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Apt. 11d 
Mr. Mom (great line)
“No, it’s fully baked.”
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“No, it’s fully baked.”
Wasn’t that Dustin Hoffman’s line in The Graduate?
Okay, my offerings, but probably only the last three, and maybe the first (which I’m certain I remember wrong), verge on genuine obscurity …
“she’s spending time with the other side of the family”
“is someone crying out there?”
“I’m in insurance”
“it was a world with dew still on it, more touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known”
“There’s not a lot of money in revenge”
“tell me something to make me love you”
“what other options do I have? There’s not a lot of opportunities up here for social mobility – I mean, you can either become a hockey player or take up a life of crime, and I have weak ankles”
“Lady, you can’t cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can’t.”
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“it was a world with dew still on it, more touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known”
A River Runs Through It. One of my favorites.
“Because my womb was a rocky place where a seed could find no purchase.”
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“her womb was a rocky place where a seed could find no purchase.”
so many fine lines in that movie (“I’ll take the huggies, and whatever cash you got”), how did I forget that one!? I feel kinda dumb now.
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“Lady, you can’t cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can’t.”
I cheated and googled that one. It was so familiar, and it was killing me that I couldn’t nail it. Highway 61! Excellent, excellent movie.
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“is someone crying out there?”
Bucakroo Banzai, which also gave us “I’ve been ionized, but I’m okay now,” “Why is there a watermelon there?” and “I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.”
Kind of from the same genre…
“This is going to take crackerjack timing.”
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I think that should be “No, Dad, it’s completely baked.”
A line I think of equally often (that is, at least once a day), not all that obscure, is “I’ve never been too clear on this good-bad stuff.”
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There’s not a lot of money in revenge–The Princess Bride.
“Puffy. I feel puffy and blotchy.”
“Wherever we go, we’re taking this luggage.”
“You’re going to have to love, honor, and obey me for about 5 minutes.”
“We’ll jump, and we’ll see. We’ll just see. Nobody know anything.”
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Joe Versus the Volcano
It was the luggage quote I remembered
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“The nerve of her! Coming here with your face!”
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The nerve of her, coming here with your face
-The parent trap, love it.
“Trust me, tying your shoes is seriously over-rated”
“HEY! What’s wrong with the way I talk?”.
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“HEY! What’s wrong with the way I talk?”
–Lina Lamont, Singing in the Rain
“We have so much time, and so little to do!”
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“We have so much time, and so little to do!”
From WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, right?
The crackerjack timing quote is from Big Trouble in Little China.
Here are quotes from a movie:
“You want another answer, ask another girl.”
“I’ve got something in my belly, but I think it’s nervous knots.”
“I am not steak. You can’t just order me.”
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“The crackerjack timing quote is from Big Trouble in Little China.”
You got in, Anne. Big Trouble, which also gave us “I’m not saying that I’ve been everywhere and I’ve done everything, but I do know it’s a pretty amazing planet we live on, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we’re alone in THIS universe,” as well as the wonderfully succinct “Everybody relax, I’m here.”
Now get this one: “I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.”
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“I’m hysterical, and I’m wet”
but my favorite line of all:
“It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does?”
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Sadly, most of my favorite lines from Big Trouble in Little China contain profanity, e.g., “Get to the g–d– point, Egg.”
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I used to think I was pretty good at movie lines, but this thread is humbling.
“I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.”
A great scene, and prescient: my computer says that to me all the time after it tries to frustrate me to death.
“It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does?”
Another one that’s definitely on my A list. My favorite line from Bladerunner has to be: “all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain”.
“Highway 61! Excellent, excellent movie.”
You know, funny story: the guy who plays the funeral home attendant at the beginning of that movie (he also has a cameo in Bruce Macdonald’s earlier rock ‘n road movie Roadkill) is Namir Kahn, who was my first TA ever for a political theory course, and, looking back, was probably a big part of why I stayed in the major (he was so damn cool about stuff, when other TAs seemed uptight and occasionally nasty). He’s also written several films of his own.
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“You want another answer, ask another girl.”
Finally got it: Working Girl. I haven’t seen that one in ages.
“Say what you want about National Socialism, man–at least it’s an ethos.”
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Love this thread!
“Say what you want about National Socialism, man–at least it’s an ethos.”
Now that’s a Big Lebowski paraphrase. Great movie, Russell.
“I fought for the South. We lost.”
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“It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does?”
Bladerunner.
“I didn’t ask for the anal probe.”
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Oooh, Buckaroo Banzai, Bladerunner and Princess Bride. I knew I was in the right place. Especially because the answer to the question about the watermelon is, “I’ll tell you later.” (No one ever does.)
Other terrific ones from that movie:
“Pecos is in Tibet.”
“We are not in the eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey!”
“John Valook is dead. He fell on his head.”
“John Ya-ya. John Smallberries.”
“Penny, can you hold my thruster?”
“Don’t tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to.”
And of course
“Laugh while you can Monkey Boy”
I’m not much good at movie quotes, but I can still do pretty much all six hours of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show. And now I’m admitting it to the whole web.
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“I can still do pretty much all six hours of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show.”
I think that is so cool. I have a copy of the original radio scripts, and I treasure them. (“Will everything tie up neatly or will it be just like life: quite interesting in parts, but no substitute for the real thing?”)
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Oh, wait, I forgot:
“I didn’t ask for the anal probe.”
Passion Fish.
“Don’t worry, I’ll have everything worked out by the time we reach the frontier.”
[BWAP BWAP BWAP BWAP]
“What’s that?!”
“The frontier.”
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“I fought for the South. We lost.”
Near dark – creepy movie, very well done, imho. That bar scene is just really disturbing (“now pay the man!”).
Keeping with the ‘dark and brooding’ theme …
“victims – aren’t we all?”
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“but no substitute for the real thing”
I think what’s next is “What is the real thing?” Then I think there’s a riff on how to define life.
A couple years back, I got copies of the BBC broadcasts, which are just a little bit longer than what I had been listening to from NPR all these years. There’s like a sentence or two here and there that makes up length that was really jarring to my recollection. I was all, where did that come from? In the first episode, for instance, there’s more with Mr Prosser and a bit more about where the notes from the local planning office meetig were on display.
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Okay, I was out of town for a few days but I have to say — Russell is the king of obscure quotes! 🙂
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I’m not worthy, Russell. Seriously, this thread was hugely funny. I kept refreshing this page over the weekend.
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Thanks; chalk it up to having a terrible memory for names, but a great memory for meaningless trivia. (Oh, and that “frontier” quote is from, I must confess, The Last Starfighter…a bit of 80s teen/sci-fi excess that I remember mainly because my wife’s dad quotes it religiously. That and Groundhog’s Day.)
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man– look at the blogparty I missed! Great idea for a thread, Laura.
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“I’m in insurance.” — Twelve Monkeys
Great quote 🙂 Isn’t it also the last words of the movie? I gotta check the next time I watch it.
“God, I admire you.”
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