What lines from films do you use regularly?

[Gayle]

Couple from Top Gun get quoted often in our family - "I feel the need, the need for speed" - we use this at the fairground or pleasurebeach or sometimes if we're on the motorway and may possibly be going a trifle too fast and the other one is also from Top Gun spoken by Meg Ryan (I don't need to go into detail here, if you know it you know it and if you don't, you don't need to know ).

Anyone got any quotes that you use often - don't just give me your favourite quotes - these have got to be ones that you use!

Oh, by the way - I do realise that this makes me incredibly 'sad' you don't have to point it out Neil!

[Ianto.W.]

'Frankly my dear I dont give a damn'.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'm always using them but would you believe I can't think of any off the top of my head.

I do tend to misquote 'Bones' McCoy and say "It's .......... Jim, but not as we know it.

[tadah]

Id buy that for a dollar

[Eric]

Go ahead, make my f***ing day. (a little poetic license there, I know).

[Bagpuss]

Originally Posted by Eric

Go ahead, make my f***ing day. (a little poetic license there, I know).

Just as you're about to post someone beats you to it, I use that one quite a lot.

[Wynonie Harris]

Do "musical" lines count? Mine's the "Duelling Banjos" tune from "Deliverance" which I tend to hum whenever I walk into a pub where the inhabitants look a little...er..interrelated. The last time I did it was a couple of weeks ago in a pub in Walsall...we walked in one door and straight out the other.

[Doug]

I don’t use any, I’m quiet capable of making up bull**** on my own without having to rip off dodgy lines form dodgy actors…

[garinda]

My most used film quote is courtesy of Miss Bette Davis and Miss Joan Crawford, in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'

Blanche: "You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I wasn't in this chair."
Jane: "But ya AAH Blanche, ya AAH in that chair!"


There are some other corkers I use from Bette Davis, some of which are included here.

"Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star."

"Old age is no place for sissies."

"If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it."

"The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with."

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should ALL be bigger than life."

"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."

"Success only breeds a new goal."

"There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen."

"I would advise any woman against having an affair with a married man believing he will ever leave his wife, no matter how often he says his wife does not understand him. Love is not as necessary to a man's happiness as it is to a woman's. If her marriage is satisfactory, a woman will seldom stray. A man can be totally contented and still be out howling at the moon."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"I will never be below the title."

"If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world."

"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."

"We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?"

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."

"You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'"

"You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get."

"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it."

"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative."

"I was the Marlon Brando of my generation."

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."

"I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be."

"Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

"I am just too much."

"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."

"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life."

"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."

[grannyclaret]

Another fine mess. you got me in......no prizes for guessing who said that

[garinda]

Originally Posted by grannyclaret

Another fine mess. you got me in......no prizes for guessing who said that

You did.

Just then.

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by garinda

You did.

Just then.

YOUR A CRACKER GARINDA,,,,you always make me smile....

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Gayle

the other one is also from Top Gun spoken by Meg Ryan (I don't need to go into detail here, if you know it you know it and if you don't, you don't need to know ).

And I thought that was all your own work

Originally Posted by Gayle

Oh, by the way - I do realise that this makes me incredibly 'sad' you don't have to point it out Neil!

Sad - not at all.

[bullseyebarb]

"Well, I have the inclination, the maturity and the wherewithal but, unfortunately, I don't have the time."

Roscoe Lee Browne to Colleen Dewhurst in The Cowboys. One of my all time favorite scenes in cinema.

Alas Mr. Browne died last Wednesday at the age of 81. A wonderful actor with a magnificent voice. He will be missed.

[LancYorkYankee]

So Punk . . what are you gonna do? Clint Eastwood