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[Spitfire]

The finale words in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
Just before they run out of the bank to face the whole Bolivian Army:

Butch Cassidy: "Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble".

 

[HadleyH]

"We are on the express elevator to hell...going down"


Aliens 1986

 

[Carlisle Blues]

"After all, tomorrow is another day."
Gone With the Wind (1939)






"Nobody puts Baby in the corner."

(while eating a piece of cheese) JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze) about FRANCES "BABY" HOUSEMAN (Jennifer Grey) in Dirty Dancing (1987)

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I thought of a some other favorite quotes from the movies.

Star Wars: "Let the Wookie win."

At least a couple of lines from the above movie has gone into our popular culture. One is "May the Force be with you." And, when someone has fouled up and done something wrong, he or she may say, "Now, I've gone over to the dark side!"

The "tomorrow is another day" quote from GWTW reminds me of another favorite quote from that movie, uttered by Scarlett O'Hara after she shoots an intruder: "Well, now I've done murder. I won't think about that. I'll think about that tomorrow."

I am wracking my brain to see if I can recall a good quote from any of the Indiana Jones films, but only come up with "I hate snakes." Not a favorite quote of mine because I like snakes.

I love funny lines and therefore enjoy a lot of lines I've heard in The Women and in All About Eve.

My favorite All About Eve lines:

Lloyd: ..."Eve, playing that childish little game of cat and mouse."
Margo: "Not mouse, never mouse. If anything, 'rat'!"

The George Sanders character (Addison DeWitt) from All About Eve, has to be one movie character with some of the most quotable lines ever. A good one: "Miss Caswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts."

karol

 

[C-dot]

The Misfits, Marilyn's last words on a film screen: "How do you find your way home in the dark?"

 

[LizzieMaine]

Best title card of the silent era -- In "The Old Army Game", W. C. Fields as a smalltown bootlegger/druggist refuses to sell hootch to a Prohibition agent with these words:

"What! You would have me break the laws of this great land to satisfy your depraved taste!"

(Who needs talkies??)

 

[Wally_Hood]

In the interests of accuracy...

Somehow the name Wally_Hood got stuck in part of a quote about shaken not stirred, linked to bruising the gin. The great observations about Bond, gin, shaking, and stirring are not original with me; other more knowledgeable folks deserve credit.

 

[Diamondback]

"I think he got the point."--007 (Sean Connery), after offing Vargas (Philip Locke) by speargun

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Two famous movie quotes that have entered mainstream are:

Dirty Harry: "Make my day."

Terminator: "I'll be back."

The latter quote is usually said with an Austrian accent.

karol

 

[Carlisle Blues]

A Christmas Story (1983)

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!

 

[tbrunke]

Maltese Falcon

Here is one I haven't seen on here yet, spoken by Sydney Greenstreet's character in the Maltese Falcon:

"Lose a son it is possible to get another, theres only one Maltese Falcon"

 

[HadleyH]

This recent one had its moment under the sun for a while:



"I'll have what she's having"


When Harry Met Sally 1989

 

[Carlisle Blues]

"Why spend your life making someone else's dream?" Ed Wood

"Every step I have taken has to bring myself closer to you." Memoirs of a Geisha

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and you will." Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I am now living in Iowa. Iowans love this quote from Field of Dreams:

Shoeless Joe Jackson, walking out of the cornfields: "Hey, is this heaven?"
Ray Kinsella: "No, it's Iowa."

And the big quote from that particular movie was the mysterious voice in the cornfield: "If you build it, he will come."

Here's another quote from a popular movie that became mainstream and was parodied quite a bit: "I see dead people."

From The Sixth Sense.

karol

 

[MsStabby]

The Philadelphia Story (just watched this again last night):

Macaulay Connor: I would sell my grandmother for a drink - and you know how I love my grandmother.





George Kittredge: But a man expects his wife to...
Tracy Lord: Behave herself. Naturally.
C. K. Dexter Haven: To behave herself naturally.
[George gives him a look]
C. K. Dexter Haven: Sorry.

 

[HadleyH]

Midnight Cowboy 1969

When Ratzo (Dustin Hoffman) is walking down a New York City street and almost gets knocked down by a taxi, he angrily slaps the hood of the car saying:




HEY !!! I'M WALKING HERE !!!

Apparently that is a very memorable phrase, in Hollywood at least, because it has been quoted in many films.... in "Forrest Gump", "Miss Congeniality","Back To The Future 2", ""Apocalypto".... and probably many others. Who'd have thought... just a simple phrase like that! [huh]

 

[TracyLord]

!

"Our new one piece lace foundation garment...zips up the back and no bone!'

That's definitely one of my favourites--
or later in the movie

where one says (and hopefully i'm not misquoting)
"men are only after us for one thing"
and she says "Well what else do we have to give?"

my favourite lines probably come from All about Eve
with far too many of them to quote.

Or The Philadelphia story (obviously!)-- with again-- too many to quote- but maybe

"I understand we understand each other"
"quite"



or "Thank you professor, I don't think I'm exceptional"


oh, I could play this game forever.

 

[TracyLord]

George Kittredge: But a man expects his wife to...
Tracy Lord: Behave herself. Naturally.
C. K. Dexter Haven: To behave herself naturally.
[George gives him a look]
C. K. Dexter Haven: Sorry.

without seeing your post, I almost put this in. Don't you love how Cary Grant's character has such a sense of humour as his own. He loves word play. I think it's part of the genius of the Donald Ogden Stewart script.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Speaking of one of the most horrifying lines, how about the famous one from Wall Street:

"Greed is good."

 

[Naphtali]

Puckish humor.

(Treasure of the Sierra Madre) 1948; Dobbs to Curtin.

"I'll make you a bet. Three times thirty-five is a hundred and five. I bet you a hundred and five thousand dollars you go to sleep before I do."
***
(Hombre) 1967

Standing part-way up the hill from an abandoned mine to talk with barricaded stage coach passengers, Cicero Grimes (Richard Boone) is negotiating with John Russell (Paul Newman) to release kidnapped Audra (Barbara Rush) in exchange for the fortune embezzled by her husband, Alex Favor (Fredric March). When Grimes' demands are complete,

Grimes: Any questions?

Russell swings his rifle toward Grimes

Russell: Hey, I got a question. How are you gonna get back down that hill?