A great script often has great dialogue - and let me tell you, in my line of work, that means that you see few great scripts. I think we've all got our favorite movie quotes, perhaps some that we use on a regular basis. Sometimes it's easy to forget that every one of those lines began as keys punched into a word processor. How surreal must it be for the writers of said lines to be wandering about the world, only to hear others appropriating their lines in reverence.
So what movie do you find yourself quoting the most?
I hate Uncle Jamie!!!
ReplyDeleteTroop Beverly Hills!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget TV. Imagine if you were the writer who coined "We were on a break!!!"
ReplyDeleteAliens. Without a doubt. SO many phrases from that (and Star Wars) slip into my daily dialogue without me even realising...
ReplyDelete"Bad call, (insert name here). Bad call."
"Stop yer grinnin' and drop yer linen!"
"What do you mean, 'they' cut the power?" (useful for any technical fault)
"I got a bad feelin' about this drop..."
"I don't ask because it takes two weeks to get an answer out here, and the answer is always 'don't ask'."
"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"
"What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language?"
"Maybe we could build a fire and sing couple of songs, huh?"
I'll stop now. You get the idea.
Dirty Work.
ReplyDeleteArizona Dream.
ReplyDelete"Two Beers and two shots...and a ginger ale."
"It's in the o-t-h-e-r r-o-o-m."
"Hello. Helloo. Hellu. Hellooo."
"Are you gonna go? Are you gonna go? Are you gonna go or not?"
who's afraid of virginia woolf has worked its way into my life. "hark, an angel", "what a dump!", "how's that for a declension?", and my most used qoute "never mix, never worry!"
ReplyDeleteyeah, i'm a pretentious ass. what of it?
Dazed and Confused. So many good lines, but must be delivered with the appropriate stoned delivery.
ReplyDelete"Alright, alright, alright..."
"I get older, they stay the same age."
"Wipe that face off your head, bitch."
"Check ya later!"
"It'd be a lot cooler if you did."
"Fixin' to be a lot better, man."
And a new one around the house from Taken has been:
"I have a very particular set of skills."
I quote Bottle Rocket the most probably.
ReplyDeleteMean Girls. I say that with pride, whether misplaced or not.
ReplyDeleteFull Metal Jacket. Sergeant Hartman has some of the best dialogue ever written.
ReplyDeleteI probably quote Mystery Men, Airplane, and original Star Trek episodes the most. But my wife hears this one a lot, from Tango and Cash, courtesy of Jack Palance:
ReplyDelete"Quick, and easy. Quick and easy is how you bake a cake, or clean a toilet bowl, or shop, by mail. But quick and easy is not how you run a multi-million dollar operation such as ours."
I probably quote Mystery Men, Airplane, and original Star Trek episodes the most. But my wife hears this one a lot, from Tango and Cash, courtesy of Jack Palance:
ReplyDelete"Quick, and easy. Quick and easy is how you bake a cake, or clean a toilet bowl, or shop, by mail. But quick and easy is not how you run a multi-million dollar operation such as ours."
Ghostbusters. Easy.
ReplyDelete"Dogs and cats living together..."
"We've got one!"
"I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me."
"Three feet above the covers!"
"You're right. No human being would stack books like this."
"Ray, when someone asks if you're a god, you say yes!"
"Listen. Do you smell something?"
"Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown."
...I'd say 80% of everything I say comes from Ghostbusters in some form.
Definitely Mean Girls lol. You can use a quote from that movie for any situation.
ReplyDeleteMonty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles & Airplane cover most quote needs for me.
ReplyDeleteProbably Romeo and Juliet because I have read it / watched it 30mil times.
ReplyDeleteBut also Galaxy Quest and oddly enough, The Paper.
Spinal Tap. I was in a garage band for three years, and the stuff that happens in a band is the same damn shit whether you're the Rolling Stones or a bad Grateful Dead cover band in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteHeathers.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I used to quote this film a lot. It was crude, rude and just funny.
- lick it up baby! lick it up.
Embodying a character as you write is crucial. Most of my characters are men...what does that say about me?
I like men. Would hate to be one.
Can't believe no-one has said The Big Lebowski - but yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
ReplyDeleteBit late to the post, but that was what I was going to say. Any one who knows the Coen Brothers well would recognize them in most conversations I have. Lebowski, Fink, Blood Simple., Fargo, NCFOM,Burn After Reading and even True Grit have so many quotable or adaptable lines.
DeleteMy favorite movie quotes, all of which I strangely find reason to use on an almost daily basis:
ReplyDeleteWe're gonna need a bigger boat!
I coulda been at a barbeque!
Plan? There ain't no plan!
I reckon you got a bargain.
And then?
That is all.
I wasn't supposed to be here today!
Catching up on your posts. Used to quote the crap out of Monty Python, but now #1 is Anchorman, with smatterings of Talladega Nights, The Big Lebowski, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings.
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