Nobody's Perfect - Best Quotes

By: Altero

Nobody’s Perfect :

“Made it, Ma, top of the world!”

Verna Jarrett: I’d look good in a mink coat, honey.
Cody Jarrett: You’d look good in a shower curtain.

White Heat – Raoul Walsh – 1949

“Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer!”

The Return of the Pink Panther – Blake Edwards – 1975

“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher’s knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross!”

Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry – Don Siegel – 1971

“You see in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.”
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Sergio Leone – 1966

“How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can’t even trust his own pants.” – Once Upon a Time in the West – Sergio Leone – 1968

“ – Are you worried?”
“ – Does Mel Gibson hate Jews?” – Kaboom – Gregg Araki – 2010

“I just threw up a little in my mouth” – Kaboom – Gregg Araki – 2010

" Sorry i just threw up in my mouth a little." – Dodgeball – Rawson Marshall Thurber – 2004

Cotton McKnight: Las Vegas. A city built of hot sand, broken dreams and $5 lobster. A city where you can get a happy ending, if you pay a little extra. A city home to a sporting event greater than the World Cup, World Series and World War II combined. – id.

“This meal is terrible… it tastes like roasted dog asshole. I asked myself, “Who would slow roast a dog’s asshole and feed it to me?” You would." – Will Ferrell to Eva Mendes in The Other Guys – Adam McKay – 2010

“I was so drunk, I thought a tube of toothpaste was astronaut food”. – Will Ferrell in The Other Guys – Adam McKay – 2010

Lula: (howls) Jesus, honey! … You better run me back to the hotel, baby… You got me hotter’n Georgia asphalt.
Sailor: Say no more… – Wild at Heart – David Lynch – 1990

" I may be bad but I feel…good!" – Evil Dead III Army of Darkness – Sam Raimi – 1993

“Pardon my french, my mother smoked during pregnancy” – I Love You Phillip Morris – Glenn Ficarra, John Requa – 2009

“Il court, il court le furet, il fourre, il fourre le curé…” – Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie – Claude Chabrol – 1994

“Do you want some funch?”- “what is funch?” – “fucking after lunch!!” – A Dirty Shame – John Waters – 2005

“Gaw-lee, Mr. Lamarr! You use your tongue purdier than a $20 whore!” – Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks – 1974

“Don’t Get High On Your Own Supply” Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface – Brian De Palma – 1983

“Je suis peut-être un peu perverse, j’ai un faible pour les flageolets américains en boîte”. Delphine Seyrig in – Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie – Luis Bunuel – 1972

“Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Well, no shit. What have we got here, a fucking comedian? Private Joker. I admire your honesty. Hell, I like you, you can come over to my house and fuck my sister!
[Gunnery Sgt. Hartman punches Pvt. Joker in the stomach]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You little scumbag! I got your name! I got your ass! You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the numbers. I will teach you! Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!” – Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick – 1987

“Animal Mother: You a photographer?
Private Joker: I’m a combat correspondent.
Animal Mother: Well you seen much combat?
Private Joker: I’ve seen a little on TV.
Animal Mother: You’re a real comedian.
Private Joker: Well they call me Joker.
Animal Mother: Well I got a joke for you. I’m gonna tear you a new asshole.
Private Joker: Only after you eat the peanuts out of my shit.
Animal Mother: You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?” – Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick – 1987

Frank Booth: “What kind of beer do you like?
Jeffrey Beaumont: Heineken.
Frank Booth: [shouting] Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” – Blue Velvet – David Lynch – 1986

Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of. – The Big Lebowski – Joel Coen – 1997

“Respect the cock, tame the cunt!” Tom Cruise in Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1999

Bourvil : “Y’a pas d’hélice hélas…
De Funès : C’esl là qu’est l’os” – La Grande Vadrouille – Gérard Oury – 1966

“I need him like the axe needs the turkey” Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve – Preston Sturges – 1941

“Look at those assholes over there. Ordinary fucking people. I hate them!” Harry Dean Stanton in Repo Man – Alex Cox – 1984

