Mount Rushmore--Movie Quotes

[albionmoonlight]

Inspired by

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/film.quotes.ap/index.html

Let's do this before the AFI snobs take all the fun out of it.

Here's mine:

"Bond . . . James Bond"
"I am your father"
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"
"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

2 observations:

I could have made this list using nothing but Casablanca
There are a lot of great quotes left off this list. This was even harder than the quarterbacks.

[Blackadar]

"I'll be back"
"I'll be back"
"I'll be back"
"I'll be back"

[Fritz]

"....wanted in fourteen counties of this state, the condemned is found guilty of crimes of murder, armed robbery of citizens, state banks and post offices; the theft of sacred objects, arson in a state prison, perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children, inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit money and contrary to the laws of this state the condemned is guilty of using marked cards and loaded dice. Therefore, according to the powers vested in us, we sentence the accused before us, Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez and any other aliases he might have, to hang by the neck until dead....may god have mercy on his soul....proceed."

"Sometimes you have to say, ‘What the fuck?'"

"No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food. "

"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? "

[mckerney]

"I gotta go see about a girl."
"I'll make it."
"A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker, she just looks like Lana Turner."
"Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things."

[korme]

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."

"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."

More of a conversation, but my favorite part of the movie..

"Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): What?
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): What country you from?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): What?
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): "What" ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): What?
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): Yes!
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Then you know what I'm saying!
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): Yes!
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like!
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): What, I-?
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): [pointing his gun] Say "what" again. SAY "WHAT" AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say "what" one more goddamn time.
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): He's b-b-black...
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Go on.
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): He's bald...
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Does he look like a bitch?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): What?
[Jules shoots Brett in shoulder]
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): No!
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?
Brett (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001844/): I didn't.
Jules (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000168/): Yes you did. Yes you did, Brett. You tried to fuck him. And Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mrs. Wallace. "

Four Fight Club or Pulp Fiction quotes could have done it for me, but I had to go further.

[korme]

"I gotta go see about a girl."
I almost used "Son of a bitch. He stole my line.".. heh

[JonInMiddleGA]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning ..."
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"I'm here to do one of two things, kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum."
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"You talkin' to me? ..."
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"Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. "

[cthomer5000]

"Luke... I am your father"
"Inconceivable!"
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
"I am, veddy veddy sneaky." (one of my personal faves)

[BreizhManu]

"My mom's been fuckin' a dead guy for 30 years. I call him dad." (Clerks)

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

"It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference! " (Trainspotting)

[ntndeacon]

"I'm as Mad as Hell and I am not going to take it anymore!!"
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War room!"
"I am going to make him an offer he can't refuse"
"I was born a poor black child."

Honorable mention
"It's alright, that's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause.
You can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus"

[Raven Hawk]

"Good? Bad? I'm the one with the gun."

"This one goes to eleven."

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in. "

"I guess the sayings' true. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. They are the fuckin' rake."

[Mustang]

"I'll be Back"
"May the force be with you"
"You ever seen a grown man naked?"
"Nnnnnnoonan. Noonan! Noonan!"

[Bearcat729]

By the way the AFI has a pdf of the 400 nominated quotes on their site.

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx

[Qwikshot]

"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

""Freedom!"

"Here's Johnny!!!"

"You can't handle the truth!"

[Butter]

-You do more ball handling in 1 minute than Larry Bird does in an hour!
-You know what I'd really like?
-A couple more hands and an extra set of balls?

[condors]

go ahead make my day

deserve aint got nothing to do with it

you can't handle the truth

badges? we don't need no stinking badges

[JonInMiddleGA]

Cool - Two of my near misses showed up very quickly
"This one goes to eleven."
"You can't handle the truth!"

[Franklinnoble]

"I can eat 50 eggs."

[Radii]

"Is this heaven? -- No, it's Iowa." (Field of Dreams: in lieu of the really long James Earl Jones monologue which is more than just a simple quote I guess)

"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." (Empire Strikes Back)

"Goooooooood morning Vietnam" (duh)

"Help, help, I'm being repressed." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

[gottimd]

I'm surprised no one has made a Mount Rushmore- Movie Villains thread yet.

[mattwakeman]

"I mean, if you're not a rebel by 21, you've got no heart, and if you haven't gone establishment by 30, you've got not brain."

[Qwikshot]

"I could have been a contender"

"Get your hands off me you damn dirty apes!"

"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die"

"Go ahead, make my day"

[korme]

By the way the AFI has a pdf of the 400 nominated quotes on their site.

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx hell yea 306 "Shane! Shane! Come back!"

[lurker]

"It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."

[korme]

also tight that swingers made the list

[QuikSand]

Mehtinks the spirit of the "Mount Rushmore" concept is getting lost somewhere along the way...



