What's Your Favorite Movie Line?

[Teresa]

I have several favorite lines from movies, and forgive me for any inaccuracies but here are a few:

 

Out of Africa:  ~Now I know why God made the world round, so we can't see too far down the road.

                    

                      ~When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers.

 

Titanic:  ~(Kate Winslet's character says as she looks at original Picasso paintings), "It's like looking at a dream - there's truth but no logic."

             

             ~(She says to Leonardo DiCaprio's character regarding their relationship), "It makes no sense; that's why I trust it."

 

 

What movie lines have moved YOU?

 

 

 

[Ian Rochford]

Looks like Chuck's takin' the skinboat to Tuna town! (Grumpy Old Men, Burgess Meredith - one of about a dozen...)

[Gita]

aaahhh ohhh, Jesus, the outtakes at the end of the movie.

[Bob Clay]

Waterworld was a film that everybody seems to think was truly awful, and the most expensive flop in history (I'm not altogether sure why ?), but there was one line that has always stayed with me:
One of those enigmatic conversations between the 'Mariner', and Enola, the larger than life little girl with the secret to dry land.

Out in the middle of some future vast ocean, they have a go at each other:

Mariner: "Ever try and listen ?"
Enola: "To what ?"
Mariner: "The sound of the world."
Enola: "I don't hear anything."
Mariner: "That's because you're too loud."

The 'sound of the world' ... what a lovely line. Something we should all listen to.

[Teresa]

I like that. I think I hung on to that line, too, in Waterworld.

[Bob Clay]

If you're looking for a film that is a whole bag full of great lines, then you can't do much better than 'As Good As It Gets' with the incomparable Jack Nicholson, who meets his match with a great performance from Helen Hunt.
An unlikely romance between these two is typified by a couple of memorable lines:

Helen Hunt: "When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke."

and....

Jack Nicholson (as a writer) when asked how he wrote about women with such feeling:

" I think of a man and take away all logic and reason."

[Teresa]

Yes, Bob, I did so love this movie and those lines. And remember when Nicholson addresses all the patients sitting in the psychiatrist's office? -- "What if this is as good as it gets?" It took me YEARS to really feel that line in my bones.

[KAWFEEE!]

Out of all the gin joints in the world, she has to walk into this one

[Wendy]

Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.

[Deborah Jovan Reed]

I have several fantastic ones from the TV series "Babylon 5" & "Farscape" but as for movie, my favorite(s):

"You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man."
~ Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) ~ Deep Blue Sea

"Einstein's theory of relativity. Grab hold of a hot pan, second can seem like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a second. It's all relative."
~ Preacher (LL Cool J) ~ Deep Blue Sea

[Bob Clay]

'The International' was a film that was considerably better than I was expecting. And a good line from Clive Owen as the almost psychotic Interpol copper.

"Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he chose to avoid it."

[Bob Clay]

Watching a fairly old Clint Eastwood movie I was inspired to resurrect this thread, with six lines from his films.  Mr Eastwood was often fond of phrases he worked into films ( 'Do ya feel lucky punk?' and 'Go ahead, make my day'), but there were a lot of good one liners in his films.

 

“On a scale of one to ten, I'd have to give her a two, and that's because I haven't seen a one before.”

 

“To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.”

 

“Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.”

 

“I once fixed a door that wasn't even broken yet.”

 

“Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me.”

 

and finally not a line from Clint himself, but Chief Dan George in one his great westerns ...

 

“I'm an Indian, all right; but here in the nation they call us the ‘civilized tribe’. They call us ‘civilized’ because we're easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years.”

 

 

[Laz Farrell]

 

From Blade Runner Rutger Hauer's characters last words -

 "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

 

and from Jaws

Chief Brody -"we are gonna need a bigger boat!"  still love that film!