Quotable Hollywood: Our favorite lines ... tell us yours

S ome movies live on, their agreed-upon greatness chiseled in stone, or at least listed by the American Film Institute.

[a regular guy]

"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!" Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket

[Troy]

It aint the years honey, its the mileage.

-Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Dave Root]

"I'm a mog......half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend." - Barf (John Candy) "Spaceballs"

[america]

"How's your melon buddy" Stoney - Encino Man

[Bibliophilist]

"Shoot straight, ya b*st*rds! Don't make a mess of it." - Breaker Morant

[Heinie]

"What’s the matter with you people? I was joking. Don’t you know a joke when you hear one? HaHaHa" ... Dr Fronkinstein, "Young Frankenstein"

[terry]

Hannibal The Cannibal at the end of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

"I'm having an oold friend for dinner."

Greer Garson at the end of 'Random Harvest'

"Smithy"

[DaveK17]

"I want you to get up off your ass, and get out of your chairs! I want you to go to the window and throw it open, and yell out,'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" --news commentator Howard Beal, "Network"--

"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy." -- Josie Wales, in "The Outlaw Josie Wales"

"Ride on!" -- Chris the gunfighter to Calvera the bandito, "The Magnificent Seven"

"You feel so cut off, so lost, so alone. Only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable -- is each other."
--alien hologram of her father to Jodie Foster's character Dr. Ellie Arroway in "Contact"--

[Corporate Clam]

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

"'Scuse me while I whip this out!"

Blazing Saddles

[Bill C]

"Grandma I think I made a mistake in coming here" Platoon-Charlie Sheen
"They call me Mr. Tibbs" In The Heat Of The Night-Sidney Poit.
"We'll find them , just as sure as the turning of the earth" The Searchers-John Wayne

[Mary C]

"Can't say it's been a little piece of heaven,'cause it hasn't."
Bugs Bunny

[matt]

-"Apes don't read philosophy."
-"Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it! Let me correct
you on a few things: Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of
Buddhism is not 'every man for himself'. And the London Underground is
not a political movement! Those are all mistakes. I looked them up."

--"A Fish Called Wanda"

[Ken]

"There's no crying in baseball!" Tom Hanks in 'A League of Their Own'

"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"
'Shawshank Redemption'

[Diana Suprinski]

"Today's junior prick is tomorrow's Senior Partner." Catherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) in "Working Girl."

[Winterbiker]

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver; with some fava beans, and a nice chianti."

Silence of the Lambs

[Tom Terrific]

"You say three, mister, and you'll never hear the man count ten." John Wayne as Sean Thornton in "The Quiet Man."

[Scott G]

Elwood: 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.
Jake: Hit it.
(one of countless classics from "The Blues Brothers")

[George from LaGrange]

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

One of many great lines from "Dr. Strangelove"

[JayKo]

"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious...and don't call me Shirley."

"The cockpit, what is it?"
"It's a tiny room where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."

- Airplane

[Sycamore Resident]

What about, "What you mean, you eat no meat? WHAT YOU MEAN, YOU EAT NO MEAT?? That's okay, I make lamb. " from My Big Fat Greek Wedding? and "What the heck you mean?" from Fargo.