Lines in Movies that Just Floored You

[electriclite]

Have you ever heard a line in a movie that just blew your mind or made you think differently about a subject?

To my recollection only two movies have done that:


1. Dogma
The line where Metatron explains to Bethany how he had to explain to Christ what he was destined to do in life and described how Jesus begged him to take it back. Paired up with the line that Rufus delivers about how Jesus goes from 12 to 30 in the Bible and you have two dialogues that do what 6 years of Catholic school and 10 years of Sunday masses never did: Present Christ as a human being.




2.One True Thing
When Renee Zellweger's character confronts her mother about her father's infedelity and her mother tells her "There is nothing you know about your father that I don't already know." Her entire speech after that made me look at marriage in a whole new light and scared me to death.

[jackson13]

Do you mean "floored" as in "laughs"? Cuz if so I heard one today. I watched The Good Girl today and I think Zooey Deschanel's character has become my secret hero. Her line to the fat woman at the checkout lane has become an immediate classic IMO.

Zooey: Fuck you and have a nice day.
Customer: Excuse me?
Zooey: THANK you and have a nice day.

I work at a grocery store and there have been countless number of times I've wanted to say something like that to a customer. I actually stopped the movie, rewound it, and watched that part again because it made me laugh so much.

[Dude]

"If you cant get in.... then ya cant get IN"

(Penelope Ann Miller to Pacino in Carlitos Way) Just before he busts thru her door

"Why dont ya go jerk yourself a soda"

(Annette Benning to Warren Beatty... in BUGSY)


"I like to have fun... I like a lolly pop in my mouth and a stick of butter in my ass just like the next guy" (Porn producer to Burt Reynolds in BOOGIE NIGHTS) :D

"I RULE"! (Kevin Spacey in American Beauty)

[flowrchild]

I'm pretty sure she meant lines that moved you in some way, or changed the way you thought on a topic. Not necessarily something that made you laugh.

Like the way that "Dead Man Walking" changed a lot of people's opinions about the death penalty, etc.

One random line that floored me was in Fight Club:
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

It's such a simple quote, but it kind of woke me up momentarily and made me think about how short life really is and how we don't seize enough opportunities that come our way. That quote often flies into my head when I find myself avoiding things that scare me or not doing things I want to be doing, without a valid reason. So yea, that quote was a nice wake-up smack in the face.

[ReservoirDog]

'You gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?'
-Mr Blonde

Maybe the line didn't floor me, but it's one cool line.

[bowieee]

Originally posted by flowrchild
I'm pretty sure she meant lines that moved you in some way, or changed the way you thought on a topic. Not necessarily something that made you laugh.

Like the way that "Dead Man Walking" changed a lot of people's opinions about the death penalty, etc.

One random line that floored me was in Fight Club:
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

It's such a simple quote, but it kind of woke me up momentarily and made me think about how short life really is and how we don't seize enough opportunities that come our way. That quote often flies into my head when I find myself avoiding things that scare me or not doing things I want to be doing, without a valid reason. So yea, that quote was a nice wake-up smack in the face.

Another great quote from that movie that got me thinking was :

The things you own end up owning you.

What a great line.

[Buck Turgidson]

It's not a well-thought of film (neither is it really reviled), but the whole dialogue that Soran and Picard have near the end of Star Trek: Generations, about the nature of time and it's relation to death really hit me hard. This was maybe 2 months after the death of my Grandfather and it was only the 2nd or 3rd time I had been out to have some fun since then. He was on my mind throughout the whole sequence. Soran describes time and death as hunters that are out to get you, but Picard sees them more as things that define the boundaries of life and give it meaning. It was just a combination of circumstances that put me in position to appreciate the words on that level at that moment.

[ColinM]

Ricky Fitt's in American Beauty:

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. "

[Scarface98.9]

This one's from Adaptation.

"You are what you love, not who loves you." (I think that's the correct line.)

BTW, doesn't this need to be in the Best/Worst forum?

[flowrchild]

Originally posted by Scarface98.9
This one's from Adaptation.
"You are what you love, not who loves you." (I think that's the correct line.)


