“I had a boner with a capital O”
- Sailor Ripley “Wild at Heart”
A couple of favorites from Don Siegel’s The Killers
“Lady, I haven’t got the time.”
- Charlie Strom (Lee Marvin)
“I approve of larceny; homicide is against my principles.”
- Jack Browning (Ronald Reagan)
I’ve always loved this line from Moonstruck
“Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice – it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed! "
“This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola.”
masculin, feminin
“Make sure that everyone sees the cake before we cut it.” – Hyman Roth, The Godfather, Part II
From “Annie Hall”:
—Doctors: How often do you make love?/Do you have sex often?
—Annie: Constantly, maybe 3 times a week
—Alvy: Hardly ever..I’d say 3 times a week
—Alvy: My Grammy never gave presents. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.
—Alvy: That’s Okay, I can walk to the curb from here
-Alvy’s Mother (in Alvy’s doctor’s office): He stopped doing his homework!
Young Alvy: What’s the point?
From “The Graduate”:
—Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me……aren’t you?
From "Brokeback Mountain:
—Ennis: Jack, I swear…
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn
Man, I think few lines have such a great initial-viewing reaction like that one does. Rhett Butler really was feelin’ it at the time haha
George: “Rubbing alcohol Martha?”
Martha: " Sure! Never mix, never worry!"
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
From David Lean’s “Brief Encounter:”
Laura Jesson: [speaking about Dolly to herself] I wish you’d stop talking. I wish you’d stop prying and trying to find things out. I wish you were dead – no I don’t mean that. That was silly and unkind. But I wish you’d stop talking.
I’ve definitely had the same thought running through my mind while listening to some people – the only difference is my thoughts probably didn’t sound as elegant and were most likely laced with vulgarity :)
Low brow but:
Dumb and Dumber
Lloyd: I thought the Rock Mountains would be rockier than this.
Harry: I was thinkin’ the same thing.
Lloyd: John Denver’s full of shit man.
Three that I have stuck in my head this afternoon…..
1. “The Saddest Music In The World”
Lady Port-Huntley: If you are sad and like beer, I’m your lady.
2. “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
Clark: Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.
3. “The Ninth Configuration”
Captain Cutshaw: Infinite goodness is creating a being you know, in advance, is going to complain.
Leia: I love you.
Han: I know.
Empire Strikes Back
Shut the fuck up.
Linda Partridge, Magnolia
either “nobody fucks with the jesus” in the big lebowski or “shabbat shalom mutherfuckers” in the Hebrew Hammer.
“One morning, over at Elizabeth’s beach house, she asked me if I’d rather go water-skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer THAT question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my life”. -Anthony, in Bottle Rocket
This is what speaks to me.
In the earrings of madame de… Monsieur tells Madame “ce n’est que superficiellement que nous sommes superficiels”.
“Get up you..scum suckin’ pig.”
Rio (Brando)
“One Eyed Jacks”
“Lotte hat blaue Augen” from GRAND ILLUSION
“why you wearing that stupid bunny suit?”
donnie darko
We thought you was a toad!
From O Brothers Where art Thou?
“I’m not poor, I give clothes away to the Salvation Army, you can’t do that if your poor!”
-Killer of Sheep
The last line of Breathless..
“Qu’est ce que c’est “dégueulasse”? (“What is a bitch?”)
Priceless.
But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.
–Raising Arizona
Ed Wood: Mr. Welles, is it all worth it?
Orson Welles: It is when it works. You know the one film of mine where I had total control, “Kane,” the studio hated it, but they didn’t get to touch a frame. Ed —
Ed Wood: Yes?
Orson Welles: Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?
— from “Ed Wood,” screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?
Wild at Heart
“I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, Alice, and I want you to shut up.”
- Gary’s dad in Weird Science
I love this (very long) quote from Good Will Hunting when the Matt Damon character is trying to be recruited to become a CIA type operative:
Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ‘cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin’, “Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area” ‘cause they don’t give a shit. It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn’t them when their number got called, ‘cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some kid from Southie takin’ shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ‘cause he’ll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin’ play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain’t too long ‘til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy’s out of work and he can’t afford to drive, so he’s got to walk to the fuckin’ job interviews, which sucks ‘cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he’s starvin’, ‘cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they’re servin’ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I’m holdin’ out for somethin’ better. I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
The Sweet Smell Of Success “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do! That gives you a lot of leeway” and “I’d hate to take a bite outta you. You’re a cookie full of arsenic.”
Things To Do In Denver When Your’e Dead “You better turn down the bass in your voice boy” and “I am Godzilla You are Tokyo”
Dead Again “This is for you!”
The rug really tied the room together
You are out of your element
i got a beverage here man
I am the walrus
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass
You will be in a world of pain
some things have really come to light
- just saw big labowski while drinking everclear
brent
“’Sir, what if the writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don’t change, they don’t have any epiphanies? They struggle and are frustrated and nothing is resolved … more of a reflection of the real world.’
‘The real world. The real fuckin’ world. First of all, if you write a story without conflict or crisis, you’ll bore your audience to tears. Second of all … nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking MIND? People are murdered every day! There’s … genocide, war, corruption! Every fuckin’ day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else! Every fuckin’ day, someone, somewhere, takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else! People find love! People lose it! For Christ’s sake, a child watches a mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry! Someone else betrays his best friend for a woman! If you can’t find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don’t know CRAP about life! And WHY THE FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don’t have any use for it! any bloody use for it!’"
— Adaptation
“This emphasis on physical pain. It couldn’t have been all that bad. It may sound presumptuous of me – but in my humble way, I’ve suffered as much physical pain as Jesus. And his torments were rather brief. Lasting some four hours, I gather? I feel that he was tormented far worse on an other level. Maybe I’ve got it all wrong. But just think of Gethsemane, Vicar. Christ’s disciples fell asleep. They hadn’t understood the meaning of the last supper, or anything. And when the servants of the law appeared, they ran away. And Peter denied him. Christ had known his disciples for three years. They’d lived together day in and day out – but they never grasped what he meant. They abandoned him, to the last man. And he was left alone. That must have been painful. Realizing that no one understands. To be abandoned when you need someone to rely on – that must be excruciatingly painful. But the worse was yet to come. When Jesus was nailed to the cross – and hung there in torment – he cried out – “God, my God!” “Why hast thou forsaken me?” He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he’d ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence. "
— The Seventh Seal