Quotables

I enjoy movies. Correction…I enjoy cinematography.

Listed below are a few movie quotes that I enjoy....for different reasons.

1) “Oh, Matthew. How nice of you to keep my image close to your heart.” – Isabelle; The Dreamers.

2) “I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist.” – Matthew; The Dreamers.

3) “I always think there's a band, kid.” – Prof Harold Hill; The Music Man.

4) “Well, it would bruise the hell out of me.” – Ernie Capadino; A League of Their Own.

5) “By the way, I loved you in the Wizard of Oz.” – Jimmy Dugan; A League of Their Own.

6) “All right. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.” – Harry Hogge; Days of Thunder.

7) “Bend over and I'll show you.” – Clark W. Griswold; Christmas Vacation

8) “Good evening, Clarice.” – Hannibal Lector; The Silence of the Lambs.

9) “And we're walking, and we're walking, and we're stopping.” – White House Tour Guide; Dave.

10) “You've just seen me do the least presidential thing I do.” – President Andrew Shepherd; The American President

11) “Welcome to Indiana basketball.” – Coach Norman Dale; Hoosiers.

12) “Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom.” – Terrence Mann; Field of Dreams.

13) “I wish I knew how to quit you.” – Jack Twist; Brokeback Mountain.

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1) This is from my favorite independent film The Dreamers. It comes at a point when Matthew is extremely vulnerable…Isabella understands his position and is only more attracted.

2) Also from The Dreamers, Matthew is intrigued by his two new friends and is trying to fit in with their non-conformist views.

3) The Music Man is an extremely complex movie. In this one line we see into the true character of Harold Hill. River City was just another city with a population to exploit. But this time, he got caught with his foot in the door. ;)

4) A League of Their Own is an extremely quotable movie. But this line in particular causes me to curl up on the floor in laughter every time. He is such an awkward character to begin with…

5) This was one of those lines where I always laughed, but I never knew why. I just figured that it should be funny…so I laughed. Eventually I got the humor…I love this movie.

6) Harry was the father-figure to a man who desperately needed one. This line comes in the midst of chaos and takes Cole, and the audience, by surprise!

7) Watching Christmas Vacation is a family tradition. Every year, on Thanksgiving evening, we would watch it. BUT we always watched a version that I had recorded off of ABC. This year was the first year that we watched the actual “not formatted to TV” version. This line shocked and appalled me. Fantastic!

8) The dichotomy of Dr. Lector is revealed in this line. A cannibalistic psychotic killer & one of the world’s foremost authorities on human development. And Clarice…

9) Every time I watch this I’m never sure if this line is actually scripted. I like to believe that the director just told her to be “tour guide-ish” and that is what she came up with.

10) Every ‘president’ movie has the same basic plot line. This is the moment when the president is called away for national security reason… President Shepherd show that he is much more than the country’s most eligible bachelor.

11) Translation: “Suck-it-up and get to work….by the way…nice job out there.”

12) Every time I hear this line delivered I get chills and tear up a little. The same thing happened when I read the book. The skeptic become a believer…

13) This is the only line I knew from Brokeback Mountain before I saw it. I refused to see the movie for a variety of reasons. But then I watched it. It was nothing like I had thought it to be. Now that I have seen it, I find this line to be the total sum of Jack’s emotions…

What are some of your favorite quotable moments from movies?