Topic awaiting preservation: All time favorite dialogue in films (Page 1 of 2)

What is yours ?

Mines are the last speeches in Blade Runner...

Deckard is looking at Batty.

Batty is partly crumpled, frozen in an unnatural position as though he had been writhing and stopped midwrithe. He looks back at Deckard with eyes full of life and intensity.

They stare at each other for a long time in silence, communicating something with their eyes... without expression. Finally Batty breaks the silence.

BATTY
I've seen things...(long pause) seen things you little people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate.(pause)all those moments... they'll be gone.

Batty holds Deckard's eyes like a hypnotist.

Batty is crumpled in a different position. It's lighter now and Batty's eyes are staring into infinity... almost lifelessly. A pigeon flutters down and perches on his shoulder. Batty doesn't stir. Deckard is watching motionless. The pigeon flies off. Batty doesn't move. Alive or dead?

A more distant perspective. Deckard is a small figure looking down at the dead body of Batty.

DECKARD
I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing and he fought it all the way. He never whimpered and he never quit. He took all the time he had... as though he loved life very much... every second of it... even the pain. Then he was dead.

The city is down there. Endless and gray in the first light. Deckard's at the edge of the roof. Maybe someday he'll be better. But right now he hasn't even got the energy to be sick.

The Mexican's voice doesn't surprise him, it comes through the silence like the rasping of raven's wings.

GAFF
How do you rate yourself, now Deckard ?

He is standing 20 feet away, on the edge of the roof, like a captain looking at the sea. Smarts as a rooster,he places a foot on the buttress....

GAFF
You put on quite a show - no doubt about it...

With a flourish he brings a dirty rag out of his pocket and starts polishing the pointed tip of his long black shoe.

GAFF
You think I'm a wimp - don't you.

He waits for the answer. But Deckard doesn't bother. Gaff moistens the rag with his tongue and applies it to the toe.

GAFF
I could kill you right now - so you better say something.

Deckard is unarmed. Gaff's got all the aces- seems to be bristling with concealed weapons. Deckard's eyes level on him. His voice comes out low and raw.

DECKARD
Yeah. I think you're a wimp.

Gaff nods like he knew it all along - it seems to please him.

GAFF
I admire you more and more.

Deckard exhales fatigue. His eyes close. The bullshit is endless. Gaff smiles like a beaver. Puts the rag back in his pocket.

GAFF
I guess you're through, huh.

Deckard doesn't answer.

GAFF
Washed up. Wiped out. Finished.

He cocks his head like a bluejay waiting for the answer.

GAFF
What about it.

DECKARD
Yeah. I'm through.

Somewhere far away a whistle blows. Then silence. Deckard turns. He is moving away. His back to the Mexican. Gaff's voice follows him. Taunting.

GAFF
You did sure you are, man.

He snickers. His hand comes out of his pocket with a gun.

GAFF
It's hard to be sure who's who around here.

Deckard keeps walking.

GAFF
Carnall!

Deckard slowly turns. Gaff shows him the gun. But it doesn't make any difference.

GAFF
Oye la agua.

Deckard stares. He doesn't know the words. Ever the dandy, Gaff swaggers closer, stops.

GAFF
Here.

He throws the gun across the gap to Deckard.

Deckard doesn't try to catch it. It lands at his feet. Gaff dismisses the rejection with a suck on his teeth.

GAFF
I wouldn't wait too long. I wouldn't fool around. I'd get my little panocha and get the hell outta here.

They just stare at each other. Gaff smiles.

GAFF
It's too bad, she won't last, eh!

The smile is real and a little sad.

GAFF
But who does.

Everybody knows the answer to that one.

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I'd post just about any part of dialogue of pulp fiction, heh.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue."

"Whoa! Now you're shooting a gun at your imaginary friend
near four hundred gallons of nitroglycerine." (Fight club)

Well almost anything from Clerks or Mall Rats. My favorite line is.

Stan Lee:"But you know, I think you oughtta get him some help. He seems to be hung up on superheroes sex organs."

J. Stuart J.

"Life is pain. Anybody who tells you differently is selling something." (The Princess Bride)

And numerous other lines from the same movie...

Inigo: "Who are you? I must know!"
Man in Black: "Get used to disappointment."

Inigo: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Count Rugen: draws his sword, settles slowly into his fighting stance and then... runs away

Prince Humperdinck: "Come, we must get you back to your ship."
Westley: "We are both men of action; lies do not become us."

The whole scene with Max and Valerie, anything with Fezzik and Inigo together, ah, maybe I should just post the whole script.

Sorry, I just really like that movie. It may not be as intense as Blade Runner (which I also loved), but it is extremely quotable.





