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People Share Their Favorite Movie Quotes Of All-Time
We all have our favorite lines of dialogue memorized.
Great dialogue is the heart of film, tv and theatre.
How many films can you quote?
Do you have a film quote for your tombstone?
Mine is from the movie ‘Clue.’ I’m gonna make you guess…
So Redditor No_Housing_4819 wanted to hear what lines no one has forgotten from their favorite films…
They asked:
“What’s your favorite movie quote?”
Let’s talk cinema…
Unforgiven
“Sir, you are a cowardly son of a *itch! You just shot an unarmed man!”
“He should’ve armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend!” ~ Axenroth187
“You’d be William Munny, outta Missouri. Killer of women and children.”
“That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.”
“And I’m here to kill you li’l Bill. For what you did to Ned.” ~ jrf_1973
“I like:”
“ t’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take all he’s got… and all he’s ever gonna have.”
“Well, I guess they had it comin’”
“We all have it comin’, Kid.” ~ bolerobell
Doctor Strangelove
“Gentlemen you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” ~ AlternativeRip4728
“When I did speech and debate in college those of us who qualified for the national championship took a retreat to a cabin in the mountains for a weekend to work on our craft.”
“My head coach brought this movie along and oh man, what a great film. I highly encourage people to watch this film. Peter Sellers is brilliant.” ~ Pawn_captures_Queen
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” ~ _stuntnuts_
LEGO FOREVER
“I think I got it. But just in case… tell me the whole thing again I wasn’t listening.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
“And Octan, they make great stuff! […] Surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines… wait a second.” ~ StarKnight697
“The fact that I’m seeing so many memorized quotes from the lego movie is making me so happy right now.”
“I was 12 when it was released and I’m gonna be 20 in two months. I miss those days. I’m getting so nostalgic now.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
INCREDIBLE!!
“He starts monologuing! He starts this prepared speech about how feeble I am to him, how my defeat is inevitable, and the world will soon be his, yada yada yada, he’s yammering!”
“I mean the guy has me on a platter, and he won’t shut up!” ~ Dazzling_Realties
“You sly dog! You got me monologuing!!” ~ burningfirelily
Villains
“A hero would sacrifice you for the world but a villain would sacrifice the world for you.” ~ I_Love_Small_Breasts
“If I remember correctly, Weathering with You.” ~ protein_bars
“His selfish desire to be with an ACTUAL GODDESS.”
“I love how complex and big but also intimate and sad the romance in this movie was.”
“He was a villain for sure, but also my heart was breaking for them the whole movie.”
“I wouldn’t have been any happier if he was a hero; everyone would have lost.” ~ WinsomeWombat
“They say the villain is selfish, but have anyone thought about this?”
“And what about the hero? What if they sacrifice you just for glory? What if they were the true villain to begin with?” ~ BasicallyBlu123
Arnold Speaks
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” ~ 11B-1P-CIB
“Me and my brothers watched T2 almost every night for a month (we couldn’t sleep without tv on and each month was a new movie).”
“We’ve always said ‘ need your clothes, your boots, and your underwear.’”
“And you reminded me of what he actually says lol.” ~ stoicambience
“My friend quotes this all the time, but he remembers it wrong and just says ‘GIMME YA CLOTHES’ in a terrible Arnold accent lol!!” ~ NutSockMushroom
NETWORK
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” ~ UpperUnderstanding77
“One of the criticisms of Chayefsky’s screenplay was that it was too cynical and unrealistic. In hindsight it almost seems quaint.” ~ DaBake
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE MR. BEALE, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!!!!” ~ Wagglebagga
When Comedy Mattered
“Who are you? And how’d you get in here?” “I’m the locksmith, and I’m a locksmith.” ~ parallel_jay
“We’re so sorry about your loss, Wilma. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then. -Police Squad”
“Also in the same vein…”
“Trust me, whatever scum did this to your husband, no man on the force will rest until he’s behind bars! Now let’s grab a bite to eat.”
“I wish they could make parodies like they did back then.”
“There seemed to be a legitimate love for the source material they were spoofing, maybe that’s the key ingredient to make them work?” ~ redfoot62
“My all-time favourite joke. I love it so much.”
“The wording, the delivery, the very existence of this joke are just utterly delicious to me.”
“It’s so clever in its language. I had to think twice when I first heard it, cracked up laughing, and still laugh at it.”
“I read a quote somewhere, I don’t remember where, that ‘the essence of humour is the unexpected’.”
