Lines you're just WAITING to use in real life
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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 -
jack_north — 13 years ago(May 05, 2012 08:20 PM)
If I'm holding hands in a group of people I've got to try this; when they were all sitting around the table holding hands, Sam is sitting next to the old nurse.
Sam: Stop dat!
Nick: What's wrong?
Same: Da nurse is giving my palm da finger. Dirty old broad.
Sam: I don't kiss. I don't like kissing, now leave me alone. -
countrygirltori — 13 years ago(September 03, 2012 09:29 PM)
Lines I use all the time:
"That's tackythat's really tacky"
"The bones in my body" - in French accent - usually occurs when someone is looking for hamburger buns
(When Maggie Smith asks what Peter Falk means when he says 'number 2') Eileen Brennan responds "I'll tell you later. It's disgusting"
"I like her, I really like her"
I enjoy quoting the nurse "Sometimes my gas kills" "I can't help it I'm old" "Sicky-poo"
Luckily this is a big movie in my family so whenever I quote it they know what I'm talking about. -
irishm — 13 years ago(October 17, 2012 07:58 AM)
"Idiot!! Did not finish wise old saying!"
Great movie; I appreciate it a lot more now than I did when it first came out and my father pretty much had to explain why certain things were funny. I enjoyed it anyway just because I liked everyone in the cast so much, but now I've seen the originals myself and I really "get it". -
danfielding0 — 13 years ago(October 31, 2012 09:46 AM)
Wang: "It is late and my eyes are getting tired."
Diamond: "I thought they always looked like that."
Tess reprimands him for the racial slur. I can't remember what she says.
Diamond: "You're right. I'm sorry slanty."