Nice choice :) That's the quote in my profile. I've really liked that quote since seeing the movie.

[DareDevil]

For some sick bizare reason i heard a verry inteligent well writen line in a movie where i was suprised shitless

in Triple xXx

"Make sure you like the world they way it is before you save it"

think about it, for that movie, tha6t is a very smart line!


"I am Healed Again" --- Ending line of clockwork orange (BRILIANT!) (i thinks thats it... haha i am verry tired if its not that its verry close)

ok peace out

[electriclite]

Originally posted by DareDevil
For some sick bizare reason i heard a verry inteligent well writen line in a movie where i was suprised shitless

in Triple xXx

"Make sure you like the world they way it is before you save it"

think about it, for that movie, tha6t is a very smart line!




To somewhat quote Metatron, "Good Lord, the little stoner's got a point"

[KcMsterpce]

Maybe it's not exactly a line in the movie, but a scene that had a strong impact to me when I saw it a few years ago.
What's Love Got To Do With It, in a scene where Tina runs to a hotel and says (I forget the exact words, but it's something like this):

"I am Tina Turner. My husband and I just had a fight. I am supposed to perform at the Venue in an hour. I only have 36 cents and gas card with me right now, but if you can give me a room for tonight, I give you my word that I will pay you back."

[desperately gropes for a ring on her hand, and the manager grabs her hands]

"It would be my honor to have you here, Ms. Turner. Get this woman a room."

Maybe I'm being stupid and sappy, but that floored me when I saw it.

[Reigh Kaufman]

These are just recent-ish lines (movies from last year) that made me laugh/think.

I loved the line in In The Bedroom which those of you who have seen it will understand:

"I couldn't wait"

Such a simple line, and yet it said everything I wanted the character to say.

I also laughed out loud in A Beautiful Mind when Nash said:

*pointing to an empty chair*
"have you met my friend Harvey?"

Ah, Jimmy Stewart.

In Signs, Wah-Keen Phoenix explains why he believes in miracles.

"I could have been kissing her at that moment"

And my favourite of last year, from Monster's Ball.

Billy Bob: Yeah, I hate you. I always have.

Heath Ledger: Well, I always loved you.

NOTE: Donnie Darko's 'why are you wearing that stupid man suit?' didn't make it -- too obvious and everyone knows it'sa modern classic quote.

[freakandgeek]

Originally posted by jackson13
Do you mean "floored" as in "laughs"? Cuz if so I heard one today. I watched The Good Girl today and I think Zooey Deschanel's character has become my secret hero. Her line to the fat woman at the checkout lane has become an immediate classic IMO.

Zooey: Fuck you and have a nice day.
Customer: Excuse me?
Zooey: THANK you and have a nice day.

I work at a grocery store and there have been countless number of times I've wanted to say something like that to a customer. I actually stopped the movie, rewound it, and watched that part again because it made me laugh so much.

same here. it seemed as though every word out of zooey's mouth in that movie was hilarious......and she just does it well....

[Toby]

Originally posted by DareDevil

"I am Healed Again" --- Ending line of clockwork orange (BRILIANT!) (i thinks thats it... haha i am verry tired if its not that its verry close)


The actual line is: 'I was cured alright'.
But you were close.;)

[Annie Hall]

Overdone as it may be, the first time I heard:

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

in The Usual Suspects, I was absolutely stunned.

[Razorblade Smile]

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

[noisy_brut]

From Terminator 2 Director's Cut:

"There's not much time left in the world Sarah"

From Saving Private Ryan

(I can't remember the exact quote but it's near the end)
"Tell me I'm a good man, tell me I've lived a good life"

[notchreturns]

From TAXI DRIVER:

"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."

From GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS:

"All train compartments smell vaguely of shit. It gets so you don't mind it. That's the worst thing that I can confess. You know how long it took me to get there? A long time. When you die you're going to regret the things you don't do. You think you're queer? I'm going to tell you something: we're all queer. You think you're a thief? So what? You get befuddled by a middle-class morality? Get shut of it. Shut it out. You cheated on your wife? You did it, live with it. You fuck little girls, so be it. There's an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, then be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won't live in it. That's me. You ever take a dump made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

From JAWS:

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

[jackson13]

John Bender in the Breakfast Club:

"Screws fall out all the time; the world's an imperfect place."

