Pick your all time favorite movie and post the best line from that movie.

[Bertha Venation]

This isn't a "guess the movie" thread. Just name your movie an post the line. I'll start.

[Bertha Venation]

1. Shirley Valentine.

SV: "That's right, Milandra, I'm going to Greece for the sex. Sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea and sex for supper!"

Deliveryman: "Sounds like a marvelous diet, love!"

SV: "It is, have you never heard of it? It's called 'The F Plan!'"



Runner up: Costas: "Boat is boat. Fuck is fuck."

[flvegan]

2. In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate.

In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.

-The Punisher (2004)

[pokerfan]

3. Lawrence of Arabia

Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me, for ordinary men, it's a burning, fiery furnace.
T.E. Lawrence: No, Dryden, it's going to be fun.
Mr. Dryden: It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun.

[abq e streeter]

4. Animal House (hey, what can I say? I'm an intellectual)... favorite line? Where do I begin?

"7 years of college down the drain"...."was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" ...If I thought about it, I could probably pick dozens more from it.

[Zavulon]

31. The Germans bombing Pearl Harbor is easily my favorite line of that one. (NT)

[Radical Activist]

5. Office Space.

I don't know if this is still my favorite movie but so many lines are classic.

Peter : Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"
Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.



Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it, Bob.

[kentauros]

6. I can't!

My all time favorite movie doesn't have any dialogue!

[MilesColtrane]

7. From "The Third Man"...

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

From "Annie Hall"...

After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.

[sammytko]

8. Friday

I know you don't smoke weed, I know this; but I'm gonna get you high today, 'cause it's Friday; you ain't got no job... and you ain't got shit to do.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Dr. Strangelove

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

[Steely_Dan]

10. Here Are Some Of My Favorites

From "The Wild Bunch"

Pike Bishop (William Holden)
"When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! *We're* finished! All of us!"


From: "The last Picture Show"

Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson)
"If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about 5 minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old."


From: "There Will Be Blood"

Daniel Plainview (Daniel-Day Lewis)
"One night I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat."

[Art_from_Ark]

11. From the Scarlet Pimpernel (original '30s version)

Sir Percy (reciting his poem to a group of admiring girls):

They seek him here
They seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is he in Heaven? Is he in (*giggle*)?
That dimmed elusive Pimpernel!

[cyberswede]

12. from The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was terrific in the movie, and this is my favorite of her lines:

Mrs. Iselin: I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond, but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they would ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you. I told them to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers and they chose you because they thought it would bind me closer to them. But now, we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.

[guitar man]

13. "I hate Illinois Nazis"

I just don't really know how to pick a "best" Line from the Blues Brothers....it's full of them :D

[abq e streeter]

22. You traded the cadillac for a microphone?....OK, I can see that

[guitar man]

25. no ma'am

we're musicians

[abq e streeter]

26. I worked in the county building shortly before they filmed that

and watched them rehearsing the rappelling off the roof scene before I came back to NM. Walked through the same gold doors where they crashed the bluesmobile through to get the $ to the assessor's office twice a day for a year, and walked through that same lobby etc.... (more stories to tell; actually not that many, but incriminating enough (although statute of limitations on marijuana related offenses are probably less than 30 years ) that I'll wait until I make a long rumored and or promised appearance in Tulsa to relate those.
There are so many hysterically funny lines in that movie, that we could throw em at each other all day and still leave some out. I've often wondered if "civilians" "get" some of the musician inside-jokes . Murph and the Magic-Tones...:rofl:

[guitar man]

28. The inside jokes

definetly lots of inside jokes in the movie. What's so brilliant about it is how many inside jokes they could put in it and still manage the broad base appeal it has. Probably my favorite inside joke in the whole movie is when they flip on the stage lights at Bob's Country Bunker and there is a B-3 and Leslie already sitting on the stage. :rofl:

[Forkboy]

14. "You got to be fucking kidding" from The Thing.

Delivered at the end of this lovely scene. The FX in this scene still blow me away, even knowing how they're done.

Warning, much grossness ahead lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q

[rrneck]

15. Can't pick just one but...

Outlaw Josey Wales
Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

Unforgiven:
The Schofield Kid: (after killing a man for the first time) It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.

The Lion in Winter
Prince John: A knife! He's got a knife!
Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world. Although the entire script would be my favorite line

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. not my all time favorite (don't have one) but I like this line from

Meet Joe Black (I know, right?)

Joe Black: Should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be facing a finality beyond your comprehension, and you will not be counting days, or months, or years, but milleniums in a place with no doors.

[charlie and algernon]

17. I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about.

Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.


~ Red, Shawshank Redemption

[Initech]

18. The Big Lebowski

"This could be a lot more uh uh uh complex. I mean it might just not be such a simple... uh... ya know?"

[gratuitous]

19. Chinatown

Many fine lines, but the disgraced Roman Polanski picked off a juicy little part for himself: "You know what happens to nosy fellows? Yes? No? They lose their noses!"

[Enrique]

20. Gimme Shelter

favorite line: "who's fighting and what for?"

[joeybee12]

21. "Well Rhett, money does help, and if I said I was madly in love with you,

you'd know I was lying."

Sums her up prefectly.

[Rambis]

23. Grateful Dead Movie

Garcia after being told the rafters are to high to hang equipment.

"Hey man I know but you'll just have to get stuff to happen down here in the middle by you know timing it"

[One_Life_To_Give]

24. "It's the Wumper"

From "Wind"


Yes, I know I am strange.

[Sky Masterson]

27. Excalibur (1981)

Arthur: I've often thought that in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future... can be just a man... we might meet. You'd come to me, claim me yours, know that I am your husband.

Arthur: It is a dream I have.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/

[Seedersandleechers]

29. Drugstore Cowboy

"You never fuck me, and I always have to drive" Kelly Lynch to Matt Dillon

[ornotna]

30. Zorba the Greek

"Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe"

[Demoiselle]

32. "I'll have what she's having..."

The line spoken by Rob Reiner's mother (as a deli extra) after the fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally.
I'm not saying that this is my favorite movie, by the way. Just that it's a brilliant one liner.

My runner-up is "We all have it coming, kid," from Unforgiven. Sums up the whole blinkin' movie. A better movie, by far, of course, than When Harry Met Sally.

I can't possibly name my favorite movie, I love so many. Although Casablanca does lead the pack when I think about it. (And of course, there's always, "I'm shocked, SHOCKED, etc" the Claude Raines line.)

[Ikonoklast]

33. From "Repo Man", just one of many great quotes...

J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.

Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?

Parnell: Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.

[Auggie]

34. The Maltese Falcon

"When you're slapped you'll take it and like it."



Sam Spade to Joel Cairo