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A few good men:

Lieutenant J.G. Daniel Kaffe ( Tom Cruise ):
"Oh, that's a relief. I thought I wouldn't be able to use the liar liar pants on fire defense."

Colonel Nathan R. Jessep ( Jack Nicholson ):
"You want answers?"
Lieutenant J.G. Daniel Kaffe ( Tom Cruise ):
"I want the truth."
Colonel Nathan R. Jessep ( Jack Nicholson ):
"You can't handle the truth."

Col. Jessup: So how is your dad, Danny?
Kaffee: He passed away seven years ago, sir. Col.
Jessup: Don't I feel like the fucking asshole?
Kaffee: Not at all sir.

Col. Nathan R. Jessup: You see Danny, I can deal with the bullets, and the bombs, and the blood. I don't want money, and I don't want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform and with your Harvard mouth extend me some fucking courtesy. You gotta ask me nicely.


HEHEHE you can't beat old jack.....
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As Good As It Gets (1997)

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?

Melvin Udall: Easy. I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. -

Melvin: People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch.

omg! i've met someone at last who loves the princess bride!!!!!! I love that movie

Good times, noodle salad.

pink: Actually, the Asylum is home to a rather large population of TPB fans. These fans sometimes get together in my cell for parties, too. I just wish they'd invite me next time...

May 10th. Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I'm workin' long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can take in three, three fifty a week. Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter.
All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk ********, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.
Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the *** off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.

MS ? wow... that's not quite the way it happened in the versions I've seen. What version of Blade Runner is that? I know there are about 4 or 5 different endings... I wonder if the area you are in got one of those? I LOVE that movie... that speech especially. "All these moments... gone... like tears in the rain." Good stuff. On second thought, that almost sounds like the dialogue from the book...

Pretty much anything from Fight Club is good.

I didn't realize it was POSSIBLE to dislike The Princess Bride!!

"Put the bunny back in the box" ? Nick Cage, ConAir
"Gee Ricky, I'm real sorry your mom blew up" ? John Cussak, Better Off Dead

Pretty much any line delivered by Steve Buccemi or Christopher Walken is great.

Ninth Gate, after the countess has tried to seduce Corso by sleeping with him:
Countess: "Where is the book?"
Corso: "huh?"
Countess: "Don't F*** with me!"
Corso: "I thought I already had..."
fight ensues...


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

Ramirez was an effette snob. I took his head and raped his woman before his blood was even cold. But she wasn't his woman? She was your woman!! And she never told you.

or:

Hi I'm Candy

Of course you are.

or:

Nuns. No sense of humour.

or:

I got me a 357, got me a truck load of shotguns, 3 big boar battle rifles and ammo on the ass, and I ain't safe, I can't protect myself!

and from another film - one of the Asylum favourites:

"...what is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies; to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."

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FAQs: Emperor

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What version of Blade Runner is that? I know there are about 4 or 5 different endings... I wonder if the area you are in got one of those?

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I used the 1980 script here. The 1981 is also available if you want.

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It wasn't the fact that it was a film to dislike mindbender, it was the fact that where i come from nobody had heard of it!!!!!

Well I would list it but.... I can't choose so here... you read/listen...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Worlds Most Accurate Script

GrythusDraconis
"I'm sick of hearing that beauty is only skin-deep. That's deep enough. Who wants an adorable pancreas?" - Unknown

I have quite a few to list but I don't have time. But I want to say that I am extremely pleased to agree with Moon Shadow on this!!!

MS, that happens to be one of my favorite movies and dialogues too. I especially love the part where Roy says:

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I've seen things...(long pause) seen things you little people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate.(pause)all those moments... they'll be gone.

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I've actually quoted that here a few times during our discussions. I also love the dialogue between Roy and his father about how Roy has burned so brightly yet one who burns so bright burns that much faster.

. . : slicePuzzle

Raising Arizona is another completely quoteable movie, from start to finish

Jason

Yup,
Love Raising Arizona.

And also...

---Memento---

LEONARD - What the f**k am I doing?

Leonard glances to his right, and through a GAP between two
trailers he catches a glimpse of Dodd on the other side of
the trailer homes, RACING along parallel to Leonard.

LEONARD - Chasing him!

Dodd (without bruises)appears again at the other end of the
gap, SEES Leonard, and STARTS RUNNING TOWARDS HIM. There is a
GUN in his hand.

LEONARD - F**K! He's chasing me.


-->Ozone Quotes<--

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A few from Magnolia. Obviously these will be better if you've seen the film. You really should see the film.

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Narrator: There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and nobody knows; and we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."

