Long-time readers of this blog (both of us) may recall that many years ago I had a few posts dedicated to great -- or at least pretty good -- quotes from great -- or at least pretty good -- films. In curating old posts as I've been doing of late, I stumbled upon some of these posts and it got me to thinking (something has to) that it's high time I yanked this feature out of mothballs. Needless to say (watch, he's going to say it anyway) these are never-before-shared quotes. I have endeavored to select a variety of quotes from a variety of movies. Some from comedies and others from dramas and everything in between. I may just do it again some time too. Enjoy.
That rug really tied the room together. - The Dude, The Big Lebowski (1998).
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. - Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski (1998).
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. - Adriana, Midnight in Paris (2011).
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard! Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight? - Ensign Pulver, Mister Roberts (1955).
I should have had you wear double condoms. Well, we shouldn't have done it in the first place, but if you ever do it again, which as a favor to women everywhere, you should not, but if you do, you should be wearing condom on condom, and then wrap it in electrical tape. You should just walk around always inside a great big condom because you are *shit*! - Jean, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
Hello, America. I've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. A part of the world as nice as Vermont, and Ohio and Virginia, and California, and Illinois lies ripped up and bleeding like a steer in a slaughterhouse, and I've seen things that make the history of the savages read like Pollyanna legends. -John Jones, Foreign Correspondent (1940).
I don't want Santana Abraxis! I've just been in a terrible auto accident! - Larry Gopnik, A Serious Man (2009).
Worldly wealth corrupts souls and withers hearts. It makes men contemptuous, unjust, pitiless in their egoism. I understand the anger of those who have nothing when the rich feast so arrogantly. - Papa Jean, Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987).
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Even the young can't do anything about it. - Carlotta Vance, Dinner at Eight (1933).
Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton. Don't you forget it. Cliff Booth, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. (2019).
We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god. - Antonius Block, Seventh Seal (1957).
You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. Look around you. Did you think these people made a plan to sleep in the sports hall with you? But here we are now, sleeping together on the floor. So, there's no need for a plan. You can't go wrong with no plans. We don't need to make a plan for anything. It doesn't matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it? - Ki-taek, Parasite (2019).
Suppose I return to our godforsaken city a genius. Understand? But a man writes because he's tormented, unsure of himself. He has to keep proving his worth to himself and to others. But if I'm convinced I'm a genius - then why do I need to write? - The Writer, Stalker (1979).
Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth! - The Wienie King - Palm Beach Story (1942).
On the self-abuse front - and this is important - I don't think it's advisable to do it in the shower. It wastes water and electricity and because we all expect you to be doing it there in any case. And, not on... under the linen... Well... Anyway, if you're worried about anything at all, just feel free to ask and we'll look it up. - Ben Hood, The Ice Storm (1997).
You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake! - Seth, Superbad (2007).
I want to save part of my life for myself. There's a catch to it though, it's gotta be part of the young part. You know, retire young, work old, come back and work when I know what I'm working for. - Johnny Case, Holiday (1938).
Anxiety, nightmares and a nervous breakdown, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming. - Jasmine, Blue Jasmine (2013).
Now ain't that the way? A man gets set for trouble head-on and it sneaks up behind him every time!. - Ben Vadergroat, The Naked Spur (1953)
It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect! Fredo, The Godfather Part II (1974).
Papa spoke to me. - Frederik, Through a Glass Darkly (1961).
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy. And how you ended up knowing what colors went together. Narrator, The Virgin Suicides (1999).
I was jinxed from the word go. The first time I was ever kissed was in a cemetery. - Fran Kubelik, The Apartment (1960).
I saved Latin. What did you ever do? - Max Fischer, Rushmore (1998).
I think I see a cab. If we run quickly we can kick the crutch from that old lady and get it. - Clifford Stern, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).
It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield. - Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup (1933).
I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! I am the motherfucking shore patrol! Give this man a beer. - Buddusky, The Last Detail (1973).
This is a coincidence. I meet nobody from the old neighborhood in years. I finally do, and I gotta kill her. - Rocco, Radio Days (1987).
It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does it do to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. Extremely competent! I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of them. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer, it's the Nile, Nat. The Nile and down into the barge of Cleopatra. - Don Birnam, The Lost Weekend (1945).
I thank you. The limit has at last been reached. The glass is shattered, but what do the splinters reflect? Can you tell me that? - Johan Borg, Hour of the Wolf (1968).
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