Title says it all. I actually was going to start this last week cause I found it odd that "someone" didn't know where a movie line came from and I thought it'd be fun to find out if any of you actually ever use your favorite quote from a movie more often than not.

My line that I used is "Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full", which (in case some of ya'll are youngins) is from Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. This line is used when he asks the tower if he can perform a flyby on the aircraft carrier deck, which he receives that answer, which he does anyway and then gets verbally castrated for not following orders (but it's Tom Cruise so who cares, right?). Anyway, I tend to say that when people ask for something that I can't fulfill, lol.

What about the rest of you?

PS, I watched 'Hangover III' the other night and heard a common line that has made its way around the US and I'm sure other parts of the world. That line was, "I know, right?", which is spoken by Alan. That's probably the only case where I've seen a phrase I've spoken plenty of times and then seen it in a movie, lol.

"I am depressed!" Taggart (Slim Pickens) in Blazing Saddles

"Turn to the right!" Ed (Holly Hunter) in Raising Arizona (whenever I'm navigating and want my wife to 'turn to the right')

"Don't you blaspheme in here!" Aretha Franklin in The Blues Brothers

"Coffee's for closers." and "A B C - Always Be Closing." Blake (Alec Baldwin) in Glengarry Glen Ross (when dealing with recruiters)

Thanks, you just made me realize how much of a dork I am.

"'Fra-gi-le' Why, it must be from Italy!" (the Dad in A Christmas Story).

"Badges? We don' need no steenkin' badges . . ." (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

"Say! Why don't we put on a show!" (Mickey Rooney in every one of those Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland flicks.)

"They're polluting our precious bodily fluids." (Sterling Hayden as the insane general in Dr. Strangelove)

"It's good to be the King." (Mel Brooks, The History of The World)

"The Dude abides . . ." (Jeff Lebowski, The Big Lebowski)

Oops . . . I forgot:
"Open the pod bay doors, H.A.L." (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Glad you didn't forget that last one, RM!

"'Fra-gi-le' Why, it must be from Italy!" (the Dad in A Christmas Story).

:lol2: Whenever anyone in my circle of friends wins something, it's always dubbed a "major award". The line I use all the time was delivered by Chief Dan George in 'Little Big Man': "...sometimes the magic works...and sometimes it doesn't."

"Say hello to my little friend!" ..... I'll let you figure out on your own what context I use that one in.

Most of mine are modified though.

There are several from A Christmas Story:.

The Old Man says:

"All the best trees are going to be taken." ...... I switch out trees for whatever we are going for.

"You used all the glue... on purpose!" ..... Glue get's switched out for whatever item has been used.

I also have been known to quote a lot of lines from The Big Lebowski, mostly the line that Walter is yelling as he's smashing the car, and a slew of Clint Eastwood movies.

"There's a beverage involved here man!" Big Lebowski
When traveling "I thought the Rocky Mountains would be a lot Rockier than this..." "That John Denver's full of sh!t man..." Dumb and Dumber
Whenever we are traveling and leave KS, "I have a feeling we're not in KS anymore."
In church during the communion callbacks, "May the force be with you." "And also with you."
When we get back from vacation, "There's no place like home."
When someone asks for the truth, "You can't handle the truth!"

What? No Casablanca quotes at all? I'm shocked!

"looks i picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue."
"hail to the king, baby."
"we're on a mission from god."
"these aren't the droids you're looking for."
"right turn, clyde."

-M

I'm shocked!

forgot about that one! we use that every now and again. -M

Oh yeah... I forgot about a couple of others....

