Movie Wisdom

[stray]

Figured it'd be a fun enough thread for this section... Quotes that you've taken to heart. Fire away.


The Devil's Advocate:

Don't get too cocky my boy. No matter how good you are, don't ever let them see you coming. That's the gaffe my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. You know, the nerd... the leper... shit-kickin' surfer. Look at me.
[stops and pauses]
Underestimated from day one! You'd never think I was a master of the universe, now would ya? [..] I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. I'm a surprise, Kevin.

Fight Club:

You're not your fucking khakis.

High Fidelity:

If you *really* wanted to screw me up, you should've gotten to me earlier!

[schild]

Moving to gen disc.

Rules thread, motherfucker.

[Stormwaltz]

Unforgiven:

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

[stray]

Moving to gen disc.

Rules thread, motherfucker.

Clueless

Cher: My bad.

[Evildrider]

PCU:

Now it's true, the majority of the students these days are so cravenly PC that they wouldn't know a good time if it was sitting on their face, but: there is one thing that will always unite us with them: they're young! They've got the same raging hormones, they've got the same self-destructive desire to get boldly trashed and wildly out of control. Look out that window! That is not a protest. It is a cry for help! They're begging us! Please have a party! Feed us drinks! Get us laid!!!

[Margalis]

You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

[Bunk]

"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."

[Rasix]

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet.

[schild]

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

[FatuousTwat]

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell."
Edit: American Beauty

"I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery to take care of something. I walked in the bathroom and in the middle toilet right there . . . somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment. Cause I was thinkin', 'I'm 30 years old and in about 10 seconds I gotta start cleaning up somebody's shit, man.'"
Edit: American Movie

"I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
Edit: Fight Club

"For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again."
Edit: Goodfellas

"We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements."
Edit: Office Space

[Sky]

"Where the white women at?"

[Merusk]

Try not. Do, or do not.  There is no try.

[HaemishM]

"This town needs an enema!" - The Joker, Batman

EDIT:
In Bruges:

Ken: "You're a cunt. You've always been a cunt. You'll always be a cunt. The only thing that might change is you become an even bigger cunt and have a few more cunt kids!"

Harry: "HEY! There's no need to bring my kids into this!"

[Oban]

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"

Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls.

Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.

Whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make.

[stray]

"For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again."

Damn, I really took that shit to heart when it came out. Before that, it was Billy the Kid movies and Jeff Spicoli. These days, it's Tyler Durden. I'm basically fucked, and have been fucked for quite some time.

[FatuousTwat]

Same here. Too bad I was 10 at the time.

[Yegolev]

Just today my wife called me asking if a squirrel could get inside her engine compartment.  We agreed that she should not look because movies prove that rodents always leap for the face, cling like a demon and cause you to flail around for a minute or two before collapsing.

[SnakeCharmer]

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"

Gross Pointe Blank.  Great movie.

"I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly when I'm gettin' paid."

[Chenghiz]

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. A normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker signal that says you are about to turn right. This is to let him know you're pulling off for a proper place to talk. It will take him a moment to realize that he's about to make a 180 degree turn at speed, but you will be ready for it. Brace for the g's, and fast heel-toe work.

(The book did it better, but it's a book!)

[FatuousTwat]

YOU CUT OUT HIS BRAIN, YOU BLOODY BABOON!

Not really wisdom, but funny as hell.

Edit: Planet of the Apes.

[Teleku]

Just a point of order, you fuckers need to start labeling what movies these came from (or at least the character). 

[FatuousTwat]

Ok.

[schild]

Just a point of order, you fuckers need to start labeling what movies these came from (or at least the character).  

According to a google search, the quoted text is not a movie quote.

[stray]

The Dark Knight:

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you.. stranger.

The Departed:

I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.

Dogma:

You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?  

[Amarr HM]

American Beauty

Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck.
Lester Burnham: Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.

Carolyn Burnham: Your father and I were just discussing his day at work. Why don't you tell our daughter about it, honey?
Lester Burnham: Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Carolyn Burnham: Your father seems to think this type of behavior is something to be proud of.
Lester Burnham: And your mother seems to prefer I go through life like a fucking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink.
Carolyn Burnham: How dare you speak to me that way in front of her. And I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me, on the same day that you LOSE your job.
Lester Burnham: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. Someone pass me the asparagus.

Predator
"This place makes Cambodia look like Arkansas"

[Zetleft]

I have something to say, it's better to burn out than to fade away!  /Kurgan

[Amarr HM]

There can be only one!

[Samwise]

"You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are."

 - Duck Soup

[ahoythematey]

"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."
-The Shawshank Redemption

"You've got red on your shirt."
-Shaun of the Dead

"So, if she weighs the same as a duck, that means she's made of wood..." (I probably utter this quote out loud at least once a week.  It's probably some sad, retarded form of tourettes.)
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny.  My grandmother hung me on a hook once.  Once."
-Johnny Dangerously

"My name is Jeffy, and I like apples."
-The Ringer

"No thank you, Turkish, I'm sweet enough."
-Snatch

"We. Are Going. To DIE!"
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

"I'd give real money if he'd shut up."
-Star Trek VI

"I want my two dollars."
-Better Off Dead

"They called me Mister Glass."
-Unbreakable

"Viddy well, my brothers, viddy well!"
-A Clockwork Orange

"Well ain't this place a geographical oddity, two weeks from everything."
-Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

"It wasn't lies, it was just...bullshit."
-The Blues Brothers

"Enhance your calm."
-Demolition Man
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[Margalis]

Mine was from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, spoken by Clint Eastwood.

[bhodi]

Ahoy, you are doing it wrong.

It's quotes full of wisdom, not cool sayings.

[Engels]

Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.

[ahoythematey]

"Quotes that you've taken to heart."  I've taken every single one of those to heart, because of the absurdity of the situation, the desolate cynicism needed to find it funny, or whatever else blah blah blah.  Whether they are actual wisdom or not is immaterial to me, because those are the lines that move me to laughter, to smile, to self-reflection, etc.  Probably says pretty sad things about myself...

If you want some honest to god wisdom, movies aren't really the best place to find it, but I'll try to throw in something for the peanut gallery.

"Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?"
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!"
-Schindler's List

"I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox... and as much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be Bud Fox."
-Wall Street

"There is no normal life Wyatt, There's just life."
-Tombstone

"No, fuck you. You don't owe it to yourself. You owe it to me. 'Cause tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty. And I'll still be doing this shit. And that's all right, that's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winning lottery ticket and you're too much of a pussy to cash it in. And that's bullshit. `Cause I'd do anything to fuckin' have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in twenty years. Hanging around here is a fuckin' waste of your time."
-Good Will Hunting

[Abagadro]

"Never go full retard."
-Kirk Lazarus, Tropic Thunder

[UnholyB0B]

D.C. Cab

Mr. Rhythm: "Don't let your dick run your life."