“I’m my own best friend” – Spaceballs – Mel Brooks – 1987

“Ready Jack?” “I was born ready!” – Big Trouble in Little China – John Carpenter – 1986

“Le vin est bel et lisse à la santé de qui le pisse” – Le Decameron – PP Pasolini – 1971

“Tu sais ce que j’aime chez toi à part rien du tout? Rien du tout” – Redacted – Brian De Palma – 2007

“Pour avoir un infarctus, il faut avoir un coeur!” – Mariage à l’Italienne – Vittorio De Sica – 1964

“T’as vu ses yeux, ils sont bleu comme du Canard WC” – Les Beaux Gosses – Riad Sattouf – 2009

“Everybody should like westerns. It would solve everybody’s problems if they’d like westerns” Harvey Keitel in Who’s that knocking at my Door – Martin Scorsese – 1967

“He who loves and runs away lives two loves another day” Gary Cooper in Love in the Afternoon – Billy Wilder – 1957

“He who drinks and runs away lives to drink another day” Errol Flynn in They Died with their Boots on – Raoul Walsh – 1941

“Walking through life with you Ma’am has been a very gracious thing” Errol Flynn to Olivia De Haviland in They died with their Boots on – Raoul Walsh – 1941

“Not bad. Just had a little rub and scrub. Now I’m up for some grub” id.

“Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne is a heavy mist before my eyes” James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story – George Cukor – 1940

“Hurt people hurt people” – Greenberg – Noah Baumbach – 2009

“It’s a lovely place, beautiful, but the class of people who come here gets worse every year. And this year, we seem to have next year’s crowd already!” – Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife – Ernst Lubitsch – 1938

" – J"ai des envies de voyage. L’Océanie, Bora Bora, les vahinées, tu connais?
– Pourquoi, tu veux m’emmener?
– On n’emmène pas des saucisses quand on va à Francfort!" – Le Pacha – George Lautner – 1968

" – You have beautiful eyes, Georgina.
– And you have a beautiful prick, Mr gynecologist." – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover – Peter Greenaway – 1989

“The chip: The British contribution to world cuisine.” – A Fish Called Wanda – Michael Crichton – 1988

“Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.” – The Third Man – Carol Reed – 1949

“Nature is Satan’s church” Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist – Lars Von Trier – 2009

- Joli coup! Tu m’as l’air prometteur, dis donc.
- Pourquoi, tu veux m’essayer?
- Comme tu t’emballes! Chez moi on dit : “Peau velue et nez long n’en a pas forcément dans le pantalon”. – Le Jardin des Finzi Contini – Vittorio De Sica – 1971

“If you give a hungry man a loaf of bread, that’s democracy, if you leave the wrapper on, that’s imperialism. " – A Foreign Affair – Billy Wilder – 1948

“Getting laid is sure good for my regularity” – Gene Hackman in Scarecrow – Jerry Schatzberg – 1973

“Michel, t’arrêtes de prendre cette tête de chien qui chie et tu sautes maintenant! T’as compris” – Benoît Poelvoorde dans Les Convoyeurs Attendent – Benoît Mariage – 1999

“Remember Mr Scott, the trick to being brave, is not to be too brave” – Richard Widmark in Cheyenne Autumn – John Ford – 1964

“Ce n’est pas le locataire du 6ème qui est anti-fasciste. C’est le fasciste qui est anti-locataire du 6ème” – Marcello Mastroianni in Une Journée Particulière – Ettore Scola – 1977

Randy: I dreamt about you last night. I…
Melodie St. Ann Celestine: Don’t use that line! Because Boris said that he dreamt about me last night and I really doubt it’s mathematically possible for me to be in two dreams at one time. – Whatever Works – Woody Allen – 2009

(Talking about all of the different camps they have for kids) “In America they have summer camps for everything. Rich kids, basketball camp, magic camp, tennis camp, movie director camp — they should have a concentration camp. Two weeks mandatory for all kids growing up so that they could finally understand what the human race is capable of.” – Whatever Works – Woody Allen – 2009

