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Judge Maurice Cobbs' Top 100 Movie Lines List 100: "Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody's responsible." -- Detective, Plan 9 From Outer Space 99: "Let off some steam, Bennett." -- Matrix, Commando 98: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria." -- Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters 97: "Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." -- George McFly, Back to the Future 96: "Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now." -- Major John Reisman, The Dirty Dozen 95: "It doesn't matter how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose. And even that doesn't make all that much difference." -- Coach Finstock, Teen Wolf 94: "Every duck has his limit, and you scum have pushed me over the line!" -- Howard the Duck, Howard the Duck 93: "Nice tuxedo. Nice tuxedo to die in!" -- Head Pin Pal, Six-String Samurai 92: "There is no way, no way that you came from my loins. The first thing I'm gonna do when I get home is punch your momma in the mouth." -- Sheriff Buford T. Justice, Smokey and the Bandit 91: "Oh, l'amour, l'amour, how it can let you down." -- Countess DeLave, The Women 90: "In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention." -- Waldo Lydecker, Laura 89: Helga Brandt: "I've got you now." 88: "Life's a bitch, and she's back in heat!" -- Nada, They Live 87: "Piss on you, I'm working for Mel Brooks!" -- Taggart, Blazing Saddles 86: "I've finally found someone I can love - a good, clean love... without utensils." -- Lt. Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun 85: "Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!" -- Louis Tully, Ghostbusters 84: "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, sire!" -- Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood 83: "Luck favors the prepared." -- Edna Mode, The Incredibles 82: "This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again." -- Enid, Ghost World 81: "Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away." -- Renee Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark 80: "That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous." -- John D. Hackensacker III, The Palm Beach Story 79: "Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos." -- Lily Vautier, Trouble In Paradise 78: "How big a chump can you get to be? I was finding out." -- Jeff Bailey, Out of the Past 77: "Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gunfight." -- Jimmy Malone, The Untouchables 76: "Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there." -- Nicodemus, The Secret of N.I.M.H. 75: "No. No, Shaughnessy was a jockey from Caliente. Five foot three. Once over the border, I went to a judge. I said, a woman wants a man, not a radiator cap! Divorce granted, fifty dollars." -- Anita Dixon, Hold Back the Dawn 74: "One last step. And then when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me." -- Mrs. Iselin, The Manchurian Candidate 73: "She offered me free love. At the time, that was all I could afford." -- Alec Lemas, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 72: "Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!" -- Batman, Batman: The Movie 71: "Thanks for the tip. But when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off." -- Crystal Allen, The Women 70: "You are a sad, strange, little man. You have my pity. Farewell. " -- Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story 69: "It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms." -- Louis Mazzini, Kind Hearts and Coronets 68: "I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job." -- Capt. Dudley Smith, L.A. Confidential 67: "Repeat after me: I am not a pleasure unit." -- Derek Flint, Our Man Flint 66: "God, how I hate the twentieth century." -- Gen. George S. Patton, Patton 65: "Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter, does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn f*****g thing you've done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is going to change that." -- The Bride, Kill Bill vol. 1 64: "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked, and I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place." -- Jefferson Smith, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 63: "I am Godzilla! You are Japan!" -- Critical Bill, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead 62: "So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb." -- Capt. Quint, Jaws 61: "Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds." -- Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters 60: "Dead or alive, you're coming with me." -- Robocop, Robocop 59: "You can't do this to me, I'm an American!" -- Marion Ravenwood, Raiders of the Lost Ark 58: "Laugh while you can, monkey-boy." -- Lord John Whorfin, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 57: "When your opponent's sittin' there holding all aces, there's only one thing left to do: Kick over the table." -- Little John, Robin and the Seven Hoods 56: "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -- John Bernard Books, The Shootist 55: "You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that?" -- Jimmy Malone, The Untouchables 54: "Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future. " -- Criswell, Plan 9 From Outer Space 53: "You have a wonderful sense of humor. I wish I had a sense of humor, but I can never think of the right thing to say until everybody's gone home." Irene Bullock, My Man Godfrey 52: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -- Nada, They Live 51: "Go, you Huskies!" -- Various characters, State and Main 50: "Let's shoot this f****r!" -- Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood 49: "Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it." -- Reagan MacNeil, The Exorcist 48: "Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am." -- Biff Grimes, The Strawberry Blonde 47: "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!'" --Vizzini, The Princess Bride 46: "Nothing like a good piece of hickory!" -- Preacher, Pale Rider 45: "Come back to me." -- Elise McKenna, Somewhere In Time 44: "I don't believe in the 'no-win' scenario." -- Capt. James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 43: "I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom." -- Waldo Lydecker, Laura 42: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." -- Bennett Marco, The Manchurian Candidate 41: "I've got a bad feeling about this." -- Various characters, Star Wars Saga 40: "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious s**t.: -- Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, Back to the Future 39: "Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me." -- Joseph T. Wladislaw, The Dirty Dozen 38: "You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare -- with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period!" -- Col. Trautman, First Blood 37: "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." -- Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark 36: "I'm gonna barbecue your ass in molasses!" -- Sheriff Buford T. Justice, Smokey and the Bandit 35: "Who's scruffy-looking?" -- Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back 34: "I ain't never seen nobody from Texas I couldn't shade." -- Rooster Cogburn, True Grit 33: "Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and your going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it." -- Herman Blume, Rushmore 32: "You should be kissed - and often, and by someone who knows how." -- Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind 31: "Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me." -- Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey 30: "I never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride." -- Verna, Miller's Crossing 29: "All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." -- Alexander Bullock, My Man Godfrey 28: "Why don't you stop being a mummy for a few minutes and come to life? Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a mummy if you had any fun getting that way." -- Marion Kerby, Topper 27: "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" -- Auntie Mame, Auntie Mame 26: "You have no idea what a long-legged woman can do without doing anything." -- Gerry Jeffers, The Palm Beach Story 25: "There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society, outside of a kennel." -- Crystal allen, The Women 24: "Your general appearance is not distasteful." -- Ninotchka, Ninotchka 23: "Professional assassination. It's the highest form of public service." -- Chiun, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins 22: "Tip, tip, tip, tip, tip." -- Animala, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra 21: ""Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did." -- Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup 20: "Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- Gen. George S. Patton, Patton 19: "You like money. You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart." -- Johnny Clay, The Killing 18: "I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." - J.J. Hunsecker, Sweet Smell of Success 17: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." -- Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind 16: "Klaatu barada nikto." -- Klaatu, The Day The Earth Stood Still 15: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." -- Conan, Conan the Barbarian 14: "Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape!" -- George Taylor, Planet of the Apes 13: "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." -- Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers 12: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride 11: "I know." -- Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back 10: "This is my boomstick!" -- Ash, Army of Darkness 9: "I don't know. I'm making this up as I go." -- Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark 8: "Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. With martial valor, if one becomes like a revengeful ghost and shows great determination, though his head is cut off, he should not die." -- Ghost Dog, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 7: "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey 6: "Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr. Bond. It may be your last." -- Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger 5: "Son of Jor-El... Kneel before Zod!" -- General Zod, Superman II 4: "Gozer the Gozerian? Good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension." -- Dr. Ray Stantz, Ghostbusters 3: "Apology accepted, Captain Needa." -- Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back 2: "The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face -- you'll know what to do." -- Gen. George S. Patton, Patton 1: "You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!" -- Eros, Plan 9 From Outer Space |
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