It is probobaly my favorite movie EVER. and I watch a lot of movies... "corky, we need you to take your magic wand, wave it around and make this town special again" "Lloyd is a music teacher and he shops at wal-mart"
Which brings me to the number 5. There are five letters in the word Blaine. Now, if you mix up the letters in the word Blaine, mix 'em around, eventually, you'll come up with Nebali.
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
"Why are you whispering?" "IS THAT BETTER?" "No now you're yelling. I want you to speak in a normal voice"
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"This is my show now" (only funny if you know about the character of Lloyd...how many of you have ever worked with a music director like Lloyd before?"
*** "Citizens of Blaine do not be alarmed!"
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"Everybody dance!" "He's here, he's here!" "Well honey, I'm really trying to commit to one side here."
*** The songs in that film make me laugh out loud every time I hear them! "A penny for your thoughts...a dime for your dreams..." "Nothing ever happens on Mars" "Stooooooo-ooooools, everyone can see the stooo-ooools"
Seriously, this film is worth owning. I've never laughed so much watching a movie.
"My Dinner with Andre" action figures. "The Remains of the Day" lunch boxes.
Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara auditioning with their interpretation of a Noel Coward-Gertrude Lawrence version of "Midnight at the Oasis": Fred: "Do you have time for a cup of coffee?" Catherine: "Perhaps. What time is it?" Fred: "Don't you know? It's (together) midnight at the oAYYYsis."
"When you're an entertainer, you've got to go where the love is. And for me, the love is in Miami."
"I was going to go to New York but my dad got released out of prison early."
My 9-year-old daughter watches this ALL THE TIME! It's very, very funny. (That's ME talking, not one of the characters from the movie!
"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"
God, how could I forget that one?? It's almost required that somebody says "It's the day of the show, y'all" on opening night at the theater I do stuff at. Absolutely a classic line.
I liked Mighty Wind, but it's not really in the same category almost as the others--it's borderline sincere! I cried during "Kiss.." which should have won Best Song and thought Catherine was robbed of an Oscar nom!
Not the funniest line for me, but certainly one of the funniest moments:
Corky's last note in Penny For Your Thoughts (as he goes for what I assume is a high C that he never quite gets to), and they quick cut to Steve, who looks like he's watching Maria Callas finishing an aria. Then it's back to Corky and Libby as they do splits for their final tableau, and Corky can't quite get down there.
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald ... striking.
So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a 10,000 foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga ... gunga, gunga galunga.
So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.
And yes, I did that from memory. I use it as an audition monologue. And I try to use the pitchfork whenever possible.