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Certain lines have jumped off the movie screen as catch-phrases and then actually endured to become a permanent part of the language. Here's a few more-obvious ones: "Go ahead, make my day."--Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry"You talkin' to me?...You talkin' to ME!!?"--Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver"The usual suspects."--Claude Raines, Casablanca"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse.". --Marlon Brando, The GodfatherThey're baaaaaack!" (used interchangeably with he, she, we're, it's, etc) --Little Girl, Poltergeist"Smile when you say that."--Humphrey Bogart, [ferget which movie...mebbe The Petrified Forest?] And, of course, the now-omnipresent and much-variated "Badges? We dun need no steenkin' badges!"--The deputized Mexican Banditos in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles. ("roolz" here, of course  ) Anybody have any others? Or corrections on these? (which I'm sure Faldo will be more-than-glad to provide, if necessary ) However, I'm looking for the ones that have really been integrated into the language. For instance, while "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" from Casablanca is often used tongue-in-cheek, it never really took on a life of it's own linguistically, so it wouldn't rank here. However, come to think of it, "We'll always have Paris" from the same film has taken on a sort of idiomatic life of it's own, meaning any special moment shared in memory, so that could qualify. In the same vein "Follow the yellow brick road", while often quoted meaning to keep on following a certain path, never crept out of it's original aura, so I'm not sure it would qualify here either. And if someone sez Schwarzenegger's I'll be back, I'll scream. OTH, I think his "Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?] needs to be here. And "Be afraid. Be very afraid." was the promo on the poster for The Fly, I don't think Jeff Goldblum ever said it in the film, did he?
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Another one from Casablanca that has a fair degree of currency:
"I'm shocked, simply shocked."
And it's usually used with the same sense of irony as intended in the original.
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"Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?] Hasta la vista. De nada. 
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What a great idea for a thread, Juan! Sorry I can't think of anything right off, but I'll return if I do. Loftan just offered: "Here's lookin' at you, kid" from Casablanca and "You had me at hello," from Jerry McGuire--and I have no idea what Lof's talking about, but she assures me this is a phrase that her age group picked up. Edit: Lof's got another one-- "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" from Oz
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Wait a minute:
"Badges? We dun need no steenkin' badges!"
--The deputized Mexican Banditos in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles.
What happened to Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
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"Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?]
Hasta la vista. De nada.Thanks, AnnaS. I'm amazed Faldo didn't catch this! 
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I don't ctach things, Juan.
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Thanks, Dub-Dub...reminded me of "Show me the money!" --Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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What about, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."? Doesn't that come from the movie rather than the book?
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And was Monty Python's "And now for something completely different", which I've heard and used often, actually a line of dialogue or just a title?
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also from Monty Python the Black Knight's declaration
"it's only a flesh wound"
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And now for something completely different"a man with eight legs." "oh, he ran away!" and who could forget the man with a tape recorder up his nose?
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"Look deeply into my eyes."
"I vant to suck your blood."
--Bela Lugosi, Dracula
"What a dump!"
--Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest
"Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!" (or, "us" into)
--Oliver Hardy, (most Laurel & Hardy flicks)
"Bond. James Bond." [substitute any name]
--Sean Connery (the only *true James Bond)
"You just put your lips together and blow."
--Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not
"...and your little dog, too!"
--Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz
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I don't ctach things, Juan.Using a new alphabet, Faldo?
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No, he just caught it with the wrong finger :)
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Can't remember which movies but Mae West with
"Why dontcha come up and see me sometime?" and
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"
Like some of the others mentioned above, people who have never seen the movie still recognise the lines.
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Yep, Zed...that Mae West "Why don'tcha..." is a good one! And I even forgot that "gun in your pocket" line was hers!  Her's another definite biggie: "I coulda been somebody, I coulda been a contenduh."--Marlon Brando, On the WaterfrontWhich is actually a misquote, BTW, because the *orignal line is, "I coulda been a contenduh, I coulda been somebody." Why most folks transpose it colloquially (including me), I dunno. More fun to day "contenduh" at the end, I guess. But everytime I see the clip of that scene I'm reminded of the original and continue to use it the other way anyway. And, speaking of *original quotes, the Claude Raines line from Casablanca is actually "Round up the usual suspects." But, as has been discussed in seeking the etymology of the phrase on this board, it seems to have given rise to the phrase "the usual suspects." And I *think the Godfather quote is actually, "Make him an offer he can't refuse". But it's become used in every which way. Must be some fodder in these leads, folks...James Dean, W.C. Fields, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Anyone? And this has been parodied enough for consideration here: "It's aliiiiiive!"--Dr. Frankenstein And does anyone know if Dennis Hopper actually introduced "Far out!" in Easy Rider?
