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My nominee for this honor: "We're all part monster in our subconscious, so we have LAWS and RELIGION!"
That line is from near the end of the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, which, incidentally, is my favorite science fiction movie ever. When J.J. Adams (the captain, played by Leslie Nielsen), Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter Altaira (Anne Francis) are fleeing from the pursuing invisible monster, and Adams had just figured out, with Dr. Ostrow's help, what the monster was, and Adams was confronting Morbius with that stunning realization, Morbius objected, "I'm not a monster, you ..." Adams replied, "We're all part monster in our subconscious, so we have LAWS and RELIGION!"
I cannot think of another movie line that I love more than that one. I just posted this in another thread about favorite movie endings, and that's what gave me the idea for starting another thread with this subject.
In the words of the immortal Linda Richman of Saturday Night Live fame, I've given y'all a topic, now, discuss!
-- Ron
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)From When Sally met Harry.
fierywoman
(7,686 posts)cloudbase
(5,522 posts)Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove.
spooky3
(34,461 posts)Winston Wolf, in Pulp Fiction
Upthevibe
(8,055 posts)Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies of all time. I have it DVR'd and I just watched it this past weekend..
Winston Wolf is the best!!!
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)but, from one of my favorite movies and spoken by an amazing beauty:
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
Jeebo
(2,025 posts)The one she wrote about her relationship with Humphrey Bogart. How long ago was that? Must have been 35 or 40 years ago that that book came out. That is indeed a great line from a great movie, as are all the lines and movies nominated so far in this thread.
-- Ron
JoseBalow
(2,403 posts)- Tony Montana, Scarface
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)rogerballard
(2,889 posts)among so many others but this stuck out.
Mr.Bill
(24,305 posts)telling the guard who is putting him in the "box" for the night and saying he's sorry but he's just doing his job: "Calling it your job don't make it right, boss". I have used that line more times than I can count, whenever anyone says they're just doing their job as an excuse.
Timeflyer
(1,994 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)I don't know how anyone can pick just one, though.
lpbk2713
(42,761 posts)...
Niagara
(7,632 posts)Tombstone.
Niagara
(7,632 posts)Tombstone.
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)"Can't swim? - The fall will probably kill you!"
I may have paraphrased that.
unblock
(52,267 posts)Butch: I'll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What's the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can't swim!
Butch: (laughing) Why, you crazy the fall'll probably kill ya!
malthaussen
(17,205 posts)I'm also open to "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." from Blues Brothers.
-- Mal
DelMar dem
(38 posts)Spoken by the old knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Beausoleil
(2,843 posts)One of my favorites is Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke:
"What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Another favorite (from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre):
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
DEbluedude
(816 posts)Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales
Prairie_Seagull
(3,330 posts)Shawshank Redemption.
ProfessorGAC
(65,085 posts)From the 2nd Indiana Jones movie.
When the ancient Templar tells them he must choose from all the chalices to drink from the cup of Christ.
The bad guy grabs the bejeweled one & drinks from it. He rapidly ages and turns to ash before their eyes.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)BOSSHOG
(37,077 posts)Jack Nicholson as COL Nathan Jessup in a Few Good Men
AND
I dont know what scruples are but I know if you got them you stole them from somebody else.
Addie Pray talking to her Daddy Mose in Paper Moom
AND
I should be coming into some money soon, my girlfriend promised me a blow job
Steve Martin in The Jerk
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)Shirley Jones going to answer the door in "Cheyenne Social Club".
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mucifer
(23,555 posts)Im assuming John Landis wrote that one hes Jewish and born in Chicago.
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)The Expanse. Not a movie, but damn.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)That might be my favorite line .. but my favorite quote is from Adaptation
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
Were all one thing, Lieutenant. Thats what Ive come to realize. Like cells in a body. Cept we cant see the body. The way fish cant see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
LakeArenal
(28,827 posts)CanonRay
(14,106 posts)Jeremiah Johnson to Will Geer. His answer was " I dont know, I surely dont. March, April maybe.
I always thought it would be wonderful to live like that.
Also, same movie "Elk dont know how many feet a horse has".
Ninga
(8,276 posts)Bull Durham
unweird
(2,540 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(11,033 posts)God that line is pure poetry.
Great movie too.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,033 posts)Werner Hertzog (of course) from Encounters at the End of the World.
rsdsharp
(9,188 posts)Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Dean Wormer to Flounder Animal House.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)3catwoman3
(24,013 posts)Said by Scotty in Star Trek - The Voyage Home.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Captain%2C+there+be+whales&rlz=1C1FGUR_enUS1082US1082&oq=Captain%2C+there+be+whales&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHC
AuntyGravity
(198 posts)Also...
From Godzilla 2000
Why does he (Godzilla) keep protecting us?
Maybe because theres a little Godzilla inside all of us.
Charlie Chapulin
(170 posts)Ordinary people. I F-ing hateem. See ordinary people spend their lives avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.
I have many but this is what came to mind:
THAT RUG REALLY TIED THE ROOM TOGETHER. THE DUDE..... (Jeff Bridges in probably his most iconic role)...
The Big Lebowski - One of my favorite movies.
Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire.
lastlib
(23,252 posts)Last words of David Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey
And:
"Mongo only PAWN in Game of Life!" -- Mongo, Blazing Saddles
OldBaldy1701E
(5,138 posts)"Yes sir, the check is in the mail!"
BlueKota
(1,762 posts)Lethal Weapon II - uttered by Joe Pesci as Leo Getz. I loved all the movies in the series, but can't really enjoy them anymore knowing now what a jerk Mel Gibson is.
Chipper Chat
(9,682 posts)Doc Brown in Back to the Future.
Brother Buzz
(36,448 posts)Bozvotros
(785 posts)So many great lines in this movie. Here's one:
Captain Cutshaw: "If God existed, he's a fake. Or, more likely, a foot. A giant, all-powerful, all-knowing *foot!*
Fix The Stupid
(948 posts)My all time favourite movie. So bad it's good.
underpants
(182,843 posts)He says that his people will kill every firstborn child in every family.
A clown says But Penguin, isnt that a little
Penguin shoots him with a gun that looks like an umbrella and says
No, its A LOT!
underpants
(182,843 posts)He says that his people will kill every firstborn child in every family.
A clown says But Penguin, isnt that a little
Penguin shoots him with a gun that looks like an umbrella and says
No, its A LOT!
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)From an underrated movie called Mystery Men.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,833 posts)Dawgman49
(226 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,155 posts)czarjak
(11,284 posts)Harry Callahan/Magnum Force
nocoincidences
(2,223 posts)Ripley in Aliens
Something is coming, something wonderful!
2001, 2010
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)Godfather part 2
unblock
(52,267 posts)From the sting.
NoSheep
(8,122 posts)unblock
(52,267 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)When the US President confirms that a group of bombers is heading
toward the Soviet union, the Soviet Chairman says;
"We shall watch with great interest while you recall them."
Considering what is at stake, there has never been a greater understatement.
Paladin
(28,266 posts)From the glorious "Body Heat."
debm55
(25,218 posts)IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)without qualifications.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)Its the delivery as much as the line.
From The Ashes
(2,630 posts)Richard Lewis (RIP) :
'I have a mole?' Robin Hood, Men in Tights.