michael dangero

(Quotes: don't have to be perfect, but appreciated)

"Take of your glasses, Eric, I want to see your eyes...Yeah, they're still the same, two yellow piss-holes in the snow." -- Jack Carter
"I see you still got your sense of humour, Jack."
'Get Carter' thumbs_u

\"For me it\'s a full-time job.\"
Jack Carter

Freddy

Here are two from
Withnail and I.

Talking about Withnail's agent

"Indeed I remember my first agent. Raymond Duck. Dreadful little Israelite. Four floors up at the Charring Cross and never a job at the top of them".

Old Woman telling them where the farmer is
"Up in top field. You can't miss him, his legs bound in polythyne."

regards
Freddy
ps Pam the first one sounds like your agent :)

The world wags on.

MaxieM

From Genevieve:

Joyce Grenfell (as Brighton hotelier): "Nobody's ever complained before"

Old lady (guest); "Are they Americans?"

Steve Crook

Film quotes? Don't get me started :)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

[first lines]
Narrator: This is the universe. Big, isn't it.

June: Received your message. We can hear you. Are you wounded? Repeat. Are you wounded? Are you bailing out?
Peter: What's your name?
June: June.
Peter: Yes June, I'm bailing out. I'm bailing out but there's a catch, I've got no parachute.

Doc Reeves: Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?
Peter : I thought you said you read my verses.
[To June]
Doc Reeves: Do you?
June : I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?
Doc Reeves: I don't know, I've thought about it too much.


The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Theo: You know that, after the war, we had very bad years in germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting. Money lost its value, the price of everything rose except of human beings. We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well in Germany, the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.


I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Catriona: You'll stay here tonight of course.
Joan: Well I don't want to be any trouble.
Catriona: Oh it's no trouble at all. Besides I haven't heard any intelligent female nonsense for months.

Torquil: Still got those half starved hounds? How on earth do you manage to feed 'em?
Catriona: Oh we live off the country. Rabbits, deer, a stray hiker or two.

Torquil: She wouldn't see a pound note from one pensions day to another.
Joan: People around here are very poor I suppose.
Torquil: Not poor, they just haven't got money.
Joan: It's the same thing.
Torquil: Oh no, it's something quite different.


A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Prudence: That's your room. You won't get much of a view I'm afraid.
Alison: You should have seen the view from my room in London.
Prudence: Was it a long street with every house a different sort of sadness in it?
Alison: It was a long row of back gardens, and the tall, sad houses were all the same.
Prudence: Ghastly in winter.
Alison: Airless in summer. You seem to know them.
Prudence: The only man who ever asked me to marry him wanted me to live in a house like that. I'm still a maid.

[Alison is lost in a heavily bombed Canterbury.]
Passer-by: It is an awful mess, I don't blame you for not knowing where you are. But you get a very good view of the Cathedral now.


The Red Shoes (1948)

Boris: Why do you want to dance?
[Vicky thinks for a short while]
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
[Lermontov is suprised at the answer]
Boris: Well I don't know exactly why, er, but I must.
Vicky: That's my answer too.

[Before the curtain goes up on the premiere]
Livy: You're a magician Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.
Boris: My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.


Are we beginning to detect a theme running through these? Yes, they were all written by a Hungarian.

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

Pam1927

LOL! Ya not kiddin', Freddy!!! thumbs_u (One of them was actually just off the Charring Cross Road! Only two floors up... but the rest of the line is oh so true though!)

Thoroughly enjoyed reading your stuff, Steve... thanks for all that! thumbs_u

It's nice to be nice...

smudge

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off !"

And it must be one of the most often quoted lines in British Cinema history....

SMUDGE

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Freddy

Hi Smudge,
going off thread a touch I always find it strange that your scene and the scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where they blow the safe up is very similar. The were both made in '69 so was it just a coincidence?
regards
Freddy
Big B I G

The world wags on.

DB7

I fought the war for your sort.
I bet you're sorry you won.

Gibbie

That's Ringo Starr in "A Hard Day's Night."

Gibbie

Fred Jesson: You've been a long way away.
Laura Jesson: Yes.
Fred Jesson: Thank you for coming back to me.
-- Brief Encounter


Eric Liddell: I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.

Eric Liddell: Then where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
-- Chariots of Fire


Hilts: Wait a minute. You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire... and case everything out there... and don't get picked up... to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need?
Bartlett : Yes.
-- The Great Escape


Reporter: What do you call that haircut of yours?
Harrison: Arthur.