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...and the line from "Casablanca" that was never spoken:
"Play it again, Sam."
...and the expression attributed to Cary Grant (that he never spoke): "Judy, Judy, Judy."
...and the Peter Sellers line from "The Pink Panther":
"Does your dug baht?"
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>..and the Peter Sellers line from "The Pink Panther": "Does your dug baht?" Ah for the IPA - I would have transcribed that quite differently. It did however, somwhat circuitously, remind me of a line from cinema that has attained some measure of currency in certain circles, from a character near to one of our own. "Do or do not, there is no try." Fozzie Bear.
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Anybody have any others?
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” Casablanca
“There’s no place like home.” The Wizard of Oz
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” Network
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Gone With The Wind
“I’ll be back.” The Terminator
“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolate.
Forrest Gump
“You can’t handle the truth.” A Few Good Men
“Show me the money.”
Jerry Maguire
“May the force be with you.” Star Wars
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a new alphabet
Nope, I just happened to read your post *before you fixed it. You mighht could do the same once in a while.
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"Do or do not, there is no try."
Somehow I don't think that's original to Fozzie.
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Nope, I just happened to read your post *before you fixed it. You mighht could do the same once in a while.
I don't ftix things, Faldo.
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>Not original to Fozzie.
P'raps not, but, in his avatar as squat Jedi master, he certainly made it his own.
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I thought Grover played Yoda
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Frank Oz was Yoda, and Fozzie, which I have always understood to be a contraction (of sorts) of Frank Oz.
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Then how come he sounded like Grover?
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"A man's got to know his limitations."
-- Clint Eastwood (Magnum Force?)
"What did the Romans ever do for us?"
-- Monty Python (Life of Brian)
"You know what he's saying right now? Black bastard can't throw me out. Do you know where he's saying it? Out in the parking lot."
-- Morgan Freeman (Lean on Me)
"I crap bigger than you."
-- Jack Palance to Billy Crystal (City Slickers)
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And now for something completely different was often used as a voice-over on the Monty Python's television program, "Monty Python's Flying Circus," usually to lead to the next skit.
Did somebody already mention Dirty Harry's immortal question "Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?"
Not yet a widely quoted line, but I love DeNiro's response in "Ronin" when he is asked if he ever killed anybody: I hurt somebody's feelings once.
One of the most quoted movies when I was in college was the hilarious Raising Arizona, which produced:
I'll just take these Huggies and whatever cash you've got in the drawer.
Her womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.
Uh no, ma'am, we released ourselves on our own recognizance.
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Thanks, vbg!...that Peter Finch line from Network and the Star Wars mantra are two great examples! and two I should've come up with, but We could even shade into TV Land, I guess: Live long and prosper. --Mr. Spock (Bingley, where were you on this one? ) Nothing!...I know nothing!--John Banner as Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's HeroesYou rang?--Lurch, The Addams Family
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Ah well, if Star Trek is allowed, I want:
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
Beam me up, Scotty. (apparently never actually said, like "Play it again, Sam")
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Beam me up, ScottyOf course! Has to be in the top ten of the most-spoken and most-heard screen phrases ever! Thanks! Beam me up, Bingley! 
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"Fasten your seatbelts...
It's going to be a bumpy night."
-Bette Davis in All About Eve
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"Dave's not here"
-Cheech and Chong
Up in Smoke
"Just what do you think you're doing Dave?"
-Hal
2001:A Space Odyssey
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Star Trek
I'm a ________(frequently doctor), Jim, not a ________.
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Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone certainly became part of the language. And I was waitin' for tsuwm on this one but I can waits no more: " The facts. Just the facts."--Joe Friday, Dragnet.....Obvious?
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just the facts, ma'am
and as missquoted in Die Hard II "Just the fax, ma'am, just the fax."
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SWAT has introduced such a phrase. By the end of the summer, everyone will be using it.
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And, of course, "I'm king of the world!", repopularizez by Titanic but originally from another film...anybody know?
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