Favorite line from a movie

[chrischar]

My favorite line in a movie comes from "The Princess Bride."

Wesly is sword fighting the Spanish swordsman. Wesly is beating him at his own game (they are both masters of the sword). The Spaniard (Inrigo Mintoia) says,

"Who are you?" Wesly says, "No one of consequence."

Inrigo says, "I must know," to which Wesly replies, "Get used to disappointment."

I just think it is cool!

-Chris

From the Shawshank Redemption [after Andy is asked by the new inmate what he's in for]

"Don't you know? We're all innocent in here."

From the Eiger Sanction, [by mountain climber who, during a particularly perilous time is told "c'mon, we'll make it!"]

"No we won't--but we will continue in great style."

[nerdneh]

Paul Little used to tell a story about salvation by grace. He wrote that we should imagine the whole human race lined up on the West Coast of America with the task being to swim to Hawaii. Well, some can swim better than others, but the longest any human has ever been able to swim is about 90 miles. Diane Nyad swam this length of water a few years ago. So, imagine you could swim as well as she could, then cheer up, only 1910 miles to go!
Now, what you need is someone to come by in a boat and pick you up. But what if a boat came near, and they threw you a package and with your last strength you swam to it and opened the package, and inside was a book entitled: HOW TO SWIM?
You would drown, no matter how good a swimmer you are! Blessedly, a cross-shaped boat purchased at an incredible price comes alongside and invites us aboard. Or course, we have to get on the boat! But the meaning of getting on the boat is being rescued not saving ourselves.

[charlie]

Darth Vader while choking a fleet commander with his mind:

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Neo to Morpheus when discussing how powerful he will become once he realizes his true potential:

"So what are you telling me; that I can dodge bullets?"

Morpheus:
"No, Neo. When you're ready, you won't even have to."

Obiwan:
"You're eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them... Stretch out with your feelings."

[seekr]

part of the sermon from the movie "Cold Comfort Farm"

"And then, to bring home the realities of the fiery pit, he said, 'Ye know, don't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or w' a match when ye're lighting one of them godless cigarettes? Aye.
It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it?  An' ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Well, there'll be no butter in hell!"

In this movie they were all headed for hell. Great writing.

Maurine

[Nicholas]

Lately my wife has been using a line form Dr. Tim (on Oprah).
After listening to a person explain the happenings in his life,  Tim says, " Now how's that working for you"  The wife and I love it  :D


Nicholas.......saved by grace

[gpgrubb]

When asked if his power tool uses 220 volt power, Michael Keaton replies with a totally serious face " 220, 221 ... whatever it takes" in Mr. Mom.  He obviously has no clue!  Cracks me up!
How hard we try to impress others!

Grace & peace to all!

[nerdneh]

1130 PM and alone, all alone on this vast board!

[Bon Voyage]

" I pity the foo who don't eat my cereal!"

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

[janine]

After thinking about it, I guess my favorite movie line, is that,  because it comes from one of my favorite literary passages.
    In Tolkein's LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo is bemoaning the fact that Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance ("pity he didn't kill him"); Gandalf reacts that it was just that, pity, that stayed Bilbo's hand.  He then goes on with the idea that many people who deserve death, live, and die who deserve life.  "Can you give it to them?", he asks Frodo.
    That's a great line.  We can speculate, we can judge; if were're fallen enough we can try to take life and death into our own hands; but, there is only One who holds life, and death, in His hands.
    "Can you give it to them?"  Oooh, great line.

[nerdneh]

"Play it again, Sam."
"I don't think we're in Kansas any more."
"I'll get you and your little dog too."
"Neatly done, indeed it was." Sidney Greenstreet in the Maltese Falcon.
"Well go ahead and read it!" Groucho Marx
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
"     " Harpo Marx
"I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." HAL 9000
"Go ahead, make my day!"

[Richard]

"Remember, No matter where you go...there you are"

Buckaroo Bonzai

I think this is from a movie about a little boy with a sense of the supernatural;

"I see dumb people, they are everywhere."

[seekr]

Ha ha, Bob, joined you for just a goodnite moment, only it is only 9:30 here in WA. But I do sense an aloneness at times when I come here and there's no one even lurking.Abandoned again!!!

seekr

[nerdneh]

"Play it again, Sam."

[seekr]

"Better to win by admitting my sin...than to lose with a halo"  from the movie "Evita"

seekr

[Shumby]

From NOW VOYAGER:
"Let's not reach for the moon - we have the stars."
The very last words spoken in this movie, and Bette Davis said them to Paul Henreid

[peck]

A funny one liner from "oh brother" from Del-mar after baby face asked them if they were bad.

"funny you should ask that...I was bad...but me and pete just got saved"

God bless,Charles

[Richard]

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Buckaroo Bonzai[/quote]

And I thought I was the only person in the world who actually saw that wonderful movie.