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quote:

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Claudia Wilson Gator: I'm really nervous that you're gonna hate me soon. You're gonna find stuff out about me and you're gonna hate me.
Jim Kurring: No. Like what? What do you mean?
Claudia Wilson Gator: You have so much -- so many good things. And you seem so together. You're a police officer and you seem so straight and put together -- without any problems.
Jim Kurring: I lost my gun today.
Claudia Wilson Gator: What?
Jim Kurring: I lost my gun today when I left you and I'm the laughingstock of a lot of people. I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know and it's on my mind. And it makes me look like a fool. And I feel like a fool. And you asked that we should say things -- that we should say what we're thinking and not lie about things. Well, I can tell you that, this, that I lost my gun today -- and I am not a good cop. And I'm looked down at. And I know that. And I'm scared that once you find that out you may not like me.
Claudia Wilson Gator: Jim. That, that was so--
Jim Kurring: I'm sorry.
Claudia Wilson Gator: --great. What you just said.

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Young Pharmacy Kid: Strong, strong stuff here. What exactly you have wrong, you need all this stuff?
Linda Partridge: Motherfucker...
Young Pharmacy Kid: What are you talking about?
Linda Partridge: Who the fuck are you, who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here, you don't know me, you don't know who I am, what my life is, you have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life?
Old Pharmacist: Please, lady, why don't you calm down -- ?
Linda Partridge: Fuck you, too! Don't call me "lady"! I come in here, I give these things to you, you check, you make your phone calls, look suspicious, ask questions! I'm sick! I have sickness all around me and you fucking ask me about my life?! "What's wrong?" Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency? And then I'm asked fucking questions. What's...wrong?! You suck my dick! That's what's wrong! And you, you fucking call me "lady"?! Shame on you! Shame on you!! Shame on both of you!

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Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick and I'm in love.
Thurston Howell: You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: That's right. That's the first time you've been right. I confuse the two and I don't care.

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And I second anything from the near the end of Blade Runner. except you missed the best line:

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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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Any movie directed by Quentin Tarantino has wonderful dialogue.

:::krets.net:::

I'll go with Pulp Fiction too... only my favorite (hard to pick THE favorite, but it's one of the most memorable: ) is from Jackrabbit's Slim:

Mia: Dont you just hate that?
V.V.: Hate what?
Mia: The uncomfortable silence... why do people always have to yack about something in order to feel comfortable? It's when you know you've found someone special, that you can just shut up for a minute, and share the silence.

"Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like....victory"

or perhaps some words to live by; from John Wayne in the Shootist-

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."

Weird. Neither of those versions of the Blade Runner script are the same as the movies that I own. Too bad. I like the movie dialogue better *shrug*.

Actually it's first/best said by Leon when he's beating Deckard into a mess...

Smacks Deckard across the face, "Wake up... time to die"
Deckard looks up blearily at Leon. An exit wound explodes through his forehead. Leon falls and Deckard sees Rachel holding his smoking gun.


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

definitely pulp fiction, definitely TPB.

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead was made into a film - does that count? if so, i'll take arcadia too. stoppard rocks.

now, what else?

oh yeah. lock stock, and snatch also rock for dialogues.



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"It's an imperfect world. Things break." - The Breakfast Club.

"You'll get up! I'll get up! We'll all get up! It'll be anarchy!" - Breakfast Club.

"I'll be back" - Terminator.

"Clarance Bodinger? Dead or alive, you're coming with me!" - Robocop.

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But I want to say that I am extremely pleased to agree with Moon Shadow on this!!!

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I love the ending also, when Gaff says : "It's too bad, she won't last, eh! But who does."

Mindbender, I've made a little searches for you. The different versions are :

US Denver/Dallas Sneak Preview/Workprint (1982)
US San Diego Sneak Preview (1982)
US Theatrical Release (1982)
European Theatrical Release (1982)
The Director's Cut (BRDC) (1992)

However, I just found one script, I didn't find any script of the other versions.

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suho has already taken care of princess bride for the most part so...

THE ROCK
Goodspeed: You're pregnant? How do you know? I mean, how do you know?

Carla: Blue. It turned blue, so I went to the doctor. You didn't mean what
you just said, did you?

Goodspeed: When?

Carla: What you said right now about bringing a child into the world being
an act of cruelty.

Goodspeed: I meant it at the time

Carla: Stanley, you said it seven and a half seconds ago.

Goodspeed: Well gosh, kind of a lot has happened since then.

TOY STORY
Buzz: You are a sad, strange little man. You have my pity. Farewell!

THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Verbal Kint: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

HOLY GRAIL
Patsy: It's only a model.

KING ARTHUR: One...two...FIVE!

OTHER KNIGHT (i forget which one): THREE sir, THREE!

Well, I can't remember the quotes offhand, but I'd say Vinnie Jones as Bullet Tooth Tony in Snatch had some great lines.

His bar scene with the three failed thieves was classic. I'll try to get the exact quote when I can.

is that where he talks about the 2 different types of balls, silence?


