Favorite movie quotes

[gunhilltrain]

I read that the writers of Dirty Harry wrote the screenplay with John Wayne in mind for the leading role.

Dirty Harry 1971

Bressler: Put in for overtime.
Harry Callahan: That'll be the day!

Further proof, the writers wanted John Wayne to play Harry Callahan!

I couldn't imagine John Wayne doing that role. Although, the Inspector Callahan thing was probably done a few too many times. (When was he going to get a semi-automatic already so he wouldn't have to worry about the six shoots?) Eastwood was actually better - more spontaneous somehow - playing a criminal in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Unforgiven, 1992

"Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have."

"I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned."

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

 

[Live_Oak]

Unforgiven, 1992

"Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have."

"I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned."

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Unforgiven!

Right turn Clyde.

 

[SimonDoom]

We’re dealing with alot of shit here!

Bull Durham. Meeting on the mound.

"Candlesticks always make a nice gift."

 

[SimonDoom]

We’re dealing with alot of shit here!

Bull Durham. Meeting on the mound.

Easily one of the most quotable movies ever!

"Don't think. It can only hurt the ballclub."

Plus . . . Susan Sarandon. Oh boy.

 

[Live_Oak]

Here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Easily one of the most quotable movies ever!

"Don't think. It can only hurt the ballclub."

Plus . . . Susan Sarandon. Oh boy.

"Annie, do you think I deserve to wear white?"

"Honey, we all deserve to wear white."

 

[Live_Oak]

Oh My!

 

[Comshaw]

Patterson was a real person. Rimington wasn't. He was added for a dramatic effect. He never says he is one of the Rimington, but it is implied in the line...

Charles Remington: [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.

I read the story of Col Patterson and the maneaters of Tsavo a very long time ago in Argosy magazine. Most of the article was from an interview with Patterson. The part I remember most was his account of the end of the fight. He ended up on the ground right next to one of the lions as it was dying. He was pretty torn up and put his foot against it to push away from it. The lion bit him through the instep of his foot. Patterson said of all the injuries he had during that encounter that was the most painful by far.

Stories of vampires, demons and other spectral and imagined horror figures are scary at times. But for one who has hiked and hunted the backcountry and faced off with bears and cougars (not that kind! real ones), this story chills my soul. A 500 lb killing machine stalking you and intent on eating you scares the crap out of me.

Another little tidbit about the real story and the movie: the ones in the movie were maned lions. The real ones were maniless males.

Thi is the real ones stuffed at the museum:

Comshaw

 

[32aa]

First learn stand, then learn fly. Nature's rule Daniel San, not mine.

 

[Matt12191982]

the final line of "A Streetcar Named Desire"

"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers"

 

[MiaBabe23]

First learn stand, then learn fly. Nature's rule Daniel San, not mine.

Classic

 

[SimonDoom]

Oh My!

Annie!

 

[SimonDoom]

"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!"

On The Waterfront, one of my favorites.

 

[Live_Oak]

“I could have killed ya Dick. I could have killed ya, but I don’t want to kill ya. I want to eat”

 

[SimonDoom]

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

Chinatown.

 

[SimonDoom]

Lord Wessex: "How is this to end?"

Queen Elizabeth: "As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey."

Shakespeare in Love

 

[Kelliezgirl]

“I could have killed ya Dick. I could have killed ya, but I don’t want to kill ya. I want to eat”

Young Guns

"I'll make you famous"

 

[lovecraft68]

From Stallones Lock up and uttered by the awesome John Amos

Rule #1-Don't mess with Meissner. Rule #2, I'm Meissner.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

From Stallones Lock up and uttered by the awesome John Amos

Rule #1-Don't mess with Meissner. Rule #2, I'm Meissner.

He looks like a fugitive from the fifties, but he sure is great at catching psychos.

 

[TheRedChamber]

"He does have a small penis." Julia Sawalha in Bottom, episode "Parade"

Okay, not a 'great line' exactly, but one which apparently written exactly and specifically for me and which I was unaware of until earlier today. Rik (RIP) and Ade doing the Lord's work there...

 

[Boat1]

"Vengeance, that's what you think this is about?... I'm at war with this broken thing...."

 

[StillStunned]

"He does have a small penis." Julia Sawalha in Bottom, episode "Parade"

Okay, not a 'great line' exactly, but one which apparently written exactly and specifically for me and which I was unaware of until earlier today. Rik (RIP) and Ade doing the Lord's work there...

Bottom was hilarious. Womble hunting on Wimbledon Common, for a start. Or the time they actually get some girls to go home with them. "And it would have worked too, if you hadn't turned off the lights and shouted, 'Grab this, it's the bannister!'"

 

[caughtstrokin]

"Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much - it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths... Heathing..."

Mrs. White, Clue

I love the passion she delivers those line sexy. One of my favorite movies and a very favorite line.

 

[SimonDoom]

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

I thought of this because I just saw Gladiator 2. It's nowhere near as good as the original, but it's enjoyable if you adjust your expectations and look forward to a fun ride as opposed to a great film.

Russell Crowe in the original as Maximus was one of the greatest movie heroes ever, IMO.