Movie quote meme

[pat]

Grabbed from griffen:

Pick 20 movies that you love. Pick one (or a few) of your favorite lines from each and post them in your LJ. As people guess, strike out the ones that have been guessed correctly.

Extra points if you can tell who said it, and more bonus points if you can tell me why it's on my list. Have fun!

[Edit: Yes, I know a lot of these quotes were easy. I picked movies I loved, and I for the most part, I picked my favorite lines, even though I could have picked other, more obscure ones. And I note no one is trying to gues who said the lines -- why not? ]

1.We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918. Casablanca soaring_phoenix

2. A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms. Those are the only terms any man knows, his own. Citizen Kane soaring_phoenix

3. Noah was a drunk. Look what he accomplished. And no one's even asking you to build an ark. Dogma brian1789

4. It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. Raiders of the Lost Ark soaring_phoenix

5.Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore! Singin' In the Rain juliansinger

6. "She seemed so solemn and cross. " "Never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint." Mary Poppins brian1789

7. Aristotle was not Belgian, the central principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself", and the London Underground is not a political movement. A Fish Called Wanda soaring_phoenix, griffen

8. The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly. My Fair Lady juliansinger

9. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic. Chicago soaring_phoenix, griffen

10. I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that. Shakespeare in Love soaring_phoenix

11. It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. The Blues Brothers soaring_phoenix

12. You may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. Moulin Rouge phinnia

13. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. Finding Nemo phinnia

14. To wives and sweethearts... May they never meet. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World xiphias

15. It... It 'twas... soap poisoning! A Christmas Story soaring_phoenix

16. "He can fly!" "He can fly!" "He can fly!" "He can TALK!" Shrek xipihias

17. Sweet? Where do you get off? Where do you get sweet? I am dark and mysterious, and I am PISSED OFF!

18. You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental. Vertigo soaring_phoenix

19. We would not seek a battle as we are, yet as we are, we say we will not shun it. Henry V phinnia

20. I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm. Return of the King soaring_pheonix


Bonus, from a movie I really loved this year (and there were several):

21. I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs. Rent griffen

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

1 is Casablanca.

2 is Citizen Kane.

4 I think is Raiders of the Lost Ark.

7 is A Fish Called Wanda.

9 is Chicago

10 is Shakespear in Love.

11 is The Blues Brothers.

15 is A Christmas Story.

18 is Vertigo.

20 is Return of the King.

Several of the others are driving me nuts, because I know the line but I can't place them. And I think we'd have fun watching movies together, because so many of these are my favorites, too!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Very good! And yes, I think we would have fun watching movies together. : )

[griffen.livejournal.com]

#7 is from A Fish Called Wanda.

#9 is from Chicago.

#21 is from RENT!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling you'd get Rent. : ) That quote is not from my favorite song (which would be "La Vie Boheme," although I love "Another Day" and "Tango Maureen" as well -- heck, I love all the songs), and it is my second favorite line from the movie. My very favorite line "The opposite of war isn't peace -- it's creation" I posted in my LJ about a week back, so I decided not to use it.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Soaring Phoenix got a lot of the ones I was gonna say.

But #5 is Singin' in the Rain. And #8 is My Fair Lady.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yes!! Both of those were driving me nuts, because I could almost hear them being said, but not enough to recognize the voice :-)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess that #13 is 'Finding Nemo' and #12 is 'Moulin Rouge' despite never having seen either.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I can see getting Finding Nemo without having seen it, but Moulin Rouge? very good!

I think you'd like both movies, by the way.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I have Moulin Rouge out from GreenCine and was actually going to watch it tomorrow, oddly enough. :-D But I love Toulouse-Lautrec.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Also, I am pretty sure you've seen 19, and possibly recently.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I will take a flying leap and say it's 'Henry V'. :-D

Yes, It was Henry V

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Didn't you see this for your Shakespeare in Film class? : ) I am assuming you saw the Kenneth Branagh version -- although I am also sure that the same line would have been in the Lawrene Olivier version.

Re: Yes, It was Henry V

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

It was the Branagh version. But unfortunately I think I missed that line; Shakespearian movies and small children don't go together well, and we only watched a clip in class. :-D

Re: Yes, It was Henry V

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

What the little one wasn't absolutely enthralled by the men on horses whacking each other? : )

Re: Yes, It was Henry V

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's totally uninterested in television and candy. I consider this kind of thing payback for having the speech delay thing to deal with. :-D

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Besides the ones already noted, 14 is "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World," and 16 is "Shrek". And the reason you love all the movies named so far is that they're frickin' awesome movies.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got "Shrek." Although I liked the opening, that scene was the first indication I had that I was going to love the movie.

And yes, I think they're all awesome movies, even the three people haven't gotten so far.

[bdot.livejournal.com]

mva knew the rent quote! she loves the music, but has never seen the play or the movie. she has every line of every song memorized! i tried to go see it in the theater with her, but by the time we got around t it, it was only playng in one theater in all of the oakland area and only one theater in SF! it should be out on DVD soon.. i hope!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

6. is from Mary Poppins (referring to the previous nanny)...

3. is from Dogma, I think...

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

17 is from Almost Famous.