Understood. It’s definitely one of those love-it-or-hate-it movies.
From “This Is Spinal Tap”
Filmmaker Marty DiBergi, reading some of the band’s reviews to band members during an interview: “This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.”
Nigel Tufnel: That’s just nitpicking, isn’t it?
“Snap…snap…snap…”
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe
Toward the end of a long night and early morning of drinking and soul-bearing… Elizabeth Taylor answers the door to Richard Burton throwing snapdragons at her. Such a dark and intresting movie. It’s my favorite part of my favorite movie.
Wow, these are great! My favorite movie lines all seem to come from ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said.
Butch: What’s the matter with you?
Sundance: I can’t swim.
Butch: Why you crazy, the fall will probably kill you.
and…
Butch: Jeesh, all Bolivia can’t look like this.
Sundance: How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we’re standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know.
and the piece de resistance
Butch: How long before you figure they’re not after us?
Sundance: A while longer.
Butch: How come you’re so talkative?
Sundance: (looks at Butch) Naturally blabby, I guess.
From Monty Pythons,The Life of Brian:“He’s not the messiah,he’s a naughty naughty boy!”
See no Evil Hear no Evil:“fuzzy wuzzy was a woman??”
Blazing Saddles:
“Mongo is only pawn in game of life”
Here are two I’ve repeated or have heard many a time:
“I’ll be back,” Terminator 2 (?) with your best Arnold accent.
“Your overconfidence is your weakness,” Return of the Jedi, Darth Vadar to Luke Skywalker, again in a Darth Vadar voice.
- Bill
I have 3 boys who quite frequently use this one from “Lord Of The Rings”:
“What about second breakfast?”
From the remake of the Dirty Dozen, a German officer spots the Jim Brown replacement in a German uniform. “Let me see your papers!”
I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about it.
Life of Brian______
Brian: Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t need to follow me; you don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals!
Crowd: Yes, we’re all individuals!
Brian: You’re all different!
Crowd: Yes, we are all different!
Man: I’m not.
Crowd: Shhh!
That’s one of my favorite ones too.
The first rule of Chiff & Fipple: Don’t talk about Chiff & Fipple.
my signature line. 
From “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski 1974);
You see, Mr. Gitts, most people never have to face the fact. At the right time and the right place, they’re capable of … anything!
Slan,
D.
From “Scarface” with Al Pacino:
“Let me introduce you to my little friend”
Let’s get some older movies in here for us older folk:
“Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!” “Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.” (Mae West, “Night After Night”)
“We’ll begin with a reign of terror - a few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men. Just to show we make no distinction.” (Claude Rains, 'The Invisible Man")
“Have you got any milk-fed chickens?” (Waiter replies, “Yes sir”) Well, squeeze the milk out of one and bring me a glass." (Groucho Marx, “A Night AT The Opera”)
“I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. Tis the one thing I’m indebted to her for.” (W.C. Fields, “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”)
“I killed him for money and for a woman. And I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?” Fred MacMurray, “Double Indemnity”)
“If I’d been a ranch, they would have named me the Bar Nothing.” (Rita HAyworth, “Gilda”)
“I am more interested in the Rock of Ages than I am in the age of rocks.” (Fredric March, “Inherit the Wind”)
Getting to the nmore recent:
“Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.” (“Goldfinger”)
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” (Peter Sellers, “Dr. Strangelove”)
“It took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Unger. It’s not your fault, Felix; it’s a rotten combination, that’s all.” (Walter Mathau, “The Odd Couple”)
“I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most apowerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?” (Clint Eastwood, “Dirty Harry”)
“You talking to me? You talking to me? You talking to me? Well, who the hell else are you talking to? You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the f–k do you think you’re talking to?” (Robert DeNiro, “Taxi Driver”)
“I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.” (Michael McKean, “This Is Spinal Tap”)
(Billy Crystal, “City Slickers”) “Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?” (Jack Palance replies) “Day ain’t over yet.”
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” (Anthony Hopkins, “Hannibal Lecter”)
“Well, I guess they had it comin’” “We all have it comin’, kid.” Jaimz Woolvet and Clint Eastwood, “Unforgiven”)
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” (Kevin Spacey, “The Usual Suspects”)
Philo
“Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” “What’ve you got?” (Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.”)[/i]
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“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti ftftftftftftft” (Anthony Hopkins, “Hannibal Lecter”)
“Here’s looking at you, kid!” (Casablanca) (What the heck does that mean, anyway?)
There’s one film that, in my mind, stands out as having the best quotes, because they’re both clever and meaningful. It’s “A River Runs Through it.”
“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”
“It is a strange and wonderful and embarassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren’t good enough to follow her.”
“One of life’s quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash.”
“So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don’t know what part to give or maybe we don’t like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.”
“Big clumsy flies bumped into my face, swarmed on my nose and wiggled in my underwear. Blundering and soft-bellied, they had been bornbefore they had brains. They had spent a year under water on legs, had crawled out on a rock, had become flies and copulated with the ninth and tenth segments of their abdomens, and then had died as the first light wind blew them into the water where the fish circled excitedly. They were a fish’s dream come true - stupid, succulent, and exhausted from copulation. Still, it would be hard to know what gigantic portion of human life is spent in this same ratio of years under water on legs to one premature exhausted moment on wings.”
And one from “Casablanca”:
“I’ve often speculated why you don’t return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator’s wife? I like to think you killed a man. It’s the Romantic in me.”