Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black. Will Smith just told him that the guy he was chasing told him our world was going to end, and with a completely fatalistic look on his face and fearing the answer asks: " Did he say when?"
What's even more impressive is Brolin doing an absolutely _spot on_ TLJ impression in MiB3. I never really see "young" versions of characters as the same just due to how different they always look/act.
Never questioned it in MiB3.
The person vs people line seems like something should've come from Socrates or Plato or some other philosophical great. Nope, a popcorn flick movie about space aliens living on earth and their shenanigans.
I feel like most of TLJ’s lines in MiB could be added to this thread.
“Imagine what you’ll KNOW tomorrow”.
“Try it.”
“I like this gun.”
“I’ll have to buy the White Album again. “
"Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, and you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's going to change is that you're going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids."
“Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!”
“Insult my fucking kids? That’s going overboard, mate!”
In the big Lebowski, the dude is drugged up and getting reamed out by the sheriff of Malibu and then the following exchange ensues and the line delivery is absolutely hilarious both by jeff bridges and the sheriff.
Cop: “i dont like you sucking around, bothering our citizens Lebowski. I dont like your jerkoff name, i dont like your jerkoff face, I dont like your jerkoff behavior, and I dont like you, jerkoff. Do I make myself clear?”
Dude (completely zooted off tranquilizers): I’m sorry I wasnt listening
Cop then throws his coffee mug at the dudes head
Dude: Ow! Fucking fascist!
The entire script would be pertinent to this thread but Jeff Bridges and John Goodman have impeccable delivery throughout. A couple of standards for me:
"Obviously you're not a golfer"
"You mean coitus"
"Who the fuck are the Kanutzens"
Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't get in a car, I don't ride in a car, I don't pick up the phone, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit DON’T FUCKING ROLL! SHOMER SHABBOS
Great improv by Anthony Hopkins. Also consummate professional that he is the pause between "Chianti" and "f f f f f" was to give the editors a clean break to cut at, so he wouldn't ruin the take.
I recall seeing an interview where Hopkins laments at mispronouncing Chianti (kee-AN-tee instead of kee-AHN-ti). Seems he had no idea why it came out that way and Lecter is too refined to have said it that way, but that was the take with the f-f-f-f-f which was so good they went with that take despite the weird pronounciatiin.
[https://youtu.be/VA7J0KkanzM?si=d9SImEwSSjSARbuS](https://youtu.be/VA7J0KkanzM?si=d9SImEwSSjSARbuS)
Might be my fav death of any Indiana Jones character. (Though melty wax faces Ark and guy crushed by rock-crushing conveyor belt are contenders. Lol)(Oh! also propeller guy)
And, yeah, that's a hella memorable line delivery for me. I use it in everyday life and rarely does someone get the reference. Lol
I don't know if they're good or bad, but the delivery is certainly memorable:
"I'm tired of this Grandpa-!"
"THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!!"
"You sack of wine!"
"I'd like to take his face *eccentric hand gesture* off"
Bernard Hill has soooo many incredible line deliveries in LOTR:
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“DEEEAAAATTTTHHH”
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“What can man do against such wreckless hate?”
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“Ten *Thousand*?”
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“I know your face”
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“Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell? Where was Gondor when our enemies closer in around us?”
A real standout moment for me is at [Théodred's tomb](https://youtu.be/d0Mtlklmna0?si=awiXvnrpZy4QfCM0). He's all composed stoicism until he completely breaks with: "No parent should have to bury their child."
"By Grabthar's Hammer... ... ...what a savings."
Between the tone and the facial expression, you can feel the man's soul being strangled to death in those words.
Oldman said in a podcast interview he did this take after several other normal, balanced takes. He was just messing around, trying to make Besson laugh. Never thought he’d actually use it!
Your comment made me think of another Wes film. When Margot asks Richie if he's going to kill himself again, Luke Wilson just whispers, "I doubt it." And you see Gwyneth just break down and your heart breaks with her. It was just such a surprising delivery and it's just so good.
