Favourite Lines/Conversations from TV/Movies...

[AGXStarseed]

Do you have any lines and/or conversations you like from TV or Movies? These can be ones that inspire us, ones that make us laugh, ones that make us cry, etc.
I'll throw in some that I like (make sure you put what TV/movie they're from):


Optimus Prime: "One shall stand, one shall fall".
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
(Here's one that I like just because it gets me pumped, especially considering the song "The Touch" by Stan Bush was playing and we just saw Optimus take down several Decepticons both by himself and in style.)


Lord Tarltan: "Why would we withdraw from America, when half of the Americans are loyal to the Crown?"
William Wilberforce: "Less than one in four Americans are loyal. If he calls that half, I'd hate to be his wife and share half his bed".
Amazing Grace (2006)
(I like this one because it just gets a laugh out of me; that and also because I've got a fair amount of respect for Wilberforce for what he achieved)


Mr. Toad: [in court giving his defense; to Cyril] "Are you familiar with the defendant J. Thaddeus Toad?"
Cyril Proudbottom: "Lord love a duck, yes! He's one of the jolliest chaps I've ever run across! And simply *tons* of money!"
Prosecutor: [to Cyril] "Good fellow, eh? Throws it away. BUT he wasn't throwing it away *that* day! You heard Mr. MacBadger's testify that his allowance was cut off! Then how did he get the motorcar?"
Cyril Proudbottom: "The only way a gentlemen gets anything: the *honest* way."
Prosecutor: "And what *is* the honest way?"
Cyril Proudbottom: "Ha-ha, I thought you wouldn't know that one, guv'nor."
[Everyone laughs]
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
(Another that just gets a chuckle out of me)


Wylie Burp: "Here, son. I want you to have one of these".
Fievel: "I can't. I'm not a hero like you...well, not really".
Wylie Burp: "Well, maybe not. Maybe a real hero's the last one to hear about it. But you pulled me out of a gutter...and for that I owe you some thanks.
Just remember, Fievel, one man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there...beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find...that you're the hero you've been lookin'for".
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
(This one is kinda sad because Wylie Burp is voiced by James Stewart and this was the last role he did before he died, which makes this speech all the more poignant)

 

[Gritches]

[Archer screws something up]
Lana: "Are you happy?"
Archer: "You mean like...in general?"

From the animated series "Archer", about a probably-Aspie secret agent.

 

[unreality]

Some of my favorite star wars quotes.

“You fail because you don’t believe.” — Yoda

“Patience you must have.” — Yoda

“Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda

“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” — Yoda

“[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.”

“You will find only what you bring in.” — Yoda

“May the Force be with you.” — Yoda

 

[Tom]

 

[Loren]

From the film, Chocolat

'Happiness - Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.'

'I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include.'

'I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.'

'I carried recipes in my head like maps.'

'To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...'

'The process of giving is without limits.'

'Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even it's end.'

 

[kay]

There is always this classic quote from Cool Hand Luke

Captain:[addressing prisoners]
What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Some men, you just can't reach.

So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it.

Well, he gets it.

And I don't like it anymore than you men.

 

[Isadoorian]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... "fantasies" to make life bearable?"

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

- The Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

 

[Mr Allen]

One line I do often think of, spoken by the late Leonard "Spock" Nimoy in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few... Or the one".

 

[AGXStarseed]

One line I do often think of, spoken by the late Leonard "Spock" Nimoy in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few... Or the one".

That's a classic.

 

[onlything]

Cough.

 

[Panthro]

"A problem is really an opportunity in disguise." - Ruben from Ocean's 12

 

[AGXStarseed]

(A long one, but still good)

The Doctor: You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You're not superior to people who were cruel to you. You're just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?

Bonnie: Why should we?

The Doctor: What is it that you actually want?

Bonnie: War.

The Doctor: Ah. And when this war is over, when -- when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? What'll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh, You don't actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?

Bonnie: We'll win.

Doctor: Oh, will you? Well maybe -- maybe you will win. But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keepts turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.

Bonnie: Then why are you still talking?

The Doctor: Because I'm trying to get you to see. And I'm almost there.

Bonnie: Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A 50% chance.

Kate: For us, too.

[The Doctor sighs.]

The Doctor: [Mock Gameshow Host Accent] And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be the luckiest?

Kate: This is not a game!

