of taking the tribe cross country, THIS is your automobile. THE WAGON QUEEN FAMILY TRUKSTER. you think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it .!


THANK YOU AND KEEP TYPING :)

“…May the force be with you.”
- Han Solo in “Star Wars”

“You’re out of order…They’re out of order…This whole trial is out of order!”
- Arthur Kirkland to Judge Francis Rayford in “…And Justice for All”

Just a few more that i forgot to put up last time.

FROM......WALK THE LINE....

WARDEN : Try not to sing anything that reminds them that they`re in prison.

JOHNNY CASH : You think they forgot ?

JUNE CARTER : Rule number 1- Never propose to a woman on a bus.
Rule number 2- Don`t tell her it`s becuse you had a bad dream.


JUNE CARTER : So y`all sit down,squat down or lie down but make yourselves at home `cause here`s the one and only , Mr. Johnny Cash !



AND FROM....... HIGH FIDELITY.......

ROB GORDON : What came first, the music or the misery ?
People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos,thst some sort of culture of violence will take them over.
Nobody worries about kids listening to thousans,literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak,rejection,pain,misery and loss.

Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable ?

Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?


BARRY : " A Cosby Sweater !"

BARRY : " Hey, it`s half past a monkey`s ass let`s go!"


And if you saw the flim, the part when Rob is sitting at the counter and his sister Liz comes in the store and LETS ROB KNOW HOW SHE IS FEELING . (if you saw the flim YOU know what i am saying.)


THANK YOU FOR YOU TIME ....ENJOY......AND KEEP TYPEING...........:)

brucec -- "singing in the Rain" has some of my all-time favorite lines, too.

I would put "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore" from "Network" on this list.

And my favorite quotable movie is "Sixteen Candles."

Meantime, just to shed a little light on some of the worst movie lines of all time, I would say that special honor goes to:

"Tomorrow is another day!" Vivian Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND.

"I'm just a tumbleweed blowing in the wind." Leonardo DiCaprio in TITANIC.

To qualify for this special honor -- just in case anyone wants to add any others -- the line must be from a blockbuster hit otherwise.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINRAMA" Lowell Thomas in THIS IS CINERAMA

"My name is Bond...James Bond" is one line from the james bond movies, "Shaken not stirred" is the second best.

Right now I'm having difficulty making up my mind if "As God is my witness I shall never go hungry again!" -- which Vivian Leigh yells out in GONE WITH THE WIND after grubbily picking a sorry looking carrot out from the battle-scorched earth, takes a chomp and then holds the remainder up to the smoky twilight sky -- is one of the best movie lines of all time or one of the worst.

Another movie line that comes to mind which I can't quite decide is one of the best or worst comes in that scene in ON THE WATERFRONT where Brando [with a crazed look in his eyes] yells at Eva Marie Saint: "Shut up with that conscience thing! That stuff can drive you nuts!"

But in terms of some truly classic movie lines from that film, they are:

[Eva Marie Saint] "Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else?"
[Marlon Brando] "Boy, what a fruitcake you are!"

[Eva Marie Saint] "I want you to stay away from me."
[Marlon Brando] "Edie, you love me... I want you to say it to me."
[Eva Marie Saint] "I didn't say I didn't love you. I said stay away from me!"

[Marlon Brando, as he gets ready to pummel the corrupt dockworker union boss played by Lee J. Cobb] "You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!" (Referring to when he testified against him in court a week before.)

Ok, I'm changing my vote as much as I love Thelma Ritter in "All About Eve." The line that really says it all for me is Vivien Leigh's "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" I saw this (for maybe the 50th time) at the 50th anniversary showing at Radio City Music Hall in 1989, and when she gave that speech that audience of six thousand people went absolutely wild with cheers and applause. Memorable night and a truly memorable line.

Well, like I say, Nywill, I was wavering between whether that was one of the best movie lines of all time in a blockbuster film or one of the worst. But I'm most certainly not going to argue with a Radio City Music Hall audience! Nonetheless, I stand by my other claim that Vivian Leigh's exclamation, "Tomorrow is another day!" has got to be about the worst movie line of all time -- forgiveable had it been an Ed Wood film, but totally unexcusable for David O. Selznick.

CORRECTIONS: Please accept my apologies, for in my several posts it should read "Vivien" Leigh, not "Vivian" the way I misspelled it. Also, the GONE WITH THE WIND quote should read: "...I'll never be hungry again," not, "...I shall never go hungry again," as I said. Finally, it was a turnip she dug up, not a carrot. But with that said, I regard GWTW as one of the greatest movies of all time if not THE greatest. Incidentally, in doing a little bit of research about it, the author of the book upon which this movie was based considered titling it "TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY." Thankfully she didn't, for I can assure you that with that title GWTW would NOT have become the great and memorable film it did. It would've flopped the same way THE WIZARD OF OZ, with Shirley Temple in the role of Dorothy -- which was the original plan -- would have.

Anyway, I just wanted to clear up those mistakes. And now, to quote CHI74, "KEEP TYPEING...........:)"

Heare are a few for your conceratition...........

FROM..........ANIMAL HOUSE...........
TOGA ! TOGA ! TOGA !

FROM......ALMOST FAMOUS........
"I`m a golden God !"

