'I'll be back' is most-quoted movie line

Obligatory "But what about...." comment

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

Modern women. They've been like that all through the ages.

This seems very fishy. Surely people say "I'll be back" all the time without meaning to quote The Terminator, which gives that quote an unfair advantage. And I doubt that many people quote Roy Batty's death speech in everyday conversation.

And it seems odd that neither Trainspotting nor Pulp Fiction nor The Matrix appeared anywhere. Perhaps they were exclusively 1990s phenomena.

Is it bad form to separate more than two items with "nor" and "neither"?

The master would not approve. I choose Paris Hilton as my avatar because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work etc

What about.....

1. "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) Used when being put-upon by the boss.

2. "Oh you mean an African swallow" (Paraphrase)(Monty Python and the Holy Grail). Used in cases of misunderstanding.

3. "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" (Life of Brian). Used when an ass-licker makes a cock-up.

4. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" (The Italian Job). Used in case of large scale cock-up.

5. "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and...." (Paraphrase)(Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy). Used when assigned a menial task.

6. "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" (2001, A Space Odyssey). Used when you catch a colleague viewing dodgy websites.

7. "Do ya feel lucky, punk" (Dirty Harry). Used in cases of general risk taking.

Myself...

...I find I use these with gay abandon:

"Butter hook!" ~ Live And Let Die

"The wankers on the street don't drink it cause they can't afford it" (along with many others too numerous to mention) ~ Withnail & I

"First you'd better stop waving it like a feather duster" often followed with "How appropriate, you fight like a cow" or "Why, did you want to borrow one?" ~ The Secret of Monkey Island (Yes, that's a game not a movie. Yes, I'm a loser. No, I don't care.)

Shirley

One of my faves (from Airplane) is:

"Surely sir, you can't be serious!"

"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

I can't believe...

...that the greatest film quote ever isn't here:

"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum....and I'm all out of bubblegum"

Top stuff, and a hilariously bad B-movie to boot. Longest fight scene in a film...

Where is the Paris Hilton angle?

Surely you can't leave out these:

"And, don't call me shirley!"

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti"

"Yarp!"

I'll get my coat!

So how are people misquoting

"I'll be back"? It's probably harder to sod up than get right.

Can't belive...

...the most popular quote from 2001 wasn't "I'm sorry I can't do that, Dave"

And where was Star Wars? No "these aren't the droids you're looking for?" etc, etc

I think we should be told.

"I'll be back"?

AFAIR the great quote from the original Terminator movie at the time was "Fuck you, asshole". The adoption of "I'll be back" as the Arnie catchphrase came later as the appeal of the whole Termintor genre became more mainstream and Hollywood realised that it had a bit of a problem with image (presumably the Terminator poseable action figure that says "Fuck you, asshole" when you pull the string wasn't likely to top the Xmas sales charts). They went so far as to have Arnie use "I'll be back" whenever possible in order to reinforce the new, family-friendly, entertainment-focussed Terminator image.

The lone voice of dissent in the industry was Paul Verhoeven who resurrected "Fuck you, asshole" in "Total recall" as a side-gag, going so far as to have this one issued by a little old lady at Arnie (this one produced gales of laughter at the cinema when I saw it).

Nice to see that the extensive airbrushing work by the Pigopolist Junta seems to have paid off.

It's the anorak, thanks.

Quotes

yeah, didn't Donald Pleasance do a better "Good-bye, Mr. Bond" in You Only Live Twice? more stacato like if I remember

Also, wasn't it James Caan and 'The Fopp' in Mickey Blue Eyes that repeated "Furr-ghedda b'art eet!"? (God, what a bad, bad film....)

@Marc : doesn't seem right, but his original script which was lengthly was heavily cut by Mr.Scott. Think it's fairly true, but there are so many variations on the net, it's difficult to check without watching it again.. (oh well, guess I'll have to watch it again! he he)

I saw this article and thought

I've got a bad feeling about this.

What?

How can they possibly have come to this staggeringly unimpressive conclusion?

Because of course no-one who wasn't referring to Arnie's classic Terminator line would use the phrase "I'll be back".

Also I somehow don't believe many people use that whole quote from blade runner at number 8 on a regular basis.

I've used the 'amanfrommars' icon because this article makes about as much sense as something he'd wrote.

Arnieisms.

Wasn't it "Arrlbee Bock"?

Shouldn't this item really be called...

'I'll be back' is the most-quoted movie line by 2000 UK film buffs?

