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Suleiman -> RE: Favorite movie quotes (11/6/2004 8:29:07 PM)
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Oh, you mean in general, don't you? Well, then, obviously 90% of The Princess Bride, of course.
Fezzik: "Why are you wearing that mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?"
Man in Black: "Oh no, they're just terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them next year."
Count Rugen: "Now remember, this is for posterity, so be honest: How do you feel?"
Miracle Max: "Have fun storming the castle!"
Wesley: "There is a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It would be a pity for you to damage yours."
Grandfather: "Who says life is fair? Some times the hero dies and the bad guy marries the girl."
The morgenstern original has some fun bits too, but since that's a seven hundred page tome, I'll omit referencing anything from it for the sake of brevity. I do suggest, at the very least, picking up the abridged "good parts" version by Louis Goldman, but if your family, like mine, hails in whole or in part from the Guilderian coast, you would do well to study Morgenstern's original historical commentaries.
Like any fanboy, I have to quote Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dr Who at regular intervals, or they will revoke my geek liscense and I will no longer be welcome at the yearly seitch rituals.
"You came here in that? You're braver than I thought"
"Are those shoes rubber? Hold this, and don't touch anything grounded."
"Captian, there is an anomaly in the liver of that cloud." "Spock, you're the only man I know with the guts to say that."
The various muppet movies often provide useful fodder as well.
Rizzo: "God bless my broken little body!"
Rizzo: "I just fell forty feet onto a flaming hot goose!"
Gonzo: "You have all the luck"
Sweetums: "Jack not name, Jack job!" (Invariably recited as a ritual mantra whenever I'm asked to move the couch)
Of course, Zorro the Gay Blade has a number of happy sound-bytes as well:
Bunny: "His clothes are bold, his manner uncanny. Give him your gold, or he'll whip your fanny!"
Bunny: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso. All those for Zorro, stand up and say so!"
Cheech and Chong's version of the Corsican Brothers, of course:
Fuquare: "Guards! I demand that you arrest these men! They did not whip me!"
Anything by Mel Brooks, especially his earlier work.
Blazing Saddles: "Are we awake?" "We're not sure. Are we... black?" "Yes, we are." "Then we're awake, but confused."
Young Frankenstein: "Sedagive! Give him a sedagive! ...what's a sedagive?"
Dracula Dead and Loving it: "Wrong me! Wrong me, wrong me, wrong my fucking brains out!"
The David Lynch version of Dune also gives up some good quotes.
"They tried and failed?" "They tried and died."
"I shall not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total oblivion."
and of course the coffee drinker's mantra: "By will alone I set my thoughts in motion, by force of will my thoughts acquire speed. The juice of sappho speeds my thoughs, my lips acquire stains, the stain becomes a warning. By will alone I set my thoughts in motion, by force of will my thoughts acquire speed..."
the movie Excalibur has a bunch of fun quotes as well, many of the best coming from Nicol Williamson, who had way too much fun as Merlin.
"But I don't know how to be king!" "You knew how to draw the sword from the stone." "But that was easy." "Was it? I couldn't have done it!" "You couldn't?" "You're the king, not I."
"Looking at the cakes is like looking at the future. Until you've tasted them, what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late! ...Too late."
"You're not listening, at least your heart is not! Love is deaf as well as blind, that's it!"
Fanboy that I am, obviously I could keep going on and on, and I'm sure there's at least a few afraid by now that I will, but I shall stop before I go running off to my video collection to see what else is fun to recite at inappropriate moments as a way of confusing the mundanes at the next table.
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