“Jessica’s problem was she made up in ego what she lacked in superego.” – Whatever Works – Woody Allen – 2009

“What do you mean… you’re where right now?
– At your house.
– That’s fucking crazy, man.
– Call me. Dial your number.
(he dials)
…
(Voice over the telephone) I told you I was here.” -

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Mr. Eddy: [to a tailgater after running him off the road] Don’t tailgate! Don’t you ever tailgate!
Lost Highway – David Lynch – 1997

“That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten.” – Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino – 1994

“Salut l’apôtre, bonjour au Christ! Prends pas ta jupe dans les rayons!” – Jean-Pierre Marielle – Les Galettes de Pont-Aven – Joël Seria – 1975

Mr. Pink: You kill anybody?
Mr. White: A few cops.
Mr. Pink: No real people?
Mr. White: Just cops. – Reservoir Dogs – Quentin Tarantino – 1992

“-Eh, vous m’avez complètement sciée! Vous avez une présence quand vous plaidoyez! Mais c’est hallucinant, quoi!
– “Plaidez…”
– Il y a une façon de balancer les mots, d’articuler, chais pas, quand vous dites “al-coo-lique”, on entend tinter les verres!" – Louise Bourgoin in La Fille de Monaco – Anne Fontaine – 2008

“Je vais bientôt avoir trente ans et je ne sais faire que vingt-quatre trucs… et encore, là dedans j’ai compté danser le pasodoble et réussir la béchamel.” – Romain Duris in – 17 Fois Cécile Cassard – Christophe Honoré – 2002

“Granted, I have a few eccentricities. I won’t eat any food that begins with the letter F. Like chicken, for instance.” – Love & Death – Woody Allen – 1975

“I can’t listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.” – Manhattan Murder Mystery – Woody Allen – 1993

“- Mais que faites-vous de vos vêtements sales ?
- Ben… On les porte.” – Les Apprentis – Pierre Salvadori – 1995

- C’est moi qui ramène la bouffe !
- Tu parles, tout ce que tu ramènes, tu le piques ! On bouffe que ce qui rentre dans tes poches… Du poisson pané, des sardines en boite… On bouffe que des trucs carrés ! id.

Feathers: I thought you were never going to say it.
John T. Chance: Say what?
Feathers: That you love me.
John T. Chance: I said I’d arrest you.
Feathers: It means the same thing, you know that.
Rio Bravo – Howard Hawks – 1958

“On ne s’ennuie jamais dans un bar. Ce n’est pas comme dans les églises où l’on reste seul avec son âme”
Michel Piccoli in Belle de Jour – Luis Bunuel – 1967

“It is much more disheartening to have to steal than to be stolen from.” – The Red Shoes – Michael Powell – 1948

Seth: He is the sweetest guy. Have you ever looked into his eyes? It was like the first time I heard the Beatles. – Jonah Hill in SuperBad – Greg Mottola – 2007

Cal: You’re gay, now?
David: No, I’m not gay. I’m just celibate.
Cal: I think… I mean, that sounds gay. I just want you to know this is, like, the first conversation of, like, three conversations that leads to you being gay. Like, there’s this and then in a year it’s like, “Oh, you know, I’m kinda gonna want to get back out there, but I think I like guys,” and then there’s the big, “Oh, I’m… I’m… I’m a gay guy now.”
David: You’re gay for saying that.
Cal: I’m gay for saying that?
David: You know how I know you’re gay?
Cal: How? How do you know I’m gay?
David: Because you macramed yourself a pair of jean shorts.
Cal: You know how I know you’re gay? You just told me you’re not sleeping with women any more.
David: You know how I know you’re gay?
Cal: How? Cause you’re gay? And you can tell who other gay people are?
David: You know how I know you’re gay?
Cal: How?
David: You like Coldplay.
Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in The 40-Year-Old Virgin – Judd Apatow – 2005

Gloria: That’s not what I meant. Not that I think you have good looks- I mean, you know these guys with their…
Black Dynamite: Winks and smiles?
Gloria: Yeah.
[Black Dynamite winks at Gloria]
Gloria: What about the smile?
Black Dynamite: I am smiling. – Black Dynamite – Scott Sanders – 2009