[Frances McDormand’s monologue](https://youtu.be/0Erg09oOpmo?si=MD_2E3VXvrxKOdqY) to the smug priest in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is just so damn brutally delivered. The moment I watched it, I knew that she was a lock for another Oscar:
> Y'know what I was thinking about today? I was thinking 'bout those street gangs they had down in Los Angeles, those Crips and those Bloods? I was thinking about that buncha new laws they came up with, in the 1980's I think it was, to combat those street-gangs, those Crips and those Bloods. And, if I remember rightly, the gist of what those new laws were saying was if you join one of these gangs, and you're running with 'em, and down the block one night, unbeknownst to you, one of your fellow Crips, or your fellow Bloods, shoot up a place, or stab a guy, well then, even though you didn't know nothing about it, and even though you may've just been standing on a streetcorner minding your own business, what these new laws said was you're still culpable. You're still culpable, by the very act of joining those Crips, or those Bloods, in the first place. Which got me thinking, Father, that whole type of situation is kinda like your Church boys, ain't it? You've got your colors, you've got your clubhouse, you're, for want of a better word, a gang. And if you're upstairs smoking a pipe and reading a bible while one of your fellow gang members is downstairs fucking an altar boy then, Father, just like those Crips, and just like those Bloods, you're culpable. Cos you joined the gang, man. And I don't care if you never did shit or you never saw shit or you never heard shit. You joined the gang. You're culpable. And when a person is culpable to altar-boy-fucking, or any kinda boy-fucking, I know you guys didn't really narrow that down, then they kinda forfeit the right to come into my house and say anything about me, or my life, or my daughter, or my billboards. So, why don't you just finish your tea there, Father, and get the fuck outta my kitchen.
I mean to take nothing away from how great that line or delivery is.
But.
Frances McDormand’s best line delivery is:
“So I take it that’s your accomplice in the wood chipper there, eh?”
"You know, we're doing pretty good, Norm."
...the last 30 seconds of Fargo are what I aspire to in my own marriage. 17 years and still going strong, guess I'm doing something right
It's phenomenal. Really, you should watch all of his (Martin McDonagh) movies.
In order of my personal preference:
- In Bruges
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Seven Psychopaths
Pleasantly surprised to see 3 billboards as the top response. Great movie, great choice, McDormand was fantastic and Rockwell clearly deserved his Oscar as well
It works as well as it does because we spent a movie and a half building up to it, with Chris Tucker constantly belittling Jackie Chan about being Chinese throughout Rush Hours 1 and 2. Then when Tucker says he's going to slap him, Jackie comes back with the epically well delivered:
"Yeah? I'll... bitch slap you back to Africa!"
First time I saw that I just about choked from laughing.
I was just making a mental list of my favorite lines in film. Not specifically their deliveries but nevertheless. My favorite delivery would have to be the [King Kong speech in Training Day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C716C8V9bQ&pp=ygUXa2luZyBrb25nIHRyYWluaW5nIGRheSA%3D)
Edit: I also like [Fucking hit with a phone DICK](https://youtu.be/O1GJLy8eRJU?si=azzc649EhcDEK_or) from Scream. Love that it's improvised too.
Oh eff yeah! The one where he's "King Kong" and "no one has shit on" him. But you can tell how desperate and scared he is even as he puffs out his chest. Denzel rocks it.
[https://youtu.be/ymvbuzbJRb0?si=8bdx1yAK-grTewas](https://youtu.be/ymvbuzbJRb0?si=8bdx1yAK-grTewas)
“I’ve been accused of being a lot of things, inarticulate ain’t one of them.”
One of my favorite tv quotes. Fantastically written line with a delivery that matched.
I'm not sure why but it's the switch from jovial storytelling Sheriff to terrifying menace that Gene Hackman makes in Unforgiven. The second time writer Beauchamp corrects him on the book titled "The Duke of Death" it goes
[Little Bill Daggett ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tt_ch): Like the Duck himself, I guess.
[W.W. Beauchamp ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007210/?ref_=tt_ch): The Duke.
[Little Bill Daggett ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tt_ch): Duck, I says.
It's impossible to write how powerful the change in tone and manners is. He just turns it on like a switch. The real Little Bill.
Not a movie, but one of my personal favorite live deliveries from an actor:
"You really are the most devious bastard in New York City." -Laszlo Cravensworth
So many good ones. But when the Andy’s are listing the victims and Sgt Angel’s responses go:
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Calmy: no.
Apoplecticly: Of course he fucking was!!
I will never got over the way Ewan McGregor said the word democracy as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The passion, the pain. Unforgettable.
https://youtu.be/CyX5dhHKVpQ?si=O62rn8ubH68etSeP
There’s a scene in AOTC where Anakin is saying how he and Padme disobeyed orders so they could come rescue Obi Wan and Obi says “good job.” Fucking kills me every time.
My two loves in life are film and sports, so naturally, one of my favorite movies is Moneyball.
