Monthly Archives: June 2014
Movie Quote of the Day – Three Men and a Baby, 1987 (dir. Leonard Nimoy)
Michael: How can something so small create so much of something so disgusting?
Peter: Beats the shit out of me.
Movie Quote of the Day is Four Years Old!
Another year passes, another celebration of this feature! I was looking back at the post celebrating the feature’s third anniversary and noticed I summed up all the changes that happened in those years, so I think I will do that again. When I started this feature, I was living in the back of my parents’ house watching TCM 16 hours a day, then I lived in San Francisco for two years where I was working towards an MFA in film production/screenwriting, working at a handful of theaters and haunting seat M107 at the Castro Theatre, last year I had just moved to North Hollywood and was working at the Warner Archive Collection and finishing my MFA online, now I have graduated (did so in December!), am working at Rotten Tomatoes and struggle to actually have the time to watch a movie every day. So many changes! But Movie Quote of the Day stays strong and I’ll keep updating the feature for years to come if I can help it! After the cut I have all of this year’s quotes, but if you want to see every single Movie Quote of the Day you can do so here.
Movie Quote of the Day – La grande bellezza, 2013 (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Jep Gambardella: We’re all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little. . .Don’t you agree?
Movie Quote of the Day – History of the World: Part I, 1981 (dir. Mel Brooks)
Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a *bullshit* artist!
Comicus: [grumbles]
Dole Office Clerk: Did you bullshit last week?
Comicus: No.
Dole Office Clerk: Did you *try* to bullshit last week?
Comicus: Yes!
Female Filmmaker Friday: Used People, 1992 (dir. Beeban Kidron)
I had never heard of this movie until I started working at Warner Archive Collection last year and when I saw that they had a movie with Marcello Mastroianni in it, I just had to watch it. I finally got around to watching it earlier this week and discovered that it was in fact directed by a woman (Kidron also directed To Wong Foo among other things). I’m glad I waited so long to watch it because I’ve learned a lot in the last few months from things I’ve read and conversations I’ve had with women and I think I wouldn’t have appreciated this movie as much if I had watched it earlier.
Movie Quote of the Day – Trois couleurs: Rouge, 1994 (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
The Judge: Leave. It’s your destiny. You can’t live your brother’s life for him.
Valentine: I love him. If only I could help.
The Judge: You can. Be.
Valentine: What do you mean?
The Judge: That’s all: be.
Movie Quote of the Day – Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Lillian Gorfein: This is not our cat!
Llewyn Davis: What? Of course that’s your cat!
Mitch Gorfein: Oh, my God.
Lillian Gorfein: It’s not even male. Where’s its scrotum, Llewyn?
Llewyn Davis: Wha. .. it’s. . .
Lillian Gorfein: Where’s its scrotum?!
Movie Quote of the Day – Used People, 1992 (dir. Beeban Kidron)
Pearl Berman: You want me to say that everything is my fault. I’m not gonna do it. You think I was mean to you when you were a kid? You think I didn’t do enough for you? Well, I’m sorry, but I had a couple of other things on my mind, you know? Like a Depression, a war, and your father – God bless him – sleepwalking through your whole childhood. God forbid I should know myself the way you know yourself, that I should ask myself those questions. Like what happened to my life? Did I deserve more? Did I ever for one second get as much as I gave? God forbid I should ask those questions, because if I looked inside myself and I really saw what I shut out my whole life, what I really missed, there’d come from out of me such a rage it would blow this building apart, and it would blow you into a million little pieces and it would blow Queens off of the face of the goddamned map!
Movie Quote of the Day – Too Much, Too Soon, 1958 (dir. Art Napoleon)
Vincent Bryant: Diana, you’ve just got to grow up.
Diana Barrymore: Alright. Maybe I will. While you’re gone, maybe I will.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mississippi Burning, 1988 (dir. Alan Parker)
Mrs. Pell: It’s ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Have you any idea what it’s like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn’t something you’re born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation what’s said in the Bible. . .Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it. . .you breathe it. You marry it.
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