Another great line from Buckaroo -- in the middle of an instructional discussion during brain surgery --

"Don't touch that.  You don't know what it might be connected to."[/quote]
VERY funny movie.

"Laugh while you can Monkey Boy!"

[OldDad]

Great topic.  One of my favorite movies is "Casablanca", which has dozens of memorable lines.  I will try to whittle it down to a few...

"I remember Paris perfectly. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue."

Rick: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.
Victor:  You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.
Rick: Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.
Victor:  You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.

"If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

"I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid."

OD

[seekr]

My favorite line from one of my favorite movies, "As Good as it Gets". "I'm drowning here, and you're describing the water."

seekr

[janine]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of those movies with 1,000 half-hidden blessings.  I love a movie or a book that makes people consider God.

Unfortunately, some of my dear ones can't get past the wordy, worldly veneer of George Clooney's character.  One sister-in-the-Lord in particular had to stop the video by the time the characters had picked up the bluesman at the crossroads.  She couldn't stomach the smart-mouthed Cloonney-character's belittling of baptism and the conversion of his buddies.  She was flitting in-and-out of the room tending to kids, partly because the film made her so jittery it was hard for her to sit still.

If she had heard the part where the bluesman says he just sold his soul to Satan, she'd have fainted dead away... :0

People sure do have different 'meters' for measuring what they can tolerate from the world.

Her kids like the part where the guys are lamenting that their friend was turned into a "horny toad".  It cracks them up.

I like when the little girls meet their dad when he sees them on stage, and they start describing their mother's new beau. "He's a suitor!" one says, in her lilting little-girl voice...

That line has since entered our family 'shorthand' vocabulary.

[janine]

Sometimes, when I feel as if that quote could come from me, with the few people around me all standing dry on the bank telling me about the water...  and how to swim... and how I should've brought a life jacket... I prayerfully turn away from them and move down to the next little dock in the bayou, where I reach out & pull someone in who's out there farther than I am, drowning fast.  After I've served that other struggler, I find I'm closer to the bank & can climb out, shake off the water hyacinths and bask with the 'gators.
    After a long day, I do "word pictures" much better than "intellectual".
    Janine ;)

[Richard]

One more:

"All men with honor are kings.  But not all kings have honor."

Rob Roy

[janine]

Watch Casablanca again... did anybody ever say word-for-word "Play it again, Sam"?

Seen Spiderman yet?  Spidey (Tobey Macguire [sp?]) is at his Aunt's bedside as she recovers from her torment by the Green Goblin.  She sees how exhausted he is, how twitchy, how wrung-out, not knowing about his exploits, and cautions him that he needs to slow down...

"You're not Superman, you know," she says.

The look on his face!

[janine]

I was confusing myself, flipping around 2 pages of "new posts" and finding two separate threads.  I hope no one minds the consolidation.

[David]

Shawshank Redemption

"Why do they call you Red?"

"Maybe it's because I'm Irish."

[Arkstfan]

What's the line from the movie the Apostle?

Jesus I've always called you Jesus and you've always called me Sonny.

[Barb1957]

You sure did, and I'm impressed!!  :D

[ThisIsMy32CharactersLongUserName]

Y'all have posted some great movie lines.

Some that come to the forefront of my mind at the moment (no doubt paraphrased in some cases):

From the movie "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" ...
Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) to Mrs. Blandings (Myrna Loy), after a close male friend leaves their residence:
"Every time he leaves here, he shakes my hand, and he kisses you!"
She replies: "Would you rather it were the other way around?"
That's one of my favorite movies of all time. "If you're not eating Wham, you're not eating ham!"

Others:

"I see dead people."
"Is that you, Auntie Em?"
"It's a dinglehopper!"
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."
"You talkin' to me?"

[boringoldguy]

Thought I'd drag this thread  up again

"Presbyterian is not a religion"  - Fools Rush In

[Arkstfan]

The baptism discussion is down-right funny.

Clooney's assertion that he is the only one who remains unaffiliated just cracked me up.

After the baptism when the guy talks of how he's forgiven was great.

"I'm even forgiven for knocking over that Piggly-Wiggly"

"I thought you said you didn't rob that Piggly-Wiggly"

"I lied........ AND I'M FORGIVEN OF THAT TOO!"

Then later on with the frog.

"'Course its Pete... look at him"

[seekr]

another line from As Good as it Gets--"you're gettin' loud, you're gettin loud."

seekr

[seekr]

I have a couple more lines from "As Good as It Gets"

Helen Hunt asks him if he has nay control over how creepy he gets and Jacl Nicholsen replies--
"Yes, I do, as a matter of fact... and to prove it I have not gotten personal and you have."

then later when she gets cutting again

"Maybe we can live without the wisecracks?"

seekr

[spurly]

"Go ahead, make my day".


Kevin