You Can Quote Me On That
What are your favorite quotes from movies, books, comics, etc.? Here are a couple of mine:
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
— Rutgar Hauer as Roy Batty, from Bladerunner
and…
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
–from Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
-Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, from Taken
I do not often feel fear, real, genuine fear when an actor says a line like that. This time, I did.
“Alright, I’ve been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade – make life take the lemons back! GET MAD! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I’m the man who’s gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With the lemons. I’m going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!”
-from Portal 2 by Valve
I haven’t had a chance to play Portal 2 yet, but I loved the first one. I’ll have to get on that.
“Teriffic. I’m about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax.” – Lance Guest as Alex Rogan, The Last Starfighter
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
Peter Sellers – President Merklin Muffley
‘Your face does the thinking – two to the skull, yet one gets up. Odds are against you… but they’re just numbers after the two-to-one. You’re playing the hand you’ve been dealt, but you don’t let it rest, you shuffle and stack, and a gamble… a gamble that may pay off? But how? Forecast: Rapidly changing conditions.’ – the Forecaster – Fallout New Vegas
Lawyer: “They’re extraditing you.”
Dillinger: “Where to?”
Lawyer: “Indiana.”
Dillinger: “Why? I have absolutely nothing I want to do in Indiana.”
John Dillinger- Public Enemies
“Good? Bad? I’m the one with the gun.” – Ash, Army of Darkness.
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” – Ellen Ripley, Aliens.
“Game over, man! Game over!”
‘and now for something completely different…..’ John Cleese, Monty Python
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
— Mel Gibson as William Wallace, from Braveheart