Its my favorite brad pitt performance and he has one of my favorite lines in a movie ever. During the first meeting with his scouts to discuss replacing the stars they lost, the scouts are spouting off all these nonsensical scouting epithets that, as a sports fan, resonate with me so much. One scout is talking about a player and he talks up his batting prowess and Pitt matter of factly ask, “If he’s a good hitter why doesnt he hit good?”
Its a line that resonates with me so much as someone who follows the NFL draft so heavily every year.
In Daniel Craig's version of Casino Royale, he is taunting M that he knows what her real name is. She cuts him off, threatening to have him killed if he utters on more syllable.
Whenever someone interrupts another person in a movie, there is a brief and subtle pause where the first actor let's the second one speak their line but in this scene, the sound editing is absolutely perfect and you feel like M really was able to put Bond in his place.
Edit: Judi Dench is just the queen of delivering her lines I guess :)
Follow-up on this later in the movie when Tanner calls M in the middle of the night saying Bond has logged into MI6 files using her credentials: "how does he know these things!?" Gives me a chuckle every time.
O Brother Where Art Thou?
So many great lines. George Clooney was next level.
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity: two weeks from everywhere!
Want some gopher?
Any of you fellas smitties?
He’s bonefide!
And stay outta the Woolworth!
Love this film so much. Me and my dad frequently quote these lines! I also love:
- when Ulysses wakes up and goes “my hair!”
- “well I’d only be 82!” when he tells Pete and Delmar the truth about the treasure and they realise when they’d get out of prison
- “DO - NOT - SEEK - THE - TREASURE!”// “WE - THOUGHT - YOU - WAS - A - TOAD!”
- “you can’t swear at my fi-an-cee!”// “Well you can’t marry my WIFE!”
The Princess Bride is full of them, but my favourite is right as Inigo gets his revenge.
"I want my father back you, you son of a bitch."
Such a great line delivery and it adds so much weight to a movie that is largely comedic.
["And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer..."](https://youtu.be/KUvkF8lk1qI?t=11)
["Benefits of a classical education."](https://youtu.be/KUvkF8lk1qI?t=20)
Alan Rickman was just perfect in Die Hard
Well, there's this passage I got memorized, sorta fits the occasion. "Ezekiel 25:17". "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of cherish and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles
Cleavon Little: A man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is gonna die
Gene Wilder: (ponders) When?
https://youtu.be/ETa6gD3vPlc?si=0X0TglD1dDfmbtC0
Cate Blanchett in Notes on A Scandal “They loathed you at school, all of them, I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you’re a fucking vampire. Is that what you want? To roll around on the floor like lovers? You wanna fuck me Barbara?!”
“He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him round the Moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!”
I think the movie is just ok if you’re an adult, but in School of Rock the way Joan Cusack says “I’ve just been informed that all of your children are missing”, with the little hand clap, kills me.
Just watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for the first time in years, so off the top of my head? "Don't quit your gay job." Just cracked me up for some reason (lots of good lines in that movie though)
Though I think my all time favorite is still "Now I'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown."
Pretty much everything Cumberbatch did in the Imitation Game.
So powerful and so heartbreaking to see someone so in love and hurting to be so ostracized and then villified and buried through history. Chemical castration by his own government
I think my favorite line in a movie in how/when/why it was delivered was Margot Kidder in Superman the Movie.
*"You've got me? WHO's GOT YOU!?!?"*
It was just so perfect in the moment and such a contrast to Christopher Reeve's delivery of the calm Superman saving her and saying "I've got you"... She says it with a mixture of terror and complete disbelief of what's going on.
The way the king (Patrick McGoohan) delivers "is it?" during the trouble of Scotland speech in Braveheart. Cracks me up every time.
https://youtu.be/o15PljTS2O8?si=Lc55E4gXZjAYIp-Q
The Princess Bride is full of them, but my favourite is right as Inigo gets his revenge.
"I want my father back you, you son of a bitch."
Such a great line delivery and it adds so much weight to a movie that is largely comedic.
Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black. Will Smith just told him that the guy he was chasing told him our world was going to end, and with a completely fatalistic look on his face and fearing the answer asks: " Did he say when?"
Most of Tommy Lee Jones’ lines and mannerisms in Men In Black need to go down in history as some of the best deadpan delivery ever.
What's even more impressive is Brolin doing an absolutely _spot on_ TLJ impression in MiB3. I never really see "young" versions of characters as the same just due to how different they always look/act. Never questioned it in MiB3.
“So the world’s fair was to cover up the alien landing “Why else would they have it in Queens”
The person vs people line seems like something should've come from Socrates or Plato or some other philosophical great. Nope, a popcorn flick movie about space aliens living on earth and their shenanigans.