Amongst...

all the cries of "why doesn't....make the list?" everyone seems to have forgotten that it's not a list of the best movie quotes, it's just a list of those that are most used in conversation.

that said...

"Nice marmot"

the movie quote people use most in everyday chat?

Who on Earth says "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." in their everyday conversation?

TitleCaesar

Infamy! infamy! - they've all got it in for me!

The Last Action Composer

So Segal, Van Damme and Arnie are thinking of ways to revive their movie careers. Segal says: "We need to do something with more pathos, so we get taken seriously".

Arnie responds: "Yes - something that will win an Oscar",

so Jean-Claude suggests: "How about a history of famous composers? I've always admired Wagner, I could play him".

Segal says: "No no, Rachmaninov is the best, I'll play the Russian"...

To which Arnie simply says: "I'll be Bach"

"You always were an *sshole, Gorman!"

Not sure I'm impressed by this survey - some of these quotes are far too wordy to actually get used in conversation. It all seems a bit contrived. Also, what about:

"How do I get out of this chicken-sh*t outfit?" Aliens

"Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!" Aliens

"Watch those corners!" Aliens

"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure" Aliens

"Get away from her you b*tch!" Aliens

"Not bad, for a human" Aliens

"It's game over, man, game over!" Aliens

"Ease down Ripley, you're just grinding metal." Aliens

"We're on a express elevator to hell.... going down" Aliens

"All I need to know, is where they are." Aliens

"What are we supposed to use, man, bad language?" Aliens

"A day in the corps is like a day on the farm!" Aliens

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid" Aliens

"Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" / "No. Have you?" Aliens

There are many more!

RE: Withnail & I is full of quotey goodness!

It most certainly is...

"'I fuck arses' ... who fucks arses? Maybe HE fucks arses!"

"I called him a ponce, and now I'm calling you one ... PONCE!"

"I have a heart condition, if you hit me it's murder!"

"Started coming on really 'bald' with me"

"If I spiked you you'd know you'd been spoken too"

"If I medicined you, you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present"

"Cool your boots, man"

"You can shove it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're doing it"

"Danny's lost his clog!"

"My thumbs have gone weird!"

"We're not from London, you know" .. "I don't care where you come from!"

"Are you the farmer?".. "Stop saying that Withnail, of course he's the FUCKING farmer!"

"I want something's flesh!"

"I've been watching you - especially you, prancing like a TIT, you want workin' on boy!"

"I'm not homosexual Monty!" .. "Yes you are, OF COURSE you are!"

And the list goes on and on...

@ Sir Runcible Spoon

> "They'll be coming after us as fast as they can"

> "And that's pretty fast actually"

> "Not as fast as us" <-- This is delivered in the most contemptous manner

> possbile.

I do believe that little exchange is from Blake's 7, Sir. Now about my prize; I demand the finest wines available to humanity. And cake.

My God, it's full of stars!

Name that movie great!! But do it before 3001 the final odyssey.

One, two, five...

"Three, sir." "Three."

"I fart in your general direction."

"Okay, we'll call it a draw."

"Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?"

<grabs anorak>

I'll be back?

Wasn't that Fu Manchu's line, long before Arnie borrowed it?

I'll be back-ack-ack-ck-ck-k

Arnie's catchphrase

I remember more the "I'll be back" line from when I first watched it, because of the carnage that immediately follows that scene. However, I watched the "EDITED FOR TELEVISION" version, so I think that the "Fuck you, asshole" line may have been cut out back then... *and* I was like 5 years old.

Hm... I wonder why "Mr. Sulu, Warp Speed" isn't one of those quotes. My dad used to use that line when entering the highway, which usually meant we'd grab on to anything as he would speed up to 160+ km/h. Ow.

As for Goldfinger's "I expect you to DIE, Mr. Bond!", it really sounds like the most badass line ever given by a Bond villain. Right to the point: I don't want you to talk, or fight, or whatever. I want you to die! bahahahahaha!!! Note that 007 had *no* means of escape, it is only because of his bluff that he is able to save his arse. Oops!

@BossHog

All those Aliens quotes and you missed...

"They're coming out of the god-damned walls" - used by me a lot when getting pwnd in any FPS.

"They mostly come out at night... mostly" - just because it's a little bit creepy.

----

also

"Shut it down, shut it down forever" - Dark City

"I know Kung Fu" - the Matrix

"Say hello to my little friend" - Carlito's Way (I think) parodied in Warcraft 3 (click on Trolls lots).