[Dixiecup]

Okay, you more knowledgeable Schmoes out there in cyberworld will have to help me out with this one!

I don't remember the movie, but it was an action flick. It starred Dolph Lundgren, (who is fine as fine can be!) and he was (suprise, suprise) saving the town, planet, local Blockbuster from bad guys.

Him and another guy are in a house, and the bad guys are about to come in, guns blazing. The other guy turns to Lundgren, and for NO apparent reason, says something to the effect of, 'And by the way, I just wanted to tell you that you have the biggest dick I have ever seen on a man.' Huh? M'kay. It was a total What The Fuck?! line if ever there was one. That's the last fucking thing that would ever fly out of my mouth if I was about to get shot/pulverized/stabbed, etc.

Also, the way it was carried out, they might have as well been having an Int'l Coffee moment, talking about Jon Luke!

A writer or whomever must have inhaled some second hand crack smoke to come up with that one! I also question the actors, 'cause I wouldn't say that corny of a line unless I had a pistol at my temple! Bahahaha!

[syxxpac]

This is a good one from Sudden Impact:

(Dirty Harry talking to his boss): "You're a legend in your own mind."

[SAI]

A couple from Magnolia:

Now that you've met me would you object to never seeing me again?

This is a longer one, a conversation, but I really love it.

CLAUDIA: Did you ever go out with someone and just....lie....question after question, maybe you're trying to make yourself look cool or better than you are or whatever, or smart or cooler and you just -- not really lie, but maybe you just don't say everything

JIM: Well, that's a natural thing, two people go out on a date, something._ They want to impress people, the other person...or they're scared, maybe what they say will make the other person not like them

CLAUDIA:_So you've done it?

JIM: _Well I don't go out very much.

CLAUDIA: Why not?

JIM: I've never found someone really that I think I would like to go out with.

CLAUDIA: And I bet you say that to all the girls

JIM: No, no.

CLAUDIA: You wanna make a deal with me?

JIM: OK.

CLAUDIA: What I just said...y'know, people afraid to say things....no guts to say the things that they...that are real or something...

JIM: ...yeah...

CLAUDIA: To not do that._ To not do that that we've maybe done before


Every time I see that film I love it more.

[The Postmaster General]

MARTY: You're not going to believe it, we have to go back to 1955.

DOC: I don't believe it!

[KcMsterpce]

Originally posted by Dixiecup
Okay, you more knowledgeable Schmoes out there in cyberworld will have to help me out with this one!
... The other guy turns to Lundgren, and for NO apparent reason, says something to the effect of, 'And by the way, I just wanted to tell you that you have the biggest dick I have ever seen on a man.' ...

That was none other than Brandon Lee telling that to Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo, and it is the worst line in the movie, perhaps one of the worst lines in a movie, and I agree that it IS a WTF?!?! line if I ever heard one.

[Dixiecup]

Brandon Lee? No fuckin' way! Oh man! Okay, that get's the What The Fuck?! Award of all time!

If his daddy had been around, I sincerely doubt that line would have EVER been in it! Eeeerrgh! Thanks for sharing my opinion, and giving me that title!

[LAW]

WHOEVER OUT THERE owns a copy of "Interview with the Vampire", please post that line Lestat says to Louis in the sewer. It is so complicated sounding, but very basic in it's meaning about human nature. (it went something like, "Why then should we not be ourselves, as there are non other like God than ourselves")

[BadCoverVersion]

From "Naked"

And what is it what goes on in this postmodern gas chamber?

Nothing. It's empty.

So what is it you guard, then?

Space.

You're guarding space? That's stupid, isn't it? Because someone could break in there and steal all the fuckin' space and you wouldn't know it's gone, would you?

Good point.

[notchreturns]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
MARTY: You're not going to believe it, we have to go back to 1955.

DOC: I don't believe it!

