Blazing Saddles is a terrific movie, but honestly, some lines just CAN’T be repeated. (This is NOT the one I wanted to post, but I don’t want to get banned. Hilarious movie!)
"Good evening, Otto. This is Agent Rogersz. I'm going to ask you a few questions. Since time is short and you may lie, I'm going to have to torture you. But I want you to know, it isn't personal."
I've got one - "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley" from Airplane! 🤣, it's just so ridiculously funny and I find myself quoting it in the most random situations.
This ongoing bit that Rickmans character in DOGMA keeps getting stuff on him. And in the final set piece I think someone explodes and gets a bit of blood on him.
It's definitely one of the lesser Smith movies but it was on Comedy Central so much that it has nostalgia for me. Rickman is the best part by far. Agree there.
I’ve been saying “Government do take a bite, don’t she?” from Raising Arizona for a little over 30 years, dating back from my first paycheck when I was a teenager.
“All i ask are the creature comforts and plenty of them” — Fletch Lives
“I can’t make bricks without straw” — The Ten Commandments
“Oh, we’re going to talk about me, are we? Goody” — The Philadelphia Story
When I feel a sense of monumental accomplishment, after everyone around me said it couldn't be done, I say: "Admiral, there be whales, here!" in a Scottish accent.
In that old miniseries the 10th Kingdom, Ann Margaret plays a really old Cinderella and while she’s dancing she cries, “I’m 400 years old!” and I say it all the time and no one knows what it’s from. 😭
I've also found Whit Stillman's Oscar-nominated screenplay for Metropolitan an endless fount of snappy lines applicable to a surprising range of social situations.
(which strictly speaking, is sourced from the Texas Monthly article and its subject, but I saw the movie first. I'd post a GIF but I couldn't find a good one.)
"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
When a child is 6 years old, he says "the father can do everything". When he's 12 he says "the father can almost do everything". When he's 16 he says "the father is an idiot". When he's 24 he says "the father wasn't maybe such an idiot", and then, when he's 40 he says "if I could only ask my father"
"Well, you do not speak Bora Boran, either" has popped into my head randomly every so often since I first saw Pulp Fiction in the '90s. I still know next to nothing about Bora Bora & never think of Bora Bora itself, just the line & Bruce Willis' vocal delivery.
In all seriousness, I've repurposed "Happy to be here" from The Cider House Rules as a go-to response to anyone asking me how I am or how I'm doing, and the thing is: it always works.
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- Reservoir Dogs
History of the world, part 1
The Blues Brothers
Dracula
#NightOfTheComet
(Hoffman to Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson’s War)
Spoken by Garth Pancake (J. K. Simmons) in the Corn Brothers’ THE LADYKILLERS.
(Not in a lot of real life use though)
“Anybody want a peanut?”
“Have fun storming the castle, boys!”
The Princess Bride
From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. My wife and I use it to express positive evaluation of an item of some kind.
*substitute anything for badges
https://www.ptleader.com/stories/cult-cinema-dark-city-is-the-original-matrix-and-the-better-film,5122
Urban Cowboy
https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/42794025-537d-4eb3-8d6a-a8d2e8363df7/embed-twit?autoplay=false&responsive=true
(Also my screen name)
"Mama wants Jack to come home right away she's gonna shoot Papa. Nah, that's too strong. 'Portant business!"
"I wish I had a monkey. I wish Cotton was a monkey."
"Here puppies, here puppies! Jingle-jingle!"
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get…unless it’s Exlax, then it’s the shits
“I can’t make bricks without straw” — The Ten Commandments
“Oh, we’re going to talk about me, are we? Goody” — The Philadelphia Story
I dudditz!!!
(Louise Banks, Arrival)
Withnail & I
Do The Right Thing.
https://youtu.be/jc6_XgtOQgI?si=-Sq0ODDsyncxnkT2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345uegSj-zQ&ab_channel=Giantbob
Nobody gets it… And that's OK.
I didn’t want salmon! I said it 4 times!!! This (whatever it is) is HORSESHIT!!!
Followed immediately by “Watch your step, Margie.”
Usually at roundabouts or when joining motorways
Now Voyager
- ... HIT IT.
- Lainie Kazan’s Belle, My Favorite Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVAJre7PWU
"Did you see the size of that chicken?" from Young Guns
(Better Off Dead)
William Hurt as Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist (1988)
https://youtu.be/ynzlZVlxLzk?si=9CUDWIuJzjTc_FDn&t=28
—Hope and Glory (1987)
https://youtu.be/3bjEpLoL0ls?si=nZDK50ed6d0Q-7BL&t=23
And "Fucking asparagus."
Ted the Bellboy, The Four Rooms 1995
"All pie is good pie."
(which strictly speaking, is sourced from the Texas Monthly article and its subject, but I saw the movie first. I'd post a GIF but I couldn't find a good one.)
Sherry.
Sherry.
“Fine. I’ll gain weight.”
“I like my coffee black, like my men” always gets a reaction 😂
Always with a NZ accent. 🇳🇿
From Alien: Ripley is speaking to Ash.
Always amusing to have people speculate which one they are.
“… but apparently that’s FROWNED UPON in this ESTABLISHMENT!”
McCABE & MRS. MILLER
from history of the world part I
DC Cab (1983)