Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, 1985 (dir. Tim Burton)
Pee-wee: There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand.
Dottie: I don’t understand.
Pee-wee: You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
Movie Quote of the Day – Short Circuit, 1986 (dir. John Badham)
Newton Crosby: You rewired all your switches. No wonder you’re malfunctioning.
Number 5: Switches are my switches. Life not malfunction. Not malfunction. I am alive.
Newton Crosby: No, you’re not! You can’t be. There’s gotta be another explanation.
Number 5: Okay! What? [beat] Sorry, time’s up.
Newton Crosby: Wait a minute, I’m thinking. Could be any number of mechanical possibilities. Entrance of moisture into the system. Heat expansion.
Number 5: Try again.
Newton Crosby: Vibration damage.
Number 5: No way Jose. I’m fit as a fiddle.
Newton Crosby: Okay. Then why did you ignore your programming?
Number 5: Programming says “Destroy”. Is disassemble. Make dead. Number Five cannot.
Newton Crosby: Why? Why cannot?
Number 5: Is wrong. Incorrect. Newton Crosby, PhD, not know this?
Newton Crosby: Of course I know it’s wrong to kill, but who told you?
Number 5: I told me.
Movie Quote of the Day – What A Way To Go!, 1964 (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
Louisa May Foster: And in all the fourteen years, you’ve never wanted to play anywhere else?
Pinky Benson: Oh, you mean the big time? Boy, why does everybody seem to think you have to want to play the big time? Why? You get to the top of the ladder and you’re a slave to your fans; you’ve got no life of your own. Then you’ve got to start worrying about staying up there. Oh, no. Not for me. I’m happy doing what I’m doing.
Movie Quote of the Day – Unfaithful, 2002 (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Paul: Your eyes are amazing. You should never shut them, not even at night. You should learn to sleep with your eyes open.
Connie Sumner: I’ll work on that.
Paul: Will you?
Connie Sumner: I think this is a mistake.
Paul: There are no mistakes. There’s what you do, and what you don’t do.
Connie Sumner: I can’t do this.
Regis Philbin Set To Be TCM’s September Guest Programmer
Regis Philbin will be TCM’s Guest Programer for September. His four picks will air on Tuesday, Sept. 4, beginning at 8 p.m. I loved three of the four films he chose. Can you guess which won I don’t like?
His picks are after the cut.
Movie Quote of the Day – Straight To Hell, 1987 (dir. Alex Cox)
Simms: A gun is just a tool; ain’t no better or no worse than the man that uses it.
Leticia: Just like shoes.
Simms: Yeah. [beat] Did you see the World Cup?
Leticia: That suit you’re wearing, it’s got a hole in the sleeve. Don’t you ever change your clothes?
Simms: The desert’s beautiful at night. Beautiful, but lonely.
Leticia: I like my coffee black on Sunday mornings. Black and strong.
Simms: Some people don’t believe in God.
Leticia: Elvis is king.
Oscar Vault Monday – State Fair, 1933 (dir. Henry King)
This is a film I saw for the first time last summer because I had fallen in love with Lew Ayres and tried to watch everything he had ever been in. Which reminders me, don’t forget to pre-order Lew Ayres: Hollywood’s Conscientious Objector on Amazon. I wrote the foreword and y’all are gonna love it. Anyways, I love this movie. I saw the musical version first and as much as I love Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine’s amazing Technicolor red hair, I prefer this early version. It’s directed by Henry King, who also directed the 1925 silent version of Stella Dallas, a film I recently saw at the SF Silent Film Festival and also find superior to the later version. I see a pattern forming. I would be lying if I didn’t say after the cut you are in for A LOT of screencaps of Lew Ayres. But like I said earlier, you’ll love it. State Fair was nominated for two Academy Awards, though it didn’t win any: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were 42nd Street, A Farewell To Arms, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Lady For A Day, Little Women, The Private Life of Henry VIII, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin’ Through and winner Cavalcade.
Movie Quote of the Day – Enchanted, 2007 (dir. Kevin Lima)
Giselle: Nobody has been very nice to me.
Robert: Yeah, well, welcome to New York.
Giselle: Thank you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Trek: First Contact, 1996 (dir. Jonathan Frakes)
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race. . .and you’re here to stop them?
Cmdr. William Riker: That’s right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Hot damn! You’re heroic. Ahahaha.
Movie Quote of the Day – Road House, 1989 (dir. Rowdy Herrington)
Steve: Being called a cocksucker isn’t personal?
Dalton: No. It’s two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.
Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?
Dalton: Is she?
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