Quotes or references to films you like to use in everyday speech

Several from An Unmarried Woman....to numerous to list, quite frankly.

Here are a few.

"Dating!....stupid word!"

"No, Bob...uh, uh!"

"We went for Sushi...I nearly got raped".

Not a film, but from THE GOLDEN GIRLS: "You remember THAT, but you don't remember that M*A*S*H is off the air." This was said by Dorothy to Sophia, when Sophia couldn't remember something as recent as M*A*S*H's very-publicized finale, but then went on a detailed anecdote about 1920s Sicily.

Anyway, I usually use that line when someone makes some obscure reference to something long past. It usually gets some chuckles, because most people aren't familiar with that line. It comes off as a non-sequitur.

Also several from Darling (1965):-

"If I could only feel...COMPLETE!"

"Life's full of if onlys, isn't it?..."

"I do wish you'd open up!"

"Where would I be without you?"

"I couldn't possibly....it's YOURS!"

"I'm never having anything to do with sex again for as long as I live."

"I could live without sex...I don't even like it that much".

"I've had it with this London racket...let's live in the country...somewhere quiet, where you can write".

"It should be so easy to be happy...it should be the easiest thing in the world".

Whenever I go into a corporate meeting I tell everyone to "buckle your seatbelts its going to be a bumpy ride"

"Oh, Francine, she's straight from the gutter!"

My sarcastic reply to any news I find yawn-inducing: "Oooo, ring-a-ding-ding!"

"You're right, it IS an exciting business"

"Frankly, I'm convinced alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."

"I'm tellin' you, I'll never have another one!"

"Really? Did she like it?"

"LIKE, Dottie. I said LIKE"

"I closed the first act for eleven years, and you KNOW that!"

"Oh you'll go on alright. And you'll give the performance of a lifetime!"

"There IS no Schubert Theater in San Fransisco!"

"So that all our hard work ain't been in vain fer nuthin'!"

War, war.

Fiddledeedee

When someone is being particularly obtuse, I pretend to use sign language into their hands and yell (in a bad Irish accent), "It has a NAME, Helen! W-A-T-E-R!"

It's actually "Fasten your seat belts...", r4.

I mean, since you use it, you may as well get it right!

"I know nussingk!"

R4 = National Sales Manageress for Mary Kay Cosmetics.

"Don't fuck with me fellas! This ain't my first time at the rodeo."

When I'm getting pissed off. Joan Crawford addressing Pepsi co

Me and my favorite fag hag are obsessed with Brenda from Scary Movie so we always greet each other with loud "Hey baby-girl" and air kiss each other.

"Hold onto your butts." -Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park

"Mother Pusbucket!" The incomparable Bill Murray in Ghostbusters

Stupid, stupid rain!

[quote]When I'm getting pissed off. Joan Crawford addressing Pepsi co

You do realise you are addressing elderly gay men?

[quote] I tell everyone to "buckle your seatbelts its going to be a bumpy ride"

You should try quoting the famous line from All About Eve, it goes like this:

'Fasten your seat-belts - it's going to be a bumpy NIGHT'.

When someone is being inappropriate or inopportune, I throw out 'you are BARKING up the wrong FISH'.

R10 the actual line is bumpy NIGHT, not ride.

"Your mom goes to college" a snappy comeback from Napoleon Dynamite

"Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it."

"(On men) "You can't trust none of 'em no further than I can kick a lemon pie."

(About arguing friends) "Oh it's just professional jealousy, they're really very good friends!"

"Any ladle's sweet that dishes out gravy"

"Oh, the publicity! La publicité!"

"I hate to tell you, dear, but your skin makes the Rocky Mountains look like chiffon velvet!"

"Did you get her innuendo?"

"What's wrong with her? She got a hangover?"

"I got the black lung, poppa."

"You'll get nothing and like it!"

"Jeez, everything but the hounds snappin' at her rear end."

But it would be wrong-- SHOCKINGLY wrong!

Run away! Run away!

Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much... it-it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths... Heathing...

I'm shocked! Shocked!

What a dump!

I am Spartacus.

Well, la di dah

This not good! This man wet his pants!

Sounds a little dirty to me.

Rosebud

Please don't break our egg!

Begone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!

...and your little dog too!

Excuse me. Excuse me! I'm SAYING excuse me!

