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Movie quotes that resonate. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 OP
"Get busy living, or get busy dying." CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2013 #1
That's a great movie too. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #5
As you wish DebJ Feb 2013 #2
Princess Bride. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #3
My children memorized it and we quote it all the time. DebJ Feb 2013 #4
Inconceivable! NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #23
"I'm tired, boss." EastTennesseeDem Feb 2013 #6
Honey, time marches on and eventually you realize it is marchin' across your face. CurtEastPoint Feb 2013 #7
"YOUR FUCKING WORD DON'T EVER GO OVER MY FUCKIN HEAD AGAIN!" datasuspect Feb 2013 #8
That was some good acting in that movie. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #13
Ah, my go-to film: Denninmi Feb 2013 #9
That is one of the top remembered quotes from that movie. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #14
Men in Black timesup Feb 2013 #10
I love that movie. Initech Feb 2013 #87
"Mongo only pawn in game of life..." lastlib Feb 2013 #11
They're just good and simple people... Ron Obvious Feb 2013 #93
"...these are people of the land...the common clay of the New West...." lastlib Feb 2013 #96
Oh no sir. its completely baked. undeterred Feb 2013 #12
Killer trivia: discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2013 #15
Are you here for an affair? undeterred Feb 2013 #20
Plastics! discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2013 #21
Is this your first time? undeterred Feb 2013 #25
Well... discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2013 #28
Benjamin, Isn't there something you want to tell me? undeterred Feb 2013 #29
Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you? discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2013 #30
"I think we're gonna need a couple more FBI guys." Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #16
Die Hard nt Broken_Hero Feb 2013 #69
The all time best! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #17
I've been trying to find a good quote from the movie Django, but I can't Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #26
"Say 'what' again" Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #18
"'What' ain't no country I ever heard of!" nomorenomore08 Feb 2013 #71
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie.. sir pball Feb 2013 #84
Cole me on the panny sty. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #19
Deserve's got nothing to do with it... Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #22
I'm your huckleberry mokawanis Feb 2013 #24
It's got electrolytes! Separation Feb 2013 #27
"I fought your kind in the great war, and we kicked the living shit outta you." Grantuspeace Feb 2013 #31
That was hilarious! Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #32
Love that movie too! Love Slim Pickens! Grantuspeace Feb 2013 #41
My sig line... Agschmid Feb 2013 #33
From "Swimming With Sharks" Kennah Feb 2013 #34
That's a good line. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #35
"I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad to prove to everyone that I worked..." "PROVE WHAT?" charlie and algernon Feb 2013 #36
Poor Rudy. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #39
"Why does 'naked' make it Art?" - Matthew Modine's character in 'Short Cuts' KurtNYC Feb 2013 #37
And a couple from Big Kahuna charlie and algernon Feb 2013 #38
Pretty heavy. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #40
That's a fantastic movie. charlie and algernon Feb 2013 #43
Anybody else want to negotiate? hobbit709 Feb 2013 #42
Fifth Element Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #44
From one of my favorite movies. Nt a la izquierda Feb 2013 #76
"Face it Flounder, Dyedinthewoolliberal Feb 2013 #45
And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, tk2kewl Feb 2013 #46
"Coffee's for closers..." Kingofalldems Feb 2013 #47
"Sometimes the majic works, sometimes it doesn't." kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #48
Give me a clue. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #50
Little Big Man Kennah Feb 2013 #55
WINNER!!!!! kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #61
This quote definitely resonates ashling Feb 2013 #49
That was a sweet movie. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #51
No, I just thought that the Lou Gehrig speech was a good example of resonance ashling Feb 2013 #52
Oh, you! Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #53
"Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #54
Must be a king. LeftOfSelf-Centered Feb 2013 #89
We dine out here in Camelot Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #91
"You ever seen a grown man naked?" Socal31 Feb 2013 #56
I can make a hat! Loryn Feb 2013 #64
Loved that movie. nt Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #94
How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants Kennah Feb 2013 #57
One of my favorites from Rincewind Feb 2013 #58
"Nervous?" DFW Feb 2013 #59
"Death is so final." At Elvis' gravesite. bif Feb 2013 #60
Too much fucking perspective! Dr. Strange Feb 2013 #82
Really loved this OP nt kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #62
"God damned Army." Scuba Feb 2013 #63
To describe people with a lack of vision kwassa Feb 2013 #65
What a filthy job. csziggy Feb 2013 #66
"You ever seen a grown man naked?" Kennah Feb 2013 #67
"Hey man, there's a beverage here!" Downtown Hound Feb 2013 #68
The Dude abides. VOX Feb 2013 #72
There are a few movie quotes that stick with me Broken_Hero Feb 2013 #70
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" VOX Feb 2013 #73
+1000 Sherman A1 Feb 2013 #74
"The whole point of the doomsday machine...is lost if you keep it a secret!" Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #75
"I happen to like nice men." a la izquierda Feb 2013 #77
"What we have here is failure to communicate" -Cool Hand Luke nt Pryderi Feb 2013 #78
"Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect Pryderi Feb 2013 #79
They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad progressoid Feb 2013 #80
I always thought that Easy A quote was a cheap shot. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #81
from The Big Chill Dismalindistress Feb 2013 #83
I love lamp! sir pball Feb 2013 #85
Because This is The Business We have chosen........ busterbrown Feb 2013 #86
"When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the park..." Initech Feb 2013 #88
"Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes." LeftOfSelf-Centered Feb 2013 #90
"Some days you skin the bear, some days the bear skins you"...nt Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #92
Three favorites: mykpart Feb 2013 #95

