Empty Nest: movie quotes

Monday, January 14, 2013

Quotable List of 10

It's Monday and time to join Stasha over at The Good Life for Monday Listicles!

Each week Stasha gives us a theme for our lists. This week, we our topic was 10 Best Movie Quotes.

I have no idea how in the world I got this list down to a mere TEN because I could go on and on and on with this one. I just chose randomly from my long list. Some of them are cheesy but I like them anyway (see the one from Robin Hood); some are from movies our family can quote from beginning to end but I only chose one for the list (see Christmas Vacation); some of them make me want to get up and get all involved with the movie (like Scarface); and some are just classy as hell (like All About Eve and To Have and Have Not).

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Ten Best Movie Quotes:

From To Have and Have Not: Slim Browning (played by Lauren Bacall):"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
From Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (you know, the cheesy Kevin Costner one): Marian: You came for me... You're alive... Robin Hood: I would die for you. CHEESY? Hell yes. LOVE IT ANYWAY? Hell yes.
From All About Eve: Margo Channing (played by Bette Davis): "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
From The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Gold Hat (played by Alfonso Bedoya): "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
From A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley Kowalski (played by Marlon Brando): "Stella! Hey, Stella!" (also hilarious when Cam does this on Modern Family).
From Scarface: Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino): "Say 'hello' to my little friend."
From Christmas Vacation (what can I say, my entire family could quote this movie by heart...every single line): Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase): "You checked our shitters, honey?"
From Gone With The Wind (because, as a southerner, I would be remiss to leave it out): Scarlett O'Hara (played by Vivien Leigh): "I can't think about that today. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
From Dirty Harry (because it's Clint Eastwood, duh): Harry Callahan: "...you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
City Slickers: Mitch Robbins (played by Billy Crystal): "It doesn't happen. See, women need a reason to have sex., men just need a place."

Oh how I could go on! There are so many good ones out there. BUT, my list of the WORST movie lines EVER is long too. We should do that one week! Might be funny.

Ok, what's on your list of best movie lines?

Welcome!

Being a transplant to the low-country of SC for 31 years is still not long enough to be called a ‘benyeh.’ If I stay until I’m dead I’ll probably go a ‘comeyeh’ since I am, originally, ‘from off’ (which is the upstate but, rules you know). By day I take care of my sweet little granddaughter, Baby M and do all those things I did when I was a SAHM raising four daughters which has translated to, ‘by day, I am exhausted.’ By night I blog, blog, blog, and blog some more or I sleep, depending on my level of exhaustion (do they still make Geritol?). I have a very unhealthy addiction to sweets (nearly any kind will do) and all comfort foods not covered under the ‘sweets’ category. I’m known for speaking my mind so, if you don’t want to know, don’t ask me. I love to find the humor in my empty nest life. I live life hard and smack into that brick wall almost daily because I’ve always had to learn the hard way. Why change now? I’m so glad you’ve come to laugh with me as I do this middle age, empty nest thing like a BOSS!