One we used recently in downtown Austin while trying to find 1st Street and going in circles....... "Hey kids look.... it's Big Ben!" - European Vacation

And from the movie They Live..... "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

ha... that reminds me of one my brother uses from vacation... "hey, look! a deer!" -M

Just thought of a few more that I actually DO work into various situations . . .
(Mostly eliciting the response, "Huh?" Thereby allowing me to shift the conversation away from whatever it was we were talking about, beginning with a brief explanation of the origin of what I just said. =)

"It goes up to 11!" ~This Is Spinal Tap

"This isn't a Bee Toy. It's a Bear Toy dressed up like a bee." ~Best in Show

"As long as you don't serve the chicken that way . . ." ~ Jake Gittes, Chinatown

"Just what we needed . . . A figureen." ~Goin' South (Jack Nicholson character)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jRNJluKik2s

Just thought of a few more that I actually DO work into various situations . . .
(Mostly eliciting the response, "Huh?" Thereby allowing me to shift the conversation away from whatever it was we were talking about, beginning with a brief explanation of the origin of what I just said. =)

"It goes up to 11!" ~This Is Spinal Tap

"This isn't a Bee Toy. It's a Bear Toy dressed up like a bee." ~Best in Show

"As long as you don't serve the chicken that way . . ." ~ Jake Gittes, Chinatown

"Just what we needed . . . A figureen." ~Goin' South (Jack Nicholson character)

Hello Cleveland.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfdpcrOgUp4

"Excuse me while I whip this out" Blazing Saddles
"Hey little schoolgirl...I'm a little school boy too" Full Metal Jacket
"I just don't know how to quit you" Brokeback

"Excuse me while I whip this out" Blazing Saddles
"Hey little schoolgirl...I'm a little school boy too" Full Metal Jacket
"I just don't know how to quit you" Brokeback

I've used those first two also.

"Get Off My Lawn" Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino.

"I am depressed!" Taggart (Slim Pickens) in Blazing Saddles
This reminded me of my favorite line from that movie - "Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a ****load of dimes!"



"Coffee's for closers." and "A B C - Always Be Closing." Blake (Alec Baldwin) in [I]Glengarry Glen Ross (when dealing with recruiters)
I overheard a coworker using that first one just this morning.


Love all the quotes though. Its making want to do dig deep into my DVD collection.

"if you ain't first, you're last" - talladega nights

"if you ain't first, you're last" - talladega nights

"I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!"

Granted it's fill in the blank but I have to guess a few people around here use "Um yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in to work on Saturday morning. If you could do that for me that would be greaaaat, yeeeeaaaaah", which is from Office Space.

oh yeah... blazing saddles. during pretty much any meeting at my last job we'd often say, "i didn't get a harumph outta that guy."

great thread.

-M

Ok... all the Mel Brooks quotes reminded me of another I do every time we go through the KFC drive through.

"What's the matter Colonel Sanders....... Chicken???" - Space Balls

I really didn't realize how much I do this.... LOL

Granted it's fill in the blank but I have to guess a few people around here use "Um yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in to work on Saturday morning. If you could do that for me that would be greaaaat, yeeeeaaaaah", which is from Office Space.
We've used that so much in our office it's now generally loathed. That and one coworker doofus keeps doing the "Mike Mike Mike Mike...guess what day it is?" on Wednesdays. That's getting real old, real fast.

However, whenever you get a cryptic error message that makes no sense, you are free to exclaim "PC load letter? What the hell does that mean?" to vent frustration. ;)

"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" - The Jerk
Such a great ice-breaker between me and my then-new boss (I miss her).

Because of my keen foresight and wicked comedic timing (not), I actually got somebody with the "The Hospital? What is it?" comeback line from Airplane!. Got laughs from the people who understood the joke, but an icy stare from the person who'd stepped into it.

How did I possibly forget:
"BACK! To The Future!" (?)

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts??!!" -- Full Metal Jacket, usually yelled at another driver.

Once in a while (when I can see it's a family member calling) I answer the phone with, "This is Buddy the Elf. What's your favorite color?"

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts??!!" -- Full Metal Jacket, usually yelled at another driver.

Although I don't use the line but also from Full Metal jacket "this is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for shooting and this is for fun"

Once in a while (when I can see it's a family member calling) I answer the phone with, "This is Buddy the Elf. What's your favorite color?"

Not a movie line, but I sometimes like to answer with "Go ahead, caller. I'm listening" from Frasier.

