Unforgiven
The Schofield Kid: It don’t seem real… how he ain’t gonna never breathe again, ever… how he’s dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
Little Bill Daggett: You’d be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
Will Munny: That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.
“Last night I had a dream that you grew a garden on the trampoline and I was so happy that I invented peanut butter!” – All The Real Girls
Wooderson: That’s what I love about high school girls man. I get older, they stay the same age.
- “Dazed and Confused”
Dan Erdman reminded me of how classic Robocop is:
Clarence: Can you fly Bobby?
I’d also love to include pretty much all of Arnie’s lines in “The Running Man” but I’ll leave that for another time.
She — "Your life … is nothing but nihlism … and cynicism … and sarcasm … and orgasm!
He — “In France I could run on that slogan and win!”
— Woody Allen, DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
“Stop playing with yourself Willie. You ain’t gonna do shit.”
Shaft (1971)
A handful of favorites….
NOTHING SACRED -
Dr. Downer: I’ll tell you briefly what I think of newspaper men. The hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn’t elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!
THE MALTESE FALCON -
Sam Spade: I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS -
LeBrand: It died in Pittsburgh.
Hadrian: Like a dog!
John L. Sullivan: Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh…
Hadrian: They know what they like.
John L. Sullivan: If they knew what they liked, they wouldn’t live in Pittsburgh!
Policeman: How does the girl fit into the picture?
Sullivan: There’s always a girl in the picture. What’s the matter, don’t you go to the movies?
EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE -
A #1: Stay off the tracks. Forget it. Its a bum’s world for a bum. You’ll never be Emperor of the North Pole, kid. You had the juice, kid, but not the heart and they go together. You’re all gas and no feel, and nobody can teach you that, not even A-No.1. So stay off the train, she’ll throw you under for sure. Remember me for that. So long, kid.
COCKFIGHTER -
Frank Mansfield: She loves me, Omar.
THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS -
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Get that cat outta here!
SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGALODON -
Cataline Stone: [sigh] I’m exhausted.
Ben Carpenter: Yeah, me too. But you know I’m really wired. What do you say I… take you home and eat your pussy.
MASKED & ANONYMOUS -
Jack Fate: Things fall apart, especially all the neat order of rules and laws. The way we look at the world is the way we really are. See it from a fair garden and everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau and you’ll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago.
“Look at these assholes.”
- The Darjeeling Limited
Bobby: I’d like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven’t broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.
“Sad, sad, sad.”
So says Martha, played by Liz Taylor, late in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” standing at the screen door off the kitchen of her house, looking out into the darkness, summing up her relationship with her husband George, played by Richard Burton,
“I know this sounds silly, and I know that I might sound ridiculous…like this is the scene of the movie where the guy is trying to get a hold of the long-lost son, y’know, but this is that scene. This is that scene. And I think they have those scenes in movies because they’re true. Y’know, because they really happen. And you gotta believe me, this is really happening. I mean, I can give you my number and you can go check with whoever you gotta check with and call me back. But do not leave me hanging on this. Please. I’m just – please. See…this is the scene of the movie where you help me out.”
–Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Magnolia
Too bad I can’t post the entire This Is Spinal Tap screen play. Or the screen Play for Withnail and I. Every line in those films is waiting to be quoted later on.
Sonja: Judgment of any system, or a priori relationship or phenomenon exists in an irrational, or metaphysical, or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.
Boris: Yes, I’ve said that many times. (Love and Death)
“Fools! Idiots! Imbiciles!” – Maleficent, from “Sleeping Beauty”
“Masturbation is having sex with someone you love”-Annie Hall
“Dude, everybody knows that if a girls on top she cant get pregnant!”-Superbad
“It was beauty that killed the beast.”-King Kong
“Redrum”-The Shining
Hot rod driver: How about fifty?
The Driver: Make it three yards, motherfucker, and we’ll have us an auto-mo-bile race.
Two Lane Blacktop
“This is my adopted daughter, Margot.”
“How can a train be lost? It’s on rails…”
“Whatever it is, I’m against it – regardless of who started or commenced it, I’m against it.” Groucho as Prof. Wagstaff sings in Horsefeathers
“We was with you at Rigoletto’s (sic). Line mis-spoken by member of George Raft’s gang in Some Like it Hot to the cop played by Pat O ‘Brien as lame excuse why they could NOT be at the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Raft had coached the stoolie to say they were at the opera that night – hilarious!
What we’ve got here is “failure to communicate”. from Cool Hand Luke. Don’t you think this quote applies almost all the time – even on this site?
