<p>Most quoted by digspouse and I:</p>
<p>Vinny Gambini: “Now there’s a f***ing surprise.”</p>
<p>Myrna Loy (glancing at a table full of people): “Waiter, would you serve the nuts… I mean, would you serve our guests the nuts.”</p>
<p>Awful movie, but Godfather III has a line I’ve used, and heard, in many contexts, especially around the office:
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”
And the first time I saw Casablanca, I thought it was the most cliche-ridden movie ever, until I understood they became cliches later!
And if no one else mentioned it - “May the Force be with you.”</p>
<p>From 2001, spoken by spouse or me when we have a senior moment: “My mind is going, Dave.”</p>
<p>Star Wars (heard often from dh): “I can feel your anger swelling in you now.” (may not be exact words) or “You’re not a Jedi yet.”</p>
<p>There are lots more in our household. I have to be careful what movies I let dh watch, as I will hear quotes from it for the next couple of weeks. I still hear quotes from Starman, which he hasn’t seen for years: “Stop. Get gas.” or “Look like Scott, so not make you little bit jumpy.”</p>
<p>Interesting that I don’t know most of the quotes mentioned in this thread. Probably says something about what movies I watch. (Can you tell that dh like sci-fi??)</p>
<p>Great thread for a tough day!</p>
<p>Some of my all time favorites:</p>
<p>“If you build it, they will come.” -Field of Dreams</p>
<p>“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” -Wizard of Oz</p>
<p>“ET phone home.” -ET</p>
<p>“I coulda been a contender.” -On the Waterfront</p>
<p>“Carpe Diem” -Dead Poet’s Society</p>
<p>“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” -Ferris Bueller’s Day Off</p>
<p>“There’s no crying in baseball.” -A League of Their Own</p>
<p>“I see dead people.” -Sixth Sense</p>
<p>“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” -The Pride of the Yankees</p>
<p>“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” -The Godfather</p>
<p>“Here’s Johnny!” -The Shining</p>
<p>Play It Again, Sam</p>
<p>(Allan Felix is the Woody Allen character whose wife has just taken off on him because he isn’t fun anymore. He is desperate for a date.)</p>
<p>Allan Felix to woman is art museum “What are you doing Saturday night?”</p>
<p>Woman “Committing suicide.”</p>
<p>Allan Felix “How about Friday?”</p>
<p>Wizard of Oz</p>
<p>(Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion are climbing up a rocky hill to get to the witch’s castle. Cowardly Lion is in front, with the Tin Man behind him holding on to the Lion’s tail and the Scarecrow coming up in last position.)</p>
<p>Scarecrow “I hope his courage holds out!”</p>
<p>Tin Man “I hope his tail holds out!”</p>
<p>OK, we all agree that just cutting and pasting from IMDB is cheating, right?</p>
<p>Patton:
“It’s not important for them to know, it’s only important for me to know.”
“Now I want you to remember that no ■■■■■■■ ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ■■■■■■■ die for his country.”
“Rommel, you magnificent ■■■■■■■, I read your book!” </p>
<p>Local Hero:
“We have an injured rabbit also.”</p>
<p>Philadelphia Story:
“The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”</p>
<p>To Have and Have Not:
"You know Steve, you’re not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you’re going to say. Most of the time. The other times, the other times, you’re just a stinker. "</p>
<p>“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow.”</p>
<p>Real Genuis (the most quotable movie of the 80s, and don’t argue with me):
“Would you characterize that as a launch problem or a design problem?”</p>
<p>“I can’t say, but it’s very rare and very unstable.”
“Just like you, Kent.” </p>
<p>“Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?”
“She happens to be my daughter.”
"Oh. Then I guess you have. "</p>
<p>“Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your ***?”</p>
<p>“Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?”</p>
<p>“Is Mitch by any chance adopted?”</p>
<p>"Welcome to Pacific Tech’s “Smart People on Ice!”</p>
<p>“You see Mitch, I used to be you. And lately I’ve been missing me so I asked Dr. Hathaway if I could room with me again and he said sure.”</p>
<p>“What do you think a phase conjugate tracking system is for? A big laser needs a big mirror.”</p>
<p>“Oh, Kent, that is so unfair! And we were going to make you King of the Winter Carnival.”</p>
<p>“I never sleep, I don’t know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she’s okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don’t know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I’m just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?”</p>
<p>Dr. Strangelove:
“You’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company for this.”</p>
<p>“Well, Bat Guano, if that’s really your name.”</p>
<p>“You boys can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!”</p>
<p>“Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!”</p>
<p>“Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”</p>
<p>Blazing Saddles:
“Oh, baby, you are so smart, and they are so dumb!”</p>
<p>“Are we OK?”
