MOVIE or TV quotes needed

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I want to put a quote at the beginning of each chapter. Movie or TV related, preferably. Anyone have some favorites they want to share?

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Nov 30, 2007 - 06 37

From Frasier:

"Tonight, when Orpheus descends into hell, I'll be waiting for him. With a FRUIT BASKET."

...I've always loved that one.

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From "Angel":

Spike: I had a plan.
Angel: You, a plan?
Spike: Yeah, a good plan. Smart. Carefully laid out. But I got bored.

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From The A Team (television show):

"I love it when a plan comes together."

From Dirty Harry (movie, I'm pretty sure I don't have it exactly right, but you can look up the exact words):

"You're looking at a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun on the planet. You may be asking yourself, have I fired six shots, or just five. So the question you need to ask yourself is, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

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"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne... 'let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky'."
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Dic 21, 2007 - 10 27

From Night Court (television show):

"Well, there was that incident with the Cheese Whiz... but I'm feeling much better now."

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The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell
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From High Fidelity:
Charlie! You f***ing b*tch! Let's work it out!

From Buffy:

I laugh in the face of danger. And then I run and hide until it goes away.

I don't like vampires. I'm going to take a stand and say they're not good.

This is too much. I mean, yesterday my life's like, "ut oh pop quiz" today it's "rain of toads".

Snider: It's like a sixth sense. I can smell it.
Giles: That would be one of the five.

Devon MacLeish: Man, we need a roadie. Other bands have roadies.
Oz: Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven completely different chords.
Devon MacLeish: That's just, like, fruity jazz bands.

Buffy: What are you doing here?
Spike: Look...
Buffy: Five words or less.
Spike: [counts on his fingers] Out... for... a... walk.
[pauses]
Spike: Bitch.

From Big Trouble in Little China:
"China is here? I don't even know what the hell that means."

"If we're not back by dawn, call the president."

From This is Spinal Tap:
"These go to eleven."

"I don't think a sexy cover is the reason an album sells or doesn't sell. Because, you tell me. The white album? What was that? There was nothing on that goddamned cover."

"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."

"Maybe we just fix the choreography, keep the dwarf clear."

"The Boston gig has been canceled. I wouldn't worry about it though. It's not a big college town."

Anyway, I've been doing this sort of thing myself with the chapter openers so I've been enjoying this a bit too much. :^>

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Ok, I thought of another one that struck me as really funny at the time.

From The Office:
Meridith: In twelve months time I want to be twelve months sober. (*Pauses*) ... Eleven Months sober!

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"Star Trek: The Movie"
Spock: "The needs of the many out weighs the needs of the one."

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From Boston Legal (TV show):

"You're a self-loathing narcissist with a dwarf fetish."

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Cheers
Norm: Once trust is out of a relationship, it's not so much fun lying any more.

A Brady Bunch Movie
Mike Brady: Wherever you go, there you are.

Clue
Mrs. White: It's a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.

Lost in Space
Robot: Why did the robot cross the road? Because he was carbon bonded to the chicken!

Dawson's Creek
Jack: Good teachers are just traumatized students trying to erase whatever went wrong with their own high school experience.

The Princess Bride
Wesley: I've got to invade a castle with my brains, his strength, and your steele and a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy?

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Veronica Corningstone: Oh, Ron, there are literally thousands of men that I should be with instead, but I am 72 per cent sure that I love you!

Everybody Loves Raymond
Ray: When I was a teenager I wanted to write the Great American novel. But then I realized that I didn't even want to read the Great American Novel.

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Major League
Lou Brown: I thought you said we didn't have any high priced talent.
Charlie Donovan: Forget about Dorn, he's just high priced.

Silence of the Lambs
Dr. Hannibal Lecter: We begin by coveting what we see every day.

In Good Company
Carter Duryea: Dan, you seem to have the perfect marriage. How do you do it?
Dan Foreman: You just pick the right one to be in the foxhole with, and then when you're outside of the foxhole you keep your dick in your pants.
Carter Duryea: That's poetic.

Catch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16.
Brenda Strong: Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?

Hoosiers
Opal Fleener: Sun don't shine on the same dog's ass everyday, but, mister you ain't seen a ray of light since you got here.

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"Where do these stairs lead?"
"They lead up."
---Ghostbusters

"Are you the keymaster?"
"No..."
DOOR SLAMS!
"Are you the keymaster?"
"Yes, well actually I'm a good friend of his."
Is allowed in.
---Ghostbusters

"Are you like, a crazy person?"
"I'm quite sure that they will say so."
"---V for Vendetta

"First rule: the deal is the deal. It never changes."
"Second rule: No names."
"Third rule: Never open the package."
"You're breaking the rules, Frank. Never look in the package."
---Transporter

"I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole good, bad thing." ---Peter Venkman
---Ghostbusters

"I forgot to mention, don't cross the streams. It would be bad."--Egon
"I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole good, bad thing."--Peter
"Imagine your life stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."--Egon
"Okay, that's bad."--Peter
---Ghostbusters

Sorry, I couldn't come up with any others...except from office space, and those just really seemed too silly...:)

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"Isn't it pretty to think so?"- The Sun Also Rises

"Baby, I don't care." - Out of the Past

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. "- In a Lonely Place

"We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet." - Double Indemnity

"She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud." - Murder, My Sweet

"Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom." - The Big Sleep

"'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. " - Chinatown

"Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush." - LA Confidential

"I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. " - Laura

"When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses. " - Key Largo

"One way or another, we all work for our vice." - Asphalt Jungle

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A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
--It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan

Beyond the chea...
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"There are times when we're dirt broke and hungry and freezing, and I ask myself 'why the hell am I still living here?' -beat- And then they call. And I remember."
-RENT

"What we are never changes. Who we are never stops changing."
-CSI

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"Good Lord, are you having a bowel movement or a baby?"

"Idiots are fun. That's why every village wants one."

"You're right about me being wrong and wrong about you being right."

"Where did you come from?"
"Apes, if you believe the Democrats."

~Dr. House, House

"I'll make you eat both your own buttocks!"
~Yellowbeard, Yellowbeard

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If you want movie quotes go to

www.imdb.com

Another may be

http://www.saidwhatmovies.com/

EDIT:

I will also say only include quotes that adds value to the plot or makes the reader think about subtexts and messages. Don't include quotes just because you feel like it

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"It's the stuff that dreams are made of." - Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), "The Maltese Falcon"

"You're going to need a bigger boat." - Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), "Jaws".

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also see wikiquote

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My favourite quotes:
"Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice."
Vertigo

"I don't want to die. There's someone within me and she says I must die."
Vertigo

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it, it might cheer me up to watch."
The Simpsons Movie

"Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence."
Rear Window

"Winners do not empathize with losers."
Ghost Ship

"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?"
Iron Man

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"To a wonderful mum" or "pow, super mum"?

Shaun of the dead, love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost!

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What genre is your story? If horror then each chapter would be a classic quote from horror movies or TV shows, same with crime and so on. Or the opposite of that. If a dark tale, say a murder mystery, then start chapters with a classic humour quote.
On discovering the body that chapter could be the classic Marx Brothers " Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped working."

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From the show Daria (which ROCKS!!!!)

Jane: Different, eh? I wonder what I would get if I turned you in.
Daria: More free time to spend with Kevin and Britney.
Jane: Curse you different ones and your insidious logic!

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From Newsradio:

Bill: "Well how could she do that to me, Lisa? How could she... french her daddy?"

The best quote ever. Ever.

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