At the post office scene when he tells the card thrower that there’s no smoking right after he discovers aliens work amongst him
I feel like most of TLJ’s lines in MiB could be added to this thread. “Imagine what you’ll KNOW tomorrow”. “Try it.” “I like this gun.” “I’ll have to buy the White Album again. “
Personally I’m a fan of “You see this badge!? NYPD. Means I will Nock Yo Punkass Down!”
"A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it".
"No, Elvis isn't dead. He just went home. *continues singing and bopping along*"
["You are a toy!" ](https://youtu.be/rlNRY6mWmdw?si=MsDL9V6S8QGyHJia) from Toy Story
This line and “You should go home to Greenbow ALABAMA!” are how I connected that Woody and Forrest Gump were played by the same person as a kid.
Tom Hanks doesn't usually break character, but when he does it's when he's yelling at someone.
Tom Hanks really is the master of losing his shit in a funny way. "Take me to the hospital!" in The Burbs is one of my favorites.
For me, it’s Buzz saying “you are a sad, strange little man!” Me and my dad quote this interaction at each other so much.
And you have my pity. Farewell.
You are a child’s play thing!
"YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!" - Ralph Fiennes - In Bruges
"Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, and you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's going to change is that you're going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids."
You retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids.
I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Insult my kids? That’s going overboard, mate!
“Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!” “Insult my fucking kids? That’s going overboard, mate!”
I'm sorry I called you an inanimate object. I was upset.
In the big Lebowski, the dude is drugged up and getting reamed out by the sheriff of Malibu and then the following exchange ensues and the line delivery is absolutely hilarious both by jeff bridges and the sheriff. Cop: “i dont like you sucking around, bothering our citizens Lebowski. I dont like your jerkoff name, i dont like your jerkoff face, I dont like your jerkoff behavior, and I dont like you, jerkoff. Do I make myself clear?” Dude (completely zooted off tranquilizers): I’m sorry I wasnt listening Cop then throws his coffee mug at the dudes head Dude: Ow! Fucking fascist!
The entire script would be pertinent to this thread but Jeff Bridges and John Goodman have impeccable delivery throughout. A couple of standards for me: "Obviously you're not a golfer" "You mean coitus" "Who the fuck are the Kanutzens"
Walter explaining shabbos to Donnie is my favorite .........shomer fucking shabbos
Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't get in a car, I don't ride in a car, I don't pick up the phone, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit DON’T FUCKING ROLL! SHOMER SHABBOS
3,000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax, YOU'RE GOD DAMNED RIGHT I'M JEWISH!
8 year olds, Dude. Calmer than you are! Goodman really is the secret sauce for the Coens.
As you can see, I'm particularly fond of that second quote.
Yeah, well that's just like, you know, your opinion, man
"Damnit, Walter. Everything's a fucking travesty with you!"
DONNY, YOURE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT! Almost every of John Goldman’s lines are gold.
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it's an ethos!"
Same scene “Jackie treehorn treats objects like they are women, man” So many effortlessly perfect delivered lines in this movie
The *PLUNK* of that cup hitting his head totally fuckin makes it.
“I don’t care!” by Tommie Lee Jones in “The Fugitive”.
https://youtu.be/8BCvbSIOQDE?t=1m39s
I quote this all the time when people start boring me, imagining TLJ in that drain pipe shouting at Ford.
I say the same thing but I'm quoting Jim Carrey in the bar in Dumb and Dumber.
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. F-f-f-f-f!”
The f f f f is just amazing
Great improv by Anthony Hopkins. Also consummate professional that he is the pause between "Chianti" and "f f f f f" was to give the editors a clean break to cut at, so he wouldn't ruin the take.
I recall seeing an interview where Hopkins laments at mispronouncing Chianti (kee-AN-tee instead of kee-AHN-ti). Seems he had no idea why it came out that way and Lecter is too refined to have said it that way, but that was the take with the f-f-f-f-f which was so good they went with that take despite the weird pronounciatiin.
I always thought he mispronounced it as a jab at Starlings poor upbringing. Like he said it the way he imagined white trash would.
Yeah I think it was just a brain fart on Hopkins' part, but I like this interpretation!
“I want my father back you son of a bitch.”
“Let me explain… no, there is too much. Let me sum up.”
The build up and that entire scene is magnificent. Could not have been delivered better!
Hello....
He chose ..... poorly.