What? No Casablanca quotes at all? I'm shocked!

That's exactly what I was going to post. "I am Shocked - SHOCKED - that..." I find myself using it a lot.

edit to say Casablanca is one of my top 3 movies. What a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfdpcrOgUp4

DEAN WORMER!!! (are you like on "Double Secret Probation"? or just undercover?)

Here's one that I drop from, time to time, if the situation merits:
"Waiter . . . There are [snails] on her plate. You'd think that in a fancy restaurant like this--especially with these prices--you could keep the [snails] off the plates!"

Or... "Let's splurge! Bring us some fresh wine."

That movie is great.

"Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?"

"If you were me, you'd be good-lookin'" ~~ Six-String Samurai

"I ain't a for real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!"
"Excuse my vulgarity" Both from Midnight Cowboy"

"People don't say that about you, as far as you know." - Caddyshack

"Inconceivable!" - The Princess Bride

"I do not think that word means what you think it means." - The Princess Bride

"You're a true vulgarian aren't you?" - A Fish Called Wanda

" I don't think I'm gonna go anymore." - Office Space

I quote a lot of movies. But quotes I actually use IRL...

When the kids ask if we're there yet - "Almost there. Stay on target."

No, and don't call me Shirley.

Careful man, there's a beverage here.

8 year olds, Dude.

Umm yeah, I'm gonna need you to...

I aint got no weapon.

Winky Dinky ho cakes. Ho's gotta eat too.

Regarding the "I'm Shocked - SHOCKED - to find out..." from Casablanca, JUST NOW on CNN, Sen. Marco Rubio is saying that the European leaders are just showboating about being upset at the NSA spying, because they already knew, it's for domestic consumption etc. etc. He then said, "You know, I'm SHOCKED to find out there's gambling in Casablanca." There you have it just today on CNN. I wonder, if we really paid attention, how often people use movie references in everyday life, on TV news, etc.?

I'm shocked that I haven't paid attention to that . . .
On the other hand . . . "I was born a poor, black child . . ." (Steve Martin, The Jerk)

And another IRL quote:
"Well ain't this place a geographical oddity . . . Two weeks from everywhere." (Coen Bros. Clooney Character)

and honestly . . . in certain situations . . .
"I don't want FOP . . . I'm a DAPPER DAN man."

Now you guys are taking my language. A good friend of mine and I talk almost exclusively in 80's movies quotes. I do it so much I don't even know what are my original thoughts and what came from the movies anymore. I use negative ghost rider a lot but my favorite is "what in the wide wide world of sports is going on here. I hired you people to try and get a little bit of track laid..." I cut it off there. I also say "...and that's when the big bucks start rolling in".

...and don't get me started talking like Forrest Gump because that can go on for an hour.

"I think I'm going to start watching Spanish Television in case the non-dubbed version of 'Forrest Gump' is shown. So I can learn how to say 'Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get' in a more culturally diverse and sensitive manner."
(The Walter Character. "The Even Bigger Lebowski" [a.k.a. "The Dude II")

Spoken just before "Shut The F*** Up, Donnie." b.t.w. =)
(another IRL movie steal, except I don't know any real-life Donnies)

"You know Billy, we blew it"

"You have no call to get snippy with me, sir. I'm just doing my job." (Marge Gunderson, Fargo)

I do it so much I don't even know what are my original thoughts and what came from the movies anymore.

Don't you hate it when that happens? lol

"I'm your huckleberry"

"I'm your huckleberry"

How on earth could I forget that?? I've had that movie on VHS, DVD & Bluray!

"You have no call to get snippy with me, sir. I'm just doing my job." (Marge Gunderson, Fargo)

That's one of my faves.

Accidentally ran across another one earlier this afternoon while watching a reality show with my wife. The cops were booking a prostitute that was actually a guy in drag. We said in unison, "That's a man, baby!" I started laughing because I realized we use that one a lot and ended up having to explain this thread to my wife.

How on earth could I forget that?? I've had that movie on VHS, DVD & Bluray!

