Major Strasser: "What is your nationality?" Rick: "Why, I'm a drunkard."
Rick, to Rainault: "When it comes to women, you're a true democrat."
Rick: "...Remember, I have this gun pointed straight at your heart." Rainault: "That is my least vulnerable spot."
Rainault: "I am shocked - shocked! - to discover that gambling is going on here!" Staff member: "Oh, sir, your winnings..." Rainault: "Thank you, thank you very much."
Girl: "Could speak I to you for just a moment, please..." Rick: "How'd you get in here? You're under age." Girl: "I came with Captain Rainault." Rick: "I should've known..." Girl: "My husband is with me too." Rick: "He is? Well, Cap'n Rainault's getting broad-minded, sit down."
One of my favorites. The Music Box theater in Chicago showed it a few years ago. Great to see it on the beg screen. Theres so much more shadow detail on film that you miss on a TV screen not to mention the big screen and the entire movie experience.
I also got a chance to see Citizen Kane there as well.
G.Gordon Liddy
"Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?"
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
Dean Martin
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
Finally got Turner Classic Movies on our cable system...yeah! First thing I watched was Citizen Kane. I haven't seen that in a long time. One quote I've never forgotten is by Bernstein when he is being interviewed by one of the newsreel guys...
Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money.
I also like this story he tells since I experience similar thoughts:
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
"If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a major general"
Painter James Whistler, who had been a West Point cadet in the 1840's but who flunked out after misidentifying silicon as a gas during a chemistry exam.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better...
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted....
Admirer holding out Ms. West's hand: Goodness, what diamonds!
MW: Goodness had nothing to do with it.
MW to a crowd of male reporters in her room one evening: Boys, I'm tired tonight. One of you will have to go.
Reporter: Miss West, could you give us your opinion on foreign affairs.
MW: I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs
My favorite movies for quotes: Casablanca and also Gone With the Wind
Well, now I've done murder. I won't think about that; I'll think about that tomorrow....(Scarlett O'Hara, after shooting a Yankee looter)
Miss Scarlett, I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin babies (Prissie, Butterfly McQueen)
Wizard of Oz has a few, too. My favorite is the Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas, anymore quote.
Dorothy Parker, while she didn't make movies, had some good lines:
When Calvin Coolidge died, she said, "How could they tell?"
A movie review: "Katherine Hepburn ran the emotional gambit from A to B."
When walking up to a door with Claire Booth Luce, Ms. Luce stepped aside and said, "Age before beauty." Parker wafted through the door and said, "Pearls before swine."
My favorites mostly come from Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary:
"Belladonna, n. -- In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
and "Christian, n. -- One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor."
and "Feast, n. -- A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor os some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness."
and "Politics, n. -- A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principlees. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
and lastly (for the purposes of this thread) "President, n. -- The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President."
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