- Who’s Bill Murray?
- I’ve never hit a kid before. That’s like asking who Gandhi is!
- Who’s Gandhi?
Abigail Breslin & Woody Harrelson in Zombieland – Ruben Fleischer – 2009

Derek Zoolander: Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an after-funeral party to attend. – Zoolander – Ben Stiller – 2001

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“Le dernier arrivé est fan de Phil Collins!” – Steak – Quentin Dupieux – 2008

– LaBoeuf: You give out very little sugar with your pronouncements. While I sat there watchin’ I gave some thought to stealin’ a kiss… though you are very young, and sick… and unattractive to boot. But now I have a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.
– Mattie Ross: One would be just as unpleasant as the other
True Grit – Joel & Ethan Coen – 2010

[looking through Shaun’s LPs for suitable records to throw at two approaching zombies]
Ed: ‘Purple Rain’?
Shaun: No.
Ed: ‘Sign o’ the Times’?
Shaun: Definitely not.
Ed: The ‘Batman’ soundtrack?
Shaun: Throw it.
Ed: ‘Dire Straits’?
Shaun: Throw it.
Ed: Ooh, ‘Stone Roses’.
Shaun: Um, No.
Ed: ‘Second Coming’.
Shaun: I like it!
Ed: Ahhh! ‘Sade’.
Shaun: Yeah, but that’s Liz’s!
Ed: Yeah, but she did dump you.
Shaun: Oh!
Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright – 2003

“Smell it! Smell it! Enjoy! It’s like God’s vagina”

“It’s like the rarest, it’s almost a shame to smoke it. It’s like killing a unicorn… with a bomb.”

“I just saw three students walking from back here with their eyes as red as the devil’s dick”

“You’re gonna go to college next year; You’ll get into Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the fucking Shins”

“If you’re a man, and you act heroic, you’ll come back as an eagle. You’ll come back as a dragon. You’ll come back as Jude Law”

Pineapple Express – David Gordon Green – 2008

Tugg Speedman: Now, let’s go get those Viet Congs.
[cocks his gun]
Alpa Chino: “Viet Cong!”
Tugg Speedman: What?
Alpa Chino: It’s “viet cong.” There’s no “s,” it’s already plural. You wouldn’t say “Chineses…”

Tropic Thunder – Ben Stiller – 2008

Doug Billings: Tracy did mention we shouldn’t let him gamble. Or drink too much.
Phil Wenneck: Jesus, he’s like a gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit.

Alan Garner: Can I ask you another question?
Lisa: Sure.
Alan Garner: You probably get this a lot. This isn’t the real Caesar’s Palace is it?
Lisa: What do you mean?
Alan Garner: Did, umm… did Caesar live here?
Lisa: No.
Alan Garner: I didn’t think so.

“Remember what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Except for herpes. That shit’ll come back with you.”
The Hangover – Todd Phillips – 2009

Dan White: Society can’t exist without the family.
Harvey Milk: We’re not against that.
Dan White: Can two men reproduce?
Harvey Milk: No, but God knows we keep trying.

Elections of any kind are a fucking bourgeois affectation.

Milk – Gus Van Sant – 2008

Detective Sweeney: You handle Handel like nobody handles Handel. And your Delius – delirious!

“Some men make you think of brut champagne, with others you think of pruneau juice”
Unfaithfully Yours – Preston Sturges – 1948

Rebecca: Should we leave a note?
Enid: Yeah, you got a pen?
[Rebecca pulls out a pen, Enid takes a tag left on Josh’s door handle and writes on it, leaning on Rebecca’s back]
Enid: [writing] Dear Josh, we came by to fuck you, but you were not home. Therefore you are gay. Signed Tiffany and Amber.

Ghost World – Terry Zwigoff – 2001

Oh, yes, I saw him in “Hamlet” in London. What he did to Shakespeare we are doing to Poland.