"and the fact that along the side of my gun, it says desert eagle .50, and along the side of your gun, it says replica..."


luvvit.


but the best part about bullet tooth tony is his background story - how he got his name.

"YOU GONNA DIE, TONY!

"I SHOOT YOU, YOU GO DOWN!"

OOH! OOH! i have one more!


long kiss goodnight!

[roughquote]"that dog of yours has been licking his asshole solidly for the last 10 minutes. Now, i propose that whatever he's licking, it's either there to stay, or gone for good"[/roughquote]

"it's not a dick, it's a duck"

As I remember the Darth Vader quotes:

"ObiWan has tought you well, but you are not a jedi yet."
"Impressive... most impressive."

The holy Addams Family

Gomez:
"Children, why do you hate the baby?"

Pugzly:
"we just want to play with him.."

Friday:
"..especially his head!"

Some of the lines were good in the film "About a boy"

(hugh Grant) I'll probably drop her on her head, and forget all her birthdays til she's eighteen. Then I'll take her out, get her drunk... and lets face it, probably try to shag her!


(Hugh Grant)I'll tell you one thing. Men are bastards. After about ten minutes I wanted to cut my *own* penis off with a kitchen knife.
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And some good ones in Notting hill...............

I knew a girl at school called Pandora. Never got to see her box, though.

I'm going to tell you a story that will make your balls shrink to the size of raisins.

(Julia Roberts)No one says whoopsidaisies do they?
(Julia Roberts)No one has said whoopsidaises, in what, 50 years? and even then it was just little girls with blond ringlets.
(Hugh Grant) Right, ok, here we go again... WHOOPSIDAISIES!!

Alex: No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
- A Clockwork Orange

Jeh-sus H. Christ Mahjqa...that sig just rocks!!!!

*scoops up jaw*

As Michael, gets ready to put his brother-in-law out of his misery.......

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh that little farce you played with my sister....you think that could fool a Corleone?

"whenever I find myself on the side of the majority, I pause and reflect. " Mark Twain

That is one damn cool sig there mahjqa.

And yes there are alot of TPB fans on this site. The book was pretty good too, But I only got to read the "good bits" version which the movie was based on. In it explains why they have the guy reading the book to the kid during the movie. Since it was how the author(editor?) of the goods bits version of TPB was read the book as a kid, with just the good bits left in.

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"Show me a sane person and I will cure him for you."-Carl Jung

Heh... that's funny, tj333. The "Good Parts" version is the only version that exists. There is no "original" version, just like there were never countries named Florin and Guilder (they are actually monetary units). Goldman made up the whole thing to enhance the story. By itself, of course, the story is great, but with the fantasy world Goldman created to house the fantasy world of the book, it gets even better. I think that's why they kept the idea of the story being read to a child for the movie.

I must admit, Goldman does make it sound convincing, but there never was an S. Morgenstern--it's just his pen name (he wrote a book called The Silent Gondoliers under this name). I hope I haven't disappointed you.

Vivian: Nice costume.
Elle: You too. Except that when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try to look a little less constipated. -- Legally Blonde

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Max: I'm scared, Fif. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys. -- Mad Max

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Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth... -- Jurassic Park

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John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man INSTINCTS! He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste! Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha! And when you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off. He's a tight-ass! He's a sadist! He's an absentee landlord. Worship THAT? NEVER! -- The Devil's Advocate

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Well Goldman sure got me there. A bit of a surprise but not too much of one since its often not too hard to catch me with something like that.
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Oh, but you must read the entire book of TPB! The stuff that gets left out of the movie about both Inigo and Fessick's lives is absolutely hysterical! Anything from that is infinitely quotable... And I sure hope someone calls me for the next TPB party in Suho's cell... I feel like I'm missing out on something... Perhaps, Master Suho - we should have our own TPB party.

Most of my favorite lines have already been quoted... But I can add a couple to the mix:

From Mr. Deeds:
Deeds: (surprised by the butler in the morning) You shouldn't sneak up on people like that!
Butler: I fear you underestimate the sneakiness...
I just love John Turturro...

From Oh Brother, Where Art Thou:
Delmar: Gopher, Everette?
Everette: No thank you, Delmar, a third of a gopher would just whet my appetite, without beddin' her back down again.
Delmar: It's ok, you can have the whole thing, we've already had one. Me an' Pete found a whole... gopher... village...
(as the congregation gathers behind them at the lake...)



Bodhi - Cell 617

From Ghostbuster, a great moment of fun :

VENKMAN (desperately)
What is it? Ray, what did you think of?

STANTZ (babbling)
It can't be! It can't be!

STANTZ
It's ... It's ... It's the STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN.

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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. -- Frank Herbert