The previous post I did made me think of how bad some lines are in a movie. But what about the BEST lines.
I am not talking about the most memorable or quotable, though they may be just that, but those most impacting and important words, said just right can make the movie.
So I give you my “off the top of my head” great lines in a movie.
10. Princess Bride – “This is true love – you think this happens every day? ”
9. Superbad – “I’m assuming you all have guns and crack!”
8. The Lion King – “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
7. Best of the Best – “This has nothing to do with winning; if those boys do their best and fail, I’ll still be proud, but if they don’t give it their all and I don’t give them mine, then it’s my failure and my disgrace.”
6. Matrix Reloaded – “French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d’enculé de ta mère. It’s like wiping your arse with silk. I love it. ”
5. Hackers – “There is no right and wrong. There’s only fun and boring.”
4. The Whole Nine Yards – “It’s not important how many people I’ve killed. What’s important is how I get along with the people
who are still alive.”3. Jurassic Park – “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
2. The Power of One – “To have a brain is not a sin, but to have a brain and not use it, that is a sin.”
1. Ladyhawke – “I know I promised, Lord, never again. But I also know that YOU know what a weak-willed person I am.”
Yes I know these quotes certainly run the gamut of themes and meaning but each and all of them capture a certain moment that mean far more than these simple words convey.
Some are of a grander notion, while others are just spontaneous moments of clarity or humour.
Words capture us in a movie.
What words in a movie have truly moved you to laugh, think – or move you?
Do not forget…
“Do you expect me to talk?”
“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!”
“Winged freak terrorizes?……….Wait till they get a load of me”
“You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey fucking cheeks. Then you can give me a fucking automobile, a fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick. Four fucking wheels and a seat.”
“I really don’t care for the way you’re speaking to me.”
“And I really don’t care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn’t fucking there. And I really didn’t care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile in my fucking face. I want a fucking car RIGHT…..FUCKING…….NOW.”
“Get away from her YOU BITCH”
“Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed but always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you… my only son.”
“James Bond, you appear with the tedious inevitability…….of an unloved season”
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.”
“I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right.”
“It’s finished on the map, it’s finished on the god damn map”
“I guess they fell behind”
“Shit; you’re fired. Everybody’s fuckin’ fired”
“The size of this is……beyond me”
“I hope to see my friend again. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope…”
I have a bad feeling about this – guess :p
Does this entorage of biscuits follow you where ever you go?
-Killing of a Chinese Bookie
#1The Matrix – “Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”
#2King Arthur – “Arthur, wherever I go on this wrenched island, I hear your name. Always half whispered, as if you were… a god. All I see is flesh, blood. No more god than the creature you’re sitting on.”
#3Pirates of The Caribbean 3 – “He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl, and you felt guilty, and you and your Brethren Court. Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?”
#4Armageddon – “Miss Stamper? Colonel William Sharp, United States Airforce, ma’am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I’ve ever met.”
#5Terminator 2: Judgment Day – “The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.”
#6Troy – “Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?”
#7Gladiator – “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
#8Seven – “Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.”
#9Boiler Room – “They say money can’t buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.”
#10The Usual Suspects – “Keaton always said, “I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.” Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.”
“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” Bruce Willis-Die Hard
damn stev L……i was gonna use those…..that gladiator one always gives me tingles…and nice pick from usual suspects
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” JAWS
“Snakes, why did it have to be snakes” RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
“Call it…Frendo” NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
“Darling. Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just gonna bash your brains in. I’m gonna bash ’em right the fuck in” SHINNING
“Do you think God knew what He was doing when He created woman? Huh? No shit. I really wanna know. Or do you think it was another one of His minor mistakes like tidal waves, earthquakes, FLOODS? You think women are like that? S’matter? You don’t think God makes mistakes? Of course He does. We ALL make mistakes. Of course, when WE make mistakes they call it evil. When GOD makes mistakes, they call it… nature. So whaddya think? Women… a mistake… or DID HE DO IT TO US ON PURPOSE?” THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
“Sometimes, Dolores… being a bitch is the only thing a woman has to hold on to.” Dolores Claiborne.
2 from the good the bad and the ugly
Tuco: There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.
Man With No Name: You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig
and 2 from the thing
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
Nauls: Maybe we’re at war with Norway?
NPH: Forget White Castle, let’s go get some pussies.
anything NPH says in that movie is gold, hahaha.
“someone else has already said it best. so if you cant top it, steal from them and come out on top.” -American History X
“C’mon guys, by the time we get there the kid wont even be dead anymore!”-Teddy Duchamp.
Army of Darkness
All Ash, all the time-
“Gimme some sugar baby.”
“Hail to the king, baby.”
“This is my BOOMSTICK!”
“Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.”
“Come get some.”
Serinity
Mal: Do you want to run this ship?
Jayne: Yes!
Mal: Well…you can’t!
Jayne: I’ll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight… If he bothers me, or if there’s a woman… Or if I’m gettin’ paid. Mostly only when I’m gettin’ paid.
Stand By Me
narrator – “Now he said “sic him boy”. But what I heard was “Chopper! Sic! Balls!”.
Teddy – “Well, this is great. What are we supposed to do? Eat our feet?”