"This is my boomstick", "Gimme some sugar baby", "Goody little two shoes..." - actually, fuck it, just about anything ever said by Bruce Campbell in any of the Evil Dead films... blatently ripped off for Duke Nukem.

And if you're gonna get into the world of gaming "The cake is a lie" is about to becomes an instant classic!

@Anonymous Fu Manchu

I think you'll find that Fu Manchu responded to his setbacks with something along the lines of: "The world shall hear from me again"

quote me, quote you

"I'll have what she's having..."

... oh look - there's a big black helicopter outside. A nice man from the Daily Mail is asking me if I know me... I said he's my evil twin brother. Can I stay in this thread for a bit 'till the heat dies down?

"They're coming to take me away..."

My own personal favourites...

"Ok - we did the nose, but she IS a witch" and

"Come back here and I'll bite your kneecaps"

Most-used Blade Runner quote

Forget Roy/Rutger's pretentious C-beams and the improbability of anyone ever using that speech in a real conversation, the Blade Runner quote that seems to get used most often around our house is, rather embarrassingly: "Home again! Home again! Jiggedy-jig"

It's not FU MANCHU

It was Emperor Ming the Merciless who said "The world shall hear from me again"

I'm old enough to have gone to the saturday morning pictures - can someone help me on with me coat

Hmm...

"Your failure is now complete."

"I find your lack of faith... disturbing." (Both very useful in business)

(Serenity)

"You shoot me if they take me! [pause] Don't shoot me YET!"

(LOTR)

"We neeeeds it! It's ours!"

A quote for any occasion

"That Melon Farmer can go flip himself"

I've seen things you wouldn't believe....

Nuclear missiles glinting in the sunlight on their launch pads...

Men walking on the Moon...

Supersonic airliners circling the world...

All gone, like tears in the rain.

Would have thought it was ...

... "let's get out of here"

I ain't got time to bleed

"If it bleeds, we can kill it".

"You sending the Wolf?"

"Well I'm a mushroom cloud laying mutherfucker, mutherfucker!"

"Please, call me Winston"

"I'll be back!"... "Only in the re-runs".

"Spock, you have the con"... "Who the fuck is Spock?"

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"

My Lord...

..I have a cunning plan.

@Amongst... & How did they miss:

Ah, the #2 source of apt quotes in our IT shop (just after MPFC). More overlooked gems:

"Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling" -- Whenever it's pub time!

"Shomer fucking shabbos" -- Whenever it's one's turn to carry the off-hours pager.

"That rug really tied the room together" -- Whenever kit goes tits up.

"I am the walrus" and "At least I'm housebroken" -- Whenever someone's inane comment calls for a suitable retort.

But these and many other Coen-isms are prolly too existential to make any public list. (PS: we patiently await the day the BOFH finally transcends petty reality to achieve abidement with The Dude.)

/Yes, the coat with the pee stains. The Nihilists are already waiting outside for me./

@ boss hog

"Say Hello to my litle friend" ... scarface mate - another utter classic.

Fuck Paul Verhoeven, you asshole... and Casablanca

Paul Verhoeven screwed up.

Arnie's original line was "Fuck you, asshole" (selected from a menu of three possible responses seen on his head-up display, IIIRC).

The little old lady in Total Recall says "Fuck you, you asshole".

Totally spoiled the rhythm and meter of it, if you ask me. Every time I see that film, it just jars. I want to grab the little old lady and smack her around, while shouting "Fuck you and your "fuck you, you asshole, asshole", it's "fuck you, asshole", you asshole".

Oh, and Casablanca? "Play it", "Play it, Sam", and "Play it once, Sam". But never "Play it /again/". Which is the way it's usually (mis-)remembered.

Or did you mean "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"?

Cabot! Cabot! Cabot! Cabot!

"It was Emperor Ming the Merciless who said "The world shall hear from me again""

The first - second? - chap was right, it was Fu Manchu, at least in the 1960s Hammer films with Christopher Lee, e.g. "The Brides of Fu Manchu". Unfortunately the IMDB doesn't have a quotes listing for any of them.

I don't think Ming the Merciless had a clever death quote. He probably wouldn't talk about the world hearing from him again; which world? He was more interested in conquering the universe, individual little planets were playthings for him.

I choose Paris Hilton as my avatar because, after all, we'll always have Paris.

and ofc

"this is bat country"

if you don't know where that's from, you've failed in life.

