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Mon 11 Oct, 2004 11:21 am
I love some of the truly great lines that many of our movies have given us. One of my favorites comes from 'Austin Powers', where Doctor Evil explains to the therapy group his 'Pretty standard' childhood.
This bit still brings a smile to my face, as much for the delivery as the text.
Doctor Evil: My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.
Please post some of your favorites...
My favourite is the one in my sig:
Nobody looks beyond a choice he does not understand....
The oracle in the matrix said it.
But Galadriel's words would do equally fine:
"Even the smallest person can change the cause of the world..."
I don't have this one verbatim, but it's Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:
"There's two kinds of people in this world; those with guns, and those who dig. You dig."
I love this one -- I always think I shouldn't love it, that it's too cynical, but I've seen it proven right again and again. From "Men in Black":
Jay : Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
Kay : A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
Dr. Strangelove
Harold: "I love you, Maude."
Maude: "Oh, Harold, that's wonderful. Go and love some more."
Harold and Maude
"You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley."
On the Waterfront
Jimmy Dugan : "Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying, there's no crying in baseball. Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry? NO. NO. And do you know why?"
Evelyn Gardner : "No."
Jimmy Dugan : "Because there's no crying in baseball."
A League of their Own
"As my dear old grandfather Litvak said (just before they swung the trap), he said 'You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump.'"
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Jack Torrance : "Mr. Grady. You were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out."
Grady : "That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all."
The Shining
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
Animal Crackers
Elwood : "Illinois Nazis."
Jake : "I hate Illinois Nazis."
The Blues Brothers
Sonja : "Oh don't, Boris, please. Sex without love is an empty experience."
Boris : "Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best."
Love and Death
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. What 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
From the Blues Brothers.
"What kind of music do you normally have here?"
Oh, we get both kinds - country AND western!
From E.T.
Elliot: How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
From Full Metal Jacket.
Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you, private?
Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir!
Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked **** that high."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Peasant 1: Who's that there?
Peasant 2: I don't know... Must be a king...
Peasant 1: Why?
Peasant 2: He hasn't got **** all over him.
From The Right Stuff
Some NASA Official type: "An astronaut named Gus? What's your middle name?"
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom: "Ivan."
Some NASA Official type: "You can be Gus."
Seeing as we started with Austin Powers....(from Goldmember):
Nigel Powers: There are only two things I hate, those who are intolerant of other people's cultures........and the Dutch.
Great Blues Brother quotes:
You on the motorcycle... You two girls... tell your friends.
Elwood : It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake : Hit it.
"Total freedom, is also total loneliness" (approximate translation) from Sans toit ni loi
My Favorite from Meet Joe Black
Anthony Hopkins: I know it's a cornball thing but,
Love is Passion, obsession...
Someone you can't live without.
I say fall head over heals; find someone you can love like crazy,
And who will love you the same way back.
How do you find him?
Well, you forget your head and listen to your heart (and I'm not hearing any heart)
Cause the truth is,...there's no sense living your life without this.
To make the journey and not fall deeply in love.
Wow, you haven't lived a life at all.
But you can try because if you haven't tried,...
You haven't lived.
She says: Okay.. Give it to me again, but the short version this time.
Anthony Hopkins: Stay open, who knows lightening could strike.
Bette Davis as Margo Channing in "All About Eve" 1950:
Margo Channing : I'll admit I may have seen better days... but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.
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