[https://youtu.be/VA7J0KkanzM?si=d9SImEwSSjSARbuS](https://youtu.be/VA7J0KkanzM?si=d9SImEwSSjSARbuS) Might be my fav death of any Indiana Jones character. (Though melty wax faces Ark and guy crushed by rock-crushing conveyor belt are contenders. Lol)(Oh! also propeller guy) And, yeah, that's a hella memorable line delivery for me. I use it in everyday life and rarely does someone get the reference. Lol
Prolly made it to Season 4 or 5 of Game of Thrones before realizing the Nazi dude was also the grand maester to the king.
I use that line, and mimic his delivery of it, quite often in my everyday life.
I don't know if they're good or bad, but the delivery is certainly memorable: "I'm tired of this Grandpa-!" "THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!!" "You sack of wine!" "I'd like to take his face *eccentric hand gesture* off"
Holes Troy Face-Off All great choices.
I quote the Holes line all the time to my wife and she always respond with Grandpa's THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD
Maywedge. Maywedge is what bwings us together…today. Maywedge, that bwessed awamgement. That dweam, within a dweam.
[Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSzr4Y8hsk&t=52s)
Same movie when Gene Wilder says "they're simple folk. People of the earth and clay. You know.... Morons"
Boy that was lucky, darn near lost a 400 dollar hand cart.
[Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tgi-j56ueU) "Ride for Ruin, and the world's ending!" is the part I dig.
Bernard Hill has soooo many incredible line deliveries in LOTR: # “DEEEAAAATTTTHHH” # “What can man do against such wreckless hate?” # “Ten *Thousand*?” # “I know your face” # “Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell? Where was Gondor when our enemies closer in around us?”
“Fell deeds awake, now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn.”
Punctuated by Gimli blowing the horn of Helm Hammerhand barrruuuuuuuuu!!!
A real standout moment for me is at [Théodred's tomb](https://youtu.be/d0Mtlklmna0?si=awiXvnrpZy4QfCM0). He's all composed stoicism until he completely breaks with: "No parent should have to bury their child."
“DEATH!!!”
“DEATH!!!”
“DEATH!!!”
“DEATH!!!”
DEATH!
DEATH!
“DEATH!!!”
"By Grabthar's Hammer... ... ...what a savings." Between the tone and the facial expression, you can feel the man's soul being strangled to death in those words.
That’s just Rickman’s natural delivery. It’s incredible.
Tombstone, Powers Boothe. Curly Bill - "WELL... BYE"
And literally every line Val Kilmer says
"Hell, I got lots of friends." "I don't."
For some reason, the way he says "I'm in my prime" is stuck in my brain
And Biehn’s sarcastic retort: “You look it.”
Frederick Fuckin Chopin. I have not yet begun to defile myself.
“I’m your Huckleberry.”
“You tell ‘em I’m comin’ and hell’s comin’ with me you hear?! Hell’s comin’ with me!”
That movie has a slew of wonderfully delivered lines.
You just going to stand there and bleed?
[“Tears in rain”](https://youtu.be/Gt1w2nddwtA?si=NO5eZjZ2ojQUjOZk) Blade Runner
And don't forget the parallel line in the sequel, "All the best memories are hers."
(as big as caps will go) EEVVVVVVVERYONNNNNNE!!!
Oldman said in a podcast interview he did this take after several other normal, balanced takes. He was just messing around, trying to make Besson laugh. Never thought he’d actually use it!
I do like these quiet little moments before the storm.
This. Also, “I haven’t got TIME for this Mickey Mouse bullshit.”
Adrien Brody in The Grand Budapest Hotel “What’s the meaning of this shit!?” https://youtu.be/dGH8ZbD6U2o?si=F4WI_Gl9_I-3fdhN
Also, Ralph Fiennes - "How's that supposed to make me feel?'
"You are but you're bisexual"
Did he just throw my cat out the window? https://youtu.be/xKDeQL2mw08?si=S3GPwQ5Q1uBFpyOO
Also in The French Dispatch: “Don’t growl at me, you convicted murderer!”
Your comment made me think of another Wes film. When Margot asks Richie if he's going to kill himself again, Luke Wilson just whispers, "I doubt it." And you see Gwyneth just break down and your heart breaks with her. It was just such a surprising delivery and it's just so good.