FROM......... CITIZEN KANE.......
R-O-S-E-B-U-D


FROM...........GILDA (1946)..........
" To me a dollar was a dollar in any language"


FROM.........M*A*S*H...............

" Radar!"
" yes, sir "

FROM.............OUT OF AFRICA...............

"He even took the gramophone on safari"


FROM............METROPOLIS...............

"The meaiator between head nd hands must be the heart! "

FROM............TRON............

"Greetings,programs!


FROM..........GOODFELLAS................

" I`m an average nobady. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook"


FROM...........GROUNDHOG DAY...........

" Let`s live here! we`ll rent to start."



I hope you can recall som if not all of them .

Thank you for you time.


And keep...typing :)

"Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" from Forrest Gump

What comes to mind when I hear the classic movie line "Toga! Toga! Toga!" from ANIMAL HOUSE, I was riding on Philadelphia, Pa's seamy Market-Frankford elevated line late one night (guess it was back in the late '70s or early '80s) and there were these two white hoodlum guys riding aboard the same train. Not quite as bad as those two white hoodlum guys aboard that nighttime train in the 1960s movie THE INCIDENT, but almost. Anyway, as the train traveled through the night, and everyone aboard was a bit nervous about their presence, they started making fun of the names of the various el stops as they came up. One of the el stops on that line is called "Tioga." So when it came in sight they started reciting, "Tioga! Tioga! Tioga!" At which point everybody aboard suddenly just cracked up. It was hilarious!

A favorite of mine has always been:
"Now that I know where you live, I'd like to see you home."
(Gene Kelly to Debbie Reynolds when she jumped out of a cake
in SINGING IN THE RAIN.)

'LETTER TO THREE WIVES" "LAURA" and "
ALL ABOUT EVE" have more great lines than I could quote.

Well then by all means, feel free to quote from them here, Lark28, that's what this CT page was created for!

"Shaken, not stirred" James Bond

Well... No sense of trying to capture any of the true all-time classic lines at this stage in the game... So how about these (some of which might be classic for reasons entirely different then, say, "Here's looking at you, kid"):

"Your mucous, Egon" - Ghostbusters
"All of you of Earth are idiots!" - Plan 9 From Outer Space
"Pull the string! Pull the string!" - Bride of the Monster
"No one puts Baby in the corner!" - Dirty Dancing
"Jeweler, you've failed!" - Help!
"Have you ever seen such cruelty?!" - Blazing Saddles
"Blondes are scarce around here." - King Kong (1933)
"Play faster! Faster!" - Reefer Madness
"I'd rather be a lamp post in New York than the President of France" - French Connection II
"Them's breaks what is breaks!" - some Little Rascals short

Ed... "pull the string!" is from another Ed Wood classic, "GLEN OR GLENDA" aka "I CHANGED MY SEX". Many great lines from "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Thanks for the smiles....

Right you are, KenC... my mistake.

I wouldn't say we've fully run the gamut of every great movie line there is yet, Ed, for look at this whole batch of excellent ones from LENNY (Note - if I'm not quoting from that movie verbatum it's because I'm doing so from memory):

Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman): "Don't take away my words! You need the deviate to know when you're @#% up!"

Angry Nightclub Owner: "You'll never work at another night club again!"
Lenny [raising his hand to his brow sarcastically]: "Oh God, no! Not THAT!"

Lenny [when addressing the audience from stage at the height of his career]: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to announce to you all tonight that everyones' leaving the Church in droves.....and returning back to God!"

Lenny [referring to the "N" word]: "It's the suppression of that word that gives it it's powerful impact. But if everyone used that word at every single turn, day in, day out, until it finally didn't mean anything any more, little Johnny wouldn't come home from school crying because somebody called him that."

Lenny: "Do you know what's truly obscene, ladies and gentlemen?! Zsa Zsa Gabor appears one night at the Sands in Vegas and gets paid $75,000 for just a few hours work, while the average public school teacher in this country must struggle to get by on a mere $9,000 a year salary! Now THAT'S obscene!"


Meantime, here's a favorite exchange of mine from CATCH-22 (again quoting from memory):

Elderly Italian Man (reflecting on what life for him had been like in Italy during WWII): "When Mussolini rose to power I became the staunchest Fascist there is. And when the Nazis arrived I became the loyalist of Nazis. And when they all fell and the American troops arrived I became the biggest American supporter around!"
Art Garfunkel: "Why, you're nothing but a shameful opportunist! It's better to die standing on your feet than live crawling on your hands and knees, don't you know that?"
Elderly Italian Man: "No, my friend. It's better to live standing on your feet than die crawling on your hands and knees. Listen to me, I know."

Jack Twist "I wish I knew how to quit you." from BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

"Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. We've already missed the Spring." AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER

I picked other because the line or word really that sticks most in my mind is from "The Sons Of Katie Elder" and it came from John Wayne. It was when George Kennedy was trying to get information about John Wayne's character and he was dunking a familiar B actor's head into a water barrel. John Wayne comes up behind him and simply says "hey". George Kennedy's character looks up and then Mr. Wayne lets him have it right in the face with a two-by-four! The next time you see Mr. Kennedy, he's wearing a bandage across his nose and face. That's the big John we know and love!