“This joke just hits so perfectly.” ~ cmdrqfortescue
No Country for Old Men
“All the time you spend tryin’ to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin’ out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.” ~ Cells_Interlinked_77
Blade Runner
“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 Tannhäuser Gate.”
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” ~f**kitillbeanunicorn
Guardians
“When you’re ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.” ~ Future_Rooster_3909
“I guess it might seem weird for a comic book movie to dole out some big life lessons, but GotG 2 is chock full of that stuff.”
“Hell, the whole storyline with Peter, Yondu, and Ego is genuinely one of the most touching things I can remember seeing in a movie in a pretty long time.”
“‘He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.’”
“As someone who grew up without a father, that line bored a hole straight through my soul.” ~ DextrosKnight
Movies are an essential part of life.
We often get lost in the political Hollywood nonsense of it all, but when we look deeper, we realize, film saves us.
Because when film is at its best, it reflects us.
Keep speaking those lines.
When Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old…
When Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting […]
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Movie Stars Who Went Way Too Far With Their Method Acting
Actors have many methods to their madness, and much of it depends on how they were schooled, where they were schooled, and what sort of role they might be preparing for. Many “old school”actors choose a method acting approach, which means putting themselves in the shoes of the character as much as possible – meaning everything they do, think, dream, eat, drink, etc is what the character would do in a similar circumstance.
Method acting has resulted in some pretty fantastic performances, but we’ve also witnessed things like intense weight loss or gain, smoking habits, etc that are arguably not as healthy.
Here are 14 times performers may have taken their dedication to method acting a bit too far.
14. Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Natalie Portman spent 8 hours a day in ballet classes so that she could appear to be as good a ballerina as her character was in the film. At one point she dislocated a rib and she said that the training left her feeling like she was “literally going to die.”
In case you were thinking of taking up dancing.
13. Jamie Foxx in Ray.
Image Credit: Universal Pictures
Ray Charles was blind from the age of 7, and to simulate living that way, Jamie Foxx glued his eyes shut for 13 hours a day.
The director of the film, Taylor Hackford, is the one who suggested the approach but everyone on set sometimes forgot Jamie couldn’t see and left him bumbling around in the dark on his own.
12. Nick Nolte in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Image Credit: Touchstone/Disney
Nolte played a philosopher-vagrant in the film, and to research what it might have been like to live that way in Los Angeles, he spent five weeks living on the streets as a homeless man.
Also, he ate real dog food (twice).
11. Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Image Credit: Disney/Marvel
Tom Holland played Peter Parker, a 15-year-old who becomes Spider-Man. The trouble was, Tom had never attended an American high school, and so he enrolled in one in the Bronx to get a better feel for the experience.
It was only for three days, though, in which he practiced his accent and fake name, and was ignored when he told people he was Spider-Man.
Typical.
10. Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther.
Image Credit: Disney/Marvel
Chadwick Boseman was afraid of losing his accent between takes, and so he kept it up, even between takes, during all of the MCU movies he played T’Challa in.
Boseman firmly believed that T’Challa should speak with an accent based in the Xhosa language, and worked with a South African dialect coach to get it right.
9. Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs
Image Credit: Orion Pictures
Foster joined the FBI Academy in Virginia – the same one Clarice was attending – and immersed herself in the daily routines of the trainees at Quantico.
She also met with senior FBI officers and serial killer experts to learn more about what her role would entail.
Her co-star, Scott Glenn, regretted his alternate choice – he listened to serial killers doing their business, instead.
8. Marlon Brando in The Men
Image Credit: United Artists
Brando spent a month in bed at a veteran’s hospital to prepare for his role as an injured WWII lieutenant.
He even checked himself into the same hospital where his character was convalescing – Birmingham General Army Hospital in Van Nuys, CA.
7. Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse
Image Credit: Focus Features
While playing a drunken sailor who was slowly losing his grip on reality, Pattison would get horribly drunk before his scenes.
In this “maddened” state, he reportedly licked puddles of mud, was sick on set, and peed himself.
I’m glad I wasn’t on that film’s cleaning crew.
6. Chloe Sevigny in The Brown Bunny
Image Credit: Vincent Gallo Productions
In the final scene of The Brown Bunny, Sevigny is seen giving co-star Vincent Gallo an actual bl*wjob on film.
The scene caused a scandal at the Cannes Film Festival and beyond (even though she was of course the only one criticized) but she never apologized, saying she only wanted to push the envelope.
5. Robert Pattinson in Little Ashes
Image Credit: Aria Films
Pattison was required to do a few s^x scenes while playing Salvador Dali, and in one, he was meant to act out masturbating alongside another actor.