Baitball Blogger

(46,744 posts)
5. That's a great movie too.
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:38 PM
Feb 2013

Though I don't know if it deserves the back to back treatment it receives from one of the networks. There was awhile there where you could find it playing on any day of the week.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
4. My children memorized it and we quote it all the time.
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:29 PM
Feb 2013

No one can ever say "It's possible"........without adding 'pig'.

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
9. Ah, my go-to film:
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 04:37 PM
Feb 2013

Shop assistant: Hello, can I help you?
Vivian: I was in here yesterday, you wouldn't wait on me.
Shop assistant: Oh.
Vivian: You people work on commission, right?
Shop assistant: Yeah.
Vivian: Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now.

timesup

(88 posts)
10. Men in Black
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 05:17 PM
Feb 2013

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it."

Men in Black had a good quote every few seconds, but this one is my favorite.

Initech

(100,082 posts)
87. I love that movie.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 11:19 PM
Feb 2013

My favorite:

"Arkellian battle rules kid. First we get an ultimatum then a warning shot and then we get a galactic standard week to respond."
"A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?"
"One hour."

MIB 3 is great too if you haven't seen it.

"OK so you know how your kid won that goldfish in the baggy at the school fair and you didn't want that nasty thing in your house so you told your kid that it ran away but what you really did was flush it down the toilet? This is what happens. Don't lie to your kids."

lastlib

(23,251 posts)
11. "Mongo only pawn in game of life..."
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:40 PM
Feb 2013

Blazing Saddles--SO many quotable lines!! But that's the best one and my favorite.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
93. They're just good and simple people...
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 01:00 AM
Feb 2013

"What did you expect? They're just simple, good people. You know, morons."

I probably mangled that quote but it always made me laugh.

lastlib

(23,251 posts)
96. "...these are people of the land...the common clay of the New West...."
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 12:40 PM
Feb 2013

(For a long time, I had a memory of him saying, "you know--Mormons.&quot

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
20. Are you here for an affair?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 10:43 PM
Feb 2013

I don't remember the number. But in college I knew all the lines in The Graduate.

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
25. Is this your first time?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:21 PM
Feb 2013

Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
29. Benjamin, Isn't there something you want to tell me?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:37 PM
Feb 2013

Benjamin: Tell you?

Mrs. Robinson: Yes.

Benjamin: Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

Mrs. Robinson: The number.

Benjamin: What?

Mrs. Robinson: The room number, Benjamin. I think you ought to tell me that.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
30. Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:39 PM
Feb 2013

Benjamin: Oh, she doesn't. To be perfectly honest, she doesn't like me.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
71. "'What' ain't no country I ever heard of!"
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 04:34 AM
Feb 2013

Those early Tarantino flicks are chock full of quotables. Many of which I could never, ever repeat on this website.

sir pball

(4,743 posts)
84. Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie..
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:39 PM
Feb 2013

..but I wouldn't know 'cause I'd never eat the filthy motherfucker.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
19. Cole me on the panny sty.
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 08:00 PM
Feb 2013

Bob Costas: ...I'm sorry. What was that?
Pootie Tang: Cole — Cole me on the panny sty.
Bob Costas: What the hell are you talking about?
Pootie Tang: ...Cole me down on the panny sty?
Bob Costas: Ohhhh, cole me down on the panny sty! All right!

Separation

(1,975 posts)
27. It's got electrolytes!
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 11:29 PM
Feb 2013

Joe and Rita had three children, the three smartest kids in the world. Vice President Frito took 8 wives and had a total of 32 kids. Thirty-two of the dumbest kids ever to walk the Earth. OK, so maybe Joe didn't save mankind, but he got the ball rolling, and that's pretty good for an average guy.

Kennah

(14,276 posts)
34. From "Swimming With Sharks"
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:16 AM
Feb 2013

"Life is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love does not conquer all."

Perhaps Kevin Spacey's best film, but that's a tall order because everything he does is magnificent.

Baitball Blogger

(46,744 posts)
35. That's a good line.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:20 AM
Feb 2013

Actually, better than most from Tremors, which I thought were quite good.

Earl Bassett: Is this a job for an intelligent man?
Valentine McKee: Well, show me one and I'll ask him.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
36. "I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad to prove to everyone that I worked..." "PROVE WHAT?"
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:33 AM
Feb 2013
Rudy: That I was somebody.

