After a Four-Year Hiatus, Film Quotes is Back!

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Can you believe it’s been nearly four years (June 8, 2021) since the last edition of Film Quotes? I can too. But before we get into angry recriminations over the long absence or over the return of this beloved/reviled feature. Let’s enjoy some real quotes by real actors playing real characters in real movies. Enjoy!

Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton. Don't you forget it. - Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

I saved Latin, what did you ever do? — Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer in Rushmore.

Every act of preservation is an act of creation. Everything preserved renews creation. It's how we participate in creation. — Ethan Hawke as Ernst Toller in First Reformed.

Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife is going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill. — Jack Benny as Joseph Tura in To Be or Not to Be.

In Hyde Park, for instance, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say, "nuts to the squirrels?” — Charles Boyer as Adam Belinski in Cluny Brown.

I've got a little Latino Harriet Tubman situation going on at my place. All legit. From the heart. No cash. — Teyana Taylor as Perfidia in One Battle After Another.

Hey, who decorated this place, the mug who shot Lincoln?. — Barbara Stanwyck as Sugarless O'Shea in Ball of Fire.

Excuse me. Could you give us some change, please? The doctor said we have asthma and we have to eat ice-cream right away. — Brooklyn Prince as Moonee in The Florida Project.

If it takes a watermelon five minutes to water. How long does it take a sweetpea to pee? As long as it takes a pair of dice to crap.— Elliot Gould  as Charlie Waters in California Split.

Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. I hate it already, and it's only been a week. Some goddamn week. — Charlie Sheen as Chris Taylor in Platoon.

I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me? — George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton.

I met a wonderful man downstairs. He seemed to like me. He said I reminded him of his wife who's dead. But I assume he meant when she was alive. — Elaine May as May Sloane in Small Time Crooks.

Let me ask you one thing. Do you think - after we've dried off, after we've spent lots more time together - you might agree *not* to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life? — Hugh Grant as Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

What am I doing apologizing to you? Why am I ALWAYS apologizing to you, you little bastard? Three months I've been apologizing to you without you even being here! I haven't done anything wrong. Why can't I quit apologizing? You the one ought to be sorry! — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show.

Oh, stay jealous, babe. Stay jealous, honey. Jealousy is a disease, remember that, Diamond. I'm just gonna go chill in my mansion or whatever, you know, no big deal! — Mikey Madison as Ani in Anora.

I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders. — Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfred in Witness for the Prosecution.

I remember reading somewhere that men learn to love the person that they're attracted to, and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love — James Spader as Graham in Sex, Lies and Videotapes..

It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific! — Peter Riegert as Mac in Local Hero.

What's this for? For bein' an honest cop? Hmm? Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face? You tell them that they can shove it. — Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico.

I was a big slut, but I'm not anymore. There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that? — Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook.

She needs *me*. It's not as if is she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? — Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho.

I don't think I could ever get used to being poked and prodded like that. I told my proctologist one time, "Why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?” — Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin in Best in Show.

Film Quotes Returns!

Paul Newman in The Verdict

Last Spring I revived the film quotes feature on this blog after seven years of dormancy. Since then I've compiled lists of quotes from foreign films, movies from the 1970s, Marx Brothers movies, Preston Sturges films and  my all-time favorites. In days of yore I had a list strictly from Woody Allen movies, and one with quotes strictly from female characters. Today I present another generic list with quotes from all genre of American films from the 1930s through last year. Enjoy!

Damn right I'm done. I'm going to ask for a mistrial. I'm going to request that you disqualify yourself from sitting on this case. I'm going to take a transcript to the State and ask that they impeach your ass! — Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1983) Lumet.

I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world. — River Phoenix as Mike in My Own Private Idaho (1991) Van Sant.

It's no use, Schulz, you might as well come clean. Why don't you just tell them it's me, because I'm really the illegitimate son of Hitler, and after the Germans win the war, you're going to make me the Gauleiter of Zinzinnati! — William Holden as Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953) Wilder.