To Be Or Not To Be – Ernst Lubitsch – 1942

Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I’ll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t’other. Now watch ‘em! Old brother left hand, left hand he’s a fighting, and it looks like love’s a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love’s a winning! Yessirree! It’s love that’s won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!

The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton – 1955

All the dialogues, really.

Le Grand Détournement (La Classe Américaine ) – Michel Hazanavicius – 1993

Irene: You have a wonderful sense of humor. I wish I had a sense of humor, but I can never think of the right thing to say until everybody’s gone home.

Godfrey: May I be frank?
Molly: Is that your name?
Godfrey: No, my name is Godfrey.
Molly: All right, be frank.

Angelica Bullock: If you’re going to be rude to my daughter, you might as well at least take your hat off!

My Man Godfrey – Gregory La Cava – 1936

- Que ferais-tu si je mourrais aujourd’hui?
- Je mourrais demain.

J’ai Tué ma Mère – Xavier Dolan – 2009

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

This is Spinal Tap – Rob Reiner – 1984

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” –
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola – 1979

“Je ne suis pas mauvaise, mais je ne dessine pas comme Tintin!”
Dikkenek – Olivier Van Hoofstadt – 2006

Wounded soldier screams, “Did Lemchek make it?
I saw him get hit! Poor Lemchek.” Wounded soldier dies. Medic says,
“He’s dead.” General asks, “Did Lemchek make it?” Medic says, “He’s
Lemchek.”

Merrill’s Maraudeurs – Samuel Fueller – 1962

No conejo en el horno
Translator: No rabbit in the oven.
Cojiamos saltamontes y asi haciamos pan!
Translator: We mashed locusts and made bread.

I Heart Huckabees – David O. Russell – 2004

- He likes classical music, he likes sailing, he doesn’t smoke…
- Oh…he’s an asshole!

Les Biens-Aimés (The Beloved) – Christophe Honoré – 2011

“You’d like Kafka. One of my predecessors.”

The Squid & The Whale – Noah Baumbach – 2006

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves” Alessandro Nivola quoting Emily Brontë in “Coco avant Channel” – Anne Fontaine – 2009

Charles : Mais attention, hein ! J’ai bon caractère, mais j’ai le glaive vengeur et le bras séculier ! L’aigle va fondre sur la vieille buse !
1er bandit : C’est chouette comme métaphore, non ?
2ème bandit : C’est pas une métaphore, c’est une périphrase.
1er bandit : Oh ! Fais pas chier !
2ème bandit : Ça, c’est une métaphore.

“Mets ça!
Mais je ne suis pas en deuil!
Qu’est-ce que t’en sais?”

“Ils ne sont pas méchants: ils se battent avec des fleurs, ils mangent des buvards!”

Faut pas prendre les Enfants du bon Dieu pour des Canards Sauvages – Michel Audiard – 1968

“I have nothing against women betraying their husbands. Even our government is against monopoly” – Whirlpool – Otto Preminger – 1949

“I’ve always liked older men… Look at that old fellow what’s-his-name in The African Queen. Absolutely crazy about him.” Lauren Bacall referring to her real-life husband, Humphrey Bogart. in How to Marry a Millionaire – Jean Negulesco – 1953

“Those that can’t do, teach, and those that can’t teach… teach gym.” – The School of Rock – Richard Linklater – 2003

“- I like your brother Mico. He’s a little strange, though.
– He had … the syphilis as a baby.” – Welcome to Collinwood – Anthony Russo, Joe Russo – 2002

Wallace Wells: Kick her in the balls! – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Edgar Wright – 2010

“I never woke up in the morning and had to look at someone that made me sorry that I was there… But I bet you have.” – Breezy – Clint Eastwood – 1973

“Mein Führer, I can walk!” – Dr Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick – 1964

“Tu veux qu’on te la tienne, Karajan?”
“Tu vas la taire, ta gueule, ou je te fais bouffer la dune!”
Les Valseuses – Bertrand Blier – 1974