Fortune: Oh you are so full of crap. You're 5 feet nothin', a 100 and nothin', and you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you're also gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody - except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
37. "Why does 'naked' make it Art?" - Matthew Modine's character in 'Short Cuts'
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:33 AM
Feb 2013

"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "f*ck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!" Col Kurtz, 'Apocalypse Now'

"I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies." -Gone with the Wind

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
38. And a couple from Big Kahuna
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:37 AM
Feb 2013
Phil Cooper: It doesn't matter whether you're selling Jesus or Buddha or civil rights or 'How to Make Money in Real Estate With No Money Down.' That doesn't make you a human being; it makes you a marketing rep. If you want to talk to somebody honestly, as a human being, ask him about his kids. Find out what his dreams are - just to find out, for no other reason. Because as soon as you lay your hands on a conversation to steer it, it's not a conversation anymore; it's a pitch. And you're not a human being; you're a marketing rep.





Phil Cooper: I'm saying you've already done plenty of things to regret, you just don't know what they are. It's when you discover them, when you see the folly in something you've done, and you wish that you had it do over, but you know you can't, because it's too late. So you pick that thing up, and carry it with you to remind you that life goes on, the world will spin without you, you really don't matter in the end. Then you will gain character, because honesty will reach out from inside and tattoo itself across your face.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
43. That's a fantastic movie.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:49 AM
Feb 2013

Basically a three man play with Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito (who plays Phil Cooper), and Peter Facinelli. They play three sales reps at a business conference trying to get an important businessman (the big kahuna) to buy their products. Pretty much the entire movie takes place inside their hotel suite and there's a ton of introspective dialogue.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189584/

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
46. And there was a time in this country, a long time ago,
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 12:08 PM
Feb 2013

when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!

Socal31

(2,484 posts)
56. "You ever seen a grown man naked?"
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 03:39 AM
Feb 2013

"Don't call me Shirley"
"It looks like I picked the wrong day to stop (insert increasingly harmful substance here."

That whole movie is just full of them......



"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

That one is actually relevant to today, the first movie I quoted is just too hard to avoid quoting in a movie thread.

Kennah

(14,276 posts)
57. How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 03:41 AM
Feb 2013

Once Upon A Time In The West

DFW

(54,414 posts)
59. "Nervous?"
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 08:02 AM
Feb 2013

Old Lady to flight-spooked former pilot Ted Striker: "Nervous?"
Striker nods.
Old Lady: "First time?"
Striker: "No, I've been nervous lots of times."

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
65. To describe people with a lack of vision
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 10:35 PM
Feb 2013

"All I care about is getting out of the Vista View apartments, because there ain't no 'vista', there ain't no "view", and there certainly ain't no vista of no view."

White Men Can't Jump.

I've used this quote many times.

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
70. There are a few movie quotes that stick with me
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 03:33 AM
Feb 2013

that I use in daily life. Some of them are rather stupid lines, but they resonate with me.

"Fuck, even in the future nothing works!"-Spaceballs

"Its megamaid sir, she's gone from suck to blow"-Spaceballs

"He is Conan, Cimmerian, he won't cry, so I cry for him."-Conan the Barbarian(arnie version)

"Pink...uh sorry Miss Lane didn't mean to embarass you"-Superman the Movie

"Otisburg?!?!?! OTISBURG!?!!!"-Superman the Movie

"I've got one question, in 27 parts"-Back to School

"I can't, I've got to return some videotapes"-American Psycho

"Now thats one big pile of shit"-Jurassic Park

There are a lot more than resonate with me, most of them goofy and stupid.

My favorite current one is my sigline, from the upcoming Man of Steel movie, its Jor-el talking to Kal as a baby....



VOX

(22,976 posts)
73. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:59 AM
Feb 2013

As said by President Merkin Muffley (played by the great Peter Sellers) in the "Dr. Strangelove."

Other great lines from this classic:
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." -- Base Commander Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden)

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, uh, depending on the breaks." -- Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott)

More by Sellers as the title character:
"The whole point of the doomsday machine...is lost if you keep it a secret!"
"Sir! I have a plan... [stands from his wheelchair] Mein Führer, I can WALK!"

Baitball Blogger

(46,744 posts)
75. "The whole point of the doomsday machine...is lost if you keep it a secret!"
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:28 AM
Feb 2013

I could use a twist on that one.

 

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)
79. "Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 09:28 AM
Feb 2013

the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor." - 1776

Dismalindistress

(14 posts)
83. from The Big Chill
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:29 PM
Feb 2013

Michael: I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex.
Sam: Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex.
Michael: Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?

Initech

(100,082 posts)
88. "When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the park..."
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 11:23 PM
Feb 2013

"In front of a full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards, that's my policy!"
"That was a Shakespeare In The Park production of Julius Caesar you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!"

The Naked Gun




90. "Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 12:00 PM
Feb 2013

from Blade Runner


And a couple from Donnie Darko:

Donnie: I made a new friend.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: Real or imaginary?
Donnie: Imaginary.

Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Rose Darko: Kitty, do you even know who Graham Greene is?
Kitty Farmer: [scoffs] I think we've all seen "Bonanza."

mykpart

(3,879 posts)
95. Three favorites:
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:48 AM
Feb 2013

"F**k him; he was trash." The Jagged Edge

"You get f**ked at the drive-thru!" Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon

"F**k that shit!" The Rose

(I think a pattern may be emerging here.)

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