here are a few quotes that I love but I think people may think are weird so I don't quote them: the whole cuchifrito hit the fan-captain frank mac neil -kojak do you want to hear something that will make your shoe fly off and hit the ceiling - sade -vic and sade
Of course the audience becomes a major variable in terms of what's recognizable and what isn't. I've become casual friends with my 26-year-old dogsitter and virtually every movie/TV quote I offer to her just produces confusion on her end. I recently thought I finally hit pay dirt with a "Step Brothers" reference... but no, she laughed because she thought the comment was funny, not because she recognized the link. Anyway, for this thread, one should assume it addresses what's potentially obscure for the SHF market.
I’ve used many from Goodfellas over the years (Whatta ya want from me I’m a good shot, go home and get your shine box, funny how?), but my favorite is, “you might fold under questioning Henry.” Once while in line at Aldi’s I said that to my daughter for some reason. The girl at the cash register burst out laughing and said, my husband and I tell each other that all the time!
There is one phrase I use frequently from the 1976 Western THE MISSOURI BREAKS. Harry Dean Stanton said it in the film and I never forgot it. Instead of saying 'brain' in the movie he said 'brain pan'. As in going to shoot somebody in the 'Brain Pan'. Now I don't go around threatening people with gunfire! But I do use the phrase "brain pan" often enough that I can say I use it regularly. BRAIN PAN! → Don't just say 'BRAIN' . . . say 'BRAIN PAN'!
One that I used at work on occasion, from Double Indemnity, was Walter's warning to Phyllis about insurance companies: "They know more tricks than a carload of monkeys." I found the admonition to my co-workers particularly appropriate during negotiations with the State Department.
One of my favorite lines from that movie is "I wonder if you wonder," but I haven't had much opportunity to use it in real life.
"A place to park your pants" is another good one, as is "next time I'll wear a tuxedo". Some more here, including yours:
I've posted the scene at the site before, but not in this thread, I don't think. The Mickey Rourke line at the 1:15 mark - "You've got 50 ways you can **** up, and if you can think of 25 of them you're a genius . . ." It was particularly appropriate when working through a particularly complicated (sometimes needlessly complicated) piece of proposed legislation. (No wonder most of my co-workers were glad to see me leave.)
Every so often, I'll just randomly blurt out an impression of Walter Brennan in To Have and Have Not: "Ya evah been bit by a dead bee?"
From Twister: "Hey, I really like your weather reports," said with sarcasm, as if being a weatherman is the absolute most shameful job one could have.
"George likes spicy chicken," almost any time I eat, well, you get it. What is particularly poignant, touching, and emotional about quoting this is that my dad's name is George, and he is the most anti-spicy-food individual I've ever known. Can't handle it. OK, that's not particularly poignant, touching, or emotional.
I sometimes quote John Huston's character, who's movie director, from Orson Welles' movie The Other Side of the Wind, when someone talks about artists recycling their own previous music "It's all right to borrow from each other, what we must never do is borrow from ourselves.". To be fair, I complain about that too with the song writers too.
“Doesn’t that raise…a question…in your mind?” I like using that quote…but I don’t remember the movie it’s from.
“I don’t…feel…drunk…” From Memento. I use it when I walk into a room and can’t remember what I went there for.
