Movie Quotes in Everyday Life

[pistachioofliberty]

I use lots of lines from Scorsese's After Hours all the time:

Do you like The Monkees?
I'll probably get blamed for that.
There are certain things I simply will not do.
Do you like my hair, Paul? Would you like to touch it?
Take it off. Come on... you wanna look nice for your big date, don't you?
May I enter?
I'm just a word processor for God's sake!!
It's not boring.
Whoa!!!! What does a guy have to DO to get his FACE pummeled!?
Mohawk him!
You read my mind.

[kafka]

shanmac said:

"Mommie Dearest" used to be a family favorite in our house. My sister gets really irritated with me whenever I hear her bossing her husband around (which is often), because I'll shout "CHRISTINA! BRING ME (insert object here)!!" a la the "bring me an axe" scene. She's also obsessed with cleanliness, so "We'll clean it together!" is used frequently, and of course, "No wire hangers!"

Heh. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who goes about muttering about "NO Wire hangers." Or chanelling Joan Crawford.

In her defense, she truly was a brilliant business woman but, OTOH, how the hell can you defend "NO WIRE HANGERS! EVER!"?

Um... sorrry, I've had that line running through my head for days and I just needed to vent.

Dwanalloh, are you really part of the Mommie Dearest Club if you don't have your sig. line quoting her? IMO, the Queen of Foof is obliged to have Joan Crawford in her siggie.

[mirwebb]

gemstone said:

My problem with quoting movies is that I'm always quoting small things that, while they aren't overly funny, I find hysterical.

We do this too--especially with television, but I won't get into my Futurama obsession here.

And every time--every time--one of us says, "I thought you was innocent of those charges," the other immediately responds, "Well I was lyin'," from O Brother, Where Art Thou? Actually, come to think of it, we practically use that movie for all our conversations. "What's goin' on, Big Dan?" is now standard (or "Little Dan," if I'm talking to the dog), as is "That's...all...I got" and "Gopher?"

Also, we watched Intolerable Cruelty again a couple of months ago, and since then, whenever we go out to eat, one of us inevitably says, "Why are we eating here?" For some reason, that just cracked us up beyond all reason. (That guy, though, just makes that movie. We have no earthly reason to go around saying, "Everybody eats berries," but we do.)

[dwanollah]

Dwanalloh, are you really part of the Mommie Dearest Club if you don't have your sig. line quoting her? IMO, the Queen of Foof is obliged to have Joan Crawford in her siggie.

Goddess, dear. GODDESS of Foof! ;D And I've had Mommie Dearest and Showgirls quotes in my sig in the past. May be time to revive some, huh?

[Shanmac]

The recent passing of Darren McGavin (RIP) reminds me of some classics used frequently in my house:

When the dog does something insane: "Bumpuses! Sons a' b****es!" For years, my parents' dog has been known as "Bumpus hound."

When you're at a loss for words: "Not a fingah!"

When I'm trying to sound cultured: "Fra-gee-lay. Must be Italian."

[hobocamp]

Yesterday I had a gaggle of young girls come to my door and ask me to come to their church. I said no, very nicely, and one girl said, "Well then, can I ask you something? When you die, do you think you're going to go to heaven?"

I responded, a la Juliette in Heavenly Creatures, in a posh British accent, "Daddy says heaven is a load of bunkum. When I die, I'm going to the FOURTH WORLD. It's sort of like heaven, but there aren't any Christians!" Then I smiled wickedly and shut the door. I'm sure I'll be known as the neighborhood wacko at their church now. But it was worth it.

[india7]

shanmac said:

My boyfriend gets hysterical/really freaked out by the littlest thing, so I'll hear him gasp or exclaim from the other room and I'll mock him by shouting, "Aaaah! I've pierced the toast!" Oh, "The Birdcage," I love you.

Omigod, that's hilarious! I'm gonna have to borrow that the next time I'm around someone getting freaked out by some unimportant thing!

My favorite Birdcage line is whenever something is going completely wrong, I'll quote Robin Williams' line, "It's like riding a psychotic horse towards a burning stable!"

And Mommie Dearest lines never get old!

[scarlet]

"NO WIRE HANGERS...EVER!" is a staple. How can you not say it?

I also have the very odd habit of, whenever flying, turning to the person next to me and saying "There's a man on the wing of this plane!," with the same terror in my voice as John Lithgow used in The Twilight Zone. Of course, I only do this when the person next to me is actually *with* me. To say it to a complete stranger? Well, that's just crazy talk!

[franticjoy]

softtissue, my friends and I answer the phone "Hello Pickle!" from Shaun of the Dead too. Whenever one of us is freaking out, we also do the silent flail/scream that Shaun does when that one zombie comes into the living room. And when we're asking if anybody wants something to drink or eat, of course it's, "Would...anybody like...a peanut?"

And of course, when we're talking about someone stupid, "Just look at the face: it's vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet."

Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Emperor's New Groove are all frequently quoted, as well. "Aaaahh, Llama Face!" is a good one from the latter, as is "No touchy!" and "Why do we even HAVE that lever?" and "I know. It's called 'cruel irony'. Much like my dependence on you."

Man, I could quote all day.

[Ripley]

I love Shaun of the Dead. It isn't so much a movie quote, but a movie scene: When I am in a meeting or having a professional conversation with somebody who is irritating the sh*t out of me, I play that scene where Shaun and his friend beat up the zombie with a cricket bat. I imagine I am doing that to the person who is annoying me, and I can keep a mysterious smile on my face while envisioning a horrible fate.

Just more proof that movie violence prevents real world violence.