Demented and sad, but social b

I thought it was my mother's douche bag, but that's in Ohio.

I didn't make him for you!

Is it ok to reference a TV show? "___(he/she/they) is still dead." (reference back to SNL, 1st season, Chevy Chase on Weekend Update: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!"

(quote explained for everyone on this board who ISN;t't old like moi)

I even use the "...is still dead for family members; beloved aunt; beloved niece, etc. (No one has gotten mad at me ...yet...)

Oh! "The calls are coming from inside the house!"

"Nice going, stranger". From Desperately Seeking Susan

From Day of the Locust. Karen Black as Faye Greener: "Salmon salade with lots of mayonnaise? I adore it, can I help?"

Karen Black as Faye Greener in Day of the Locust.

"Oh, a wed, wed wose. How womantic."

"It's TWUE! It's TWUE!"

How many of these are being used in everyday speech?

"I have sufficient."

When presented with something of lackluster value or worth:

"Quaffable but hardly transcendent" (from "Sideways")

"If there's anything I hate, loathe, despise and abominate it's..."(Meet Me in St. Louis) when I dislike something.

"People?! I ain't people. I'm a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament!" (Singin' in the Rain) when I think I'm all that.

'"I only know that I hate and despise you!" (Captain Blood) when a friend mildly annoys me

"You wouldn't know a slogan from a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!" (Christmas in July) when someone just isn't getting it

"Put it back!" with full Norma Desmond style to dissuade a friend's unnecessary purchase

All the following from "the Ten Commandments"

"When you have been bathed in scented waters, your limbs caressed with sweet oils and your hair combed with sandalwood , there will be no time for tears." when my boyfriend isn't in "the Mood"

"That tongue will dig your grave, Memnet!" to friends who are being catty or bitchy

"You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!" to friends who are being obtuse

"I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!" to friends who make fun of me

"Agggh! The pharaoh's chariots! Run! Run for your lives!" with friends in crowds or heavy traffic

From "Valley of the Dolls"

"You know how bitchy fags can be" uttered breathily a la Jennifer North when fags are being bitchy

"Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!" when friends complain of being tired or low energy.

"Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope!" to certain panhandlers on Denver's Broadway who know me and get the reference and the joke. The reply is usually "Oh, yeah? Well, I sure do!"

Oh, and one of the best for squelching braggarts.

"How nice for you!" (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)

r42, mind your own beeswax. If we say it, we say it!

"You're a better man than I, Gunga Din."

"Shocked. SHOCKED." (Another vote here.)

"THIS! I want THIS!" ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels")

"I'll think about that tomorrow." ("GWTW")

"How dare you molest me in this way"!"uttered by Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine The Great in "A Royal Scandal" if I am touched or accosted by anyone unexpectedly preferably a man. Mae West had so many but if someone is getting too comfortable and overstaying their welcome. I quote from "I'm No Angel". When Sluck gets out of jail and he sees that Mae has moved to a penhouse he says "This is a great layout you got here" to which Mae replies "Well honey, this is one place you ain't laying out in". When someone is being rebellious I sometimes quote Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette that " When thrones fall, princes are apt to tumble with them".

I meant Slick not Sluck.

From Carrie: "Git-er done, man, git-er done!"

From It's a Wonderful Life: "Why this old thing? I only wear this when I don't care how I look!"

I quote the great Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon if someone thinks that I'm being obtuse and condescending tells me that I do not understand my position. "I understand my position Perfectly and the place in life to which it has pleased God to call me, it is You who does not Perfectly understand Yours". I also paraphrase the great Dame Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell " To lose one parent can looked on as a misfortune but to lose both parents seems like carelessness."

Schokolade

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

I love you crazy kids.

On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.

Run, Toto, run!

"You mean all this time we could have been friends?"

Don't drive angry. (Groundhog Day)

We're gonna need a bigger boat. (Jaws)

Pretty much anything from Monty Python or Star Wars.

R49, did you know that Diana Dors' real last name was "Fluck"?

I fart in your general direction.

These I actually say out loud now and then:, when the situation warrants it:

Hey, I'm walkin' here...!

You know how bitchy fags can be.

We'll always have Paris.

And for some reason, I say this one to myself once In a while:

Scoliosis, papa...!

"Oh, FUCK high school! I hope we all FAIL!" --whenever I feel like giving up on something