Favorite movie quotes

[PennameWombat]

Unosuke: “By the way, those six men were cut up pretty well. You’re the only one around here good enough to have done something like that.”
Sanjuro: “And your point?”
Unosuke: “I’m thinking you were the one who killed those men.”

Later…

Unosuke: “Say, samurai trash, are you there? The entrance to hell… I’ll be waiting for you there.”
Sanjuro: “He died as recklessly as he lived.”

“Yojimbo,” 1961, directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Unfortunately I can only go by what were the subtitles as I don’t speak or read Japanese.

 

[SamScribble]

That is an EXCELLENT movie. Weird. One of a kind.

I suspect that my taste in movies might be considered by many to be edging towards weird.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun."

"Or you can take the red pill; you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

"No, Luke. I am your father."
(In a day before internet spoilers, that one was a hammerblow.)

"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us."

Not as famous, but since Clint Eastwood was mentioned, my favorite line of his delivered with an astounding amount of dismay:
"I've never seen so many men wasted so badly."

 

[Comshaw]

True Grit

Ned Pepper, "You think one on four is a dog fall?"

Rooster Cogburn, "I aim to kill you in one minute Ned, or see you hanged at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?"

Ned Pepper, " I call that bold talk from a one-eyed old fat man."

Rooster, "Fill your hand you son of a bitch!"

The American President

"American isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad because it's going to put up a fight.

It's going to say 'You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours...Now defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."

Don Juan DeMarco

"By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it is true. When I say that all my women are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect... because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me in the way they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that lies within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it."

Comshaw

 

[Saintdragonslayer]

Welcome back, Mr. Lasky. Please join us. We have a lot to talk about.

The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and James Farentino. one of my favourite films from childhood and a genuine WTF moment. Good pick!

 

[Saintdragonslayer]

Jaws is one of the movies I can quote from the most

"Hooper, quit playin with yourself"

"Why don't you come down here and chum some of this shit?"

"That's one bad hat Harry!"

Not exactly a quote, but that chilling story Robert Shaw tells about delivering the bomb and the ship sinking and the sharks picking off the survivors was delivered while he was totally shitfaced.

Legendary.

Best line from Jaws, during Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue: "I'll never put on a life jacket again..."

 

[NotWise]

The American President

"American isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad because it's going to put up a fight.

It's going to say 'You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours...Now defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."

Or "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Attributed to Voltaire, but apparently originated by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1907 as something Voltaire would have thought.

Sorry, not a movie line.

 

[RichardWark]

"They brought their fucking toys!"


And a more philosophical one:

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."

 

[Trionyx]

Perhaps the most famous Line ever spoken to a Loving Wife:

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.

 

[PennameWombat]

<snip>
Not as famous, but since Clint Eastwood was mentioned, my favorite line of his delivered with an astounding amount of dismay:
"I've never seen so many men wasted so badly."

Since many Clint Eastwood quotes have been mentioned…

“The Marines are looking for a few good men. You ain’t it.”

“My name’s Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I’ve drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass than all of you numbnuts put together.”

And so long as we’re here… Arlen Dean Snyder as Sgt. Major Choozoo:

“Here’s to J.J. and all of the pieces of him we couldn’t find.”

“Heartbreak Ridge,” 1986.

 

[CyranoJ]

Ken (In Bruges): 'Harry, let’s face it. And I’m not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you’re a cunt. You’re a cunt now, and you’ve always been a cunt. And the only thing that’s going to change is that you’re going to be an even bigger cunt.'

Great scene. Followed immediately by:

KEN: Maybe have some more cunt kids.

HARRY: Leave my kids fucking out of it, what the fuck have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!

KEN: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.

HARRY: Insult my fucking kids?! That's going overboard, mate!

KEN: I retracted it, didn't I?

Ralph Fiennes is amazing. Everyone in that movie did a great job, really.

 

[CyranoJ]

As for my own faves:

Darth Vader to Lando in The Empire Strikes Back:

"Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly?"

(The understated menace is what really sells it.)

Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian. There's a whole long speech, here, but particularly:

"Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger. Look around you, look... there, up on the rocks. That beautiful girl. [beckons] Come to me, my child! Come to me! [the girl promptly leaps down and dies, Doom gestures triumphantly] That is strength, boy! That is power! The strength and power of flesh. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

Tuco Ramirez speaking to his brother in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:

"You think you're better than I am... where we came from, if one did not want to die in poverty, one became a priest or a bandit! You chose your way, I chose mine. Mine was harder!"