Pattison instead did it for real, and took it all the way to the end, telling Germany’s Interview magazine that his “org*sm face is recorded for eternity.”
4. Val Kilmer in The Doors
Image Credit: Imagine Entertainment
Kilmer went so deep into Doors singer Jim Morrison’s mind that he couldn’t get out – he had to go to therapy to stop thinking like the legendary frontman.
Kilmer learned how to speak and sing like Morrison by wearing his clothes and hanging out at his favorite haunts.
At one point Morrison’s own former band mates couldn’t tell the difference between the two around 80% of the time.
3. Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Forest Whitaker really earned his Academy Award for this role – he learned Swahili, for one, but also ate nothing but mashed bananas and beans, remaining in character offset.
He also met with former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s friends, relatives, and victims to prepare for the role.
His wife and kids were reportedly so over it by the time filming was done.
2. Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot
Image Credit: Picture Palace Pictures
Lewis is legendary for his method ways, going the extra mile often – like when he remained in a wheelchair for the entire filming of My Left Foot.
He played the role of an artist with cerebral palsy and remained in his chair even between takes, having crew members feed him – even though the pain of two broken ribs.
1. Adrien Brody in The Pianist
Image Credit: Focus Features
Brody eschewed his apartment, his car, and most of his other belongings while preparing to play the role of a Holocaust victim in The Pianist.
He also moved to Europe with only two bags, started dieting to lose an extreme amount of weight, and did his best to experience just “a fraction” of what someone went through in the ghettos and camps during the Holocaust.
These are some great performances, but I’m not sure they were worth it!
Are you a movie buff? Share your favorite method performances with us in the comments.
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Actors in the early silent…
Actors in the early silent film era often went uncredited because audiences just didn’t care — then, in 1910, actress Mary Pickford became so popular cinemas started specially advertising her films, making her the world’s first movie star.
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In the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated…
In the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.
7 Actors Who Admitted to Drinking On the Job
Let’s just all raise our hands here and admit it: we’ve all had days on the job where we could’ve used a good, stiff drink… not after the day is done, but right smack in the middle of it. It’s just the way of work – there are days where it gets boring or just plain annoying (if you’re in customer service).
While actors certainly have one of the most exciting professions out there, it’s still a job, Sometimes, they need to have a few drinks too! Maybe they are bored, maybe they’re nervous, maybe they just want to relieve the tension of their job and their life for a little while.
These actors all admitted that they drank while filming some blockbuster movies, which makes the movies just a bit more interesting.
Maybe you need to go back and revisit some of these movies and pay closer attention to these actors, hmmmm?
1. Shia Lebeouf
Labeouf drank moonshine to get into character for his role in the film Lawless, where he played a bootlegger during the Prohibition years. It’s called dedication to the role.
2. Margot Robbie
Robbie admitted she was pretty nervous to do a sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, so she pounded three shots of tequila at 9 a.m. before filming the scene.
3. Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis had a pretty racy sex scene in Black Swan, and director Darren Aronofsky said the two women had a few drinks before the camera started rolling.
4. Daniel Radcliffe
Photo: Daniel Radcliffe in 2013 — #DanielRadcliffe #HarryPotter #Wolverine #KillYourDarlings #PotterheadDaniel Radcliffe admitted he had a drinking problem earlier in his film career. He admitted to showing up drunk on set while making the Harry Potter film series. Radcliffe told the Daily Mail, “I went into work still drunk. I can point to many scenes where I’m just gone. Dead behind the eyes. I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem.”
5. Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick was given a real beer instead of non-alcoholic beer during the making of Drinking Buddies and she admitted she got pretty drunk. She said, “I was pounding beer, and I didn’t realize it was real until halfway through the take. I was like, I’m super drunk right now!”
6. Jennifer Lawrence
Lawrence admitted to David Letterman that she got bored while filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and she’d drink pina coladas in her trailer. Gotta kill the boredom somehow.
7. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
Pitt and Norton starred in the now-iconic film Fight Club together, and they shared many memorable scenes. Remember the one where they drunkenly hit golf balls together? Director David Fincher decided to film that scene because the two actors were drunk and he wanted to catch some of their antics on film.
…I did not know that.
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When Marlon Brando was studying to become an actor in New York…
When Marlon Brando was studying to become an actor in New York, a teacher instructed his class to act like chickens, and added that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked and ran around wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. Asked by Adler why he had chosen to react this way, he said, “I’m a chicken – What do I know about bombs?” Brando is hailed for bringing realism to film acting.