Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Zombieland, 2009 (dir. Ruben Fleischer)
Bill Murray: Is that you say hello where you come from?
Columbus: Oh, my God. Oh, my God, I can’t believe I shot Bill Murray.
Tallahassee: Mr. Murray?
Bill Murray: I’m just Bill, I think, now.
Tallahassee: Bill?
Bill Murray: Yeah?
Tallahassee: I don’t think we’re gonna be able to stitch this.
Bill Murray: Ah. That’s still tender.
Tallahassee: You think you might pull through?
Bill Murray: No.
Columbus: If it means anything now, I am so sorry. It was just instinctive.
Bill Murray: It was my bad. I was never a very good practical joker.
Little Rock: So do you have any regrets?
Bill Murray: “Garfield,” maybe.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sleeper, 1973 (dir. Woody Allen)
Luna Schlosser: It’s hard to believe that you haven’t had sex for 200 years.
Miles Monroe: 204, if you count my marriage.
Movie Quote of the Day – Forces of Nature, 1999 (dir. Bronwen Hughes)
Ben: You will be here when I come back, won’t you ?
Sarah: Oh, well, you know me.
Ben: I would not presume. [ Exhales ] All right. Wish me luck.
Sarah: Ben, do me a favor and just forget about luck, okay? Forget about loyalty, forget about being nice, forget about polite, okay? Because this is the rest of your life and possibly somebody else’s too.
Ben: Yeah.
Sarah: You know?
Ben: Yeah.
Sarah: Just be honest.
Ben: If her father happens to shoot me on my way out, I guess I’ll see you in heaven.
Sarah: Yeah. I don’t think I deserve heaven.
Ben: Ah, Sarah. You deserve so much more than you think. You deserve to be with somebody who will be really, really depressed if your plane goes down.
Reconsidering Rom-Coms
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Movie Quote of the Day – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, 1992 (dir. Roger Spottiswoode)
Tutti Bomowski: What did I always tell you? Breakfast is a big boy’s most important meal of the day. Now, start on these Cocoa Puffs, and I’ll scramble you some eggs.
Joe Bomowski: Mom, I don’t like eggs.
Tutti Bomowski: If you don’t eat them now, they’ll be waiting here for you at dinner.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Wedding Planner, 2001 (dir. Adam Shankman)
Steve: You ever think about that night in the park?
Mary: What?
Steve: I barely know you. I don’t know your dad’s first name. I don’t know if you ever wore braces or contacts or glasses. I have no idea how you came to be a wedding planner, Mary. . . But I know the curves of your face and I know every fleck of gold in your eyes. And I know that that night in the park was the best time I’ve ever had. P-p-please say something.
Mary: I’m a magnet for unavailable men. . .and I’m sick of it. It’s simple. I know Fran. I respect her. And she loves you. So, besides your tux measurements, that’s all I need to know. Please go away.
Steve: Good night, Mary.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Master, 2012 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lancaster Dodd: There’s nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?
John More: I’m sorry you’re unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational. . .
Lancaster Dodd: If, if you, if you, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG FUCK? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don’t mind, a good night to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Light Sleeper, 1992 (dir. Paul Schrader)
Ann: Well, that took you long enough. What’d you do, douche while you were at it?
John: Ann, you’ve got some mouth on ya.
Ann: You don’t wanna know where it’s been.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dirty Girl, 2011 (dir. Abe Sylvia)
Danielle: Name?
Clarke: I don’t know.
Danielle: How about “Joan”, like Joan Jett.
Clarke: Or Crawford. That’s nice.
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