I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin', but ol' man river; he just keeps rollin' along."
-Showboat
It's not so much the line as Roger Bart's delivery:
"If it was your intention to shoot an arrow through my heart ... bullseye!"
"Maybe he walked, cable cars scare him"
August: Osage County had a whole slew of them, too many to quote here.
I also love:
"Most people who think they're happy just haven't thought about it enough. Most people who think they're happy are actually just stupid."
"If something's worth having, it's worth fighting for." - Hairspray
Goldman: "And although the newspapers are calling the shooting the crime of the century Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were 94 years to go."
Oh thank you Doctor. Valium is my favorite color- Diana (n2n)
Updated On: 7/7/10 at 11:23 PM
Valium, you mean?
I didn't love that line too much, probably because I was expecting it after seeing the Tshirt in the lobby before the show. Still trying to think about my favorite line.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/09
From Rent:
BENNY: She's got a new man?
MARK: Well -- no
BENNY: What's his name?
MARK & ROGER: Joanne
From BBAJ:
I'm not that guy.... I'm not that guy... who am I? I'm Andrew *f*cking* Jackson and my life sucks in particular.
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/04
"No, Little Sally, dreams are meant to be crushed -- it's nature's way." Officer Lockstock in URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL
Somehow it's depressing and hilarious at the same time.
Updated On: 7/6/10 at 11:50 PM
"Alt-na-shel-laccccccchhhhhhhh", "They told me it was a cast of FOUR!" The 39 Steps
"It's a sign, Tommy!" Jersey Boys
"B*tch! I don't know your life!" Xanadu
"Let me be your one man Disneyland" (lyric) Catch Me if You Can
Just about every one of Joanne's lines in Company, but especially:
"Smoking may be the only thing that separates us from the lower forms"
ROBERT: "Like everyone else"
JOANNE: "Who else?"
ROBERT: "Everybody that ever fell in love and got married"
JOANNE: "I know both couples and they're both divorced"
Broadway Star Joined: 8/12/07
BAKER'S WIFE: "I have no children."
JACK'S MOTHER: "That's okay too..."
The line about sex and bacon - and one of my favorites and first I thought of when I saw this thread - is from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Also:
"I was raised to be charming, not sincere." -- Into the Woods
There are more than I can count from 1776:
"The whole earth was created in a week!" "Some day, you must tell me how you did it." "Disgusting."
"New York abstains...courteously." "Mr. Morris, what the hell goes on in New York!?"
"Awww, that was a new one."
"Whoring and drinking."
"Madman!" "LAWYER!"
"Rhode Island passes."
"Not everyone's from Philadelphia."
There are so many....
Not from a Broadway show yet, but is slated to open this season:
"If you don't live you can't change anything."
(Yank!)
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/08
Some of my favorites were already listed, so I'll add from Proof....
Answering a request to TELL them what the notebook-sized proof is to prove she wrote it, the character says, "It's not a MUFFIN RECIPE!"
"I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW!!" - August: Osage County
"Lemonade, it would choke me" - A Little Night Music
thanks CockeyedOptimist2, if i wanted your opinion i'd ask for it :)
Chorus Member Joined: 10/24/03
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels- Hummer in my Hummer
"Congratulations! A Mexican!" -Boeing-Boeing
"And that is my dream,
to know how it feels,
to be someones dream,
and kick up your heels.
It's what I was mean't to be!"
From the musical "Kicks" which never made it to NY
YESS iamchanging9! love the lemonade line!
Also from that show and character,
"Dear Marta has renounced men and is teaching gymnastics at a school for retarded girls in Bettelheim."
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
kc2, the quote is from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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