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Kenneth Williams tops funniest film one-liner poll

Steven

Disappointed not to see 

"I've been beating off in the shower for so long I get a hard-on when it rains" from Weird Science....

And surely the Cameron Diaz line is more visual.

Ashley Pomeroy

The next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested 

The one from The Naked Gun doesn't fit. It's a visual gag - it doesn't make sense unless we can see the stuffed beaver. And it's a a two-liner. The people who compiled this list are fools, fools I say.

Anonymous Coward

But... 

Now if it were TV one liners:

"Listen carefully, I shall say this only once"

- Michelle of the resistance, 'Allo 'Allo

This is my all time favourite

Anonymous Coward

Sid James 

I thought it was Sid James that had the 'infamy' line?

Nick Palmer

Sid James 

No, Sid James played Brutus, and the line is spoken as Julius Caesar (Williams) is fleeing from a load of knife-wielding senators; hence Caesar crying tragically "Infamy! Infamy! They've AAAALLLL got it in for me!". Although I retain a fondness for Amanda Barrie's (Cleo) description of her servant to Brutus: "Do not be afraid, lover! Sosages is a mute. And he cannot talk, either."

Nick

Chris Davis

Pah! 

'One-liners', eh? Hrrmph. Thereby missing entirely such gems as the deathless interchange between Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr in 'Magic Christian':

Ringo: 'Dad?

Peter: 'Yes, son?'

R: 'Do words corrupt?'

P: 'Hmm. Not sure. Let's see - Mary?'

Mary: 'Yes, darling?'

P: 'Nipple!' (pause)

'Well, there's no *immediate* reaction...'

CD