“I don’t know, are we black?”
“Yes we are.”
“Then we are OK, but we are very confused.”</p>
<p>“Mongo just pawn in game of life.”</p>
<p>“Don’t worry, Taggart, it’s just a man and horse being hung.”</p>
<p>“Need any help?”
“Oh, all I can get.”</p>
<p>Young Frankenstein
“Look at those knockers!”
“Thank you”</p>
<p>“Frau Blucher!”</p>
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<p>This is so funny. It reminds me of the joke:</p>
<p>Playgoer: “I don’t know what’s so great about Hamlet. It’s full of quotations I’ve heard before. What’s so original about it?”</p>
<p>We’re not in Kansas anymore"…The Wizard of Oz</p>
<p>“I don’ know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies”…Gone With the Wind</p>
<p>“It’s the Cadillac of minivans”…Get Shorty…hilarious to us because we owned the exact ugly minivan that Travolta and DeVito were driving. </p>
<p>“What we have here is a failure to communicate”…Cool Hand Luke</p>
<p>“D**n, we’re in a tight spot”…Oh, Brother Where Art Thou"</p>
<p>Not a movie but for the sci fi fan up there…</p>
<p>“Beam me up Scotty”</p>
<p>Nobody’s posted “You had me at hello” from Jerry Maguire. I’ve never seen the movie and I know the quote…kind of the ironclad test!</p>
<p>S likes Yoda’s “Do or do not, there is no try” from one of the Star Wars movies.</p>
<p>And as for Blazing Saddles, who could forget Lili Von Shtupp’s “They keep coming and going and going and coming…and always too soon!” ? (Sometimes I mention to DH that I’m tired…tired of being admired…<em>grin</em>)</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot “Surely you can’t be serious? I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” We can no longer start a sentence with “surely” in this house.</p>
<p>I quote Blazing Saddles all the time, too, but it’s the line from one of the early scenes that begins "Anyone takes another step and I’ll shoot . . . " It’s an appropriate analogy for some types of legal/negotiating strategies.</p>
<p>And, of course, there’s “Win one for the Gipper!” Hardly anyone remembers that’s a screenwriter’s line from Knute Rockne: All American.</p>
<p>Also, from Animal House: “You f___ed up. You trusted us.”</p>
<p>I use the following lines all the time, much to the chagrin of family and friends:</p>
<p>“Did you ever get the feeling that there is something going on out that we know nothing about?” Fenwick to Boogie</p>
<p>" I am not comfortable with the word nuance" Modell</p>
<p>The Producers</p>
<p>Roger Debris - “Bialystock and Bloom, I presume. Forgive the pun.”
Leo Bloom - “What pun?”
Max Bialystock - “Quiet, he thinks he’s funny.”</p>
<p>Kharman Gia - “Please remove your shoes. White, white, white is the color of our carpets.”</p>
<p>Max Bialystock - “You have 10 seconds to turn that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect. (Pause) Do the books, do the books…”</p>
<p>Sorry, but in grad school a friend had an early beta machine and the only two movies he had were “The Producers” and “Patton.” I’ve seen both of them more times than I can count.</p>
<p>I quote Full Metal Jacket, Back to the Future, Total Recall, Scarface, and Old School on almost a daily basis. They did a top 100 list of this a while back.</p>
<p>Godfather, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, strike me as movies with some of the most memorable quotes, but one of my favorites would be from Dr. Strangelove: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!</p>
<p>my cohort:</p>
<p>“All righty then!” (ace ventura)
“Never let go!” (titanic)
“we’re going streaking!!” (old school)
To Infinity…and beyond! (toy story)
any sentence ended in “Gosh!” (napolean dynomite)</p>
<p>“Never tell Me the Odds”</p>
<p>Star Wars, by Capt. Han Solo flying through an astroid belt and when C3PO says odds of surviving are 30,000 to 1.</p>
<p>Not to ruin the fun, but here’s a link to the American Film Institute’s Top 100 movie quotes:
<a href=“http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx[/url]”>http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx</a></p>
<p>Houston, we have a problem.</p>