Anyway, here's my first stab at it:

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
"Rosebud."
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

[lurker]

Mehtinks the spirit of the "Mount Rushmore" concept is getting lost somewhere along the way...


I knew someone would say that after I quoted Office Space. I didn't think it was truly right either, but just felt like tossing out a good quote.

[Suicane75]

1. "I used to be smart. But now I'm just stupid."
2. "I will drop-kick those fucking dogs If they come near me."
3. "There are stories of coincidence and chance And intersections and strange things told... And which is which and who only knows?
And we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."
Someone's so-and-so met someone else's so-and-so, And so on.
And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator That strange things happen all the time.
And so it goes, and so it goes. And the book says... "We may be through with the past, But the past ain't through with us."
4. Gwenovire: What are you doing?
Frank: What am I doing?
Gwenovire: Yeah.
Frank: I'm quietly judging you.

[SackAttack]

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

In the interests of pedantry, it's actually:

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. We ain't gotta show you any stinkin' badges!"

[Ramzavail]

this is simple enough.

hxxp://www.dymphna.net/randomquotage/lebowskiquotes.shtml

[QuikSand]

In the interests of pedantry, it's actually:

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. We ain't gotta show you any stinkin' badges!"

I stand humbly corrected. Funny how many "famous" quotes like this are actually mis-quotes. I'm sure that my version (apparently incorrect) is far more well known than yours (presumably correct).

[albionmoonlight]

I stand humbly corrected. Funny how many "famous" quotes like this are actually mis-quotes. I'm sure that my version (apparently incorrect) is far more well known than yours (presumably correct).
And no one in Casablanca says "Play it again, Sam."

[QuikSand]

Right, similarly:

Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime"
Jimmy Cagney's "You dirty rat"

...never appeared in their movies, stated that way

[QuikSand]

That might be a MR right there.

[SplitPersonality1]

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

"Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"

"I coulda been a contender"

"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."

[tanglewood]

"I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
"There will be no fighting in the war room!"
"I made him an offer he couldn't refuse."

[Celeval]

For anyone interested - the nominated movies (400) have 37 movies with more than one quote.

Two quotes
Airplane!
Annie Hall
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Caddyshack
Dr. Strangelove
The Fly (sortof - one quote from the 1958 version, one from 1986)
Forrest Gump
Ghostbusters
The Graduate
Lawrence of Arabia
The Maltese Falcon
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
On Golden Pond
Out of the Past
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like it Hot
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
A Streetcar Named Desire
Swingers
To Kill a Mockingbird
2001: A Space Odyssey
Wayne's World
When Harry Met Sally

Three Quotes
Duck Soup
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
It's a Wonderful Life
Jerry Maguire
National Lampoon's Animal House
Sunset Boulevard

Gone with the Wind has 5 quotes.
The Wizard of Oz has 6 quotes.
Casablanca leads all with 7 quotes.

[SackAttack]

I stand humbly corrected. Funny how many "famous" quotes like this are actually mis-quotes. I'm sure that my version (apparently incorrect) is far more well known than yours (presumably correct).

Indeed. Somebody else pointed out the "Play it again, Sam" misquote, which actually goes something like:

"Play it, Sam! I can stand it if she can."

Most of the misquotes I'm familiar with are Bogarts, though, since that's been my recent, well, obsession as far as films go. I've been collecting as many of his movies as I can on DVD, and two of my favorites so far have been Casablanca and Treasure of the Sierra Madre - which is why those quotes stuck with me.

[Ben E Lou]

You can't handle the truth.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Bond. James Bond.

HONORABLE MENTION: The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

[Leonidas]

The entire dialogue of the opening scene to Reservoir Dogs
"Peasants? I love the Peasants. Pull!" History of the World Pt II
"Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." Goldfinger
"The AK-47, when you absolutely, positively have to kill every motherf'er in the room" Jackie Brown

[Raven Hawk]

"My brother and I used to say that drownin' in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he's not here, and I've got two soakers... this isn't heaven, this sucks!"

"We're from the Department of Justice, we're here to adjust the beds."

"I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it."

"I am your father, Luke. Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob. "

[Honolulu_Blue]

This is all I got for now. I will think on more...

Harry Lime (Orsen Wells), in "The Third Man"

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

[Kevin]

"Bring us a shrubbery" Monty Python & the quest for the Holy Grail
"Bond, James Bond"
"Better...... Better bring me a bucket" - The Meaning of Life
"Go ahead punk. Make my day" - Dirty Harry

[sabotai]

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
"If they hadn't done what I told 'em not to do... they'd still be alive."
"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
"And like that....he's gone."

[Scarecrow]

"The cockpit--what is it? It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."

"Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo."

"It's 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses!....................HIT IT!!!"

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"