Aight, after a lengthy hiatus, I bring a poll to the masses (or at least the handful of people that read this blog semi-regularly). SO, in light of the recent AFI poll of "AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES", I ask you, my loyal readers, what are your favorite movie quotes?
Try to keep it to your top three or so favorites and give the movie title and character if you can.
Posted by languorous at June 22, 2005 01:17 PM"But my lips hurt real bad", Napoleon, Napoleon Dynamite
"My shoe just falled off", Arnie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Posted by: Lori at June 22, 2005 02:43 PMHaha, I was wondering how many Napoleon Dynamite quotes there were gonna be and here, the very first one is ND, scary.
Posted by: languorous at June 22, 2005 07:15 PMI'm still thinking of what to nominate here, but I wanted to note that the AFI's top 400 quotes, that the top 100 were voted in from, are located here:
http://www.afi.com/Docs/tvevents/pdf/quotes400.pdf
It's a good extended list, a lot there that I wish had made it.
Posted by: Jason at June 23, 2005 01:06 AMI may have several more additions to this list.... however who can forget Jack Nicholson as
Melvin Udall in "As Good as it Gets":
(His wonderful introduction of two co-stars) "Carol the waitress, Simon the fag"
(his declaration as he notices people sitting at HIS table in the restaurant "I have JEWS at my table"
And another gem following the Jews remark: "People who talk in metaphors oughtta shampoo my crotch"
Posted by: Jon at June 23, 2005 09:38 AMHere are mine, it was hard to get down to three...
You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me your sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship, Tyler?--Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) Fight Club
The weather out there is hot and shitty, with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy weather. A pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.--Airman Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) Good Morning Vietnam
Okay, let me see if I got this straight. In order to be grounded I've got to be crazy, and I must be crazy to keep flying missions. But, if I ask to be grounded that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying.--Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) Catch 22
Posted by: lindsay at June 23, 2005 10:07 AM"It puts the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it's told.... PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!" Jame Gumb from "The Silence of the Lambs". Scary that this was the first quote that came to my mind.
I have several more-- need more time to process...
Posted by: Robb at June 23, 2005 12:50 PM"I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want to go to his house in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!"
Give it up for Robert Deniro as Al Capone in "The Untouchables".
Posted by: Robb at June 23, 2005 01:02 PMOkay, no, this isn't my favorite movie or anything and I'm pretty sure I've only seen it because Kelly picked it one day. I didn't even really like it although it was funnier than I anticipated. The following is one mind-bending quote that made me laugh out loud when the character uttered the words with a straight face.
"Theoretically speaking, if you go to the past in the future then in your future lies the past and that is a picture of you in the future, in the past." -Kate and Leopold
Posted by: languorous at June 23, 2005 06:53 PMThe following quote is from a movie I actually liked and it's one of my favorite quotes.
"Don't move until you see it."
-From the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer"-the character Bruce, played by Ben Kingsley
The world would be a much better place if more people understood the concept of foresight.
Posted by: languorous at June 23, 2005 06:57 PMWhy do you have to be so deep all the time... What is wrong with a nice wholesome line. My favorite quote of all times.
That will do pig, that will do.
BABE
Hahahahaha, leave it to you to give a quote from Babe! That's the best.
Posted by: Lori at June 24, 2005 02:04 PM"Hello! My name is Inigo Mantoya, you kill my father, prepare to die." - Inigo Mantoya, "The Princess Bride"
"We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, lay off their largest cities, listen to their rock and roll...while we conduct missile drills." - Captian Ramuis, "The Hunt For Red October"
"I see you're drinking 1%; is that cause you think you're fat? Cause you're not; you could drink whole if you wanted to." - Napolean Dynamite "Napolean Dynamite"
Posted by: Gar at June 25, 2005 10:13 AMToo many - but here are some of my favorites:
"We're going ballistic Mav!" - Top Gun
"That was a peach, Hon" "I don't think the heavy stuff is going to come down for awhile" "Neunann, Nuenann" - All from Caddyshack "When you think of trash think of Akeem" - Coming To America
"I came here to play ball!" The Natural
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
Posted by: Jason at June 29, 2005 07:50 PMTHE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION- Red: [narrating] The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.
DIRTY DANCING; "Nobody puts baby in a corner"
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Verbal: Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. "
Posted by: Christina at July 10, 2005 09:09 PM