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Movie Quote of the Day – Happy-Go-Lucky, 2008 (dir. Mike Leigh)
Poppy: Nobody’s called me Pauline since I was two years old. Makes me laugh.
Scott: What am I supposed to call you?
Poppy: Oh how ’bout, Poppy?
Scott: Poppy?
Poppy: Yeah. No, whatever turns you on Scott, I don’t mind.
Movie Quote of the Day – Magnificent Obsession, 1954 (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Dr. Bob Merrick: Starting tomorrow, we’ll never be apart.
Helen Phillips: Tomorrow, tomorrow, oh tomorrow.
Movie Quote of the Day – Serpico, 1973 (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Frank Serpico: You’re pretty fuckin’ weird for a cop.
Bob Blair: Me? You! What about you, buddy? You! You’re the weird guy.
Frank Serpico: Me?
Bob Blair: You’re a fuckin’ hippie. [beat] It’s beautiful, though. The two of us.
Movie Quote of the Day – Some Came Running, 1958 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Ginnie Moorehead: Dave, oh Dave, be in love with me. Oh, I love you so much. I never met anybody like you before in my whole life. I want to love you so awful, awful much.
Dave Hirsh: Don’t cry, Ginnie, don’t cry. I’m sorry if I hurt you. Forgive me, I didn’t mean it. I’m terribly sorry.
Ginnie Moorehead: You know, I’d do anything for you, Dave. I’d do anything, ask me!
Movie Quote of the Day – Husbands and Wives, 1992 (dir. Woody Allen)
Michael: I’m over-anxious because I like you a lot.
Sally: Oh, dear. Michael, what can I say? I haven’t made love in such a long time. My marriage, I told you, was dead. For years. I don’t know why. Yes, I do. It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That’s my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.
From The Warner Archive: Westward The Women, 1951 (dir. William A. Wellman)
Now available from the Warner Archive, William A. Wellman’s western drama Westward The Women is not only an impressive feat in cinematic storytelling, but also features one of the best ensembles of women in the classical Hollywood era. I’m really quite surprised this film isn’t more highly regarded than it is. It definitely packs the kind of shocking punch you come to expect from a Bill Wellman picture. In fact, it almost feels like some of his pre-code films and contains some elements that I found rather shocking in a film from 1951.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cry-Baby, 1990 (dir. John Waters)
Allison: Oh, Cry-Baby, your fingers feel so good!
Cry-Baby: I’ve been saving it up for a girl like you, honey.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rabbit Hole, 2010 (dir. John Cameron Mitchell)
Becca: Does it ever go away?
Nat: No, I don’t think it does. Not for me, it hasn’t – has gone on for eleven years. But it changes though.
Becca: How?
Nat: I don’t know. . .the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and. . .carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you. . .you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and – there it is. Oh right, that. Which could be awful – not all the time. It’s kinda. . .not that you’d like it exactly, but it’s what you’ve got instead of your son. So, you carry it around. And uh. . .it doesn’t go away. Which is. . .
Becca: Which is what?
Nat: Fine, actually.
Movie Quote of the Day – What’s Up, Doc?, 1972 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Judy: I believe you dropped something.
Howard: What do you think you are doing?
Judy: I think I’m taking a bath, aren’t I?
Howard: If you’re not out of here in two minutes, I’m calling the police.
Judy: Who do you think they’ll arrest? The girl in the tub or the guy with his pants down?
Howard: I am not joking now. I do not like to act rashly, but you are the last straw that breaks my camel’s back, you are the plague, you bring havoc and chaos to everyone, but why to me? Why me? Why?
Judy: Because you look cute in your pyjamas, Steve.
Howard: GET OUT!
Judy: Right now?
Howard: YES!
[Judy starts to get out the bath]
Howard: No! Wait a minute!
Movie Quote of the Day – Double Jeopardy, 1999 (dir. Bruce Beresford)
Handsome Internet Expert: Now maybe when this thing has finished its searching, we could go to this, uh, this neat little bar I know and, uh, have a little drink. What do you say?
Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Parsons: Yeah. I just have to check in with my parole officer first.
Handsome Internet Expert: You’ve been to jail?
Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Parsons: Actually prison. Jail is a different thing.
Handsome Internet Expert: [laughs nervously] So what did you do? Not pay your parking tickets?
Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Parsons: Oh, no. I was convicted of murdering my husband.
Handsome Internet Expert: You’re kidding, right?
Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Parsons: No, I’m not. “Sliced and Diced” the paper called it. Can you believe that?
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