Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference?
Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.
“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."
Jean-Luc Picard
“A lie of omission is still a lie!!”
There. Are. FOUR LIGHTS!! Also Jean Luc. Anytime I'm telling my SO there are 4 of something. This is probably why we can't keep friends.
“The line must be drawn here. This far, no farther!”
Also Jean-Luc Picard
And also more importantly Quark.
And I will make them pay for what they've done.
There's so many good moments in that movie. It is my favorite trek movie.
Lieutenant Worf : [referring to Admiral Satie] I believed her. I, I helped her. I did not see what she was.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Mister Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.
Lieutenant Worf : I think... after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mister Worf - that is the price we have to continually pay.
Reminds me of
"Nothing everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail." ~ Dwight Schrute, The Office
Picard is a real quote machine. The one closest to my heart is:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : There's no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
Wesley Crusher : But William James won't be on my Starfleet exams.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
Wesley Crusher : And Starfleet Academy...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Takes more. Open your mind to the past - art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
No, just endless Simpsons references that fall on deaf ears.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is...never try.
Oh, don't worry. Their idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
Me to a Chinese teacher called Nick: 'Hello everybody! Hi Doctor Nick!'
*Confused face
I have three kids and no money, why can't I have no kids an three money!
The all ighty ..ollar?
Oh hahaha I get it!
I'm good for like the first 10 seasons, which are the best 10 seasons. I grew up on it and rewatched a lot of them as an adult. It's funnier as an adult.
Yeah seasons 3 through 8 were the Conan O'Brien years. That's the golden era.
But there are excellent episodes outside of that. I personally think "SE12 EP18 - Trilogy of Errors" is a top 5 episode. It's the one where marge cuts off homer's thumb, Milhouse finds fireworks in a cave and Lisa builds a party grammar robot. I haven't seen enough of seasons beyond like 20 or so to comment on them, but Ive heard they've actually been hitting a solid stride since the pandemic.
I get the best eye-rolls followed by smiles from my wife when I say: “you choo-choo choose me?”
I am the lizard Queen!
Aw Lisa, honey, just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
You’re failing, Seymour! What’s with you and failing?!
He's not just some guy, marge, he's a carny. And part of a noble tradition. Carnys built this country!
... The carnival part of it anyway.
You tried your best and you failed miserably! The lesson is: never try.
¡Parque Gordasico!
BUT WHY DID I HAVE THE BOWL BART? WHY DID I HAVE THE BOWL??
The goggles, the do nothing!
Aziz light!
(Fifth Element)
I use this one a lot. Also, I've been known to say "mool-tee-pass" when handing over my ID.
What a banger of a movie
Even as late as last year, I walked into a dark room, half shouted "Aziz!" and someone turned on a light.
He later claimed to have never heard of the movie.
Another quote I love to use is, “Cheeken good.”
One of my all-time favorites. Whenever I have to point to something on a map, I always say "Dot!" with a Leeloo accent... no one gets it.
What a banger of a movie
So, it's a banger then?
What a banger of a movie
Flame thrower - my favorite
Such a banger of a movie.
"Kick his ass, Sea Bass!"
What's the soup de jour?
It's the soup of the day
Mmm sounds good. I'll have that.
ITT, people giving quotes but not saying from what movie
What movie is this from?
They asked for the quote, not the movie. :-D
It's fun to try to guess!
I do believe that would be the point.
“Would you like to know more?”
“Tell me more!”
When Martin is playing the “my dinner with Andre” arcade game in the simpsons. It’s too obscure to ever explain it in the real world.
I'm doing my part!
Starship Troopers, if anyone is wondering.
I use this line a lot! I love that film!
I also say, “Negative. I am a meat popsicle.” Whenever a captcha asks if I’m human and there are people around.
Smoke you!
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
Excuse me while I stare at my big hairy (proud!) feet as I try to figure out whether or not you just insulted me.
These are my go to quotes from Snatch and The Big Lebowski that I use whenever the occasion arises. Not everyone gets the reference. I also refer to my anxiety meds as "anti anxiety disco biscuits." I got that one from Shameless - my doctor got a kick out of that.
"What's happening with them sausages, Charlie?"
"In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?"
"D'ya like dags?"
"You're out of your element!"
"This aggression will not stand, man."
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"
"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."
I use it all the time
I had a roommate once who kept walking in and contributing to conversations with no idea what was happening, so "You're out of your element!" became a staple.
I once had a dog who was a bit of an asshole, but I loved the cheeky bastard. He knew he wasn’t supposed to be in the kitchen and would purposely lie on the floor and place one paw on the kitchen tile that separated it from the living room and just stared at me. I’d frequently shout, “OVER THE LINE!”
But that was just between me and him. :)
I love that! Hahaha
"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."
I use it all the time
I’m currently rewatching this movie right now. I LOVE that line!
It's great that the opportunity has arisen for you to ask someone whether they like dags.
"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."
I use it all the time
"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."
I use it all the time
I love the safe for TV dub of John Goodman beating up the corvette:
"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!"
Whenever someone says anything remotely close to "you can imagine what happens next" or "you can guess where this is going" I say:
"He fixes the cable?"
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
There are just so many quotable lines from Kung Pow
"That's a lot of nuts!"
"You go that way, I'll go home."
"We trained him wrong as a joke"
"If you got an ass I'll kick it!"
"My nipples look like Milk Duds!"
"I'm a man too, you know. I go peepee standing up!"
"I rock and roll, all day long, sweet Susie!"
"Leap that wall, if you're so great!"
"I'm a nice man with happy feelings all the time!"
"I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn, and it's non-dairy!"
i hate that movie but i do quote "Would you say, 500 miles?....no not 500"
Every time I feel like Taco Bell, I quote Master Tang singing that jingle.
