Greatest Jack Nicholson movie line?

[11 Bravo]

Poll question: Greatest Jack Nicholson movie line?

If other, please indicate the line and the movie. (I know I'm leaving some good ones out, and I need a memory jog.)

[GOPisEvil]

1. A couple from "Chinatown"

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

[Richardo]

3. "Your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. "

Chinatown has the best lines:

"....You're screwin' just like a Chinaman!"


Noah Cross: I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head.
Jake Gittes: Fine... long as you don't serve the chicken that way.

Jake Gittes: Mulvihill! What are you doing here?
Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What's it to you?
Jake Gittes: How'd you find out about it? You don't drink it. You don't take a bath in it. They wrote you a letter. But then you have to be able to read.

Noah Cross: 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Goddamn Florsheim shoes.

:D

[Fenris]

"Give me the bat!"

:)

[Wonco_the_Sane]

2. voted for truth

I love Jack as the "bad guy"

also liked "What if this is as good as it gets" Just saw the movie on TV

[On the Road]

5. "As Good as it Gets" Has Some Stream-of-Conciousness Insults

that go on forever.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. "Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."

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yeah,

Jack does "insults" good !!

and yup, that's from "As Good as it Gets"

[Westegg]

6. From "Five Easy Pieces"

I said don't point at her, you pompous celibate!

[Westegg]

7. From "Easy Rider"

They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

[BOSSHOG]

8. From "The Last Detail"

The Marine says after pissing in the Head, in the Marine Corps they teach us to wash our hands after urinating. To wit, Jack, the Salty First Class responds - "IN THE NAVY, THEY TEACH US NOT TO PISS ON OUR HANDS." - fight ensues. Ahhh, the good ole days.

[Richardo]

10. Actually, he says if he were a Marine and wanted to piss, he'd just

take off his hat. Go Navy! :D

[UTUSN]

22. O My Gott - I Didn't Think ANYbody Knew "Last Detail"

Where he sez, "I *AM* the fucking Shore Patrol"!

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. "Terms Of Endearment" - "To Kill the bug you have up your ass"

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Jack: . . . You Need a LOT of drinks...

Shirley: . .To Break the Ice?

Jack: . . . To Kill the bug you have up your ass

-:evilgrin: ! !

[Enraged_Ape]

12. From his screenplay for the Monkees movie "Head"...

"Well, let me tell you one thing, sonny. NOOO-body ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor!"

[Aristus]

13. Not funny, but appropriate:

Easy Rider: "This used to be a hell of a country."

[Arugula Latte]

14. "That's a helluva fish ya got there, chief."

From "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." My spouse often quotes it. Don't ask me why...

[Bertha Venation]

15. AaaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuaaIIIIIInnnnnnnndiannnnn!

"Easy Rider"
upon taking a good long draught of whiskey

(that is: long moan/sigh, then, "Indian!" Yes, that's what he said.)

[bobthedrummer]

25. Or when he tokes up and talks UFO's

"The Venusians are contacting people in all walks of life."
:smoke:

[Deja Q]

16. Mars Attacks:

I don't recall the quote directly, but with his usual flair he uttered an utterly hilarious phrase (after the elimination of congress by the Martians) that said "I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."

http://www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/nicholson.htm for much more.

[Bundbuster]

17. Terms Of Endearment -

At the airport after Shirley McClaine says she loves him...

"Just when I thought I'd made a clean getaway."

[Fenris]

18. I have an obscure one

Tell me what movie this is from:

"Sooner or later, it comes comes down on you like a wall full of Mexican teeth."

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

19. Don't forget Batman.

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

"What do you want?"
"Oh, a little song, a little dance, Batman's head on a lance..."

"I consider myself the world's first homicidal artist."

"You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

[NightTrain]

20. From "Prizzi's Honor"

"If Marxie Heller's so fucking smart, how come he's so fucking dead?"

[flamingyouth]

21. What - no mention of Psych Out?

"Stoney, hurry, Warren's in the gallery, and he's freaking out!"

OK, probably not one of his better films... :silly:

[ironflange]

23. Not a line, but from Five Easy Pieces (spoiler alert)

When he climbs in the back of the truck, uncovers the piano, and rides off playing Chopin's Fantasy in F minor. Or else at the very end where he gets in the cab with the trucker and vanishes.

[HEyHEY]

24. "Sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here."