Favorite movie quotes

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My first and one of my all time favorite Quotes comes from Seven Years in Tibet



Heinrich Harrer: A man who betrays his culture shouldn't preach about its customs. There was a time I would have wished you dead but your shame will be your torture and your torture will be your life. I wish it to be long.
 
You are a sad strange little man, and you have my pity.

-Buzz Lightyear Toy Story 1
 
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Movie gold - Some Like It Hot!

Jerry: Now you've done it! Now you have done it!
Joe: Done what?
Jerry: You tore off one of my chests!

* * * *

Jerry: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Jerry: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn't matter.
Jerry: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
Osgood: I don't care.
Jerry: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player.
Osgood: I forgive you.
Jerry: [Tragically] I can never have children!
Osgood: We can adopt some.
Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood!
[Pulls off wig]
Jerry: I'm a man!
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect!
 
''V'' for vendetta.

"People should not fear their government. Government should fear their people."
 
Don't look now buddy, but there's one too many men in this room and I think it's you.

Groucho Marx "Duck Soup"
 
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." - Steve McCroskey, Airplane.

I could more or less repeat the whole script from Airplane where quotes are concerned so here is some Tyler Durden instead.

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. " - Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

Good idea for a thread by the way.
 
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You've Got Mail- Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks


Joe Fox: You know, sometimes I wonder...
Kathleen Kelly: What?
Joe Fox: Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well... met...
Kathleen Kelly: I know.
Joe Fox: Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?"
Kathleen Kelly: Joe...
Joe Fox: And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night.
Kathleen Kelly: Well, who fights about that?
Joe Fox: Well, some people. Not us.
Kathleen Kelly: We would never.
Joe Fox: If only.
[pause]
Kathleen Kelly: I gotta go...
Joe Fox: Well, let me ask you something. How can you forgive this guy for standing you up and not forgive me for this tiny little thing of... of putting you out of business?
[Kathleen starts to cry]
Joe Fox: Oh, how I wish you would.
Kathleen Kelly: I really have to go.
Joe Fox: Yeah, well... you don't wanna be late.


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Joe Fox: Tweaking? A project that needs "tweaking"?
Kathleen Kelly: Yes.
Joe Fox: T-w-e-a-k-i-n-g.
Kathleen Kelly: -i-n-g. That's what he said.
Joe Fox: I think he's married. Married, three kids.
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Kathleen Kelly: I could never be with someone who has a boat.
Joe Fox: I have a boat.
Kathleen Kelly: Oh.
Joe Fox: Which clinches it; we'll never be together.
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Joe Fox: I think you'd discover a lot of things if you really knew me.
Kathleen Kelly: If I really knew you, I know exactly what I'd find: instead of a brain a cash register, instead of a heart a bottom line.
[gasps]
Joe Fox: What?
Kathleen Kelly: I just had a breakthrough.
Joe Fox: What is it?
Kathleen Kelly: I have you to thank for it. For the first time in my life, when confronted with a horrible, insensitive person, I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I said it.
Joe Fox: I think you have the gift for it. It was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.
 
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From Tombstone. Some of my faves:

* I spent my whole life not knowing what I want out of it, just chasing my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want and who... that's the damnable misery of it.

* I'm a woman, I like men. If that means I'm not "lady-like", then I guess I'm just not a lady! At least I'm honest.

Josephine Marcus: Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.
Mr. Fabian: My dear, you've set your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette... eyes closed by the sun, though sharp as a hawk. He's got the look of both predator and prey.
Josephine Marcus: I want one.
 
B.A: Hey Boss,why we need all these things anyway?
Hannibal: Because overkill is underrated my friend.

-Liam Neeson The A-Team

I, using musical theory, have created order out of chaos.

-Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes

Dispatcher: Sir, this is the emergency frequency
John McClane: No fucking shit lady, what do you think I'm trying to do, order a pizza?!

-Bruce Willis Die Hard
 
One I use constantly when trying to get things to fit into overstuffed freezers, shelves, cupboards, and closets.