I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides. — Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now Voyager (1942) Rapper.

Here, taste my tuna casserole and tell if I put in too much hot fudge. — Woody Allen as Larry Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) Allen.

Frances McDormand in Nomadland

We be the bitches of the badlands. — Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland (2020) Zhao.

Carriages waited at the curb for the entire performance. It was widely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. — Joanne Woodward as the narrator in The Age of Innocence (1993) Scorsese.

I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist! — Henry Fonda as Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men (1957) Lumet.

This country is run on epidemics, where you been? Price fixing, crooked TV shows, inflated expense accounts. How many honest men you know? Why you separate the saints from the sinners, you're lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln. Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, and I say let us dip our bread into some of that gravy while it is still hot. — Paul Newman as Hud Bannon in Hud (1963) Ritt.

Now you listen to me. If we lose this place, then you're goin' back to beggin' for every single meal. Mr. Will, They're gonna put you in a state home. And I'm gonna lose what's left of my family. I'm not gonna let that happen. I don't care what it takes. I don't care if it kills me. I don't care if it kills you. I'm not gonna give up. And if the two of you do, you can go straight to Hell! — Sally Field as Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart (1984) Benton.

Micro changes in air density, my ass. -- Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979) Scott.

Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman. -- Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) W. Anderson.

Ever since you moved in here you've been causin' me grief. Nobody wants to hang around you. You don't drink, you don't smoke. You don't do anything you're supposed to do! -- Shelly Duval as Millie in Three Women (1977) Altman.

It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook! — Ruth Attaway as Louise in Being There (1979) Ashby.

Aww, what's the matter? You afraid I'll tell Jim Morrison you were dancing to Paul Revere & The Raiders? Are they not cool enough for you? — Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino.

My life is like a maze that I continually think I've gotten out of only to find another corner right in front of me. — Emma Stone as Abigail in The Favorite (2018) Lanthimos.

Oh, and you're ten times worse than he is. At least he had some excuse for kicking me around. He was in love with another woman. But you double-crossed me for the sake of a newspaper. Well, marry the paper and be the proud father of a lot of headlines. — Jean Harlow as Gladys in Libeled Lady (1936) Conway.

Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. — Bill Murray as John Winger in Stripes (1981) I. Reitman.

Zero Mostel in The Producers

How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right? -- Zero Mostel as Max Bialystok in The Producers (1967) Brooks.

I've heard a lot about you, too, Doc. You left your mark around in Deadwood, Denver and places. In fact, a man could almost follow your trail goin' from graveyard to graveyard. — Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1946) Ford.

You go back and tell that fake Svengali I wouldn't wipe my feet on him if he were starving, and I hope he is.— Carole Lombard as Lily Garland in Twentieth Century (1934) Hawks.

You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men. — Carey Mulligan as Jenny in An Education (2009) Scherfig.

Yes, I'm an author of a young adult series. It's disturbingly popular. I like your decor. Is it, shabby chic? —Charlize Theron as Mavis Gray in Young Adult (2011) J. Reitman.

Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men. — Michael Caine as Daniel Dravot in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Huston.

Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man that raises him above the other creatures of the earth, the power of his brain to reason? What other merit have we? The elephant is larger, the horse is swifter and stronger, the butterfly is far more beautiful, the mosquito is more prolific. Even the simple sponge is more durable. But does a sponge think? — Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind (1960) Kramer.

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. — Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Lebowski (1998) Coens.

A Preston Sturges Edition of Film Quotes

The Great McGinty

Last Spring I revived the  film quotes feature on this blog  after seven years of dormancy. Since then I've compiled lists of quotes from foreign films, movies from the 1970s, Marx Brothers movies and a list of my all-time favorites. In days of yore I had a list strictly from Woody Allen movies, and one with quotes strictly from female characters. Today I present one-liners from the six great films by writer/director Preston Sturges. Sturges had a nice career as a writer before the early forties and he did some good work writing and directing from the mid-forties on, but from 1940-1944 he had an amazing output of seven films, one of which was good (Christmas in July) and the other six were classics. No director has had such an amazing output in so short a time. Of course Sturges' films were comedies. They had equal parts witty dialogue, slapstick and satire. Sturges the director's greatest asset was Sturges the writer. Here are a few examples.

