Lines you're just WAITING to use in real life
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warren_houghton — 15 years ago(September 10, 2010 07:32 AM)
This is one of my favorite movies; better than Clue IMO. Also check out The Cheap Detective for more of Peter Falk's excellent Bogart shtick.
I've occasionally used this one on my son:
"Questions like Athelete's Foot. After while very irritating." -
vancleef1980 — 15 years ago(September 23, 2010 02:31 AM)
"Sorry if im shocking you ma'am but i didnt have a chance to go to finishing school, my schools the streets and looking down the barrel of a pointed revolver thats my teacher"
Must admit i have tried to shoe horn that quote in many convo's followed by very slow nods and strange looks
And of course the classic from dotty old bird Estelle Winwood
"Jesus H Christ"
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TonyDood — 15 years ago(December 06, 2010 01:51 PM)
Lines I've actually used a lot in real life:
"Jesus H. Christ!"
"Oh that's tackythat's
reeeeally
tacky"
"Getting to bottom of things?"
"Well, I'm old, I can't help it"
But the one I used to use most often, in broad English accent, "I'm not one to use hyperbole ladies and gentlemen, but I tell you, this whole thing has scared the
caca
right out of me" (actually I think that's not quite right, I haven't seen the movie in awhile, ha ha)
Nilbog! It's goblin spelled backwards! This is their kingdom! -
turtle062386 — 15 years ago(January 09, 2011 09:49 PM)
I would love to use the line "Let's face it as a man your barely passible but as a woman your a dog!" but I think that could get me seriously hurt. I do like Maggie Smith's "tacky" line, I am always trying to say it like she dose.
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crazyeightyeight — 14 years ago(May 02, 2011 05:25 AM)
My roommate and I quote Inspector Wang all the time. "Uhnot quite" (which he says when answering Bensonmum"You are Mr. and Mrs. Charleston?") and also "Is stupid! Is most stupid theory I ever heard!"
Oh, and once we pressed the elevator button and then had to go back to the apartment to get something, and my roommate was like, the elevator went down without us! And I said, "Elevator filled withempty people."
"Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once." -
blueblazes — 14 years ago(September 01, 2011 10:46 AM)
I love every line Eileen Brennan had. She has a very dry and deadpan way of delivering a line.
Tess Skeffington: "There's nothing on him 'til '46, when he was picked up in El Paso, Texas, for trying to smuggle a truckload of rich white Americans across the border into Mexico to pick melons."
Sam Diamond: "I think we picked ourselves a queer bird, angel."
Tess Skeffington: "His mother was a Roman Catholic, his father was an
Orthodox Jew. They were separated two hours after the marriage."
Tess Skeffington: "He was arrested in 1932 in Chicago for selling pornographic Bibles. The D.A. couldn't make the charge stick when the church refused to turn over the Bibles."
Tess Skeffington: "Twain picked up Sam in a gay bar."
Sam Diamond: "I was working on a case! Working.
Tess Skeffington: Every night for six months?"
Tess Skeffington: "He was very good to me. He would take me to the circus and give me candy. We stopped going when I was about twenty-six. I'm sorry, Sam."
Sam Diamond: "Twenty-six? What the hell kind of a circus was it?"
Tess Skeffington: "I'm scared, Sam. Hold me."
Sam Diamond: "Hold yourself. I'm busy." -
Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 14 years ago(September 18, 2011 11:50 AM)
Eileen Brennan was perfect as Tess Skeffington!
She had that wonderful, on-the-edge-of-her-last-nerve delivery that added so much to every line she spoke.
Have you noticed that in Shakespeare's plays soothsayers said the sooth, the whole sooth, and nothing but the sooth?