Famous Movie Quotes

The Only Thing That’s Important is Where You're Going

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:18:00 -0500

John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) with Billie “Blackbird” Frechette (Marion Cotillard) in a fancy restaurant im Michael Mann’s Public Enemies:

She feels uncomfortable, telling Johnny what’s on her mind: “They’re looking at me cause they’re not used to seeing a girl in their restaurant, in a 3 dollar dress.”

“Listen doll,” he says, “That’s cause they’re all about where people come from. The only thing that’s important is where someone’s going.”

“Where are you going?”

John Dillinger: “Anywhere I want.”

Charles "Charlie" Bronson Just Pissed on a Gypsy in the Middle of Fuckin Nowhere

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:02:00 -0500

It’s 1974: You’re a tough guy, you’re 22 years old, you’re name’s Michael Gordon Peterson. You rob a Post Office, and for those 26 £ you robbed, you get 7 years in prison.

Now it’s 2009: You’re name’s Charles “Charlie” Bronson, and you’re still in prison. Of all those years, you served all — all but 4 — in solitary confinement.

I mean those sick fucks forget one thing: A guy just wants to have fun. And you have fun.

What fun? (What do you mean … what fun?) Well, what’s there to do in prison?

You can take hostages, you can beat the shit out of someone, you can probably … kill someone?

I mean, c’mon, nothing fancy here!

But those fucks? They don’t get that. So they move you a lot. 120 different prisons, three (very) special hospitals.

This year’s parole was refused, but still … 2009’s a good year. They make a movie about you: 92 minutes on the art of rage. You’re fuckin famous! And isn’t that what you always wanted?

Here are the very first lines of the movie Bronson:

“My name’s Charles Bronson. And all my life, I wanted to be famous. I knew I was made for better things. I had a calling. I just didn’t know what as. I wasn’t singing. Can’t fuckin act. Running out of choices really. Don’t we?”

PS: And what about the gypsy he pissed on?

After his first fight, he gets paid, and it’s peanuts, of course, and Bronson complains to his promoter, Paul Daniels, saying: “I gave you fuckin magic in there!”

But Paul’s unimpressed. “Magic? You just pissed on a gypsy in the middle of fuckin nowhere.”

La Comédie Humaine as Seen by Drew Bundini Brown

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:37:00 -0500

“God don’t care about you. Don’t care about me. In all of everything we don’t mean nothing. He don’t know us. We be. And that’s the onliest thing He did. But that’s good, that’s why we’re free. But free ain’t easy. Free is real. And real’s a motherfucker. It eats raw meat. It walks in its own shoes. It don’t even waiver. Yeah.”

Drew Bundini Brown to Muhammad Ali in Michael Mann’s Ali. (Photo: John Shearer).

If you think Ali felt depressed after this little speech, imagine how he’s gonna feel the next minute … when Bundini tells him he just sold his belt for 500 bucks to get some booze and smack. What belt? Oh, I forgot, it’s the one they give you when you become The Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World.

One question though, is this a motivational movie quote? I mean — for sure?

A list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. Of which six are from one single movie. Casablanca. And here they are:

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:08:30 -0500

The American Film Institute (AFI) asked a jury of 1.500 film artists and leaders in the film industry to select the 100 best American movies. The list was released in 1998; Casablanca is on number 2. (On the 2007 list, Casablanca is on number 3).

Okay. But there’s another list. And on this list, the AFI’s list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema, guess what, yes, Casablanca has the most quotes of any movie on the list: Six Casablanca movie quotes.

Six from 100? Six. No shit.

In fact, I’d say you can’t watch three minutes of the movie without a memorable line.

Here are the Casablanca movie quotes that made it on AFI’s list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema (in descending order):

67 — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

43 — Rick Blaine: We’ll always have Paris.

32 — Captain Lois Renault (Claude Rains): Round up the usual suspects.

28 — Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) as llsa Lund: Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’

20 — Rick Blaine: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

5 — Rick Blaine: Here’s looking at you, kid.

And if there’ll ever be a list of the greatest misquotations in movie history, I’m sure Casablanca’s gonna make it straight to the top with the following line: Play it again, Sam.

It’s hard to believe, but this Casablanca movie quote never appears in the movie. Gets misquoted all the time.

It’s a Groucho Marx line from the Marx Brothers movie A night in Casablanca. And it’s the title of a Woody Allen movie about a neurotic film critic who tries to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of his alter ego: Humphrey Bogart. Somewhere in the movie he says the line, I never saw a dame yet that didn’t understand a good slap in the mouth or a slug from a 45. (Why am I quoting this?)

Talking about misquotes, ask anybody in Germany for a Casablanca quote and you’ll get this answer: Spiel’s noch einmal, Sam (Play it again, Sam) and Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines (translated: Look me in the eye, kid and should’ve meant, Here’s looking at you, kid).

And — can this be true? — both lines never ever appear in the movie. Crazy, isn’t it?

Those movie quotes from Casablanca — you quote them, you misquote them (no matter what language), and still, somehow … it works out.

A magic movie, isn’t it?

