Lines you're just WAITING to use in real life
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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."
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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."
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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?
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glenn-299 — 14 years ago(November 26, 2011 04:56 AM)
The film's full of great quotable lines - someone earlier mentioned Monty Python and how quotable they are, particularly 'Holy Grail'. Whenever my wife and I are with people and someone is having difficulty understanding something, one of us will usually say 'Look, it's quite simpleyou stay here and make sure he doesn't leave the room'..to which we generally get blank looks.
Maggie Smith's 'Oh that's tacky..' is absolutely delicious especially as it is a reaction to her character discovering what necrophilia is. -
thestilettoman — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 10:21 PM)
After reading this entire thread, I really must see this movie.
For you who have not seen it, I highly recommend "The Bobo", which has my favorite line from any movie. Britt Ekland has been having an affair with this older man, who happens to be a Maserati dealer. She is breaking off the affair and he is terrified she will blackmail him. He offers her some token of his appreciation for all the good times, and she says "I would like a box of chocolates" He breathes a sigh of relief, and says "I will buy you the most beautiful box of chocolates in Barcelona". She then says "Thank you. Just leave it in the front seat of the Maserati".
That movie is worth watching just to hear Britt deliver the last line of the film, which I will not reveal. "If you've seen one