Trainspotting:
“Now I’ve justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. It wasn’t a big deal, just a minor betrayal. Or we’d outgrown each other, you know, that sort of thing. But let’s face it, I ripped them off – my so called mates. But Begbie, I couldn’t give a shit about him. And Sick Boy, well he’d done the same to me, if he’d only thought of it first. And Spud, well okay, I felt sorry for Spud – he never hurt anybody. So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers – all false. The truth is that I’m a bad person. But, that’s gonna change – I’m going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I’m cleaning up and I’m moving on, going straight and choosing life. I’m looking forward to it already. I’m gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead to the day you die.”
From the “Maltese Falcon” End of the film, last word spoken
“huh?” ( Ward Bond)
“What’s more fun than human nature?”
—Joe Mantegna in David Mamet’s “House of Games”
“You disgust me. Your thirst for life disgusts me. You have no ideals. You have found the strength for an erection, that’s why you’ll survive. All our dreams for a master race—unattainable.” — Shirley Stoler in “Seven Beauties.”
“Everybody is somebody’s fool. The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I’ll concentrate on that. Maybe I’ll live so long that I’ll forget her. Maybe I’ll die trying.” — Orson Welles in “The Lady From Shanghai.”
“They really stuck it to ya, didn’t they, kid? Stuck it in and broke it off. Right up your giggy with a wah-wah brush, stuck it in and broke it right off.” — Jack Nicholson in “The Last Detail.”
“It’s the truth. After six months of living with you, I’m turning into one of your scripts. But this isn’t a script, Diana. There’s some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today, because she’s in a state of depression— so depressed my daughter flew in from Seattle to be with her. and I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain I’ve caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience stricken and all those things you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I’m beginning to get scared shitless. It’s all suddenly closer to the end than to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features. You’ve got a man going through primal doubts, Diana, and you’ve got to cope with it. Because I’m not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters show. I’m the man you presumably love. I live right here. I’m part of your life. I’m real. You can’t switch to another station.”
-William Holden in Network
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Chief Bromden “Mmmmmm, Juicy Fruit”
McMurphy"You sly, son of a bitch, Chief!"
“I stand outside of myself, watching myself, watching myself. I smile, I smile, I smile.”
- Peter O’Toole, The Ruling Class
“Difficult, not impossible”. Godfather. Words to live by.
“Go to lunch, will you? Go to lunch…..will you go to lunch?” – Williamson – Glengarry Glen Ross
“I used to be a heroin addict. Now I’m a methadone addict” – Alvy’s grade school classmate – Annie Hall
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.”
-Blade Runner
“It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again who does?”
-Blade Runner
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
-Network
“I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.”
-Sunset Boulevard
“Stella! Hey, Stella!”
-A Streetcar Named Desire
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know”
-Duck Soup
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”
-Dr. Strangelove
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”
-Chinatown
“Soylent Green is people!”
-Soylent Green
“Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true.”
-Karen Eiffel’s (Emma Thompson) closing monologue in Stranger Than Fiction
“Do or do not; there is no try.” – Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
“Everyone!” — The Professional
“People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they’re really saying is that something that you didn’t want to happen just happened.” — You’ve Got Mail
“Childhood’s over the moment you know you’re going to die.” — The Crow
“And to stand with me this day, men, I thank you and if you should, in the middle of this battle, find yourself warm and feeling; rest assured that you are already in Vahalla and we will join you shortly”—Gladiator
how about some 007, from the original
Bond: “That’s a Smith and Wesson. And you’ve had your six.”
[shoots Dent twice]
Sean Connery, DR. NO (1962)
Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”
Sean Connery & Gert Frobe, GOLDFINGER (1964)
Bond: “Who are you?”
Pussy: “My name is Pussy Galore.”
Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
Sean Connery & Honor Blackman, GOLDFINGER (1964)
Bond: “That’s a nice little nothing you’re almost wearing!”
Tiffany: “I’ll finish dressing.”
Bond: “Oh please don’t, not on my account.”
Sean Connery & Jill St. John, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971)
Plenty: “Hi, I am Plenty.”
Bond: “Well of course you are.” (looking at her chest)
Plenty: “Plenty O’Toole.”
Fond: “Named after your father, perhaps?”
Sean Connery & Lana Wood, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971)
“Was it heavy? Did it achieve total heaviosity?” – Alvy Singer (Woody Allen, Annie Hall)
- I use that one in everyday life quite a bit.
Django
Unforgiven
The Schofield Kid: It don’t seem real… how he ain’t gonna never breathe again, ever… how he’s dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
Little Bill Daggett: You’d be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
Will Munny: That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.