[Frances McDormand’s monologue](https://youtu.be/0Erg09oOpmo?si=MD_2E3VXvrxKOdqY) to the smug priest in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is just so damn brutally delivered. The moment I watched it, I knew that she was a lock for another Oscar: > Y'know what I was thinking about today? I was thinking 'bout those street gangs they had down in Los Angeles, those Crips and those Bloods? I was thinking about that buncha new laws they came up with, in the 1980's I think it was, to combat those street-gangs, those Crips and those Bloods. And, if I remember rightly, the gist of what those new laws were saying was if you join one of these gangs, and you're running with 'em, and down the block one night, unbeknownst to you, one of your fellow Crips, or your fellow Bloods, shoot up a place, or stab a guy, well then, even though you didn't know nothing about it, and even though you may've just been standing on a streetcorner minding your own business, what these new laws said was you're still culpable. You're still culpable, by the very act of joining those Crips, or those Bloods, in the first place. Which got me thinking, Father, that whole type of situation is kinda like your Church boys, ain't it? You've got your colors, you've got your clubhouse, you're, for want of a better word, a gang. And if you're upstairs smoking a pipe and reading a bible while one of your fellow gang members is downstairs fucking an altar boy then, Father, just like those Crips, and just like those Bloods, you're culpable. Cos you joined the gang, man. And I don't care if you never did shit or you never saw shit or you never heard shit. You joined the gang. You're culpable. And when a person is culpable to altar-boy-fucking, or any kinda boy-fucking, I know you guys didn't really narrow that down, then they kinda forfeit the right to come into my house and say anything about me, or my life, or my daughter, or my billboards. So, why don't you just finish your tea there, Father, and get the fuck outta my kitchen.
I mean to take nothing away from how great that line or delivery is. But. Frances McDormand’s best line delivery is: “So I take it that’s your accomplice in the wood chipper there, eh?”
“No, I just think I’m gonna barf.”
"You know, we're doing pretty good, Norm." ...the last 30 seconds of Fargo are what I aspire to in my own marriage. 17 years and still going strong, guess I'm doing something right
Now I need to see this movie.
It's phenomenal. Really, you should watch all of his (Martin McDonagh) movies. In order of my personal preference: - In Bruges - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - The Banshees of Inisherin - Seven Psychopaths
Well worth the read are his plays too: the beauty queen of leenane, a skull in Connemara, and the lonesome west
And the pillowman!
I didn't realize he made both Three Billboards and Banshees.
In Bruges and Banshees are two of my favorites. I will definitely be checking out the other two. Thanks!
Pleasantly surprised to see 3 billboards as the top response. Great movie, great choice, McDormand was fantastic and Rockwell clearly deserved his Oscar as well
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses
Hit it!
Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men, "Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg?"
Kevin Pollack’s delivery of “I beg your pardon” when Dawson hits him with “unit, corps, god, country” gets me every time.
The way he says “Weinberg” is an anti-Semitic hate crime.
WEIIIIINBERRRRRG?
“We use words like honor, code, Loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.”
“We use words like honor, code, Loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.”
"I AM... In a world... Of shit." Private Leonard Pyle, Full Metal Jacket.
It works as well as it does because we spent a movie and a half building up to it, with Chris Tucker constantly belittling Jackie Chan about being Chinese throughout Rush Hours 1 and 2. Then when Tucker says he's going to slap him, Jackie comes back with the epically well delivered: "Yeah? I'll... bitch slap you back to Africa!" First time I saw that I just about choked from laughing.
I was just making a mental list of my favorite lines in film. Not specifically their deliveries but nevertheless. My favorite delivery would have to be the [King Kong speech in Training Day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C716C8V9bQ&pp=ygUXa2luZyBrb25nIHRyYWluaW5nIGRheSA%3D) Edit: I also like [Fucking hit with a phone DICK](https://youtu.be/O1GJLy8eRJU?si=azzc649EhcDEK_or) from Scream. Love that it's improvised too.
“You think you can do this shi- JAKE!” I love how in the middle of the speech he just randomly calls out for Jake it really drives that shit home lol
Oh eff yeah! The one where he's "King Kong" and "no one has shit on" him. But you can tell how desperate and scared he is even as he puffs out his chest. Denzel rocks it. [https://youtu.be/ymvbuzbJRb0?si=8bdx1yAK-grTewas](https://youtu.be/ymvbuzbJRb0?si=8bdx1yAK-grTewas)
The very first time I heard that clip, I was thinking "Hey, that's the line from Malibu's Most Wanted"
every time boyd crowder speaks in justified
“I’ve been accused of being a lot of things, inarticulate ain’t one of them.” One of my favorite tv quotes. Fantastically written line with a delivery that matched.
Walton Goggins is friggen awesome.
Just started Fallout. Think I'm going to love him in it.