Bruce Willis is not Gonna Spread his Ass for a Cop's Prick

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:07:38 -0500

Maynard’s (Duane Whitaker) on the phone: “Zed (Peter Greene) ? It’s Maynard. The spider just caught a coupla flies.”  One of the flies being Big Boy Marcellus (Ving Rhames), the other Butch (Bruce Willis), the I-don’t-go-down-for-nobody boxer. And he who’s not gonna get down, is not gonna spread his ass for a cop’s prick. And that’s bad news for Zed, ‘cause the only thing he’s gonna ride is Zed’s motorcycle — or was it a chopper?

Fabienne: (Maria de Medeiros): Butch, whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It’s a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: Zed’s.
Fabienne: Who’s Zed?
Butch: Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:02:45 -0500

On the Fight Club DVD, right after the FBI and the copyright warning, there’s another one.

A warning from Tyler Durden.

You can skip the first two. I mean who gives a fuck about the FBI and the copyright. But this one’ s important. It’s from the guy who started it all. And you see it for just a second. Bam! And then it’s gone. So watch out. What? You missed it again? Alright. I put it right below this. Take your time.

Warning: If you are reading this, then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second of your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty you can’t honestly think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed by authority that you give respect and credence to all who demand it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think everything you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job, start a fight, prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. You have been warned. Tyler.

"That’s my family, Kay. It’s not me."

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:04:00 -0400

“That’s my family, Kay. It’s not me.”

- Michael (Al Pacino) talking to his girlfriend Kay (Diana Keaton) about family business. What’s he got to do with it? Nothing. That’s what he says. And it’s true. He broke with family tradition. He went to war, came back with the Navy Cross, and he’s got a girlfriend who’s not … Italian? But somehow, you know, things change. Remember the last famous scene of the movie? Kay says: Is it true? Is it? (That you killed your sister’s husband?) And Michael lies. He says: No. And the transformation is complete: From he had nothing to do with it, to he gave it a test-drive, to he became head of family. (And a killer, a betrayer, and a liar along the way.) Poor Michael!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:51:00 -0400

Duke: [voice-over] How long could we maintain, I wondered. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Would he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so -- well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere. Because it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency, and they'll run us down like dogs...
Duke: [out loud to himself] Jesus! Did I say that?
Duke: [voice-over] Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?

The Sopranos

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:08:00 -0400

Jimmy: I got enough cologne on?
Christopher: You smell like Paco Rabanne crawled up your ass and died in there.

An American Werewolf in London

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:34:00 -0400

David: I'm a werewolf.
Alex: Are you alright?
David: I don't know. I'll let you know the next full moon.

"Love means never having to say you’re sober."

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:25:00 -0400

““Love means never having to say you’re sober.””

- Wise words by Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) in the three-part television series The Shining. Jack had a microscopic problem with alcohol in the past, and his wife — what’s her fucking problem? — starts breaking his balls… So Jack finds out a simple truth: Being drunk and being loved? It’s oil and water for the womanfolk. (Is it really so fucking hard to love someone drunk and crazy who’s after your kid?)

"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its..."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:24:00 -0400

“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I felt like destroying something beautiful.”

- Jack (Edward Norton) in David Fincher’s Fight Club.

Brüno

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:40:00 -0400

Brüno: So you were never gay? It's ironic that you should have amazing blow job lips.
Man: These lips were made to praise Jesus.

"You got perfect nipple placement, baby."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:31:00 -0400

““You got perfect nipple placement, baby.””

- Trent (Travis Van Winkle) to Bree (Julianna Guill) in Marcus Nispel’s 2009 remake of Friday the 13th.

"So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized that ever since I started working, every single..."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:24:00 -0400

“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized that ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.”

- Peter (Ron Livingston) in Mike Judge’s Office Space. He’s talking to his hypnotherapist, Dr. Swanson, who’s gonna help him to slip deeper and deeper into a state of complete relaxation, a state where his worries, cares, and ambitions will be gone. And he succeeds. After this session … Peter doesn’t really give a fuck about work. And the fun starts. Instantly, a consultant sees his true potential, telling his boss: “I had a chance to meet this young man, and — boy! — does he have Straight to Upper Management written all over him.”

Casablanca

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:20:00 -0400

Strasser: What is your nationality?

Rick: I'm a drunkard.

Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.

No Country for Old Men

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:17:00 -0400

Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?

Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?

Wells: I mean the nature of you.

"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes..."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:05:00 -0400

“The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”

- Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) talking to young Butch (Chandler Lindauer) in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

"This is paradise, I’m tellin’ you. This town’s like a great big pussy just..."

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:51:00 -0400

““This is paradise, I’m tellin’ you. This town’s like a great big pussy just waitin’ to get fucked. “”

- Tony Montana (Al Pacino) telling Manny (Steven Bauer) that he should have come years ago to Miami. He’d be a millionaire by now. And Manny? He’s got plans too: “You know what I want? I thought of this the other day. A line of blue jeans. With my name written on the back of chicks’ asses.” What a … remarkable idea.

“I’ll fuck him in his ass. I fucked kids like him in...

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:34:00 -0400

“I’ll fuck him in his ass. I fucked kids like him in the can in the ass I fucked’em. Fuckin’ break up my party.”

Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) in Martin Scorsese’s mob classic Goodfellas. A famous scene that ends with Batts himself getting, well, fucked? He should’ve listened to Tommy (Joe Pesci) telling him: “No more shines, Billy.”