I could go on forever, but those are what come up right now.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die."

Mandy Patinkin The Princess Bride

 

[SmokeInMyEyes]

Jaws is one of the movies I can quote from the most

"Hooper, quit playin with yourself"

"Why don't you come down here and chum some of this shit?"

"That's one bad hat Harry!"

Not exactly a quote, but that chilling story Robert Shaw tells about delivering the bomb and the ship sinking and the sharks picking off the survivors was delivered while he was totally shitfaced.

Legendary.

I was fortunate to meet one of survivors of the USS Indianapolis disaster described in "Quint's Monologue." Dick Thelen had just graduated high school that spring. Sharks bumped his legs on several occasions, but they obviously weren't feeling peckish at the time. He was married seven years before his wife even knew he was one of the 317 survivors.

John Milius wrote Quint's Indianapolis scene in Jaws, and his own 1975 film "The Wind and the Lion" has many great quotes such as the response by Sean Connery's Raisuli when Candace Bergen's character is horrified to see her children poking a human tongue displayed on a silver tray,

Eden: Why would anyone want to cut out a man's tongue?
Raisuli: Perhaps the previous owner had nothing pleasant to say.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Death, by stereo!
You don't have to beat me, Michael. You only have to keep up.
Initiation's over, Michael. Time to join the club. (Lost Boys)

Screws fall out all the time. The world's an imperfect place. (The Breakfast Club)

 

[gunhilltrain]

For some reason, the first thing that comes to mind is when Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) says to Michael Corleone, "Michael, we're bigger than US Steel!"

There are a lot of great quotes from the Godfather movies. I just have to remember them.

 

[PoisonPen33]

Never Quit
"Listen, I can't make you a great dancer. I don't even know if I can make you a good dancer. But if you keep trying and don't quit, I know I can make you a better dancer." - Roy Schieder, All That Jazz.

Don't Become Obsessed
"What’s this? You’re wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see? Don’t be that guy." - Jeremy Piven, PCU

Everyone, EVERYONE, Gets Laid
(to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher) "Did you ever have this kind of problem? Yeah, of course you did, you saucy minx." - Hugh Grant, Love Actually

Love Yourself
"Well, there's one thing to say about masturbation. You certainly don't have to look your best." - Jim Parsons, The Boys in the Band

Sometimes, Be A Little Crass
"Did you guys know, that the average penis size is 6.4 inches? And that the average vaginal canal is 7.9 inches.Therefore, in this country alone, there's over 17,000 miles of unused, virgin pussy out there." - Philip Glaser, Poolhall Junkies

Pick Your Battles
"You watch those nature documentaries on the cable? You see the one about lions? You got this lion. He's the king of the jungle, huge mane out to here. He's laying under a tree, in the middle of Africa. He's so big, it's so hot. He doesn't want to move.

Now the little lions come, they start messing with him. Biting his tail, biting his ears. He doesn't do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him. Coming over, making trouble. Still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this. They start to move in. The jackals; hyenas. They're barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes, and eat the food that's in his domain. They do this, then they get closer and closer, bolder and bolder.

Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind, eats everything in his path.

Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is." - Christopher Walken, Poolhall Junkies

 

[SimonDoom]

For some reason, the first thing that comes to mind is when Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) says to Michael Corleone, "Michael, we're bigger than US Steel!"

There are a lot of great quotes from the Godfather movies. I just have to remember them.

A few I can think of:

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.

Michael Corleone, do you renounce Satan?

We'll get there, Pop.

A man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous.

Fredo, you broke my heart.

 

[Handley_Page]

Margin Call:-
"And please, speak as you might to a young child; or a golden retriever."

Battle of Britain:-
Goring: "But gentlemen, I'm here to help you. What do you want ?"
Falke: "A squadron of Spitfires. . ."

 

[lovecraft68]

Best line from Jaws, during Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue: "I'll never put on a life jacket again..."

I get chills when he gets to the part about the shark, the lifeless eyes, dolls eyes, then eyes roll over white and the screaming....intense as hell

You could not have assembled a better cast and the fact they didn't get along-Shaw and Dreyfus hated each other-makes it even better

 

[lovecraft68]

A few I can think of:

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.

Michael Corleone, do you renounce Satan?

We'll get there, Pop.

A man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous.

Fredo, you broke my heart.

And the famous "Only for you do I do this"

 

[lovecraft68]

Never Quit
"Listen, I can't make you a great dancer. I don't even know if I can make you a good dancer. But if you keep trying and don't quit, I know I can make you a better dancer." - Roy Schieder, All That Jazz.