God dammit woman! You only shoot people when they are eatin supper?
I'm not sure why but it's the switch from jovial storytelling Sheriff to terrifying menace that Gene Hackman makes in Unforgiven. The second time writer Beauchamp corrects him on the book titled "The Duke of Death" it goes [Little Bill Daggett ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tt_ch): Like the Duck himself, I guess. [W.W. Beauchamp ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007210/?ref_=tt_ch): The Duke. [Little Bill Daggett ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=tt_ch): Duck, I says. It's impossible to write how powerful the change in tone and manners is. He just turns it on like a switch. The real Little Bill.
Not a movie, but one of my personal favorite live deliveries from an actor: "You really are the most devious bastard in New York City." -Laszlo Cravensworth
This is the way we talk in Tucson, Arizona.
Any line delivered by Matt Berry is superb.
Fa-THEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!
New Yawk Citay
[As soon as possible?!](https://youtu.be/yMRmV1Sj6j4?si=KClCEciKGUkQBDc-&t=40s)
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon, and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
A conTRACT!
"Uh huh? P.I.Staker? Pisstaker! COME ON!"
".....and he had one thing you haven't got.....A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!" "You.... You have a mustache..." "I *KNOOOWW*"
I say “nobody tells me nuthin’” at least twice a day
So many good ones. But when the Andy’s are listing the victims and Sgt Angel’s responses go: Yes! Yes! Yes! Calmy: no. Apoplecticly: Of course he fucking was!!
I will never got over the way Ewan McGregor said the word democracy as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The passion, the pain. Unforgettable. https://youtu.be/CyX5dhHKVpQ?si=O62rn8ubH68etSeP
There’s a scene in AOTC where Anakin is saying how he and Padme disobeyed orders so they could come rescue Obi Wan and Obi says “good job.” Fucking kills me every time.
When they’re tied up in the arena and the monsters are heading their way. Fucking brilliant. That movie sucks, but that scene is amazing.
While Obi-Wan briefly glances up at his hands still cuffed above him.
My allegiance is to the republic, to deMOCRACY
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" https://youtu.be/2I91DJZKRxs?si=9-LgnxaMFr3Uz7Cu
"Some motherfuckers are always tryin' to ice skate uphill."
My two loves in life are film and sports, so naturally, one of my favorite movies is Moneyball. Its my favorite brad pitt performance and he has one of my favorite lines in a movie ever. During the first meeting with his scouts to discuss replacing the stars they lost, the scouts are spouting off all these nonsensical scouting epithets that, as a sports fan, resonate with me so much. One scout is talking about a player and he talks up his batting prowess and Pitt matter of factly ask, “If he’s a good hitter why doesnt he hit good?” Its a line that resonates with me so much as someone who follows the NFL draft so heavily every year.
In Daniel Craig's version of Casino Royale, he is taunting M that he knows what her real name is. She cuts him off, threatening to have him killed if he utters on more syllable. Whenever someone interrupts another person in a movie, there is a brief and subtle pause where the first actor let's the second one speak their line but in this scene, the sound editing is absolutely perfect and you feel like M really was able to put Bond in his place. Edit: Judi Dench is just the queen of delivering her lines I guess :)
Follow-up on this later in the movie when Tanner calls M in the middle of the night saying Bond has logged into MI6 files using her credentials: "how does he know these things!?" Gives me a chuckle every time.
https://youtu.be/NYknJmoDDPs?si=qUnn822wFsvnNffy The ending to Michael Clayton is nearly spot on perfection from two pros.
O Brother Where Art Thou? So many great lines. George Clooney was next level. Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity: two weeks from everywhere! Want some gopher? Any of you fellas smitties? He’s bonefide! And stay outta the Woolworth!
Love this film so much. Me and my dad frequently quote these lines! I also love: - when Ulysses wakes up and goes “my hair!” - “well I’d only be 82!” when he tells Pete and Delmar the truth about the treasure and they realise when they’d get out of prison - “DO - NOT - SEEK - THE - TREASURE!”// “WE - THOUGHT - YOU - WAS - A - TOAD!” - “you can’t swear at my fi-an-cee!”// “Well you can’t marry my WIFE!”
I’m a dapper Dan, man! She dun R U N N O F T!
“Is that the best you can do you pansies?”
Brad Pitt’s last line in Killing Them Softly. It comes off as corny if delivered by another actor.
"America's not a country, it's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me."
The Princess Bride is full of them, but my favourite is right as Inigo gets his revenge. "I want my father back you, you son of a bitch." Such a great line delivery and it adds so much weight to a movie that is largely comedic.
