
10 Most quoted movie lines
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I think the only movie I can quote by heart
no thanks to the mind set of my dates in the summer of 1977 when I was 17 years old
that there was no other movie out that summer
is what was simply known at the time as...
Star Wars
I must have seen that movie 20 times in the theatre over the course of that summer alone.
...good thing it is still an all time favorite of mine...
no thanks to the mind set of my dates in the summer of 1977 when I was 17 years old
that there was no other movie out that summer
is what was simply known at the time as...
Star Wars
I must have seen that movie 20 times in the theatre over the course of that summer alone.
...good thing it is still an all time favorite of mine...

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Y'know, I'm pretty well done with the movie myself. I think I memorized it in Jr. High with my friend. It was practically all we had to do while sitting around for a summer trip I took at his place the first time we really truly became friends. I stayed with him for two weeks in Arkansas, and we did a lot of listening to the audio tape I made of it off of PBS one day many years ago, complete with my dad yelling in the background, and occasionally attempting to be clever in the foreground. And my sister shrieking at some point, and practicing her French Horn as well. Now I wish I kept that tape, as I think I'd find it amusing for all the things it irritated me with originally.Cail wrote:Thanks to exchanges like this, I'll never watch it again.
But yeah...I'm always bored silly watching it anymore, except for some of the reaction shots. Which is why I can't tell if I'd enjoy Spamalot.

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Cail wrote:Thanks to exchanges like this, I'll never watch it again.

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I think the quotes from Holy Grail I use the most are "She's got huge... tracts of land," and "There are some who call me... Tim."
The quote I probably use the most often, though, is from Tombstone. "I feel... capital." (I've just realized I have a strange penchant for quotes with elipses). Considering how many times a day someone asks, "How are you?" The only options are to ignore the rhetorical nature of the question, grunt, or devise a set response. I occasionally switch it out with "I feel better!" from Willow.
And then there's Fight Club. Most often, "[Jack]'s not here. [Jack] went away." Then, "I know this because Tyler knows this." And the occasional, "You are not a unique, beautiful snowflake." I doubt there's a line of dialogue in the movie I haven't used at one point.
The quote I probably use the most often, though, is from Tombstone. "I feel... capital." (I've just realized I have a strange penchant for quotes with elipses). Considering how many times a day someone asks, "How are you?" The only options are to ignore the rhetorical nature of the question, grunt, or devise a set response. I occasionally switch it out with "I feel better!" from Willow.
And then there's Fight Club. Most often, "[Jack]'s not here. [Jack] went away." Then, "I know this because Tyler knows this." And the occasional, "You are not a unique, beautiful snowflake." I doubt there's a line of dialogue in the movie I haven't used at one point.
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I quote quite a bit of Doc from Tombstone as well, especially, "It's official. I hate him."
But the most quotable movie ever has got to be The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Every line is gold, especially John Lithgow's. But the throwaway lines that pepper the movie just take it right over the top.
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"I'll tell you later."
But the most quotable movie ever has got to be The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Every line is gold, especially John Lithgow's. But the throwaway lines that pepper the movie just take it right over the top.
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"I'll tell you later."
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Montressor wrote:"You want workin' on, boy . . ."Stonemaybe wrote:The three most quoted films in my life are Kelly's Heroes and Spinal Tap and Withnail and I.

"We've gone on holiday by mistake."

you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
But the most quotable movie ever has got to be The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Every line is gold, especially John Lithgow's. But the throwaway lines that pepper the movie just take it right over the top.
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"I'll tell you later."

Totally forgot about that movie. It is very surreal and abstract, and not for everyone's taste.
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You have to pick up the mouse and speak into the underside of it.High Lord Tolkien wrote:I work in the IT department and my favorite movie line when a computer or server is slow to respond is Scotty from Star Trek IV: "Hellooo computer"
Nobody ever gets it though and thinks I'm some kind of nutball.

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At an old job, there was a guy called Dave. One day he was shutting down his computer, and I whispered: "What are you doing, Dave? Dave, what are you doing?"High Lord Tolkien wrote:I work in the IT department and my favorite movie line when a computer or server is slow to respond is Scotty from Star Trek IV: "Hellooo computer"
Nobody ever gets it though and thinks I'm some kind of nutball.
Thankfully, he got that one. I can never whistle "Daisy, daisy . . ." without thinking of computers now.
But, the films I've quoted the most would have to be Conan the Barbarian, and Dr Strangelove. The second is good for getting out of things . . . "it's this gammy leg . . ."
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The Dreaming wrote:Being able to quote all of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an essential part of male adolescence. Ahhh, to be twelve. Why is it that Mad magazine is the absolute funniest thing in the universe when you're twelve? I mean, I can still enjoy it, but it's more a nostalgia now.
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Urgh.
Mad Magazine???
*shudder*
