What are your favorite movie quotes?

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  1. cswillson

    cswillson New Member

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    "What's the matter with you?"

    "I can't swim."

    "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you."

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
     
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    This writer and paragraph, though rather loftly and conceited, got to me when I read him.
    From "Barfly'.

    "Even at my lowest times I could feel the words bubbling inside of me. And I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death. Words not as precious things, but as necessary things. Yet when I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and then know I have nothing to worry about."

    C. Bukowski (factotum)

    Also Bukowski:

    "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live."
     
  3. cswillson

    cswillson New Member

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    "Emergency, emergency. Everybody to get from street."

    The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

    "Hollywood!"

    1941
     
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    Can I count the entire Princess Bride movie?

    And then there is Treasure Planet, a good ripe plum for fun quotes.

    Doctor Doppler: "Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there and you're useless! "

    -

    Captain Amelia: [to a protesting Doppler] Let me make this as... monosyllabic as possible. I... don't much care for this crew you hired. They're...
    [to Arrow]
    Captain Amelia: how did I describe them, Arrow? I said something rather good this morning before coffee.
    Mr. Arrow: 'A ludicrous parcel of driveling galoots,' ma'am.
    Captain Amelia: [to Doppler] There you go, poetry.

    -

    Captain Amelia: "Doctor. To muse and blabber about a treasure map in front of this particular crew, demonstrates a level of ineptitude that borders on the imbecilic! And I mean that in a very caring way."
     
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    Now I want to watch Treasure Planet...
     
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    "Be the bullet."

    Shanghai Noon
     
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    JessWrite Word Nerd & Proud! Contributor

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    Bruce Banner: "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him."
    Thor: "Have a care how you speak! Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother!"
    Natasha Romanoff: "He killed eighty people in two days."
    Thor: "He's adopted." ~Avengers

    Loki: "I have an army."
    Tony Stark: "We have a Hulk."

    "Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. Enjoy." ~Willy Wonka

    :D
     
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    Pheonix A Singer of Space Operas and The Fourth Mod of RP Contributor

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    I would also like to count that movie in it's entirety :D
     
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    In "Lawrence of Arabia", Lawrence has snuffed a match using his bare fingers. William Potter, another soldier, tries to do the same and burns himself. "It bleedin' hurts!" he says.
    Lawrence: "Certainly it hurts."
    Potter: "What's the trick, then?"
    Lawrence: "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."
     
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    I had to shift gears a bit for one of my favorite, and funniest sets of dialogue I've seen. Unfortunately, without Jenna Louise Coleman and Matt Smith to bounce off each other, it's just words on paper, but the punchline at the end is very funny. Oswin wanted to line to be about her, and the Doctor stole her thunder for the 'chin' comment.

    Oswin: Unauthorized personnel may not enter the cockpit.

    The Doctor: Shut up.

    Oswin: Oh! Mr. Grumpy. Bad combo. No sense of humor and that chin.

    Amy: Is that her again, Soufflé Girl?

    The Doctor: Yeah. She— Oy! What is wrong with my chin?

    Oswin: Careful dear. You'll put someone's eye out.

    The Doctor: How can you hack into everything? It should be impossible. You're in a crashed ship!

    Oswin: Long story. Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

    The Doctor: Doctor. You call me the Doctor.

    Oswin: See what you did there.


    Dr Who: The Asylum of the Daleks
     
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    As you wish.
     
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    Butch and Sundance are on the ledge of a cliff, high above a rock-strewn white-water mountain river.

    Butch Cassidy: Alright. I'll jump first.
    Sundance Kid: No.
    Butch Cassidy: Then you jump first.
    Sundance Kid: No, I said.
    Butch Cassidy: What's the matter with you?
    Sundance Kid: I can't swim.
    Butch Cassidy: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.
     
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    “It’s a moral imperative.” —Real Genius

    And of course as stated above, the Princess Bride movie....a favorite:

    "Inconceivable!"
    - "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." – Princess Bride


    A quote I just saw that is my new favorite:

    - "Writing for me is about control, it's my world, MY WORLD!!" – Sanjuricus in new member’s introductions.

    Not a movie quote, but worth an honorable mention.
     
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    Can we make sure we attribute quotes properly to their sources? If that becomes a problem the thread will have to be closed.
     
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    Do or do not. There is no try.

    Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
     
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    'Independence Day' when Will Smith punches the alien and says 'Now that's what I call a close encounter'
     
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    Pretty much any dialogue involving John Gray in The Body Snatcher.

    Particularly these:

    Gray: I'm a pretty bad fellow myself, but MacFarlane's the boy - Toddy McFarlane I call him. Toddy, order your friend another glass.
    [to Fettes]
    Gray: Toddy hates me.
    Dr. MacFarlane: Don't call me by that confounded name.
    Gray: Hear him! Did you ever see the lads play knife? *thrusts a knife into a loaf of bread*
    Gray: Toddy would like to do that all over my body.
    Donald Fettes: We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.

    Dr. MacFarlane: Gray, I must be rid of you. You've become a cancer, a malignant evil cancer rotting my mind.
    Gray: You've made a disease of me, eh, Toddy?

    And then there's Gray's trademark, "You'll never get rid of me that way, Toddy." ;)

    God, Karloff was brilliant in that film.
     
  18. Writer 2013

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    From the "Breakfast Club."

    Vernon: "Now I heard a ruckus."
    Brian: "Could you describe this ruckus."
     
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    And another one from "The Breakfast Club"

    Vernon: "What are you gonna do about it? You think anyone's gonna believe you? You think anyone is gonna take your word over mine? I'm a man of respect around here. They love me around here. I'm a swell guy."
     
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    Princess Alais: "What happens now?"
    King Henry II: "I have no idea. But I know I'm winning, and I know I'll win. Oh, God, but I do love being King!"

    - The Lion in Winter
     
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    "If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"
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    The all-time great, Trainspotting:

     
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    From my all time favourite movie HEAT

    I say what I mean and I do what I say....
     
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    Sanjuricus nailed it for me i'm afraid.

    That Bladerunner quote actually gives me chills, even when i read it!!
     
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    "Play it again Sam"
    "Beam me up Scotty"
    "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."

    My favs because they are so widely quoted, but were famously never said in the movies they are attributed to. :p
     

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