Favorite movie quotes

[Smuttyandfun]

From Home Alone:

"I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my ass."

 

[gunhilltrain]

Young Frankenstein is one massive favorite movie quote. Possibly the best comedy movie ever made.

Mel Brooks at his peak. He got away with stuff that nobody would touch now. Ninety-eight years old and a World War II vet.

He wrote about his wartime experiences, defusing land mines among other things: "If those things could blow up a tank, imagine what they would do to a Jewish guy from New York."

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Dec/22/2002914081/825/780/0/441207-O-D0439-001.JPG

 

[YmaOHyd]

Mel Brooks at his peak. He got away with stuff that nobody would touch now. Ninety-eight years old and a World War II vet.

He wrote about his wartime experiences, defusing land mines among other things: "If those things could blow up a tank, imagine what they would do to a Jewish guy from New York."

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Dec/22/2002914081/825/780/0/441207-O-D0439-001.JPG

"We've gotta protect our phoney-baloney jobs here, gentlemen! Harrumph, harrumph! I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy." "Give the governor harrumph!" "Harrumph!" "You watch your ass." has got to be the best sequence on film about politics.

 

[gunhilltrain]

An AMC Gremlin to stick with the realism of the franchise. It would go a 150 mph and turn on a dime

To fit inside, it would need a sunroof so it could stick its head out.

https://www.automotivetimelines.com/cars/photos/a/AMC/1971 AMC Gremlin Sun Roof Factory Photo.jpg

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Nope, the Xeno already signed up for Fast and the Furious 12 because the studio needed something more realistic than the previous installments....and better acting.

Very low bar. Just saying...

 

[MillieDynamite]

Obviously, QT inspires many different reactions from his movies and him as a person. I have liked a few of his films; he is an entertainer, but I stopped watching his movies some time ago. I only saw them after their theatrical run (well, I couldn't see many or most of them other than not in a theater). But when I stop thinking about them as entertainment and listen to the language and attitudes, I don't find they make me feel better about being black. Alternet histories do nothing to change the past or the future. He's an arrogant ass to me, and I don't care to watch his movies or interviews with him any longer.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land... "
Mendel: Moses said that.
Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue."
Mendel: That was also Moses.
Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

Fiddler on the Roof

 

[deltablues65]

Tourettes scene.....from "What about Bob"...

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've used this movie before, probably in this thread somewhere.

"You are an idealist... and I pity you as I would the village idiot. We're fighting a war, Dax, a war that we've got to win."

 

[gunhilltrain]

Tourettes scene.....from "What about Bob"...

His son is named Sigmund!

 

[gunhilltrain]

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message."

Ledger had already passed when this movie was released. He won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and other awards posthumously. He was only twenty-eight.

 

[gunhilltrain]

"Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?"

"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

 

[SimonDoom]

All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break 'em for noone.

 

[OldDog_NewTricks]

Roger Hill as Cyrus in The Warriors

“Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be.”

And of course “Can you dig it?”

 

[MillieDynamite]

Molly Jorgenson: Well, his bedroom was right across from mine and... one night I felt naughty and went right on undressing so he could see. Then all of a sudden I... I got terribly ashamed and I ran and pulled the curtains down. I'll never forget... I had hot and cold flashes all over me afterwards. Wasn't that awful?
Ken Jorgenson: Well, I guess every human being on earth has a few things he's ashamed of.

Bart Hunter: [Intoxicated] This'll be painful for you, but you might as well face the truth... the RAW truth. Take... take a good look at your parents, hmm? We've got no more secrets to hide. All the cats are out of the bag: all the scrawling, mangy, obscene, horrible cats of your inheritance. You're the son of a drunkard... and a harlot.
Johnny Hunter: You're wrong about mother, dad.
Bart Hunter: Gone to her side, have ya'?
Johnny Hunter: I'm not taking sides. I just want to marry Molly.
Bart Hunter: [pauses, then smirks] Oh, Johnny, stop being a silly sentimentalist. It's stupid! Molly is merely a succulent little wench!
Johnny Hunter: She's not a wench! She's everything I've ever dreamed of in a girl.
Bart Hunter: Oh, don't make me laugh! They're all alike in the dark!
Johnny Hunter: [Taken aback] You can't make her cheap! You can't do it! In spite of your damned supercilious, intelligent mind. And with or without your consent, we're getting married!

Sylvia Hunter: We live in a glass house - we're not throwing any stones.

A Summer Place 1959

 

[gunhilltrain]

Roger Hill as Cyrus in The Warriors

“Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be.”

And of course “Can you dig it?”

Sol Yurick wrote the novel because he thought West Side Story was unrealistic. But his movie version can be seen as either absurd or totally tongue-in-cheek. (E.g., an integrated gang from Coney Island?) Yet the cast is pretty good and seems to take it seriously, and the almost 100% location filming is like a documentary of New York in the late 1970s. The opening credits have to be seen to be believed. (Warning: politically incorrect.) The front window view must be the A train in Brooklyn.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Yet somehow the movie struck a nerve with New Yorkers that has lasted for decades.

 

[Bisexguy70]

Badges….we dont need no stinkin badges!!

 

[gunhilltrain]

Obviously, QT inspires many different reactions from his movies and him as a person. I have liked a few of his films; he is an entertainer, but I stopped watching his movies some time ago. I only saw them after their theatrical run (well, I couldn't see many or most of them other than not in a theater). But when I stop thinking about them as entertainment and listen to the language and attitudes, I don't find they make me feel better about being black. Alternet histories do nothing to change the past or the future. He's an arrogant ass to me, and I don't care to watch his movies or interviews with him any longer.

I think QT discovered that being a jerk would be seen as edgy and transgressive by many audiences. Partially he's faking that attitude, but some of it is him dredging up up his real thoughts and getting away with it. One of his reviewers quoted George Santayana (probably apocryphal as in that other thread): "Americans love junk; it's not the junk that bothers me, it's the love."

https://ask.metafilter.com/33445/Often-quoted-but-never-cited

 

[WordsIntheWyld]

Throw Momma from the Train:

Larry: Do you say the night was humid? Or do you say the night was moist? That's writing.
Momma: The night was sultry.

 

[Wifetheif]

"Women are often the victims of men's evil." The Return of Martin Guerre
An Of course the Star Wars line that can be used in just about every sexual situation.
"You came in that thing? You are braver than I thought!"

 

[Wifetheif]

"I can't fuck a gorilla!" Steve Martin in "The Man with Two Brains" when his mad scientist assistant suggests they place his dead girlfriends's brain in a gorilla.

 

[TwystedDzyre]

Not a single quote, but it's really the whole monologue in the very end sequence of The Shawshank Redemption, when Red takes the bus, crossing into "Zihuatanejo".

 

[MillieDynamite]

That's still a quote. Just past in and let us see it.

Not a single quote, but it's really the whole monologue in the very end sequence of The Shawshank Redemption, when Red takes the bus, crossing into "Zihuatanejo".

 

[SimonDoom]

Why did it have to be snakes?