Monday, June 21, 2010

You Can Quote Me

Sadly, I admit to being one of those people that has a ridiculous repertoire of movie quotes under my belt. I also like to use them in every day conversation. What I do NOT like is getting blank stares from people who have not seen these movies 87918236019236 times like I have and do not have the entire scripts memorized. Also, it is the obscure lines in movies that are the true gems, and when people don't catch the reference...I die a little inside. Luckily there is often that one other person in the conversation that recognizes the spark of genius and acknowledges your mutual knowledge. Even if they simply give you the slight head nod that shows they caught your quote, it gives me that warm fuzzy feelings inside. These are in no particular order or rank of preference.

1. National Treasure
you will notice a commonality: Riley Poole. Hottie and sneaky hilarious quote genius.

Powell: [referring to the underground staircase] How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?
Ben Gates: Same way they built the pyramids - and the Great Wall of China.
Riley Poole: Yeah... the aliens helped them.

Riley Poole: "When are we gonna get there? I'm hungry. This car smells weird."

Riley- "Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?"

Abigail - "Riley, are you crying?"
Riley- "Look....stairs."
basically everything riley says is hilarious. and he's adorable, which never hurts.

2. Harry Potter (of course)

Lupin: ridikulus!
class: ridikulus!
Malfoy: this class is ridiculous.

Hermione: both of you stop it before you get us killed or worse...EXPELLED!
Ron: she really needs to sort out her priorities!

Hermione: I am NOT an owl!

Ron: one person couldnt possibly feel all that! they'd explode!
Hermione: just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon!

Fred and George: Bumbling, babbling, band of baboons (x5)

Malfoy: i'll get you for this! you and your bloody chicken!

Stan Shunpike: oy! whatchu doin' down there?
Harry: I fell over.
Stan: Whatchu fell over for?
Harry: I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE!

3. Gladiator (aka best movie ever)

Maximus: My name is Maximus Decimus Myridius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Maximus: Strength and honor.
(yes, this was my senior quote for NCL, I am a classy broad)

4. Braveheart

William Wallace: Do you want to see him crush me like a wyrrum (worm)?
(what makes this line is the accent, hands down)

5. Black Hawk Down
Blackburn: There's a line!
Hoot: I know!
Blackburn: ...and this ain't the back of it!
Hoot: I know!

5. Pride and Prejudice (old school BBC version)

Elizabeth: You're mistaken, Mr. Darcy. The mode of your declaration merely spared me any concern I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner. You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. From the very beginning your manners impressed me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. I had not known you a month before I felt you were the last man in the world whom I could ever marry!
Yes, I am a Jane Austen nerd.

6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Pippin: You need people of intelligence on this sort of adventure...quest...thing.
Merry: well I guess that rules you out, Pip.

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

7. She's the Man

Viola: I can do this. I'm a dude. I'm a hunky dude. I'm a badass hunky dude!

Viola: Mom, I will pick out my own dress! And I am not wearing heels. BECAUSE heels were a male invention designed to make the female but look SMALLER...and to make it harder for them to run away.

Monique: Girls with asses like mine do NOT talk to boys with faces like yours.

Toby: How come when I wanted to ask Eunice out everyone made fun of me, but then Sebastian likes her and suddenly she's cool? Screw you guys. I hate high school.

Coach Dinklage: Break it up. Break it up. Okay, tough guys. You want to box, then get out of my stadium. Or otherwise, get on with the game. All right? That goes for the rest of ya. Now get on and play some real football! Acting like a bunch of girls!

Daphne: (viola's mom) [after hearing about Viola breaking up with Justin] But why? He's so handsome, and rugged, and chiseled, and great.
Viola: Then why don't you date him mom?
Daphne: (fantasizes) .....Oh, no, I couldn't...

Justin: That's right. Didn't score on me last half won't score on this half. I'm a ninja. Ninja Goalie.

Principal Gold: What is...? Oh... Getting to know the opposite sex are we? Male female dynamics, all that. Sexual tension... it's all part of the high school experience... Continue, continue, please. But keep it cleaned up. Abstinence is key, abstinence is the best way to not...is to not.

Viola: I skipped a couple grades. I'm brilliant. SHH!

Viola: My favorite's gouda.

Viola: So, uh, you play the beautiful game...bros...brothers...brethren?

8. Pirates of the Caribbean

Jack: Why is the rum always gone?

Jack: I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically... grammatically.

Jack: If you were waiting for the opportune moment...that was it.

Jack:You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you?

Jack: A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!

Barbossa: How in the blazes did you get off that island?
Jack: When you maroon me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one thing, mate. I'm Cap'n Jack Sparrow.

Will Turner: We're going to steal a ship? that ship?
Jack: Commandeer. Nautical term. We're going to commandeer THAT ship.

Jack: That would be the french.

basically everything johnny depp says.

Honorable mentions
1. Mean Girls
Do not have sex. you will get pregnant...and die.
2. Super Troopers
The SCHNOZZBERRIES TASTE LIKE SCHNOZZBERRIES!
3. The Hangover
4. 300

....and many more. Now if I ever use any of these in conversation I expect you to catch the reference!




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