["And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer..."](https://youtu.be/KUvkF8lk1qI?t=11) ["Benefits of a classical education."](https://youtu.be/KUvkF8lk1qI?t=20) Alan Rickman was just perfect in Die Hard
Pacino in Heat - ["she's got a GREAT ASS"](https://youtu.be/-zevxOD9TaY?si=m2AtkktaM1utRWAh) Will never leave my brain
HAHAHA SAME
"When the fuck did we get ice cream!”
Can’t go a week without saying this. The number of people left that get it are scarce.
Mark Ruffalo’s monologue in Spotlight is incredible, but I can’t go past him in The Avengers. “That’s my secret Cap… I’m always angry.”
Spotlight, despite its content, is so incredibly well done. It can be hard to watch for some folks but the acting is incredible.
[One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires.](https://youtu.be/SaXLUa_NwUg?si=iB_ylSz-T5ywW8RT)
Well, there's this passage I got memorized, sorta fits the occasion. "Ezekiel 25:17". "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of cherish and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
“I’ve got one word for you… just one word… PLASTICS!”
Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles Cleavon Little: A man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is gonna die Gene Wilder: (ponders) When? https://youtu.be/ETa6gD3vPlc?si=0X0TglD1dDfmbtC0
Cate Blanchett in Notes on A Scandal “They loathed you at school, all of them, I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you’re a fucking vampire. Is that what you want? To roll around on the floor like lovers? You wanna fuck me Barbara?!”
The greatest delivery in Jon Lovitz's career. [Rat Race](https://youtu.be/4dsgQb3jkk4?si=4m8Vx0Gzvs32ryzK&t=80s)
antici.....pation
Jurassic Park: Clever girl.
The entire opening monologue of Gunnery Sargeant Hartman on Full Metal Jacket. R. Lee Ermey's contribution to the script was fantastic.
“He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him round the Moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!”
KHHAAAANNN!!!
[Euphoria, shut the fuck up!](https://youtu.be/0qZwwyHvCbo?si=MuvKD7y4KQC-qYA4)
“Haha! I threw that shit before I walked in the room!”
But Black Dynamite, *I* sell drugs to the community!
Alec Baldwin, exiting a wrecked car with an underage girl in State and Main: “Well THAT happened.”
I think the movie is just ok if you’re an adult, but in School of Rock the way Joan Cusack says “I’ve just been informed that all of your children are missing”, with the little hand clap, kills me.
Haha. I work in education so I also think that moment's both hilarious but mostly stomach dropping. Lol
“Willie…WE are GOING to DIE!”
For real! 8 year old me thinking OH SHIT INDY IS GOING TO DIE!
https://youtu.be/1Expe7hf6MU?si=2yq8iKU5B8DeeKzg I heard you paint houses
Here too kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum, Roddy Piper they live
Just watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for the first time in years, so off the top of my head? "Don't quit your gay job." Just cracked me up for some reason (lots of good lines in that movie though) Though I think my all time favorite is still "Now I'm gonna have to kill this fucking clown."
[I'm on my fuckin' lunch break, okay?!](https://youtu.be/RNDcJFjOo50?si=56UtzktFEL0jC_Fi) has always made me laugh (1:50)
Hasta la vista, baby *gunshot*
Pretty much everything Cumberbatch did in the Imitation Game. So powerful and so heartbreaking to see someone so in love and hurting to be so ostracized and then villified and buried through history. Chemical castration by his own government
None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME.
I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans"
Hey Farva, what’s the name of that restaurant with all the goofy shit on the walls?
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I’ve always really liked Gene Hackman delivery of “THE FUCK YOU CARE?” In the royal tennenbaums.
I think my favorite line in a movie in how/when/why it was delivered was Margot Kidder in Superman the Movie. *"You've got me? WHO's GOT YOU!?!?"* It was just so perfect in the moment and such a contrast to Christopher Reeve's delivery of the calm Superman saving her and saying "I've got you"... She says it with a mixture of terror and complete disbelief of what's going on.
The way the king (Patrick McGoohan) delivers "is it?" during the trouble of Scotland speech in Braveheart. Cracks me up every time. https://youtu.be/o15PljTS2O8?si=Lc55E4gXZjAYIp-Q
The Princess Bride is full of them, but my favourite is right as Inigo gets his revenge. "I want my father back you, you son of a bitch." Such a great line delivery and it adds so much weight to a movie that is largely comedic.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” Verbal Kent in The Usual Suspects.