I don't know what it is, probably Christopher Llyod's delivery, but I crack up whenever I read this line! Fuckin' hilarious!

[A.J. Hakari]

"Why can't the courtesan marry the maharahja?"
"Because she doesn't love you!"

An exchange that blew me away in MOULIN ROUGE (2001).

[Timiny]

Moulin Rouge:

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible!

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I sat down at my typewriter and wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all these things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The End.


Magnolia:There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and nobody knows; and we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."

Gattaca:You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back

American Psycho: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

[EBastard]

Originally posted by Timiny
American Psycho: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there. Here, here.
I'll try and come up with a good one later...

[BakeTheMooCow]

Originally posted by LAW
WHOEVER OUT THERE owns a copy of "Interview with the Vampire", please post that line Lestat says to Louis in the sewer. It is so complicated sounding, but very basic in it's meaning about human nature. (it went something like, "Why then should we not be ourselves, as there are non other like God than ourselves")

"Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."

For me the line was in Jerry Maguire ~ "You complete me"

[SIREN30]

I really was surprised at that line in Reign of Fire where all the Brits are celebrating and Matthew McConoughey says " Envy the country w/ heroes, right? Well, I say pity the country that needs heroes!"

It just kind of surprised me beause it was so cold.

This line, though, is probably the 'blow me away' line of the century:

From the Manchurian Candidate. Angela Lansbury to her son, Lawrence Harvey (those of you who have seen this movie know how chilling this was)

"..you must believe me when I say I did not know it would be you...and when I am in power I will pull them down and grind them into DUST for what they did to you."

[noisy_brut]

All men die, not all men really live. - Braveheart

[JCR]

The opening of Plan 9 from outer space- "future events such as these will affect us in the future". Brilliant and so profound :D

[Grebdron]

Oskar Schindler: This car. Why did I keep the car? Amon would've bought this car. 10 people right there. This pin, 2 people, This is gold! 2 people he could've given me 2 people at least one. One person. One person who is dead. One person I could've gotten out and I didn't!!

[inglourious basterd]

A movie that blew me away was Ghost World.

the one line in that film that touched me was uttered by Enid (Thora Birch) to a romantically frustrated Seymour (Steve Buscemi)

Seymour: Why are you helping me?
Enid: Because I can't live in a world where a guy like you can't get a date.

In the context of the film that line plagued my mind.

[The Postmaster General]

From WITHNAIL AND I -

something like:

Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.


I use that line all the time.

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
From WITHNAIL AND I -

something like:

Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.


I use that line all the time.

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right...

I luuuurve that line...

[Bullitt]

I know, another Fight Club quote, but this one is probably my favourite. "We're a generation of men raised by women, I wondering if another woman is really the answer we need."

[free]

Probably the line in Event Horizon:


"We're going back..."
"To Hell, i know"
"You know nothing. Hell is only a word...the reality is much, much worse."

[Dogma]

Daniel Day-Lewis's line in Gangs of New York

I don't give a tuppeny fuck you meatheaded shit sack

[Jim H]

Some of the lines in 8MM... Nicolas Cage's "Save me", the confessions when he unmasks the one bad guy...

There are other movies that have lines for me.. But I can't think of them right now. I'll add later.

[Erin123]

Here are some of my favourite quotes from City of Angels

1. "When they ask me what I liked best, I'll say it was you."

2. "You knew there would always be a spring, as you knew the Seine would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring it was as though a young person had died for no reason."

3. "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One."

4. What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?


Now we can all let out a collective "awwwww" :)

[Jim H]

Another line I like "Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'" from Shawshank Redemption. Best of all actually, is the whole closing monologue from Red about hope. It was powerful in the book, and even more powerful in the movie. BTW, the wording is identical.

I thought City of Angels had some great moments, but as a whole I was disappointed.


***SPOILERS***




It's been said many times before, but Meg Ryan has like the lamest death imaginable.

[Erin123]

LOL Jim H...

I too thought Meg Ryan's death was rather pitiful :)

But, in general I enjoyed City of Angels...mainly for its plot...and definetely not for Meg Ryan :)

Still...some nice sappy pap quotes :P