Favourite film quote

jawooga
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edited November 2012 in The bottom bracket
Inspired to write this after seeing that Carlito's Way is on telly tonight. If you've not seen it, watch it. I just love Al Pacino's court speech:

Your Honour with all due respect, past and present, and without further to-do. Let me assure this court that I am through walkin’ on the wild side. That’s all I’ve been tryin’ to tell you. I have been sick with the social ills known in the ghetto. But my time in the sterling correction facilities of Green Haven and Sing Sing have not been in vain. I’ve been cured! Born again, like the Watergaters. I know you heard this rap before. Your Honour, I mean it. This is the truth. I changed. I changed, and it didn’t take no thirty years like Your Honour thought, but only five. That’s right, sir, five years. And look at me. Completely rehabilitated, reinvigorated, reassimilated and finally going to be relocated, and I want to thank a lot of people for that. I look over there and I see that man there, Mr Norwalk. I want to thank you, sir, for making the tapes in an illegal fashion. I would like to thank the Court Of Appeals, for reversing you, Your Honour. And I want to thank Almighty God without whom no case gets tossed.

But perhaps is still beaten by Forest Gump

...I was running!
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    The good the Bad and the Ugly, Eli Wallach tied up outside the Sherriffs office:

    "One ba$tard goes in and a whole load of ba$tards come out"
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    Oddball: This engine's been modified by our mechanical genius here, Moriarty. Right?
    Moriarty: Whatever you say, babe.
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    Kelly: [looking skeptical] Got any other secret weapons?
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    Office Space - Michael Bolton

    "PC LOAD LETTER? What the f**k does that mean?"
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    So you couldn't Iend us a couple of quid, eh?

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    Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.
    Detroit!?!...... What the hell's Nordberg doing in Detroit?
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    Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
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  • Trainspotting was full of classic lines... but this one:

    It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the f*cking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any f*cking difference!
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  • ShutUpLegs
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    Jack Nicholson
    'What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but you're that pissed that so many others had it good'.
  • CiB
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    I'll go for that scene in Spinal Tap, where the band meet their nemesis in the foyer of the hotel and do the glad-handing high-fives then bad-mouth them as they leave:
    "Heck they were so bad the crowd were still booing when we came on".
  • izza
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    Restless Natives -

    "Do you accept credit cards?" (cracks me up to even think about it)

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    Goodfellas opening voiceover by Henry (Ray Liotta):

    As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an afterschool job I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in the neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren’t like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever game them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops. Tuddy Cicero. Tuddy. Tuddy ran the cabstand in La Bella Vista Pizzeria and a few other places for his brother Paul who was the boss over everybody in the neighborhood. Paulie might have moved slow, but it was only because he didn’t have to move for anybody.
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    "I'm a policer officer".

    Also James Cagney: White heat,

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    Nicholson: A few good man

    "You can't handle the truth".
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    The infamous Indianapolis scene spoken by Quint.

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  • JLM74
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    Having seen Full Metal Jacket again the other day, several things uttered by this man:

    gunnery-sergeant-hartman-pointing.jpg
  • jawooga
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    CiB wrote:
    I'll go for that scene in Spinal Tap, where the band meet their nemesis in the foyer of the hotel and do the glad-handing high-fives then bad-mouth them as they leave:
    "Heck they were so bad the crowd were still booing when we came on".


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  • nevman
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    Dodgeball- a mine of quotes,my favourite

    Cotton McKnight: Let me tell you, a double-fault final-play elimination hasn't occurred since the Helsinki episode of 1919, and I think we all remember how THAT turned out!
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  • Stevo_666
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    Either Clint Eastwood in 'Dirty Harry' :
    "I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

    or Arnie in 'The Terminator':
    "I'll be back."
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  • lemon63
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    Pulp Fiction
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    Brett: [in spasm] Yes.
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    Brick Tamland - yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire and I killed a guy with a trident!



    Champ King - I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again


    Ron Burgandy - what? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you are the whole....wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad; thats amazing, how 'bout we get you in your p.j's and we hit the hay?
  • lemon63
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    Monty Python & the Holy Grail
    Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! [makes taunting gestures at them]
    Sir Galahad: What a strange person.
    King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man--
    Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
    Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to?
    Frenchman: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
  • The final act in the court room scene of a few good men-Jack Nicholson-"You can`t handle the truth"
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  • mfin
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    "You don't like Beethoven" - Gary Oldman in Leon

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  • JLM74
    JLM74 Posts: 108
    mfin wrote:
    "You don't like Beethoven" - Gary Oldman in Leon

    I always liked this one: http://youtu.be/JB_deAcoC2I
  • The whole scene in Full Metal Jacket with the awesome Gunnery Sergeant Hartman where he is yelling at the privates,especially Pvt Pyle. :shock:
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