Don't Become Obsessed
"What’s this? You’re wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see? Don’t be that guy." - Jeremy Piven, PCU

Everyone, EVERYONE, Gets Laid
(to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher) "Did you ever have this kind of problem? Yeah, of course you did, you saucy minx." - Hugh Grant, Love Actually

Love Yourself
"Well, there's one thing to say about masturbation. You certainly don't have to look your best." - Jim Parsons, The Boys in the Band

Sometimes, Be A Little Crass
"Did you guys know, that the average penis size is 6.4 inches? And that the average vaginal canal is 7.9 inches.Therefore, in this country alone, there's over 17,000 miles of unused, virgin pussy out there." - Philip Glaser, Poolhall Junkies

Pick Your Battles
"You watch those nature documentaries on the cable? You see the one about lions? You got this lion. He's the king of the jungle, huge mane out to here. He's laying under a tree, in the middle of Africa. He's so big, it's so hot. He doesn't want to move.

Now the little lions come, they start messing with him. Biting his tail, biting his ears. He doesn't do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him. Coming over, making trouble. Still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this. They start to move in. The jackals; hyenas. They're barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes, and eat the food that's in his domain. They do this, then they get closer and closer, bolder and bolder.

Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind, eats everything in his path.

Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is." - Christopher Walken, Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies is epic, especially if you're an avid pool player like myself, better than Color of Money, on par with the Hustler. Walken just owns every role he's in

 

[lovecraft68]

Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian. There's a whole long speech, here, but particularly:

"Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger. Look around you, look... there, up on the rocks. That beautiful girl. [beckons] Come to me, my child! Come to me! [the girl promptly leaps down and dies, Doom gestures triumphantly] That is strength, boy! That is power! The strength and power of flesh. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

That scene was an inspiration behind one in my horror series where a drug lord squares off against my MC, a witch. The drug lord tells one of his henchmen to shoot and kill another of his men, his own cousin, and he does it.

he says "Now that's power."

The witch replies. "The difference is where you have power? I am power," and proceeds to set the henchmen on fire with her mind.

 

[ChloeTzang]

“All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain.” – Rutger Hauer, in Blade Runner. Think how poignant that line is, and what it conveys in just a few words. One of my favorite movies.

"Houston, we have a problem." (Apollo 13). I use that one all the time.

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." The Princess Bride. Love that line.

 

[CyranoJ]

The witch replies. "The difference is where you have power? I am power," and proceeds to set the henchmen on fire with her mind.

I like it. And a worthy source of inspiration.

The other scene that comes to mind right now is Amsterdam vs. McGloin from Gangs of New York. The scene where Amsterdam and his mate Johnny are giving Bill the Butcher his cut from selling a dead body to medical science. As Bill counts the coin, McGloin interjects:

MCGLOIN: Low thing, to do that to a body. Low.

BILL: Why? They could've left that ship with nothing. Instead, they made the Police Gazette. [sardonic flourish] A periodical of note.

MCGLOIN: A body's supposed to stay under the ground, wearin' a wooden coat, until the Resurrection!

BILL: They're just a couple of bug eatin' sons of Irish bitches same as you, it don't seem to bother them none. Or maybe they just don't share your religious scruples.

MCGLOIN: Maybe they're just a couple of Fiddlin' Bens.

[nonplussed pause from Bill, silence from everyone else as the room catches up to this being a challenge]

AMSTERDAM: Huh. I been called a lot of things, mister, but I never been called...

MCGLOIN: Fiddlin' Bens.

AMSTERDAM: Fiddlin' Bens, right. [humorless chuckle] Well, if I knew what in the Hell that meant, I might be inclined to take offense.

MCGLOIN: Fiddlin' Bens is a fella steals anythin', dead or alive, because he's too low to work up a decent lay for himself. You count that careful, Bill, you count that careful!

JOHNNY: I tell ya, that's all there is, that's all they gave us--

AMSTERDAM: Now, chiselers. There's a word I understand. Now is that what you're callin' us?

MCGLOIN [comes face to face with him]: Oh, I can think of a number of things to call you, boyo.

AMSTERDAM: Yeah, but, I asked if you was callin' us chiselers.

MCGLOIN: Supposin'... I am.

AMSTERDAM: Well, then we'd have business.

MCGLOIN: That we do.

[And a badass 19th century MMA fight ensues]

Probably in my top ten movies, that one.