" – J’ai peur de m’endormir au volant.
– Ah. Tu sais ce que tu fais? T’attaches tes cheveux au plafond. Comme ça si tu baisses la tête, ça va te tirer les cheveux et ça va te réveiller"
Eldorado – Bouli Lanners – 2008

" – What’s your guess, Michael? Think the world’s coming to an end?
– There was a start to the world sometime, so I guess there’ll be a stop."
The Lady from Shanghai – Orson Welles – 1947

‘I saw your friend Jane Fonda on TV the other day. It made me want to go out and buy a Ku Klux Klan poster.’
Carnage – Roman Polanski – 2011

« La guerre, c’est simple : c’est faire entrer un morceau de fer dans un morceau de chair. » – For Ever Mozart – Jean-Luc Godard – 1996

“Laver le linge sale des autres en famille, vous appelez ça un métier, vous?” – Entrée des Artistes – Marc Allégret – 1938

" – It’s because we’re Jewish. I know it. Isn’t it?
– Mrs Teichberg, Please. This is the Catskills. Half the population is Jewish, they’re all our clients.
– Until the day they need you, and then on goes the gas!" – Taking Woodstock – Ang Lee – 2009

George Simmons: So, Ira Wright? That’s not your real name. You’re hiding some Judaism.
Ira Wright: I don’t think I can hide that. My face is circumcised. – Funny People – Judd Apatow – 2009

Mark: When my grandfather died, there was one candle next to his bed. And the candle started flickering. We all thought it was him going to Heaven, you know?
Leo: You don’t pass through fire to get to Heaven. I think he went to Hell. – id.

Joe Gillis: You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It’s the pictures that got small. – Sunset Blvd. – Billy Wilder – 1950

Milton: You don’t have to do this, Roman! Just tell me what you want, I can make it happen! Any picture, name your budget, script approval, final cut!
Roman: I already have it.
[Roman cuts Milton’s throat]
Scream 3 – Wes Craven – 2000

“Oui, je t’ai assassiné avec l’aide de Satan.” – Jour de Colère – Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1943

Ransom Stoddard: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
The Man who shot Liberty Valance – John Ford – 1962

«J’aimerais trouver un titre à mon livre. – Il y a des tambours dans votre livre ? – Non. – Des trompettes ? – Non. – Alors appelez-le Sans tambour ni trompette.»
Domicile Conjugal – François Truffaut – 1970

Wendy: You have no idea what it is like to be a teenage girl having your first period under Taliban rule.
Phil Foster: That is true. And neither do you.

I’m strangling in the noose of sameness

Date Night – Shawn Levy – 2010

Oh, and by the way, fuck the French!
Did you hear that shit?
Chirac wants to bring French contractors in?
Hey, Phil, what’s the most common
French expression?
“I give up.”

The Men Who Stare at Goats – Grant Heslov – 2009

Justin Bond: As my dear departed friend Lotus Weinstock used to say: “I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.”
Shortbus – John Cameron Mitchell – 2006

“I’ve been called a lot of things, but never funny.” – Gran Torino – Clint Eastwood – 2008

- Vous faites quoi comme musique?
- De l’indie rock.
- Ah, j’adore ça l’indie rock, 50 Cent, Madonna…
Les Chats Persans – Bahman Ghobadi – 2009

“Don’t you worry about that, he’ll be back all right. You know the Good Lord, he looks after fools and Englishmen.”
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw – Raoul Walsh – 1958

“He’s Jewish, he’s for Israel.He did vote for Bush & Mc Cain, but only because of Israel. He knows these people are complete idiots otherwise. So, don’t worry…”
Life During Wartime – Todd Solondz – 2009

British motherfuckers don’t die. You ever heard of a fucking… a British R ‘N R star dying? No, none of them die. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, those Led Zeppelin… Them motherfuckers old as fuck. Fucking Ozzy Osbourne’s gonna outlive Miley Cyrus!
“Get Him to The Greek” – Nicholas Stoller – 2010

“He threw it all up. I told you pork tripe was too rich for the baby”
Fellini Roma – Federico Fellini

“What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don’t you get out of there and give someone else a chance?”
Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks – 1974