From the Great McGinty:

If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish. — William Demarest as Skeeters.

You got me all a tremble. I bet you're scared to death of yourself. — Brian Donlevy as Dan McGinty.

From The Lady Eve:

Positively the same dame! -- William Demarest as Mugsy.

Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common. -- Charles Coburn as Colonel Harrington.

Well, it's just that I've been up the Amazon for a year and they don't use perfume. — Henry Fonda as Charles.

I said they're not good enough for him. Every Jane in the room is giving him the thermometer and he feels they're just a waste of time. He's returning to his book; he's deeply immersed in it. He sees no one except - watch his head turn when that kid goes by. Won't do ya any good, dear - he's a bookworm - but swing 'em anyway…. — Barbara Stanwyck as Jean.

Sullivan's Travels

From Sullivan’s Travels:

There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan. — Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan.

You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned. — Robert Greig as Burrows.

You know, the nice thing about buying food for a man is that you don't have to listen to his jokes. Just think, if you were some big shot like a casting director or something, I'd be staring into your bridgework saying 'Yes, Mr. Smearcase. No, Mr. Smearcase. Not really, Mr. Smearcase! Oh, Mr. Smearcase, that's my knee!'  — Veronica Lake as The Girl.

Not from you, Sully, that's true. Not with pictures like So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey, In the Hayloft, Ants in Your Plants of 1939... But they weren't about tramps, lockouts, sweatshops, people eating garbage in alleys and living in piano boxes and ash cans. — Robert Warwick as Mr. LeBrand

Palm Beach Story

From The Palm Beach Story:

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! — Robert Dudley as Wieinie King.

Toto's a refugee - from his creditors, I think. — Mary Astor s Princess Centimillia.

You have no idea what a long-legged woman can do without doing anything. — Claudette Colbert as Gerry Jeffers.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. — Rudy Vallee as J.D. Hackenacker III.

From The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek:

The trouble with kids is they always figure they're smarter than their parents - never stop to think if their old man could get by for 50 years and feed 'em and clothe 'em - he maybe had something up here to get by with - things that seem like brain twisters to you might be very simple for him. — William Demarest as Constable Kockenlocker.

I don't deal with spooks. She doesn't need a lawyer, she needs a Medium. - Al Bridge as Mr. Johnson.

Of course he has to have a first name. Everybody has a first name. Even dogs have first names, even if they don't have any last names. -- Eddie Bracken as Norval Jones.

Hail the Conquering Hero

From Hail the Conquering Hero:

I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in all the years that I have been unsuccessfully mixed into politics, this is the first and only time that I have ever seen a candidate for office - given an opportunity to prove publicly, permanently and beyond peradventure of doubt that he was honest, courageous and veracious…" — Henry Hayden as Doc Bissell.

Well, that's the war for you. It's always hard on women. Either they take your men away and never send them back at all; or they send them back unexpectedly just to embarrass you. No consideration at all. — Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Martha.

If I could reach as high as my father's shoestrings... my whole life would be justified - and I would stand here before you proudly... instead of as the thief and the coward that I am. — Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith.

They say opportunity's only got one hair on his head and you gotta grab it while it's going by and dog it down or you mightn't get another chance. — William Demarest as Sgt. Heffelginger.

Strictly Groucho Film Quotes Part Two

Here is part two of my look at great one-liners uttered by Groucho Marx in Marx Brothers films. See yesterday's post for part one and an introduction.

From Duck Soup (1933) in which Groucho played Rufus T. Firefly (Continued from yesterday.)

Calling all nations. Calling all nations. This is Rufus T. This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!

It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield.

I wonder whatever became of me? I should have been back here a long time ago.

Nobody calls a Firefly an upstart!

From A Night at the Opera (1935) in which Groucho played Otis B. Driftwood.

Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the love making. Because, I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first; but, there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this.

Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you.

You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.

I have here an accident policy that will absolutely protect you no matter what happens. If you lose a leg, we'll help you look for it.

Signor Lassparri comes from a very famous family. His mother was a well-known bass singer. His father was the first man to stuff spaghetti with bicarbonate of soda, thus causing and curing indigestion at the same time.

From A Day at the Races (1937) in which Groucho played Hugo Z. Hackenbush.

If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you!

Hey, don't drink that poison! That's $4.00 an ounce!

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Will you have the bellhop hop up with some hop scotch.

From Room Service (1938) in which Groucho played Gordon Miller.

My advice to you is to stay where you are. Most actors would be tickled to death to get as close to a lamb chop as you, and I do mean ewe.

From At the Circus (1939) in which Groucho played J. Cheever Loophole.

I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

I know, you have forgotten. Those June nights on the Riviera, where we sat 'neath the shimmering skies! Moonlight bathing in the Mediterranean! We were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing inner soles! Oh, Hildegarde!

Operator, operator! Get me the steamship Normandy. Where is it? It's in the water.

From Go West (1940) in which Groucho played S. Quentin Quale.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Time wounds all heels.

I give you my solemn word as an embezzler, I'll be back in ten minutes.

You must fan the flames of love with the bellows of indifference.

From The Big Store (1941) in which Groucho played Wolf J. Flywheel.

You mean a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would, would marry that imposter?

From A Night in Casablanca (1946) in which Groucho played Ronald Kornblow.

From now on the essence of this hotel will be speed. If a customer askes you for a three-minute egg, give it to him in two minutes. If he askes you for a two-minute egg, give it to him in one minute. If he askes you for a one-minute egg, give him the chicken and let him work it out for himself!

From Love Happy (1949) in which Groucho played Sam Grunion.

I am the same Sam Grunion who solved the international uranium-mining swindle. Scotland Yard was baffled; the FBI was baffled. They sent for me and the case was solved immediately: I confessed.

This Edition of Film Quotes is Strictly Groucho -- Part One

Welcome to the 13th edition of Film Quotes. While most iterations of film quotes have featured quotes from a variety of films I have done a few specialized ones. This includes posts dedicated to foreign language films, Woody Allen films, American films from the Seventies and a compilation of "greatest hits." This edition includes only quotes from Groucho Marx (born Julius Henry Marx) and all are from movies starring the Marx Brothers. The brothers made thirteen movies together ranging from such comedy classics as Duck Soup and Horse Feathers to such flaming mediocrities as Room Service (which unlike the others, wasn't even written for them) and Love Happy. The difference in quality of Marx Brothers movies can be noted in the number of quotes I used, with only one each from several of their latter film and half a dozen or more from some of their earlier comedy masterpieces. (It must be here noted that watching the worst Marx Brothers movie is still time well spent.) I compiled 48 lines from Groucho which is far too much for one post, so part two will follow tomorrow. 

Groucho, of course had a rich life in entertainment outside of the film industry, most notably with his long running show, You Bet Your Life which ran from 1947 through 1961, first on radio than on television. Groucho was a master ad libber but also one of the great humor writers of all time. Of course many of the one-liners below were written by Groucho who was a master of delivery. Here then is part one:

From The Cocoanuts (1929) in which Groucho played Hammer.

And now, friends, in view of the fact that Miss Potter's engagement is being celebrated here tonight, so to speak, I think a few words from her mother would be revolting! I now take great pleasure in presenting to you the well-preserved and partially pickled, Mrs. Potter.

Now, over here on this site, we're gonna build an eye and ear hospital. This is gonna be a sight for sore eyes.

Now, look, I'm gonna take you down and show you our cemetery. I've got a waiting list of 50 people at that cemetery just dying to get in. But I like you. You're my friend. I like you and I'm gonna shove you in ahead of all of them.

This is the heart of the residential district. Every lot is a stone's throw from the station. As soon as they throw enough stones, we're gonna' build a station.

From Animal Crackers (1930) in which Groucho played Captain Geoffrey T. Spaudling.

Why, you've got beauty, charm, money! You have got money, haven't you? Because if you haven't, we can quit right now.

Hello, I must be going/I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going/I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.

How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away.

The crooks! The crooks! They're escaping. Follow me men! Never mind the men, just the women!

From Monkey Business (1931) in which Groucho played Groucho.

Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean... flee to my lodge in the hills.

What? And leave this woman here alone with her husband? Suppose her sweetheart came in?

I wish to announce that a buffet supper will be served in the next room in five minutes. In order to get you in that room quickly, Mrs. Schmalhausen will sing a soprano solo in this room.

From Horse Feathers (1932) in which Groucho played Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff.

Baravelli, you've got the brain of a four-year old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.

I don't know. I was gonna get a flat bottom, but the girl at the boat house didn't have one.

My boy, get in there and play like you did in the last game. I've got five dollars bet on the other team.

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech. And that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

Jumping anaconda!

I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived.

Why don't you go home to your wife? I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement she'll never know the difference.

Anything further, Father? That can't be right. Isn't it anything farther, further?

From Duck Soup (1933) in which Groucho played Rufus T. Firefly.

Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove.

Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are.

Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

(More from Duck Soup in part two, which will appear here tomorrow.)

Film Quotes Foreign Language Edition

Monica Vitti in L'Eclisse.

It's time for the 13th iteration of film quotes. Today's is the first to include only quotes from foreign language films. A few of these have previously appeared in film quotes posts.

We spent the whole night talking things over. And for what? I'm so tired and depressed. Disgusted and confused. What can I say? There are times when holding a needle and thread, or a book, or a man - it's all the same. -- Monica Vitti as Vittoria in L’Eclisse (1962).

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. —  Philippe Morier-Genoud as Pere Jean in Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987).

We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god. — Max von Sydown as Antonius Block in The 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?— Kang-ho Song as Ki-taek in Parasite (2019).

Sometimes everything seems just like a dream. It's not my dream, it's somebody else's. But I have to participate in it. How do you think someone who dreams about us would feel when he wakes up. Feeling ashamed? — Liv Ullman as Eva Rosenberg in Shame (1968).

Maribel Verdu in Y Tu Mama Tambien

We do things my way! One more fight and I'm gone for good!... Now we play by my rules. I won't fuck with any of you. Fuck each other, if you wish. 2. I sunbathe naked and I don't want you sniffing around like dogs. 3. I pick the music. 4. The moment I ask, please shut your mouths. 5. You cook. 6. No stories about your poor girlfriends. 7. If I ask, stay 10 yards from me. Or better 100. 8. Obviously, you do all the manual labor. 9. You may not speak of things you don't agree on. Even better, just keep your mouths shut. 10. You're not allowed to contradict me, much less push me. — Maribel Verdu as Luisa in Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001).

If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back. — Antti Reini as Electrician in The Man Without a Past (2002).

If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day. — Irina Tarkovskaya as Ivan’s mother in Ivan’s Childhood (1962).

You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home. — Marcello Mastrioni as Marcello in La Dolce Vita (1960).

As a little girl I learned: "Our Father who art in heaven." I thought it said "who arts in heaven." I imagined my father with an easel painting outside the pearly gates. — Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules and Jim. (1962).

For me it's simple. A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. — Pierre Fresnay as Le captaine de Boeldieu in La Grande Illusion (1937).

When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am? — Bruno Ganz as Daniel in Wings of Desire( 1987).

It's about a society on its way down. And as it falls,it keeps telling itself: "So far so good... So far so good... So far so good." It's not how you fall that matters. It's how you land. — Vincent Cassel as Vinz in La Haine (1995).

Here in America, they value women. It's not like bloody Sweden where they use us like maids during the days and as mattresses at nights. — Monica Zetterlund as Ulrika in The New Land (1972).

You see it, God, you see it. The innocent child's death and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand you. Yet now I beg your forgiveness. I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live. — Max von Sydow as Töre in The Virgin Spring (1960).

Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli.

I am your wife. And this is your home, but, I'm not like you. You slept very well last night, huh? But, I didn't sleep. I'm different. I'm very different from you. I belong to another class. I can't live like this in this filth! This is no life for civilized people. Keep on counting your nineteen thousand liras. You need much more for a woman like me. — Ingrid Bergman as Karin in Stromboli (1950).

Skin like satin, like a true courtesan of the Roman Empire. Here's something for your left-wing readers: no undergarments were found in the apartment. — Gian Maria Volontè as Dottore in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970).

This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. — Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada in Seven Samurai (1954).

I believe the common people, the lower class people, are less sensitive to pain. Haven't you ever seen a wounded bull? Not a trace of pain. — Patricia Moran as Rita Ugdale in The Exterminating Angel (1962).

A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man. — Darian Cunha as Filé-com-Fritas in City of God (2002).

The Best of Film Quotes

Marylin Monroe in Some Like it Hot.

Film quotes first appeared on this blog in November 2009. There were six more editions in the next two years but then they mysteriously disappeared for nine years finally returning last March. All told film quotes have appeared ten times and given that number I thought it a good time to present this, my greatest hits. Sort of. Instead of being literally my 25 favorite lines from films this is more like 25 of my top 30 or so. If it were a true top 25 you'd see multiple quotes from a few movies and multi quotes from the same actor. I decided that for this compilation there would be a limit of one quote per movie and one per actor. Okay I cheated on the last one, I have two from Groucho Marx from whom I could easily put together a list of well over 30. I may in fact do that in the future. I could have had multiple quotes from Woody Allen and I did once put together a list comprised entirely of lines from his films and just might do a part two of that some day. Also, I limited myself to English language films,  I may present a list of great quotes from foreign language films soon too. Anyhoo (as they say at the Rand Corporation) here are 25 of the best from the ten previous editions of film quotes. They are offered in no particular order.

With all my heart, I still love the man I killed. -- Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter (1940).

She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up. — Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946).

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage. — Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold and Maude (1971).

I have here an accident policy that will absolutely protect you no matter what happens. If you lose a leg, we'll help you look for it. — Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood in A Night at the Opera (1935).

Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold! -- Marylin Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like it Hot (1959).

I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect. -- Woody Allen as Danny Rose in Broadway Danny Rose (1984).

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. -- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999).

Carey Mulligan in Inside Llewyn Davis.

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! -- Carey Mulligan as Jean in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. -- Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993).

The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can't ever really know... what's going on. So it shouldn't bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term. -- Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man (2009).

You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibly happen?" is that it's the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is "Why doesn't it happen more often?"  -- Max Van Sydow as Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).

All I want is to enter my house justified. -- Joel McCrea as Steve Judd in Ride the High Country (1962).

I've suffered the tortures of the damned sir, the tortures of the damned. -- Malcom McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971).

It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. Whenever I start to tell a story, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother. -- Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942).

Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. -- John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski (1998).

Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.. -- Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

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. -- Kevin Kline as Ben Hood in The Ice Storm (1997).

Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts? -- Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934).

It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago. — Diane Keaton as Kay in The Godfather Part II (1974)

Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again! -- Jimmy Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

Oh God, how depressing! You're meant to think I'm an international woman of mystery. I'm working on it like mad. --  Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972).

Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts! -- Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954).

You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head. -- Robin Harris as Sweet Dick Willie in Do the Right Thing (1989).

If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost someplace! -- Barbara Stanwyck as Ann in Meet John Doe (1941).

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! - - Jonah Hill as Seth in Superbad (2007).

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? -- Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas (1990).

It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield. -- Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933).

Positively the same dame! -- William Demarest as Muggsy in The Lady Eve (1941).

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- Joe Mantell as Walsh in Chinatown (1974).