Favourite Film Quotations
If you love a particular film chances are you know a quotation or two from it, and even if you don't love a film that much you're bound to know and have said a few quotations from films before in your life. Surely you've said "Luke, I am your Father" before? No? What about "Bond, James Bond"? Oh come on, you must have said "I'll be back?"
We all have favourite quotations from the films, I know I have loads and you can see them all over Filmstalker randomly popping up, but what are your favourite lines from the movies? What lines make you smile, or make you sad, just by hearing them? Do you repeat lines in your own life?
Some time ago the AFI published their list of the top one hundred quotes, and although I can see that some of them are memorable and widely known, a lot don't strike a chord with me, they don't touch me personally as being a moment of my personal cinematic history or as being the strongest lines in films.
What are your favourite quotations, from what films, and who says them. More importantly, why are they your favourite lines? Let me cover a few off from the random ones on the site first.
Now these are in no particular order, and they are all about the delivery too. This first one from Swimming With Sharks is shot out with typical Kevin Spacey venom. It hits hard and at a moment his character is baring his soul and the film is switching around.
Because life is not a movie, everyone lies, good guys loose, and love...love does not conquer all.
I think I love this quote because it is the cherry on the top of a superb film. It carries the entire meaning right there, and it's no better than "Well, that's just the way it is". Kenneth Branagh completing his wonderful film, Much Ado About Nothing.
For man is a giddy thing, and that is my conclusion.
I equally love the opening lines that Emma Thompson speaks in that film
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever. One foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never.
While we're in a slightly comical mood, there are two films which garner a whole host of lines I love. Let's start with The Princess Bride, a truly wonderful film I can watch again and again. The first three are all from the lead, Cary Elwes playing Westley. Brilliant casting and delivery, and his last is where my excitement becomes too much to bear and I have to clench a fist and say "Yes!". A similar feeling I get when Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya utters his amazing lines which capture every excited feeling you've ever had in the cinema.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling somethingThere's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours
It's possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again... perhaps I have the strength after all. [slowly rises] DROP... YOUR... SWORD!
Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die
Oh I do love that moment. Then there's perhaps the ultimate of comedy quotation fests, Airplane. Stu, if you're out there reading this, these lines just make me think of you and me throwing them into conversations that they really didn't belong and having one hell of a laugh - "Is that a good sign?" - I can't believe I even laughed when I typed it!
Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this? Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl.Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
There are so many good quotes from that film, I'll refrain from just copying them all out. How about the sequel though, Airplane II: The Sequel?
Prosecutor: Doctor, can you give the Court your impression of Mr. Striker? Dr. Stone: I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. My training is in psychiatry.Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, what have you got on Elaine Dickinson?
Jacobs: Well, I'm two inches taller, a better dancer, and much more fun to be with.Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.
Then there are the classic, big quotations that come from the cinema defining moments for me. Some you're going to scoff at I know, other's you will agree. Who can deny that this is the greatest quotation from Star Wars by the menacing Darth Vader? It beats the father quotation hands down with a stunning delivery by James Earl Jones.
I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, *I* am the master
It even has more meaning and power now we've seen the (not so good) first three films. Then there's a film which I love to watch, it's just so perfect as the ultimate sci-fi and action film. Predator.
Poncho: You're bleeding, man. Blain: I ain't got time to bleed.Billy: I'm scared Poncho.
Poncho: Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man.
Billy: There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.Dutch: If it bleeds, we can kill it
I have to stop myself before I take up all the space, but before I hand the floor over to you to tell all about your favourite quotations, here are a couple of quick fire ones from two films I love. Michael Keaton's perfect Batman, and The Terminator.
Bad Guy: Who are you? Batman: I'm Batman.Terminator: Come with me if you want to live.
Okay. Over to you. What are your favourite quotations from films and why? Have you used them in real life? You never know, some might end up in that Filmstalker random selection...
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