"Taco Bell, Taco Bell. Enchirito, big burrito..."
Yeah, he's one of the best parts of the movie too
'You go that way, I'll go home!' Is one I quote often and nobody ever gets. Perfect!
"shit"
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Personally I prefer "shit"
Knives Out (2019)
Close second for me
The scene where Hulk jumps into Ultron's jet and, from off screen, you get James Spader's exasperated "Oh, for god's sake".
Love that moment.
Not from a movie, but there's a line from The Office that really stuck with me:
"Not everything's a lesson, Ryan. Sometimes, you just fail."
That's going to leave a mark
"boil 'em, mash 'em, stick them in a stew"
"No sir, I didn't like it"
-Mr. Horse
Do people really not remember Ren and Stimpy? Maybe younger folks but I assume that's most references that are older than them.
"It's log, it log, it big it's heave it wood". If we ever play Card Against Humanity I will pick the Log card and sing the song 100% of the time.
Its dumb, but whenever someone mentions peaches I always hit them with "I could eat peaches for hours". An obscure line from Face Off but for whatever reason it's stuck in my head over all these years. No one ever gets the reference.
Im in fucking Austria. Illiterate farmers the lot of them here. Nobody has ever seen a movie in English or any other language than German.
There is nothing I can quote that they would recognise.
So alone.
Are there no German language instances?
I'm not wishing you gone, I'm wishing you could find what you want.
Oh, I'm fine right here. I'm just stuck in a country that isn't my home or my culture. 🤷
Pain don't hurt.
Some people get it, but most don't.
Pain don’t hurt.
I like it but I'm not sure that I get it haha
It’s not a movie but it makes me think of this quote from Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running:
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore.’ The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.
I feel this may be the sentiment behind, “Pain don’t hurt.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiLUrJJjnM
For me it means that true pain is something other than physical.
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."
I love to say, “Hello there!” Whether in game (on an mmorpg) or in person at a party and hold my breath, waiting in anticipation to see if anyone gets it.
What's it from?
Enjoy!
General Kenobi!
YAY!!!
Yep.
visible confusion
You son of a removed.
General Kenobi
"I'll buy that for a dollar!"
"removed leave"
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere. -Van Wilder
No matter where you go, there you are.
Declaration of War: The Short Form
Mine is from City Slickers. Billy Crystal keeps saying "hellooooooo" to the cows in a kind of half-moo voice. I use it all the time and no one gets it.
"Listen to the sounds of the machine" From Elephant's Dream, a short animated film.
I'm an engineer, and there's something almost spiritual about that line and its delivery. I think about it every time I'm debugging or trying to understand how a complex system works
Something tells me you would like the Love, Death, and Robots episode "The Very Pulse of the Machine".
I did!
And now I'm learning it's based off a short story. Gonna have to pick that up.
"If I say 'I know,' I stop thinking."
Nobody has ever gotten the reference, and many don't even get it after I explain it.
(It's from Nicholas Roeg's movie Insignificance, and it's said by an Einstein expy just called The Professor, explaining why it is that he's careful to always say that he thinks that ____ or believes that ____ or that the leading theory is that ____.)
the original of Vanilla Sky, "Open Your Eyes" is an incredible movie
Abre Los Ojos
"Technical fowl!" From that animated Adam Sandler movie about Hanukkah
Was that movie Eight Crazy Nights?
That's the one!
"Your mother sucks ***** in hell!"
"Woo-sah"
If everyone's super, no one is. -Syndrome, The Incredibles
"Tell 'im he's dreamin' "
Dale dug another hole, it's filling with water.
Your soul is mine!
From Mortal Kombat
"I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?"
"Certainly it hurts. The trick is to not mind that it hurts" - Lawrence of Arabia
Every time my dog watches me eat: "Look how curious the puppy is!" (From Lilo and Stitch)
"What did we learn, Palmer?"
I guess we learned not to do it again.
Fucked if I know what we did.
Serpentine!
What's this one from. My old roommate used to always say it when we played first person shooters and he was being shot at.
It's from The In-Laws (1979)
I'm sure it's not the origin, but I remember it best from Metalocolypse.
An adult swim show that satirizes the metal culture of the time.
Dethklok, the band that is the focus of the show actually has some good tunes.
There have been several albums released.
A lot of talent behind this animated band.
"Heineken? Pabst Blue Ribbon!"
Said it once. Never again.
Two of my favourite lines come from "The Matador" 2005 (Arguably one of the best movies Pierce Brosnan did).
It was a great movie. Thomas Crown, though, was the role he was born to play.
"Bat-ter-i-zees" from True Lies
"That's....relativity..."
"careful with the radio, it's a radio."
-Cheech from New Movie
A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory. Remember that.
Oooh I am blanking on the name. What movie is it?
Unbroken
This is all YOUR fault, beatnik!
“Save me a piece of that corn for later!”
I say this one all the time, and I always get weird looks. My wife just rolls her eyes because she can't stand that movie.
They just don’t understand you!
Even though your clothes may have the appearance of riches, beneath the clothes we find a man. Beneath the man we find his… nucleus.
There's a line right at the end of an extremely obscure animated film from when I was a kid. It ain't a great movie. And I didn't fall in love with it even at the time, but that line somehow stuck in my mind to this day and I re-discovered it a couple months ago. I'll just hint that it takes place in a sky world and Mark f*ckin' Hamill does the narration. "Comme des anges" is the line in question (Since I saw it in French as a kid) but it probably translates to "Like angels" in English. I tried to find it and it was impossible to stream or buy that movie in any form nowadays.
"Yeah... they really lived."
-Secondhand Lions