"I'll have a steak sandwich...and a steak sandwich."
"It's all ball bearings these days....HEY!"
and countless others from Fletch.
"looks like I quit the wrong week to quit drinking." -- Airplane
"But sir...Charlie's on that beach."
"Charlie don't surf!"
Apocalypse Now
"It's a sad and Beautiful World."
-- Down By Law
"And when Alexanfder saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.--Benefits of a classical Education."
Alan Rickman in Die Hard
And while we're at it the cancel Christmas line he does in Robin Hood. (though I can't quote it exactly.
"Life is pain! Anyone telling you different is selling you something."
and
"Why didn't you list that as one of our assets?"
from Princess Bride
Are ou gonna talk about these in a future post? I look forward to it.
I would say if you were going to pick an Alan Rickman Robin Hood quote it should be the line about cutting his heart out with a spoon - "because it's DULL you idiot!"
And it is indeed a crime that no Princess Bride lines are in there. How could they leave off Inigo????
And how did "you ain't heard nothin' yet" from the Jazz Singer get only to be #71?
This is a tough list to compile, because "greatest" is a vague designation. Sometimes the best quotes aren't the most famous, and vice versa. It looks like they did a decent job compiling the obvious picks for the most part, but any list like this is gonna risk being either pandering or alienating. So it's stupid to complain, but here are some thoughts.
There should be about fifty more Godfather quotes. Where the hell is "Leave the gun. Take the cannolis."? Or "It means that Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes."?
Nothing from "Pulp Fiction?" Suck my rod, AFI. "Royale with cheese," or "Any of you fucking pricks move..." or "Zed's dead" or "Bring out the Gimp" or any of a dozen other lines should certainly bump Dirty freakin' Dancing.
I just skimmed the list so mayybe I missed it, but "They may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!" should have been a gimme.
No "One ring to rule them all" etc.?
"What kind of a world is it when a man dressed up like a bat gets all my press?"
"That's what I love about these high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age." "Dazed and Confused" might not be the best-known movie, but it's the shit and that line is quoted endlessly.
Speaking of endless quoting, you can't make a sandwich without someone referencing "The Big Lebowski." Maybe it's so quotable that there isn't any one line that's the obvious choice. But, man, it'd be good to see it on the list.
"Every time a bell rings. . ." or something from that movie should definitely have made the cut.
And, of course, "We're the Three Ninjas!" as spoken in unison by Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum, in "Casablanca."
I'm sure I'm missing something. This is fun, let's keep going.
Also, there has to be something from one of the Indiana Jones movies. Anyone?
"Throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip!"
For actual popularity, I can't believe they left out The Princess Bride, or even RHPS. (Although RHPS could run afoul of the song-lyric issue.)
(please note: I'm not actually reading the list but relying on what people have mentioned)
"Luke - i am your father."
"Ray, when someone asks if you're a God, you say "Yes!""
"I see dead people."
("Grease") "If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter."
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Noah: I agree about Maltese Falcon, but I don't think we're in the minority. The Big Sleep is a great movie, but it makes no freaking sense.
I'd like to support there being some Raiders quotes in there. How about "Bad dates" or "I hate snakes"? Or my favorite, "They're digging in the wrong place!"
And I'm having a hard time discerning between actual fame/importance and my childhood self, meaning a childhood part of me demands that "Do NOT go in there!" and "Ninja, Ninja Rap! Ninja, Ninja Rap! GO GO GO GO GO" MUST be included.
I'm not so good at quoting movies, but one that I've carried with me all these years (and it's not that great a movie, either) is from Stand and Deliver, with Edward James Almos. These kids are accused of stealing the answers to a standardized test, and the guy says, "where'd you get the answers?" and the kid responds, "The mailman. I killed him. His body's decomposing in my locker. It's my science project."
Or what about "you stay alive! I will find you!"
Olmos. not Almos. (my bad)
"No matter where you go, there you are."
-Buckaroo Bonzai
"I have a bad feeling about this"
-Every Star Wars, even the shitty ones
(although sometimes I think it might be I've got)
My favorite line from The Muppet Movie is when Kermit's talking to Kermit and he says "Well, then?" but it TOTALLY senseless out of context. In context it may be the best delivery of any line ever, and it's by a friggin' puppet!
"Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a gangster."
-Goodfellahs (although most would probably pick "exactly how am I funny")
"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one."
-Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(remindedy by Benari)
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me."
-Harvey
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