Not Fu Manchu!

I was wrong, it wasn't Fu Manchu, his was indeed "The world shall hear from me again"

It was "The Spirit of Dark and Lonely water". Remember that BBC public information film telling children not to play near lakes? It finished with that echoing "I'll be back-ack-ack" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690150.stm

On the TV in the 70's like Fu, hence my confusion...

Ah, now I can get me coat & go home in peace

ok shoot me but...

I really love the lines from True Romance as he goads the hitman into shooting him. PC brigade be damned:

"Your ancestors were niggers and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger and she had a half nigger kid. If that's a fact, tell me, am I lying?"

*bang*

re:Kane

Brother, life's a bitch... and she's back in heat.

LOVE that movie.

totally geeky but....

the poster who made the remark about StarScream in the Transformers tv series misquoted it, as it was re-written to suit the scene

Runabout : "hey, wheres your security pass?"

Starscreams Ghost : "passes? PASSES!? We don't NEED no stinkin passes!"

Lock Stock...

If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything, I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive Nick. Now, do you understand everything I've just said? Cause' if you don't, I'll kill ya! Now, Mr Bubble and Squeak, you may enlighten me.

Not when the price is 200 pound it ain't! And certainly not when you've got Liberia's deficit in your skyrocket. Tighter than a duck's butt you are. Now, lemme feel the fibre of your fabric.

Yeah, little bit of pain never hurt anybody. If you know what I mean. Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, fuck-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro.

Harry didn't think that he did a very good job, so he grabbed the nearest thing to hand, which just so happened to be a 15 inch black rubber cock, and proceeded to beat poor old Smithy to death with. And that was seen as a nice way to go. Now, that, is why you pay Hatchet Harry, when you owe.

Eddie: They're armed.

Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?

Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!

more Grail of the Holiest

"It's only a model", "Shhhhhhhhht!"

"N..n..n.. ... NOOOO", "No, no, that's "Ni !!"

"A SHRUBBERY!!!"

oh come off it...

THE MOST used quote in ANY office...

is... "DOH!"...

Homer, i salute you...

I notice some of you are quoting from video games...

...and yet not one of you has mentioned "all your base are belong to us!!!"

Its a goddam travesty!

more....

"Follow the white rabbit"

Does it have to be a movie?

"I like my species the way it is" (best of both worlds - star trek s4, episode1)

Some More...

Everybody's dead Dave. (Red Dwarf)

So if Little Red Riding Hood shows up with a bazooka and a bad attitude, I expect you to chin the bitch. (Dog Soldiers)

I expect nothing but gratuitous violence from the lot of you. Just because we're firing blanks doesn't mean we have to be thinking nice thoughts. (Dog Soldiers)

I'm not breaking radio silence because you lot got spooked by a dead f**king flying cow. (Dog Soldiers)

You like pain? Try wearing a corset (Pirates of the carribean)

But why is all the rum gone? (Pirates of the carribean)

And call off christmas (Robin Hood POT)

I'm gonna dig your heart out with a spoon! (Robin Hood POT)

Woah Ugly (The three musketeers)

How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice (Die Hard 2)

Run Away! Run Away (Monty Python & Holy Grail)

Any of you f**king pricks move and I'll execute every motherf**king last one of ye! (Pulp Fiction)

I'm gonna get medival on your ass (Pulp Fiction)

Ok, so its not a movie but.....

Portal is by far the most quoted thing amongst my friends (most of us are doing Further Maths at college and so are all massive geeks).

"The cake is a lie"

"2 + 2 is..... 10... in base 4!! I'm fine!!"

"You can't kill me, i have the only permanent back up of your brain. Don't believe me? look, I'll put you in (squeaky voice) 'HELLO'. Look, that's you, see how stupid you sound!!"

"Now place the weighted storage cube on the heavy duty supercolliding super button"

"There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends because of how unlikable you are. Unlikable, it says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. SHALL. NOT. BE. MOURNED. That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you're adopted, so that's funny too."

"Aperture science promises that you will be in no danger during the tests, if there is any danger, you will be given proper safety instructions, for example: the floor of this room will kill you, try not to touch it"

And of course singing the end theme whenever possible

(to those that cry spoiler, thats barely scratching the surface of funny quotes from that game....)

Snootch...

to the motherfuck*ng noooooooooootch!

Airplane ;)

"Do we have Clearance, Clarence?" (followed by...)

"Roger Roger, What's our vector, Victor?"