The Doctor: [Mock Gameshow Host Accent] No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.

Bonnie: Why are you doing this?

Kate: Yes, I'd like to know that too. You set this up -- why?

The Doctor: [Normal Voice] Because it's not a game, Kate. This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! Listen to me, listen. I just -- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind.

Bonnie: I will not change my mind.

The Doctor: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box. You could walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down.

Bonnie: No, I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go after what I've done?

The Doctor: You're all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable." Well here's the unforeseeable, I forgive you. After all you've done. I forgive you.

Bonnie: You don't understand. You will never understand.

The Doctor: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, do you call this a war, this funny little thing? This is not a war. I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine, and when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... Til it burns your hand. And you say this -- no one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will ever have to feel this pain. Not on my watch.

[Kate closes her box.]

The Doctor: Thank you. Thank you.

Kate: I'm sorry.

The Doctor: I know. I know, thank you.

[The Doctor looks back to Bonnie.]

Well?

Bonnie: It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes -- there's nothing in them. Just buttons.

The Doctor: Of course. But you know how you know that? Because you've started to think like me. It's hell, isn't it? No one should have to think like that. And no one will. Not on our watch.

[The Doctor and Bonnie stare at one another for a moment.]

The Doctor: Gotcha.

Bonnie: How can you be so sure?

The Doctor: Because you have a disadvantage, Zygella. I know that face.

Kate: Well, this is all very well, but as know the boxes are empty now. We can't forget that.

The Doctor: No, well, uh... You've said that the last 15 times.

[The Doctor uses his sunglasses, which begin pulsing.]

Bonnie: You didn't wipe my memory.

The Doctor: No. Just Kate's. Oh, and your little friends here, of course. When they wake up, they won't remember what you've done. It'll be our secret.

Bonnie: You're going to protect me?

Osgood: Well, you're one of us now, whether you like it or not.

Bonnie: I don't understand how You could just forgive me.

The Doctor: Because I've been where you have. There was another box. I was gonna press another button. I was going to wipe out all of my own kind. Man, woman, and child. I was so sure I was right.

Bonnie: What happened?

The Doctor: Same thing that happened to you. I let Clara Oswald get inside my head.

[The Doctor looks at Clara.]

The Doctor: Trust me... She doesn't leave.

Doctor Who - "The Zygon Inversion"

 

[sidd851]

From the motion picture "Awakenings".
Robin Williams as Dr. Sayer...
Dr. Sayer : [in job interview] It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms.

Dr. Sullivan : Really!

Dr. Sayer : Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done.

Dr. Kaufman : It can't.

Dr. Sayer : I know that now. I proved it.

 

[sidd851]

[Archer screws something up]
Lana: "Are you happy?"
Archer: "You mean like...in general?"

From the animated series "Archer", about a probably-Aspie secret agent.

One of the few commercial television shows worth watching.
Archer is my HERO.

 

[sidd851]

Awww...
One more...
From the live action series, "Firefly"...
Simon : Did you do anything today?

River Tam : Played with Kaylee. The sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I hate the bits, the bits that stay down and I work, I f-function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away! The sun grows dark and chaos has come again. It's... fluids. What am I?

Simon : You are my beautiful sister.

River Tam : I-I threw up on your bed.

Simon : Yep. Definitely my sister.

Edit:
It is River's soliloquy that I sought to highlight here, as rather poignant.
I dispute the word "hate", in the transcription;
I believe that what she says is:
"I ate the bits...".

 

[SusanLR]

I AM EVERYWHERE - Lucy

 

[Progster]

"In solitude there is nothing to trigger unusual behaviour" - Data from Star Trek, New Generation.

 

[Lady Penelope]

The entire Princess Bride movie

 

[AGXStarseed]

Two from Monty Python's Life of Brian - both make me laugh.

Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!
Brian: Now, F*** OFF!
[silence]
Arthur: How shall we f*** off, O Lord?
Brian: Oh, just go away! Leave me alone.

Brian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say.
The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them!
Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...
The Crowd: Sch!

 

[Gracey]

The character Andy Dufrane from The Shawshank Redemption,

“... we can get busy living or get busy dying”



A scene from the late Victoria Wood’s Dinner Ladies,

“I’m retaining water and have high blood pressure, D’you know what that gives you?”

“Boiling water?”

“Nooo, a reckless edge !”