What one line from a movie rips right through you? — Page 2

#26

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:42am

From American Beauty, when *SPOILER* Ricky is leaving home:

Ricky Fitts: Mom, I'm leaving.
Barbara Fitts: Okay. Wear a raincoat.

It's such a simple line, but it just encapsulates the mother's whole helplessness. I think Allison Janney was the most emotionally affecting actor in that entire movie.


And, of course, from Forrest Gump:

Forrest: He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him.

Oh god, I'm tearing up right now. I'm done!

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#27

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:44am

Madbrian-
I was totally going to say that!

Another one that just about kills me, from Mommie Dearest:

Christina Crawford: Yes, Mommie Dearest.
Joan Crawford: When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it.

Followed closely by:
Joan Crawford: Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?

Two very intense, scary moments that make me go...."Dayum"

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#28

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:01pm

I can't post most of it on a family-friendly site, but the exchange between Clive Owen and (the terribly miscast) Julia Roberts as they discuss someone's infidelity in "Closer". Or, after Jude Law tells Natalie Portman that he loves her and she replies, "Where?"

That movie breaks me.

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#29

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:38pm

I agree with "I help young girls out." That always gets me. You don't want to see Vera suffer no matter what she did.

Also in Immortal Beloved: "The comedy is over."

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#30

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:47pm

From Marathon Man

"Is it safe"?

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#31

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:48pm

I can't recall the lines but

The dinner scene where Celie confronts Mister in The Color Purple.

The scene where Shelby has her seizure in Steel Magnolias as well as the post funeral breakdown by Sally Field.

I'm so gay.

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#32

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:55pm

I'm sure this is cliche, but:

"His glasses! He can't see without his glasses! He needs his glasses!"

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#33

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:56pm

jo galloway in a few good men, "because they stand upon a wall and say, 'nothing's going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch.'"

adam meiks in frailty, "this is where i put demons."

thomas dunson in red river, "every time you turn around, expect to see me, 'cause one time you'll turn around and i'll be there. i'm gonna kill ya, matt."

frank in thief, "i am the last guy in the world that you wanna f*ck with."

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#34

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:19pm

From the latest Family Guy episode:

"Shut your vag".

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#35

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:28pm

"Elaine, it's too late!"
"Not for me!"
*slap*

#36

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:06pm

Dancer in the Dark:

"In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens."
"You know when the camera goes really big and it comes up out of the roof, and you just know that it's gonna end? I hate that. "

#37

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:14pm

"We'll always have Paris." -- Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

"I'm Charles Foster Kane!" -- Orson Wells in Citizen Kane

"My Mother thanks you, my Father thanks you, and I thank you" -- James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

And almost every line in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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#38

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:21pm

Zepka- I know I know that. What's it from?

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#39

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:28pm

Ashley0139- I'm fairly certain its from My Girl *SPOILER* after Thomas dies and all Vada can think about is that he was never able to get his glasses back. That movie still gets to me.

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Updated On: 5/1/08 at 10:28 PM

#40

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:29pm

You can love or hate the movie all you want, but most of Shani Wallis' line readings as Nancy in OLIVER still sting (I saw it as a child). Especially--

"From this day on, he's a liar. And a thief. And all that's bad...Ain't that enough for you, without beatin' him to death?"

"I'll put the finger on all of you, and I DON'T CARE IF I HANG FOR IT!"

"Some livin', Lord help me. SOME LIVIN'!!!!!"

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#41

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:29pm

Yes, it's MY GIRL.

#42

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:38pm

I can never remember exact lines from movies but when I was younger there was only one movie that could choke me up. It was the execution scene at the end of The Green Mile that always got to me.

For that matter, Top Gun also hit me pretty badly, especially after Goose dies and Maverick breaks down in the locker room.

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#43

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:44pm

Ashley0139- I'm fairly certain its from My Girl *SPOILER* after Thomas dies and all Vada can think about is that he was never able to get his glasses back. That movie still gets to me.

AH YES! Thank you.

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"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

#44

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:56pm

In Raising Arizona, I loved when Holly Hunter says "Now you go up there and bring me down a toddler!"

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#45

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 12:53am

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#46

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 3:07am

In THE HOURS, when Laura Brown is reading MRS. DALLOWAY, with Virginia Woolf narrating the manuscript, and they both simultaneously come to the conclusion of suicide.

"Did it matter, then, she asked herself, walking toward Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease, completely? All this must go on without her. Did she resent it? Or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? It is possible to die. It is possible... to die."

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#47

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 4:59am

That is a strong one.

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#48

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 5:16am

"Sometimes I dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will."

#49

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 9:00am

Wow, these are some great lines and choices.

Powerful stuff.

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#50

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Posted: 5/2/08 at 9:41am

Some awesome picks, kids...here's some mo:

"Stand up child, your father's passing" TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

"We won, papa! We won!" LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

"Merry Christmas you wonderful old Building and Loan!" IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE