favorite movie quotes?

[Robert]

(In a slow Southern drawl): "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

[Kaputnik]

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

[kaisnowbird]

"Excuse me sir, but that R2-D2 is in prime condition, a real bargain."

[Marsilius]

On a Saturday Night Live routine, the original actor (Strother Martin) says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate bilingually. Le chat es petite! HOW BIG IS THE CAT?"
That lives for me as one of the great spoof lines of all time.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79qcamp.phtml

[orfew]

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Nothing

[85AKbN]

i'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.

[kaisnowbird]

Everybody knows you never go full retard.

[Bogon07]

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy" - Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

[85AKbN]

speak english?

english? little. little. sie kommen zehn minuten zu spat. ten minutes too late. already gone.

who?

his friends. and, er, coffin.

coffin?

mr. lime's. accident. knocked over by a car. here, in front of the house. have seen it myself, killed at once, immediately. already in hell [points up], or heaven [points down]. i'm sorry for the grave diggers. hard work in this frost.

[chad.trent]

A few from my current favorite movie (and one on my top 5 all time):

"You ever seen him when his game is on?"
"He doesn't know what to do!"
"Patti, the moose is okay. He ran off. I saw it."

[ethernautrix]

"It's Friday, Smokey, you ain't got shit to do."

[ethernautrix]

"I gotsta know."



(Yeah, yeah, the first part's important, too, but I'm always quoting the punk.)

[ethernautrix]

"A man's got to know his limitations."

[ethernautrix]

"He needed killin'!"


(TV series, not a movie. Pretty sure.)

[ethernautrix]

Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
Henry: Oh yeah?
Wanda: Do you hate them?
Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.


(I remembered that he said this about cops. Anyway, I'm always paraphrasing to say this about such things as spider: "I seem to feel better when they're not around.")

[ethernautrix]

Sheriff Dan Shaw: [after the Stranger blows up the hotel and shoots four men] What the hell happened?
The Stranger: Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.

[85AKbN]

Sheriff Dan Shaw: [after the Stranger blows up the hotel and shoots four men] What the hell happened?
The Stranger: Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.

i never did know your name.

yes you do.

[ethernautrix]

"Please. Accept the mystery."

[ethernautrix]

Okay, okay, here's the entire bit of dialogue. I loved it when I watched the movie a coupla, few years ago, and I am delighted that this thread triggered the memory of it.


Clive's Father: Culture clash. Culture clash.
Larry Gopnik: With all respect, Mr. Park, I don't think it's that.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: No. It would be a culture clash if it were the custom in your land to bribe people for grades.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: So... you're saying it is the custom?
Clive's Father: No, this is a defamation. Grounds for lawsuit.
Larry Gopnik: Let me get this straight: you're threatening to sue me for defaming your son?
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: But it would...
Mr. Brandt: Is this man bothering you?
Larry Gopnik: Is he bothering me? No. I, uh...
[Larry stares awkwardly at Brandt until he leaves]
Larry Gopnik: See... if it were defamation there would have to be someone I was defaming him to, or I... all right, I... let's keep it simple. I could pretend the money never appeared. That's not defaming anyone.
Clive's Father: Yes. And a passing grade.
Larry Gopnik: Passing grade.
Clive's Father: Yes.
Larry Gopnik: Or... you'll sue me.
Clive's Father: For taking money.
Larry Gopnik: So he *did* leave the money.
Clive's Father: This is defamation!
Larry Gopnik: It doesn't make sense. Either he left the money or he didn't.
Clive's Father: Please. Accept the mystery.
Larry Gopnik: You can't have it both ways!
Clive's Father: Why not?


From A Serious Man.

[85AKbN]

"Please. Accept the mystery."

culture clash. culture clash.


i was doing my top 10 lists for 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 on another forum, and this is my #1 for 2009.