Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Carrie, 1976 (dir. Brian De Palma)
Margaret White: Carrie, you haven’t touched your apple cake.
Carrie: It gives me pimples, Mama.
Margaret White: Pimples are the Lord’s way of chastising you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The King’s Speech, 2010 (dir. Tom Hooper)
Lionel Logue: Defecation flows trippingly from the tongue!
King George VI: Because I’m angry!
Lionel Logue: Do you know the f-word?
King George VI: F–f–fornication?
Lionel Logue: Oh, Bertie.
King George VI: Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!
Lionel Logue: Yes. . .
King George VI: Balls, balls. . .
Lionel Logue: . . .you see, not a hesitation!
King George VI: . . .fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and. . .tits.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, 1993 (dir. Rob Cohen)
Gussie Yang: Sit down. Two weeks pay. Two weeks severance.
Bruce Lee: What’s this?
Gussie Yang: All-purpose loan. You got a lot of money, Lee. What you going to do?
Bruce Lee: I guess I’d better–
Gussie Yang: I tell you what to do. Take April on the town. Buy her nice clothes. Check into big hotel. Have lots of sex. Have food brought up to you in bed. Drink champagne and whiskey. Now money all gone. April be gone, too, like money. You come back to me. I put you in kitchen, wash dishes to pay back loan. By that time you’re no longer young, you’re no longer handsome. That one choice. There are others.
Bruce Lee: Like what?
Gussie Yang: They say education is good. Hmm. I’ve heard that. Me, personally I hope you go with April. I can always use a good. . . dishwasher!
Movie Quote of the Day – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, 1968 (dir. Hy Averback)
Guru: Who are you? Do you know who you are?
Harold Fine: I’m trying. Guru, I’m really trying.
Guru: When you stop trying, then you’ll know who you are.
Harold Fine: Well, I’m trying to stop trying.
Guru: Good.
Movie Quote of the Day – Soapdish, 1991 (dir. Michael Hoffman)
Lori Craven: Hi. Uh, I’m Lori Craven and. . .I’m an actress.
Betsy Faye Sharon: An actress! Really! How nice for you! I’m Betsy Faye Sharon and I’m a bitch. Now get out of here.
Movie Quote of the Day – Female, 1933 (dir. Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman)
Alison: To me a woman in love is a pathetic spectacle; she’s either so miserable that she wants to die or she’s so happy you want to die.
Harriet: Aren’t you ever going to marry?
Alison: No, thanks. Not me. You know, a long time ago I decided to travel the same open road men travel. So I treat men exactly the way they’ve always treated women.
Harriet: You evidently haven’t much respect for men.
Alison: I know for some women a man is a household necessity, myself I’d rather have a canary.
Female Filmmaker Friday: Hester Street, 1975 (dir. Joan Micklin Silver)
Firstly, apologies for the unintended hiatus of this feature. It should be back in full force for the rest of the year. This week I’m going to take a brief look at Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street, which earned Carol Kane a Best Actress Oscar nomination in 1975.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rounders, 1998 (dir. John Dahl)
Mike McDermott: Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
Movie Quote of the Day – Johnny Suede, 1991 (dir. Tom DiCillo)
Johnny Suede: Anything else you want to tell me?
Yvonne: Just this: you keep asking me stupid questions and I’m gonna smack you.
Johnny Suede:Ooh. Big talk for a girl!
Yvonne: Not if she’s got a razor in one hand and your balls in the other.
Movie Quote of the Day – 3 Women, 1977 (dir. Robert Altman)
Pinky Rose: You know what?
Millie Lammoreaux: What?
Pinky Rose: You’re the most perfect person I ever met.
Millie Lammoreaux: Thanks.
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