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To prevent the Best Characters.. thread from being threadjacked, how about a thread on favourite film lines?

Here are a few of mine:

"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" - Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
"It's twue it's twue!" - Lillie von Schtupp, Blazing Saddles (probably not a popular film on this PC forum, but I could go on and on with Blazing Saddles lines)
"Wanna spend the night in a motel?" - Harry, When Harry Met Sally (rich pickings in this one as well)

"Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face!" - Vincent, Pulp Fiction
I also had one from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but anyone who's seen the movie knows it would've been taken out within minutes by the Mods.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Danny, American History X

There's tons more but I'm not gonna spend too long thinking them up.

Tombstone is one of my favorite movies, largely because of the lines uttered by Doc Holliday (played by Val Kilmer). As portrayed in the movie, Doc was (besides being intelligent and educated, tubercular, and usually in some stage of inebriation) alienated from just about everything. A pretty cynical and sarcastic guy, which gave rise to good lines.

At one point, he's accused of cheating at cards by a stupid and illiterate bad guy. Doc is amused. He denies the charge, saying: "Maybe poker's just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!"

The only good thing is his life, really, is his loyalty to his friend, Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell). At one point the good guys are in a jam and someone asks Doc why he's involved. He says it's because Wyatt is his friend. Other guy says, Heck I've got lots of friends. Doc's great line, simply: "I don't."

He's a sad and enigmatic figure. The chief bad guy in the movie is a fast gun named Johnny Ringo, who's gunning for Wyatt and whom Wyatt can't figure out. But Doc, sensing a kindred soul in Johnny, explains: "A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it." Wyatt asks, What does want? "Revenge," Doc says. For what, Wyatt wonders. "Bein' born" is Doc's reply.

On a computer screen, these lines are pretty lifeless. You'd have to see the movie to appreciate Val Kilmer's portrayal. If you ever have a hankerin' for a good shoot-'em-up western, check out Tombstone.

Besides Chevy Chase’s obvious brilliance in Caddy Shack (no need to post) and Brad Pitts obvious brilliance in Fight Club (would be deleted if I post), I also like:

Chris: Kent puts his name on his license plate.
Mitch: Yeah, my mom puts the same thing in my underwear.
Chris: Your mom puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?

As usual, JimSomebody, exquisite taste in films and characters!

It'll take a couple of days for my memory to get up to speed and remember the great film lines. Of course, there is the ubiquitous, "Go ahead, punk, make my day." which my memory may even have wrong, but you get the idea. The Harry Callahan character from Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series of films was also a good source of material.

Too many favorite movie lines to pick just one, but one of my favorite, all time "lines" originated with Popeye the Sailor. ..."I'se had all I kin standz, I cain't standz no more!"...and he reaches for the spinach...you know the rest.

To JimSombody:...I agree, Tombstone is one of my all time favorite movies...Wyatt Earp is one of my favorite historical characters. Check out the autobiography Earp himself dictated to a writer after he turned 80.. "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall". Earp's life in his own words...simply amazing. The REAL Wyatt Earp leaves the fictional Earp in the dust.

Morgan Freeman's line to Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption - "You better get busy living or get busy dying."

Also, the father's long monologue at the end of The 25th Hour. I'm not gonna go into details about it (big spoilers, plus it's so long) but it's heartwrenching. Seeing Monty (Ed Norton) wave good-bye to his father for the last time... for some reason it always relates back to me and my graduation from high school. Except I wasn't caught by the cops and arrested for 7 years for dealing drugs... yet.

From the original Dirty Harry: "I know what your thinking, did he fire six shots or five? You know in all the excitement I really don't know myself. So you gotta' ask yourself a question, do I feel lucky? We'll do ya, Punk?"

From Scarface: "All I have in this world is my word and my *****, and I don't break either for anybody."

From Godfather: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." and "well listen here my ***** -**** friend..."(Can't say the rest of that one)

From Unforgiven: "You just shot an unarmed man! Well he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."

From Tombstone: "I'm your Huckberry"

from the graduate: "i think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends." (and boy is she ever. anne bancroft could get anyone through a cold winter night.)

american beauty: "I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life" and "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in". Helps put things into perspective

Tomstone is a great movie.

Too many from Monty Python.

Chevy Chase in Fletch.

My boys (3 and 4) from Star Wars - "Watch your mouth kid." Han Solo to Luke. They go around the house and public saying this. I only wonder what other people think when they hear this.

Kilmer is amazing...he really becomes the character...you'd swear he really had tb. Did a great job as Jim Morrison, too. Some of the lines were supposed to be actual quotes that were witnessed like "You're a daisy if you do!" and Wyatt Earp to Johnny Behan "I won't be arrested today".

Valeogut, I liked Eastwood as Josey Wales...best line was " Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."

Some movies I can watch over and over.

Shade

Who can forget the great actor Arnold Schwartznager
1.) I'll be back (Terminator)

2.) It's not a tumour (Kindegarden Cop)

Well I got some weird taste.

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From the Movie Office space

I don't like work! i don't think im gonna go anymore!!

Will you get fired?

I don't know maybe.

What about your bills?

You know I never like paying Bills.. I don't think im gonna do that any more either..

What do you want to do? I want to take you to dinner then go back to my place and watch Kung Fu.. You Like Kung Fu?