Lennon: We know how to behave! We've had lessons.
-- A Hard Day’s Night


Clang: Without the ring, there is no sacrifice, with out the sacrifice there is no congregation, without the congregation there'll be no...more...me.
-- Help


Courtney: You're supposed to be at work.
Palmer: And you are, of course.
-- Ipcress File


Croker: Hang on lads, I've got a great idea.
-- The Italian Job


No.6: The whole earth as `The Village'?
No.2: Yes, that is my hope. What's yours?
No.6: I'd like to be the first man on the moon!
-- The Prisoner (Chimes of Big Ben)


Edward Ferrars: Miss Dashwood... Elinor, I must talk to you - something of great importance I need to tell you - about my education.
Elinor Dashwood: Your education?
Edward Ferrars: Yes. It was conducted oddly enough in Plymouth.
Elinor Dashwood: Indeed?
Edward Ferrars: Yes. Do you know it?
Elinor Dashwood: Plymouth?
Edward Ferrars: Yes.
Elinor Dashwood: No.
Edward Ferrars: Ah.
-- Sense and Sensibility


Leamus: What do you think spies are: priests, saints, martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?
-- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold


Calloway: You don't know what you're mixing in. Why don't you catch the next plane?
Martins: I'll catch the next plane as soon as I get to the bottom of this.
Calloway: Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.
Martins: You mind if I use that line in my next Western?
--The Third Man


Wallace: Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!
[Looks at "Cheese Holidays" magazine, then out window]
Wallace: Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese...
-- Wallace and Gromit (A Grand Day Out)


Kwan: If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art.
-- The Year of Living Dangerously

michael dangero

Malcolm: Sidney, as a Sex Pistol all your humans are seen to: food, beer, designer wardrobe, why do you need money?
Sid: I dunno, little things 'round the house.
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Paul: It's not funny! You could stick me in the eye, put it in me brain. I couldn't play the drums, then?
Sid, John, Steve (in near-unison): You can't play the f'n drums anyway.
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Sid: Me mum's gonna be home soon, stop mucking about.
Nancy: Aww, what's the difference?
Sid: Well, it's the least I can do what with her risking her life everyday as a motorcycle messenger!
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Malcolm: Four words - No Women On The Tour
Phoebe: That's five words.
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Sid: OY! 'Ow d'ya spell 'oliday?
Johnny: S-H-I-T.
Sid (writing): Dear Mum, 'avin' a lovely -- (erupts into laughter).
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Pregnant punk girl: Ay, think of a name for my baby?
Other girl: b*****d.
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Nancy: But what? You're just "wonking" off.
John(being bandaged): WANKin'.
Nancy: What happened to you, try & kiss your mother?
John: None of your business.
Punk Girl 1: John got beaten up by fascists.
Nancy: Want some pizza Johnny?
Steve & Paul (in exaggerated unison): Want some pizza, Johnny?
Punk Girl 2: It's fifteen minutes til last orders, I'm gonna get pissed.
Nancy: Bye Johnny.
Punk Girl 1: He doesn't want to be called Johnny, he wants to be called John.
Sid: See ya John-ny.
Paul: F'n cabbies we should be. You make two-hundred quid a night being a cabbie.
Sid: Well, why don't you f' off and be one then?
Paul: Cause it would eighteen months to learn.
Sid: You need a driving licence as well.
Paul: And a set of golf clubs.
Sid: See ya.
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Nancy: Did you buy me anything?
Sid: Yeah, I bought you loads.
Nancy (excited): Oh yeah? What?
Sid: I bought you a six pack and a bra in the [I Isame shop!
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I could continue (and probably will at a later date) but I'm certain I'm the only person out there that appreciates "Sid and Nancy" as much as yours truly. scarf I once spoke to the director, Alex Cox, and he couldn't understand it either.

[ 21. August 2004, 10:22: Message edited by: michael dangero ]

\"For me it\'s a full-time job.\"
Jack Carter

DB7

He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!

Reg : What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies?
Francis : It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg : It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.

michael dangero

I knew if I started quoting Monty Python movies, I'd never finish! But thanks DB7, I guess I'll have to start!

\"For me it\'s a full-time job.\"
Jack Carter

ollie

"Fakir off!"

"joey's a he bird"
"Cock!"
"no.., he is, the man at the shop said so"

"infamy,infamy.. the've all got it infamy"

"just remember,if you do use any strange wotsit's put plenty of paper down first"

"If you think nine inches is an average one,you've been spoilt" eek!

"oh and i suppose you'd like us to sit here with no clothes on?"
"it wouldn't bother me"
"it would if yer ice lolly fell in your lap!"

"oooohh what a lovely looking pear"
"you took the words right out of my mouth"
"saucy" wink

"like a drink?"
"i dont drink!"
"cigarette?"
"i dont smoke,i was just saying the other day to my daughter, what a filthy distgusting habit it is"
"Your only child i presume!"

carry on quoting thumbs_u

cheers ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

Hackett

Dr Simon Sparrow: "Big breaths"
Young girl patient: "Yeth and I'm only sithteen".

Desmond Simpkins: "Give it a minute" (Carry on Spying)