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The Big Movie File: Numbers and the letter A
L.J. Washington: I don't really come from outer space. Jeffrey Goines: Oh. L. J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer space. L.J. Washington: Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend? _12 Monkeys_ "Do you realize where he thinks he comes from?" -Jeffrey Goines, _12 Monkeys_ "There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically- operated sexual devices, servo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers..." -Jeffrey Goines, _12 Monkeys_ "Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place on Asgaard in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live... Forever." _The 13th Warrior_ "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." HAL, _2001: A Space Odyssey_ Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL? HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL? HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. _2001_ [Regarding the supposed failure of the parabolic antenna on the ship, which HAL himself falsified] "It can only be attributed to human error." HAL,_2001: A Space Odyssey_ "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently." -HAL, _2001_ [On Dave's return to the ship] "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this." HAL, _2001: A Space Odyssey_ "This scene didn't actually make it to the final cut. I'm sure it'll be on the DVD." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man starts dancing. Welcome to Manchester." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "I'm a minor character in my own story." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces throwing us wider and wider. But it's all right, because there's this brilliant machine at the center that's going to bring us back down to earth. That was Manchester. That is the Hacienda. Now imagine the machine breaks. For a while, it's even better, because you're really flying. But then, you fall, because nobody beats gravity." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "I protected myself from the dilemma of selling out by not having anything to sell." -Tony Wilson, _24 Hour Party People_ "I tattooed 'survive' on my hand, the night before I went to prison. And I did. We do what we have to do to survive." -Uncle Nikolai, _25th Hour_ Jack: Meet Hamilton. Murphy: I said get a couple of guys, Jack. A couple of guys. Jack: He is a couple of guys. _3,000 Miles to Graceland_ Christine: Oh, no... it's just I thought you had hidden depths. Will: No, no, you've always had that wrong about me. I really am this shallow. _About a Boy_ Christine: You will end up childless and alone. Will: Well, fingers crossed, yeah. _About a Boy_ "I'd be the worst possible Godfather. I'd probably drop her on her head at her christening. I'd forget all her birthdays until she was 18. Then I'd take her out and get her drunk. And, let's face it, quite possibly try and shag her." -Will, _About a Boy_ "Me, I didn't mean anything. About anything, to anyone. And I knew that guaranteed me a long, depression-free life." -Will, _About a Boy_ [Fiona is crying] Fiona: Will, am I a bad mother? Will: No. No, you're not a bad mother. You're just a barking lunatic. _About a Boy_ [Fiona is crying.] Fiona: I mean, he's a special - very, very special boy and he's got a special soul, and I've wounded it. Will: Oh, please, just shut up. You're wounding my soul. _About a Boy_ "This crying in the morning thing, this depression, let's get that fixed." -Will, _About a Boy_ "I hope you all have hobo-stab insurance." -Sherman, _Accepted_ "I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcoming obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn't like that, and life isn't like that, it just isn't. I feel very strongly about this." -Charlie, _Adaptation_ "There are too many ideas and too many people. And too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that is whittles the world down to a more manageable size." _Adaptation_ Lt. Amos: You think you are so hot 'cos you get in all the clubs, heh? Just because you have sex with great looking women... Ford Fairlane: You got to admit those are pretty good reasons... _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ "Some people play hard to get. I play hard to want." _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ "Johnny was the only guy who could out-disgust me. When we were kids we had gross-out contests. I coughed a pile of phlegm on a table, he said 'Nice try!' and pulled out a straw..." _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ "When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when you grow up." -Gigolo Joe, _AI_ "The time to live and the place to die. That's all any man gets. No more, no less." -Parson, _The Alamo_ Ripley: Ash, that transmission -- Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S. Ash: Well, what is it, then? Ripley: Well, I, it looks like a warning. I'm going to go out after them. Ash: What's the point? I mean... by the time it takes to get there, you'll, they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes? _Alien_ "It's got a wonderful defense mechanism: you don't dare kill it." -Parker, _Alien_ Ripley: Ash, can you hear me? ASH! Ash: Yes, I can hear you. Ripley: What was your special order twenty-four? Ash: You read it, I thought it was clear. Ripley: What was it? Ash: Return alien life form, all other priorities rescinded. Parker: What about our lives, you son of a bitch? Ash: I repeat, all other priorities rescinded. Ripley: How do we kill it? Ash: You can't. Parker: Bullshit! Ash: You still don't know what you're dealing with do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity, its sense of survival; unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Parker: I've heard enough and I'm asking you to pull the plug. Ash: One more word. I can't speak for your chances, but... you have my sympathies. _Alien_ "Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about 6 weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of The Nostromo, signing off." -Ripley, _Alien_ Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt? Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved. Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what? Gorman: A xenomorph. Hicks: It's a bughunt. _Aliens_ Frost: It's hot as hell in here. Hudson: Yeah man, but it's a dry heat! _Aliens_ Ripley: They cut the power. Hudson: What do you mean "they cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals! _Aliens_ "We commit this childe and this man to your keeping, O Lord. Their bodies have been taken from the shadow of far night. They have been released from all darkness and fate. The childe and the man have gone beyond our world. They are forever eternal and everlasting. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. ...Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing's certain, only that some get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void, with a glad heart, for within each seed there is a promise of a flower. And within each death, no matter how small, there is always a new life. A new beginning. Amen." _Alien 3_ "Don't be afraid, I'm part of the family." -Ripley, _Alien 3_ "You're all going to die. The only question is how you check out. Do you wanna go on your feet? Or down on your fuckin' knees... beggin'? Well I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothing! So I say fuck that thing! Let's fight it!" -Dillon, _Alien 3_ Ellen Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryotube to this... human, and he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours, it's gonna burst its way through your rib cage, and you're gonna die. Any questions? Pervis: Who are you? Ellen Ripley: I'm the monster's mother. _Alien: Resurrection_ "My authorization code is E-A, T-M, E." -Elgyn, _Alien: Resurrection_ Russell: In eleven years it's going to be 1984, man. Think about that! Aaron: Wanna see me feed a mouse to my snake? Russell: Yes. _Almost Famous_ "And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... 'I'm on drugs!'" _Almost Famous_ "Look at him, he's taking notes with his eyes." _Almost Famous_ "One day, you'll be cool." _Almost Famous_ "God was singing through this little man to all the world, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar." -Salieri, _Amadeus_ [Addressing a crucifix] "From now on we are enemies, you and I. Because you choose for your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because you are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block you, I swear it. I will hinder and harm your creature on Earth as far as I am able. I will ruin your incarnation." -Salieri, _Amadeus_ Carolyn: How dare you speak to me that way in front of her. And I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me, on the same day that you LOSE your job. Lester: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. _American Beauty_ Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here. Lester: I have fast food expierience. Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago! Lester: Well, I'm sure there have been marvelous advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It's unfair you presume I won't be able to learn. _American Beauty_ Carolyn: Who's car is that out front? Lester: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I always wanted and now I have it. I rule! _American Beauty_ Brad: Man, you are one twisted fuck. Lester: Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose. _American Beauty_ Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers just to be able to buy an eight-track. Ricky Fitts: That sucks. Lester: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me. _American Beauty_ "It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." -Ricky, _American Beauty_ "You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry, you will someday." _American Beauty_ "I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life." _American Beauty_ Cole: Why are we called the James-Younger gang? I think it should be the Younger-James gang, seeing as we got three Younger brothers and only two James. Jim: I kinda like the sound of the James-Younger gang. Cole: Jim, stay out of this. Bob: Oh, Jimmy's got a point, Cole. The Younger-James gang is confusing. Cole: How's that, Bob? Bob: If we run into a bank and yell, "We're the Younger-James gang!" People will start thinkin', "The Younger-James gang? Is there an Older-James gang? How come I've never heard of the Old-James gang?" And they'll be too busy figurin that out instead of raisin' their arms. Cole: Do we even have the same mama? Do we? I got an idea, if shoot Bob and Jim I won't have anymore arguments. _American Outlaws_ Cole: Hey! Just because Frank reads all them books and uses all them big fancy words don't make him smart! Bob: Uh, yes it does. _American Outlaws_ Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet. Jean: What? You're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always look thinner. Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose your willpower. Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway. _American Psycho_ "I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip." _American Psycho_ "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there." _American Psycho_ "I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up." -Harvey, _American Splendour_ "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff." -Harvey, _American Splendour_ "Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?" -Joyce, _American Splendour_ Gary: There's something down there! Sarone: I know. Gary: No, I really MEAN it. Sarone: I really mean it, too. _Anaconda_ "They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time." -Brian Fantana, _Anchorman_ Ron: Um, Brick, before I let you go, are you still having your celebrity golf tournament? Brick: Um, no, no. Too many people died last year, so we're not gonna. _Anchorman_ Dr. Wilder: ...so I rebuilt you with animal parts. Marvin: You filled me with wild animals?! Dr. Wilder: I *wish*. _The Animal_ "So *that's* why you have six nipples!" -Marvin, _The Animal_ "Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another." -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_ "Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway." -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_ Colonel Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command. Captain Benjamin L. Willard: Terminate the Colonel. General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops. Civilian: Terminate with extreme prejudice. Colonel Lucas: You understand Captain that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist. _Apocalypse Now_ "Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?" "Yeah." _Apocalypse Now_ "Who's the commanding officer here?" "Ain't you?!" _Apocalypse Now_ "There is no fucking CO here." -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_ "You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..." -Colonel Kilgore, _Apocalypse Now_ "From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go." -Jim Lovell, _Apollo 13_ Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced. Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour. _Apollo 13_ Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts? Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me. _Army of Darkness_ Vinny: Did you drink that? Milo: Yeah. Vinny: That's nitroglycerin. [Thatch gasps.] Vinny: Don't move, don't breath, don't do anything. Except maybe pray. _Atlantis_ Dr. Sweet: Wait, you mean to tell me that we're standing on a volcano that could blow at any time?! Mole: Oh, no-no-no, no! That would take an explosion of great magnitude. [everyone looks at Vinny, who is fiddling with a bomb.] Vinny: Maybe I should do this later, eh? _Atlantis_ Milo: Did you forget your pajamas, Mrs. Packard? Packard: I sleep in the nude. [Sweet throws a sleep mask to Milo.] Dr. Sweet: You're gonna need this. She sleep-walks. _Atlantis_ Milo: What's Mole's story? Dr. Sweet: Trust me on this one. You don't wanna know! Aubrey, don't tell him. You shouldn't have told me, but you did! And now I'm telling you - you don't wanna know! _Atlantis_ "Dang! Blasted bug done bit me on my sit-upon. Somebody's gonna hafta suck out this poison. Now don't ev'rybody jump up at once." -Cookie, _Atlantis_ "Hey look! I made a bridge! And it only took me what? 10 seconds?" -Vinny, _Atlantis_ Milo: Oh, my decision? Why, I think we've seen how effective my decisions have been. Let's re-cap: I lead a band of plundering vandals to the greatest archaeological find in recorded history, thus enabling the kidnap and/or murder of the royal family. Not to mention personally delivering the most powerful force known to man in the hands of a mercenary nutcase who's probably going to sell it to the Kaiser! Have I left anything out?! Dr. Sweet: Well, you did set the camp on fire and drop us down that big hole. _Atlantis_ "Do you have something sportier? Like a tuna?" -Vinny, _Atlantis_ "The details of my life are inconsequential... My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really." -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers_ "Well my friend Sweet Jay took me to that video arcade in town, right, and they don't speak English there, so Jay got into a fight and he's all, 'Hey quit hasslin' me cuz' I don't speak French' or whatever! And then the guy said something in Paris talk, and I'm like, 'Just back off!' And they're all, 'Get out!' And we're like, 'Make me!' It was cool." -Scott Evil, _Austin Powers_ "You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough." -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_ President: C'mon, let me nuke that bastard. Commander Gilmour: You want to blow up the moon? President: Would you really miss it that much? _Austin Powers 2_ "I turned the moon into something I like to call a 'Death Star.'" -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_ "The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa." -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_ Dr. Evil: [deep voice] Austin, I'm your father. Austin: Really? Dr. Evil: No, I can't back that up. _Austin Powers 2_ Austin Powers: Mr. Roboto is lying to us. Foxxy Cleopatra: Tell me something I don't know. Austin: I open-mouth kissed a horse once. _Austin Powers in Goldmember_ "There are two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch." -Nigel Powers, _Austin Powers in Goldmember_ "Do you know who I am? Have you got any idea how many anonymous henchmen I've killed over the years? I mean, look at you. You don't even have a name tag. You don't stand a chance. Why don't you just fall down?" -Nigel Powers, _Austin Powers in Goldmember_
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