I'm like that with "Blazing Saddles" - I even have the HD-DVD.

"Get back witch."

"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!"

"I'm a smudge of excrement on a tissue, surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage." -- Sideways

"Heineken? **** that ****! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" -- Blue Velvet

Here's one I use quite a bit. There. There, now.

"Heineken? **** that ****! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" -- Blue Velvet

I love that line.

"I gotta take a 12 lb. sh!t." Jack Black in Tropic Thunder

"It's just a flesh wound." The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The top 100 quotes could have all been in Caddyshack.

Check out the cartoon, HERE (http://www.sillimanonsports.com/Top100MovieQuotes.html)

Silliman on Sports
By Stan Silliman

TOP 100 MOVIE QUOTES AS SPOKEN BY CADDYSHACK

The American Film Institute released its list of top 100 quotes from U.S. films. Only a few were from sports movies. Grave omission, we think, so we’ve reconstructed 22 of the quotes to fit the famous sports movie, Caddyshack, in bold as spoken by the Caddyshack characters.

In case you haven’t seen Caddyshack, here’s what you need to know: Chevy Chase plays smartass playboy Ty Webb. Ted Knight plays arrogant, pompous, bull-headed Judge Elihu Smails. Rodney Dangerfield plays the sleazy, insulting, but generous land developer Al Czervik. Bill Murray is the hapless assistant groundskeeper Carl Spackler whose adventures chasing the gopher is hilarious. Michael O’Keefe is teenage caddy Danny Noonan. Dan Resin is club champion Dr. Beeper. Cindy Morgan plays Judge Smails’ sexy niece Lacey Underall.

Spackler’s boss has just ordered Carl to kill all the gophers on the golf course. Spackler answers “Correct me if I’m wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they lock me up and throw away the key. I see dead people… but we’ll always have Paris, won’t we Sandy. ”

Carl Spackler has cornered the gopher and is threatening him with a baseball bat “Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?” he says as he repeatedly misses the gopher. The gopher runs away, then turns and asks “You talking to me?” Danny Noonan sees the action and advises Spackler “You’re going to need a bigger bat.” Spackler then runs off saying “I’ll be back! I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog, too!”

Meanwhile, vulgar land developer Al Czervik is playing golf against Judge Smails for the right to place a housing development next to the exclusive club. “Aren’t you ashamed of being filthy rich, Czervik?” the Judge asks. “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Al answers. “But why a development here,” the bull-headed Smails asks. “If you build it, they will come,” Al answers, stepping in front of Smails. “Hey,” Smails shouts “I’m walking here! I’m walking here! Besides what are you building those houses out of, Czervik?” Al answers “Plastics.” “Is it safe?” Smails snaps. “Of course,” Czervik answers as he approaches the tee box “But you can’t handle the truth. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy nine.”

Next we find Carl Spackler trying to firebomb the dancing gopher, “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning,” Spackler says, certain he’s defeated the feisty one. Judge Smails sees the fire and immediately races toward it. He cell phones back to Jack Houston in the club house saying “Houston, we have a problem.” Jack says “Surely, you can’t be serious.” Smails replies “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”

Next we find Judge Smails sexy niece, Lacey Underall, walking into the caddyshack/bar Danny Noonan operates and Danny says “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Lacey approaches Noonan “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Serve me up some Soylent Green.” Noonan looks at her grimly “But don’t you know,” he stammers “Soylent Green is people!”

Lacey turns back to him, squints her eyes and says “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Here is one that I not only say, but live by.

The only winning move is not to play. - WOPR computer from War Games.

Who plays anything they can't win at?

Usually paraphrased to fit whatever situation but "There's no crying in baseball!" You can replace crying and baseball with just about any situation and as long as you say it right, everyone will know what it's from.


And I can't even begin to go into all the Mel Brooks, Monty Python and Airplane quotes that fly around our house.

...
Who plays anything they can't win at?

Oh, I dunno. I sometimes still get into arguments with my lovely, even after three decades of defeats.
:)