Favorite movie quotes

[TomTeacher19]

One of my favorite quotable movies. Great writing. Right after that, he says to the writer, who's trying to figure out the key to his success as a gunfighter, "I've always been lucky when it comes to killing folks."

All I can tell you is whose gonna be last

 

[SimonDoom]

I loved that movie because I've always been a sucker for the grilled old bad ass coming back for whatever reason for that one last fight they have left in them. Logan was another great example of that trope.

The Unforgiven didn't sanitize the west in any way, and I enjoyed the realism to a gunfight where most people were so nervous or adrenalized, they couldn't hit shit, and the final shoot out showed that as he basically stood still and picked them off while they're firing all over the place.

Right. Everybody likes a good revenge story, but this movie got it right because it didn't sugarcoat it. It was pitch perfect. Ned was one of the few likeable characters in the movie, and when Will found out Little Bill killed him, you knew what was going to happen. But it wasn't glamorous, it wasn't a display of gunfighting speed or skill. The coldest-hearted guy in the room survived because he didn't get nervous, unlike Little Bill's hapless deputies. Little Bill didn't get nervous, but he was unlucky. Will was right.

 

[ElectricBlue]

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

 

[Trubbycat]

• Eleventh Doctor : [to himself] I could be a curator. I'd be great at curating, I'd be "The Great Curator" ha-ha. I could retire and do that. I could retire and be the curator of this place.
  The Curator : [behind him] You know I really think you might.
  [the Doctor turns and studies the Curator curiously]
  Eleventh Doctor : I never forget a face.
  The Curator : I know you don't. And in years to come you might find yourself revisiting a few... but just the old favorites, eh?
  [the Eleventh Doctor winks at him]
• [the Curator and the 11th Doctor look at a painting]
  The Curator : You were curious about this painting, I think. I acquired it in remarkable circumstances. What do you make of the title?
  Eleventh Doctor : Well, which title? There's two: "No More" or "Gallifrey Falls".
  The Curator : No. You see, that's where everybody's wrong. It's all ONE title: "Gallifrey Falls No More". Now... what would you think that means, eh?
  Eleventh Doctor : ...That Gallifrey didn't fall. It worked! It's still out there!
  The Curator : I'm only a humble curator. I'm sure I wouldn't know.
  [moves off]
  Eleventh Doctor : Then where is it?
  The Curator : [comes back] Where is it indeed?
  Eleventh Doctor : Yes!
  The Curator : Lost! Shhh!... Perhaps. Things do get lost, you know. And now you must excuse me. Ohhh... you have a lot to do.
  Eleventh Doctor : Do I? Is that what I'm supposed to do now, go looking for Gallifrey?
  The Curator : Well, that's entirely up to you. Your choice, eh? I can only tell you what I would do. If I were you...
  [laughs]
  The Curator : "If I were you..." Perhaps I was you, of course. Or, perhaps you are ME.
  [both laugh, and the Curator shakes the Doctor's hand]
  The Curator : Congratulations.
  Eleventh Doctor : Thank you very much.
  The Curator : Or, perhaps, it doesn't matter, either way. Who knows? WHO knows?

 

[AchtungNight]

“Who are you? I kill four of your people, you kill forty of mine! You’re no soldier, you’re a goddamn monster!

- Kill.

 

[SimonDoom]

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Is that the best line ever by a movie computer character?

 

[ElectricBlue]

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Is that the best line ever by a movie computer character?

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."

Fun fact: Douglas Rain recorded the HAL dialogue over two days (ten hours) with Kubrick speaking every other line.

Martin Balsam was the first voice, but Kubrick decided he wasn't neutral enough.

And Mission Control, when the astronauts call Earth to discuss what to do, was a USAF flight controller from a nearby USAF base. Kept tapping his foot on the floor, so Kubrick put a blanket under his foot.

This is film buff trivia!

 

[SimonDoom]

"Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

Tombstone

 

[NoTalentHack]

"Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

Tombstone

The whole exchange in Latin between the two of them is great, too.

 

[Bramblethorn]

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Is that the best line ever by a movie computer character?

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."

...whoops, movie. As you were.

 

[SimonDoom]

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."

...whoops, movie. As you were.

If we're going to go beyond movies, then I've got to give a shout to "Danger, Will Robinson!" from the TV series Lost in Space.

 

[TheLobster]

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."

...whoops, movie. As you were.

...Is this a thinly veiled allusion that the adaptation was so bad it doesn't bear mentioning? C'mon, it was at least passable (and Marvin was one of its high points, too).

 

[StillStunned]

(and Marvin was one of its high points, too)

Quite ironic, that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

...Is this a thinly veiled allusion that the adaptation was so bad it doesn't bear mentioning? C'mon, it was at least passable (and Marvin was one of its high points, too).

No, just that that line was originally from the book. I wasn't thrilled with the movie but Alan Rickman did a fine job as Marvin.

 

[Zootonius]

Karen: “We’ve seen you like this before. Is it over, or is it just beginning?”

Margo, after downing her martini: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

 

[CarmineBlancheJr]

"No matter where you go, there you are!"

-Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension

 

[MillieDynamite]

Wolff: What the hell are you?
Nicki: What do you think I am, you scrawny earthbag? I'm a woman! (Molly Ringwald pre-Brat Pack)

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

 

[SimonDoom]

"Madness!"

Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[Kelliezgirl]

We're mixing our lives together, Maily, and we'll never be able to unmix them again, and we'll never want to. I take you for what you are, and all that you are, and mix you with all of me, and I don't hold back nothing. When you're cold, and hungry, and afraid, so am I. I'm going to stay with you all that I can, take the best care of you that I can, and love you 'til I die.

 

[latecomer91364]

"The Pen is mightier than the sword."

"Not when you need a sword, it ain't."

Outlaw Johnny Black

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Yentl's Father: [sees her disappointment] Go on, get the book.
Yentl: Thank you, papa!
Yentl's Father: The shutters, darling.
Yentl: We don't have to hide my studying from God, then why the neighbors?
Yentl's Father: Why? Because I trust God will understand. I'm not so sure about the neighbors.

Yentil 1983

 

[SimonDoom]

It's shite being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low! The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation! Some people hate the English, I don't! They're just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers! Can't even find a decent culture to be colonised by! We're ruled by effete assholes! It's a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!

Mark Renton, Trainspotting.

Great movie. Dark as hell, but great.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Egon : Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.

Peter Venkman : 105 years old, he hung in there, didn't he?

Ray : He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered.

Peter Venkman : Ouch.

Winston : Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?

Egon : No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.

Peter Venkman : Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?

Ray : And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back."

Like a lot of these, the quote's only okay. But the delivery! Man, those guys were great.

 

[tangledweed]

From Devil In A Blue Dress, with Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse.

Mouse: You just said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't, I just... I choked him.

Easy, look- if you ain't want him killed, why'd you leave him with me?

If you had read any of the Easy Rawlins books by Walter Mosley, you know that Mouse was an small, but insanely lethal man who killed at the drop of a hat. Easy was the only one who could keep him somewhat under control. I have rarely seen a line of dialog that captured a character's personality so well.

 

[djrip]

Egon : Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.

Peter Venkman : 105 years old, he hung in there, didn't he?

Ray : He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered.

Peter Venkman : Ouch.

Winston : Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?

Egon : No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.

Peter Venkman : Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?

Ray : And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back."

Like a lot of these, the quote's only okay. But the delivery! Man, those guys were great.

Viggy, Viggy, Viggy, you have been a bad monkey!