Gladiator:
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.”
Usual Suspects:
“Keaton always said, “I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him”. Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me… is Keyser Soze.”
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
As Good As It Gets:
“How do you write women so well?”
“I imagine a man, and I take away reason and accountability”
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles – “You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I’m an easy target. Yeah, you’re right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you… but I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I’m not changing. I like… I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. ‘Cause I’m the real article. What you see is what you get.”
Pretty much most of the Peaceful Warrior movie.
“There are no ordinary moments”
“There is no starting or stopping – only doing”
and in Don’t Look Back Bob Dylan
“If I can be in your dreams you can be in mine”
Just some that pop in my head:
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. (Gladiator)
We march! (300)
If it bleeds, we can kill it. (Predator)
Stick around! (Predator)
The whole Pulp Fiction basically but especially the Samuel L. Jackson hesekiel quote:
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Spider-Man
Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: “With great power comes great responsibility.” This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I’m Spider-man.
The Punisher: This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it’s an emotional response. No. Not vengeance. Punishment.
Batman Begins
(From Teaser) – “They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I’ve looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge… Me.”
“If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.”
“No, a vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, you become something else entirely.”
Office Space
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door – that way Lumbergh can’t see me, heh heh – and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Peter Gibbons: [talking about the hypnotherapist he’s about to see] Hey, he helped Anne lose weight.
Samir: Peter, she’s anorexic!
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, he’s really good.
There’s just so many of them, I could go on all day!
I won’t kill you, but I don’t have to save you. (batman begins)
You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind. (the matrix)
The first rule of Fight Club is – you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is – you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. (fight club)
My name is Iniyo Mantoya, you killed my Father, prepare to die. – Princess Bride
uhhh… just being completley random and unthorough..
Twister- Unrealized idea! Unrealized!
The Shining – gimme the bat, wendy! stop swingin the bat!
Ghostbusters – when someone asks you if you’re a god you say, YES!
Fight Club – my tits gonna rot off (you know what..way too many from fight club to list)
As good as it gets – carol the waitress, meet simon the fag
True Romance – oh thats creative…i got more taste in my penis!
The Beach- enjoy your dinner
The Big Lebowski- FORGET ABOUT THE FUCKING TOE!
Tremors – she will have big blue eyes, long blond hair, world class breasts, and legs that go allllll the way up!
The 40-year old virgin – i am not ugly as fuck!
Liar Liar- the pen is blue!
Donnie Darko – How did that make you feel, being denied these hungry hungry hippos?
Dumb and Dumber- (way too many…waaaaaaaaay too many lines)
Any line of the book “The Power of One” is better than the entire movie. Check it out.
Mayor: Is this true? Vaikman : Its true you’r honor this man has no dick. -Ghostbuster
Im not going to kill you, but I dont have to save you.
-Batman Begins
So now you know evil always wins because good is dumb.
-Spaceballs
Bart: Are we awake? Kid: I dont know ..are we black? Bart: Yes we are. Kid: Then were awake, but were very puzzled. -Blazing Saddles
A couple more:
“I abandoned my child!” – There Will Be Blood
“Just give me the blood Eli, let me get out of here.” – There Will Be Blood
“You gotta be fucking kidding.” – The Thing
“It’s all in the reflexes.” – Big Trouble in Little China
I was watching Dumb and Dumber today (probably for the 11th time) and here’s some great lines:
Lloyd: Mary… I desperately wanna make love to a school boy.
Harry: Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention.
Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Lloyd: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.
Harry: Oh, I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are assholes.
Harry: I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.
Lloyd: I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver’s full of shit, man.
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up”. – Batman Begins
“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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die”- Blade Runner
“My Name is Igo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare To Die!…”
(and later, when Igo gets his revenge)
“I want my father back, you son of a bitch” -Princess Bride
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look once in awhile, you could miss it”-Ferris Beuler’s Day Off
“What are you prepared to do?”- The Untouchables
“Strength and Honor”- Gladiator
I wrote a blog like this a while back. Here are 3 of my favorites:
Garden State:
“Maybe that’s all family really is: a group of people who miss the same imaginary place.”
Big Fish:
“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. What they don’t tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”
Stranger Than Fiction:
“If he knows he’s going to die and chooses to die anyway, isn’t that the kind of man you want to keep alive?”
This is my favorite (Roy Batty from Blade Runner):
“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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
You have to drag out the i in drainage for There Will Be Blood.
DRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINAGE!
There Will Be Blood is filled with some great ones.
“Drainage!”
“Bastard in a basket!”
and of course “I Drink your milkshake! I Drink it up!”
Valerie’s letter in V For Vendetta gets me every time, especially the last line.
“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”
hmm, well, im not saying any of these r bad (#9 cracked me up!), but there r much better 1s out there. here r sum of my favorites:
Why did god make us all different if he wanted us to be the same –“Saved”
When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak –“Fight Club”
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. –“Fight Club”
The more you try to run from your sins, the more tired you are when they catch up to you –“Inside Man”
Hate is baggage. Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it –“American History X”
Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. –“Batman Begins”
Love is stronger than any addiction. Hell it is one. -“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”
and trust me, ive got plenty more!