bansi4 Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 ******************Hakuna Matata******************** Link to post Share on other sites
tracey65k Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Oh gosh, I quote all kinds of things, but the one I use the most is "Run away! Run away!" from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Link to post Share on other sites
tummysak Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Lux, I'm not positive but I believe the quote you are thinking of is actually from the Doris Day/Rock Hudson film Lover Came Back. And the missing word is suit. He was feeling guilty about buying an expensive suit over a more modestly priced one and the salesman was pressuring him... Actually now that I think about it may actually be from Sunset Boulevard but it would still be about a suit. Also there is a similar situation in the Preston Sturges film The Palm Beach Story but I'm pretty sure it's not fron that, although there is a very similar line. This didn't really answer your question but I'm hoping it will jog someones memory as I am now just as curious about this as you are! Link to post Share on other sites
lux0786 Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 tummysak, "Vicuna" is the word that matches the quote I had seen, and is indeed from Sunset Boulevard. Thanks to nickdimeo for that, BTW. It's probably a quote that has turned up more than once and with the last word being something different each time. Link to post Share on other sites
thakhek5 Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Andrew Lloyd Webber used the line again in his musical version of Sunset Boulevard - the song is called The Lady's Paying and is sung by the salesclerks while trying to sell Joe a suit (vicuna) for New Year's eve. Link to post Share on other sites
katyscar11ett Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 I often say "what we have here is a failure to communicate" from Cool Hand Luke. As someone already mentioned, I also use "Insanity doesn't run in my family, it practically gallops. I am a long-term member of AA and I've also used it a lot as "Alcoholism doesn't run in my family, it gallops". Link to post Share on other sites
daddysprimadonna Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 > > "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. > It's what the fellow said - in Italy for 30 years > under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, > and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, > Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In > Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 > years of democracy and peace, and what did that > produce? The cuckoo clock." from The Third Man. it's > really long but it makes you think and it's kind of > funny. > I love that one,I'll have to memorise it. Link to post Share on other sites
daddysprimadonna Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Two of my most-used--and two of the most obvious in all Christendom--"Tomorrow is another day" and "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" from GWTW.Also, for no particular reason,because I've never yet been in a situation in which it would be suitable, I love to say "Meet me at the Casbah" in as cheesy an accent as possible. And the immortal "I vant to be aloooone",LOL. Link to post Share on other sites
khepburnfan Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I haven't had an opportunity to say it yet, but my favorite quote comes from Stage Door: "There's a saying that you don't have to be a hen to know a bad egg."-Katharine Hepburn Link to post Share on other sites
movieman1957 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 My family, when asking if you've finished something uses the line from "The Quiet Man" Have you tiddled your last wink, Cyril? Link to post Share on other sites
classicsfan1119 Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Movieman, your quote really brought a smile to my face! It's nice to see one that everyone in a family can use to good effect. ML Link to post Share on other sites
vecchiolarry Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hi, Chandler - I love that line - "You're protected by the enormity of your stupidity!"..... Thanks for reminding me of it; I will use it!! One of my favourites is the Mary Astor line used for Olivia DeHavilland in "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" -- 'I have no more time for you, not even one more minute'. I've used this a few times.... Larry Link to post Share on other sites
ThinMan15 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 There's nothing I like better than saying (with a faux-Hepburn accent) "The calla lilies are in bloom again, really they are." Link to post Share on other sites
bellanosey Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 iv used the line that Groucho (sp) Marx says in i think Duck Soup "Even though my friend talks like an idiot, acts like an idiot and looks like an idiot. Don't let it fool you.....he's an idiot." I also use, From An American in Paris, "I heard it on the Radio" when ever someone asks me How do you know? or Where did you hear that? and its really obvious how I found out. Or if I'm imitating someone on a phone and have nothing to say ill say, from High Society "This is the voice of doom! I'm calling to tell u your days are numbered" Also I've never used this (it would be hard to use) but i've always loved the quote "When success goes to a dancers feet he's all right. But when it goes to his head he gets top heavy" -Fred Astaire, Broadway Melody of 1940 I'm sure there are others i use but cant remember. Link to post Share on other sites
chillybug924 Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 From Working Girl, Baldwin says "You look different." Griffith says, "Yeah, well I'm not the same pathetic trusting fool I was a couple of days ago. Shows, huh?" From Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Loy starts many sentances with "All I said was.....", and I borrow that all the time. Also when someone says "What do you mean?" I always say "What do you mean, 'What do you mean?'" Finally when I serve a ham dinner and we're gathering at the table, I always say, "If you ain't eatin' Wham, you ain't eatin' ham!" From Harvey, "In this world you must be oh, so smart or oh so pleasant. Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." I also use "Nobody brings anything small into a bar." From the Jerk, "The new phone book is here!! The new phone book is here!! Things are going to start happening to me now!" I know there's more, but this will do to start with. Link to post Share on other sites
chillybug924 Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 See, I knew this would happen. Soon as I posted I thought of two: From Sarah, Plain and Tall, Close says "The past steps on the heels of the present whether or not you like it." I have actually had the chance to use it on a few occasions. Also from the same movie Walken says "What's right, in my house, is what I say is right." I say that all the time to my kids Link to post Share on other sites
MattHelm Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 My quotes usually center around drinking, in movies: "Post Time!" Sinatra in The Joker Is Wild "A little toddy for the body." Bing "You just pretend to pour the vermouth in." Robert Stack in Written On The Wind "I'll start with an Old Fashioned and work my way up to date." Bob Hope in The Ghost Breakers "My mother sends me a bottle every Christmas. I fall behind a little during Lent, but it all evens out by Christmas." Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way "Was you ever bit by a dead bee?" Walter Brennan in To Have And Have Not Link to post Share on other sites
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