From Star wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Chewie at the garbage compactor chute: Hwaaarr
Han kicking him into the chute: I don't care what you smell, you big furry oaf, get in there!
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger-Kindergarten Cop: "It's not a too-mah!"

His partner Phoebe when she clocks the Grandma with a ball bat: "You're not so tough without your car, are ya!"
 
Ren: So what about Men at Work?
Willard: What do they do?
Ren: They're a band.
Willard: Well what do they call themselves?
Ren: OK, what about The Police, you ever heard them?
Willard: No, but I've seen them.
Ren: What, at concert?
Willard: No, behind you.
Ren: Wha- Oh shit.

-Kevin Bacon and Chris Penn Footloose
 
Some quotes from one of the coolest movies there is, ALIENS.

Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?


Gorman: Hicks, meet me at the south lock. We're coming in.
Hicks: Roger.
Hudson: [to Vasquez] He's comin' in. I feel safer already.


Drake: Hey, Hicks. Man, you look just like I feel.


Apone: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!


Hudson: Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!


Bishop: I'm afraid I have some bad news.
Hudson: Well that's a switch.


Drake: They ain't paying us enough for this, man.
Dietrich: Not enough to have to wake up to your face, Drake.
Drake: What? Is that a joke?
Dietrich: Oh, I wish it were.


Vasquez: Look, man. I only need to know one thing: where they are.
Drake: Go, Vasquez. Kick ass.
Vasquez: Anytime, anywhere, man!
Hudson: Right, right. Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up!
Vasquez: Fuck you, man!
Hudson: Anytime, anywhere.


[discussing where the eggs come from]
Hudson: Maybe it's like an anthive?
Vasquez: Bees, man. Bees have hives!


Frost: Hey, I sure wouldn't mind getting some more of that Arcturian poontang! Remember that time?
Spunkmeyer: Yeah, Frost, but the one that you had was a male!
Frost: It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!
 
From part 2 of Hellsing Ultimate (a series of movie-length adaptations of the Hellsing manga)

Alucard: I'm a dog? Then you're dog food.

A word of warning; that youtube link contains animated gore, if you're not sure about it, don't watch it.

EDIT: Also, if it's not clear from the result of the fight; Alucard's one of the main characters. Who said psychopaths always have to be villains?
 
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If the rule you lived your life by led you to this point, of what use was the rule?

-Anton Chigur No Country for Old Men
 
From The Court Jester 1955

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?

Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?

Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.

Hawkins: A flagon...?

Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.

Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.

Griselda: Right.

Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?

Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Griselda: Just remember that.

Me: Zuh!?
 
From The Court Jester 1955

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?

Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!

Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?

Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.

Hawkins: A flagon...?

Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.

Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.

Griselda: Right.

Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?

Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Griselda: Just remember that.

Me: Zuh!?

Love that movie :D
Danny Kaye was awesome :eek:
 
Yes he was, now I'm going to have to find a youtube clip of him and add it to my Loft thread. ;)
 
"Guns don't kill people. People kill people"
Silk (DMX) -Romeo Must Die-

"Freedom is not free at all, it comes with the highest cost. The cost of blood"
Queen Gorgo (Lena Heady) -300-


I don't watch enough movies to come up with really good ones...
 
"I asked your dad for your hand in marriage, and then just before he threw that stick of dynamite at me I thought I saw a hint of a smile on his lips"

Tim - Wasting Away

"Doc, I promise you, if anything bad happens to your sister I will be really...choked up. Honestly, there could be tears."

Mal Reynolds - Serenity
 
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One of my favourite scenes from Jane Austen's P&P

Mr. Darcy: So this is your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining so fully. Perhaps these offences might have be overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty...
Elizabeth Bennet: My pride?
Mr. Darcy: ...in admitting scruples about our relationship. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?
Elizabeth Bennet: And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
[they look at each other for a long time as though about to kiss]
Mr. Darcy: Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.
 
There Will Be Blood


"I have a competition in me. I want noone else to succeed."
 
The Usual Suspects

Verbal: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist
 
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