The movie quote meme

Filched from Alison at Party of 3, the movie quote meme.

The rules:

* Pick 10 (or so) of your favorite movies.
* Find, remember, or look up a quote from each movie.
* Post them here for everyone to guess.
* Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
* NO googling or cheating by doing an online search. Cheaters never prosper.
* Share the fun and only guess one movie.


Edited to add: They’re all outed, but this was so much fun we’ll play again soon! I can’t believe it took less than 24 hours to get them all! Let me know if you do the meme so I can play along, too.

  1. You just got lesson number one: don’t think; it can only hurt the ball club. Kate guessed it! Bull Durham, best sports movie evah!
  2. You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of ’em just cheat on you. Natasha and Reluctant Housewife guessed it: Clerks. As Natasha notes, it’s Silent Bob’s only line in the whole movie.
  3. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The End. Mad Hatter guessed it: Moulin Rouge! Although after calling one of my all-time fave movies “wretched” I may have to reassess my endless affection and admiration for her.
  4. It also left a man’s decapitated body lying on the floor next to his own severed head. The head, which of this time, has no name. Trixie guessed it: Highlander! We considered naming Lucas “Connor McLeod”, partly because McLeod is my granny’s maiden name and partly for the geeky insider’s joke!
  5. Bye-bye boys. Have fun storming the castle! Madeleine guessed it: The Princess Bride, of course.
  6. Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people. Liz, Kerry, Renee and Anne guessed it: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It was the first “boy drives to your house, picks you up and takes you to a movie, then takes you to a park to make out afterward” date I ever went on!
  7. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed! Miche guessed it: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Are there any movies more quotable than Monty Python? It was so hard to choose!
  8. It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing. Mama V guessed it: LOTR – Fellowship of the Ring.
  9. That ain’t no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can’t be un-did, homeskillet. jo(e) guessed it: Juno! (Great movie!! I saw it when I was waiting for Lucas to arrive, one Tuesday morning all by myself in the theatre. It was actually my second attempt at seeing the movie; the first time, I lost my mucous plug in the cinema washroom between buying my popcorn and the start of the movie, and left the theatre in a fit of optimism in thinking the baby was on the way — about three weeks before he actually did arrive.)
  10. I can’t fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day. That was four years ago. Chrissey, B&P, Suze and Rebecca guessed it: High Fidelity. The intersection of Nick Hornby and John Cusack — does it get any better than that?
  11. You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. Erin guessed it: Good Will Hunting.
  12. Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won’t be needing a drink. Naked lady says…OH SHIT!!Liz and Anne guessed it: The Breakfast Club!
  13. I have no thought at all about my own reward, I really didn’t come here on my own accord. Just don’t say I’m damned for all time.NoMoEarth and Reluctant Housewife guessed it: Jesus Christ Superstar! Props for getting an obscure one! My mother used to listen to this soundtrack when she cleaned the house, and I had the whole thing memorized by the time I was ten years old.
  14. It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Nancy, Kerry and Karen guessed it: The Blues Brothers!
  15. All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not. kgirl guessed it: Fight Club. I don’t know why I love this movie so much, but I really do.

FWIW, all of these quotes are from movies I own or intend to acquire. Have fun!

Author: DaniGirl

Canadian. storyteller, photographer, mom to 3. Professional dilettante.

36 thoughts on “The movie quote meme”

  1. #7 Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  2. #6 is Ferris Beuller’s Day Off

    #12 is The Breakfast Club.

    And my captcha is another great 80’s teen film connection “Hinton of”

  3. I might be wrong on both, so I’m doing two guesses.

    #6 is Say Anything. At least, it sounds like something Lloyd Dobbler would say.

    #14 sounds like the Blues Brothers.

    I’m wrong on both, aren’t I?

  4. I’m a new reader and had to out myself on this one. #2 is Clerks. The only thing Silent Bob says in the whole movie. I love Silent Bob!!! And my captcha is “winners cided” since I know it’s important to share the captcha!

  5. Most of the ones I know have already been named (oooo, sweet Bull Durham). #3 is that wretched Moulin Rouge. Sorry. I love Baz but that’s Baz gone bad.

    My captcha is twenty paddlers. How Canadian is that?

  6. #8 is soooo familiar, but I can’t place it.

    I was going to guess High Fidelity for #10, but I see Chrissey is there ahead of me.

  7. oh got so excited that I may have known one, I didn’t read everyone else’s posts. NOW i have and realized #6 was already solved! damn I thought I was so smart and on the ball! LOL

  8. Thanks for letting me have two, Dani!!

    Now my captcha is really, really appropriate: “MILLER tried”.

    Heee!

  9. Damn girl, you have good taste in movies…or else we’re both super conventional and love the same movies EVERYBODY loves…

  10. Yay! What fun this has been! Is there anyone geeky enough to guess #4? Here’s a hint: the next line in the movie is, “I know his name!” followed by a rocking Queen song. Ubergeek, where are you when I need you?

  11. I’ll wait until my hubby comes home from a business trip tonight. He has a head filled with trvia, esp movies. I’m sure Dani can attest to this!

  12. I’ve heard that if your head comes away from your neck, man — it’s over…

    (fun! you’re making me wanna go home and rent classic movies…!)

  13. HEY!?!? I just read through the comments and saw that you referred to anyone who gets #4 as a geek!! … So, um, am I glad that I don’t actually know what movie YOU are talking about. Just talkin’ off the top of my head about decapitation.

    Come hell or highlander, I ain’t no geek…
    😉

  14. Bravo Trixie! Hey, it’s a compliment – Highlander is still one of my favourite movies, although “there should have been only one”!

  15. Hey, I got in too late. Thanks for playing though. It’s fun, isn’t it.

    Oh, and TAG, pop onto my blog, I tagged you with the six words meme. That should prove a challenge. (Not that you talk/write a lot or anything. Really.)

  16. Those were fabulous! Great choices! One of my favorite movie quotes is: “People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.”
    Do you know what movie that is from?

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