Your favorite movie quotes

[tonyb]

“Senator, you can have my answer now if you like.

”My offer is this: Nothing, not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.”

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." — Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), The Departed

 

[Blackthorn]

Solara: Do you remember what it was like? I mean, in the world before.

Eli: Yeah.

Solara: Well, what was it like?

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was...precious. And what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

Book of Eli

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Waiter!
Last year, it was all so good here, but now, the taste is not more that good."

"Really?"

"Yeah, may you could bring the complaints book?"

"That's full."

"May you bring Chief?"

"He's full, too!"

 

[Blackthorn]

Man: I try to look like any common traveling killer, but my heart is hammering.

The Road

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy." — Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), The Departed

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.” — Dignam, The Departed

 

[Blackthorn]

• The Man: Listen, we have to talk. That man back there... There's not many good guys left, that's all. We have to watch out for the bad guys. We have to just... keep carrying the fire.
• The Boy: What fire?
• The Man: The fire inside you.
• The Boy: Are we still the good guys?
• The Man: Yes, we're still the good guys. Of course we are.
• The Boy: And we always will be? No matter what happens?
• The Man: Always will.

from The Road

 

[Blackthorn]

I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

Sam Spade in Maltese Falcon

 

[tonyb]

“It is our most modestly priced receptacle.”

 

[Blackthorn]

Look at you! Just killed a placemat.

Haymitch Abernathy, Hunger Games

 

[Fading Fast]

From Roadblock from 1951 with Charles McGraw and Joan Dixon where McGraw plays a detective, with a detective's salary, and Dixon plays a pretty woman with expensive tastes.


Diane (Joan Dixon): Someday you're going to want something nice and expensive that you can't afford on a detective's salary.
Joe Peters (Charles McGraw): Like what?
Diane (Joan Dixon): Like me.

 

[Blackthorn]

Just remember, all political careers end in failure.

Golda Meir

 

[Blackthorn]

I promise I will never even think of going up in a tall building again.

John McLane

 

[Blackthorn]

People only pay once to see the bearded lady.

Miss Scarlet and the Duke

 

[tonyb]

“Can’t you see it, Everett? Them sireens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad!”

 

[Blackthorn]

You see? She's not dressed for plumbing. But what woman is?

Charles Boyer, in Cluny Brown

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“I am double the worst trouble you ever thought of.” — Neil McCauley, HEAT

 

[Blackthorn]

I'm so scared I'm spitting cotton.

from the Robert Mitchum character, in The Angry Hills.

 

[Blackthorn]

from Groundhog Day:

"What if there’s no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today."