Fave quotes - The Great Race (1965) Discussion

[–] PeachHamBeach 17 years ago

Some of these might already have been mentioned, but:

Every time FATE says, "MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXX!!!"

LESLIE: He's a cheat and a liar!!
FATE: That's beside the point!!!

FATE: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXX, UP IDIOT, UP!!!

PRINCE HAPNICK: BRANDY, THROW MORE BRANDY!!!

MRS. GOODBODY: Henry, if you can't be more gracious, shut up!!

MR. GOODBODY: Frisbee, next time be more careful. If you feel yourself falling, let go of the bird!!!

MAX (to MS. DUBOIS): YOU'RE A LUNATIC, A LUNATIC!!!

When MS. DUBOIS breaks out in song, "MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY!!!"

LESLIE: (About the iceberg melting) You'd better keep it to yourself."
FATE: Oh, of course I'll keep it to myself...UNTIL THE WATER REACHES MY LOWER LIP AND THEN I'M GONNA MENTION IT TO SOMEBODY!!!

Mari
www.sisto-act.net

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[–] anshula 17 years ago

i love all the lines and i guess almost all of them have been mentioned here ...

there's one in the beginning where fate sabotages leslies hot air balloon and later when he comes down using the parachute ...."a parachute!!!"

another one: when fate realizes he's won cuz leslie stopped "i refuse to win in any way but my own..." "challange you to another race..."

and the evergreen "you rise you shine ... 7:30 in the morning"

and to top it all ... the background music ... accompanying prof fate's endeavours was great!

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[–] darkblader 17 years ago

Max: In 5 seconds, Car #5's engine falls out.
Fate: Car #5 Ha Ha Ha Ha!
(pause)
Fate: Max, we're Car #5.
(engine falls out)

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[–] cunninglinguist 17 years ago

FATE, "UP, YOU IDIOT. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!"

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[–] chrislyons12 17 years ago

"There'll be no lollygagging in the hallway"
"I am an emacipated women"
"Running like a top"

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[–] DoctorX-777 16 years ago

(The editor opens his office door and his wife falls in)
"Oh, I'm sorry, dear."
"Capitulate, Henry!"
"Never."

"India? Isn't that where they have those Hindu persons who lie on nails and charm snakes? I think I'm supposed to go to India on a goodwill tour - DO WE GO TO INDIA, GENERAL?"

"Carpania is full of forests and the forests are full of gypsies and the gypsies are full of shenanigans."

"Bury the hatchet."
"And you know who has the hatchet."
"He doesn't have a hatchet, he doesn't even have a whole mustache, now why can't we settle this underneath the blanket?"

"You cheated, cheated, cheated! You, your suit is always white, your hair is always combed, your collar is always clean! YOU I HATE!"

And then there's always the part where the general is teaching Fate to laugh like the prince.

"Any prisoners caught throwing rocks at low-flying German aircraft will be thrown in the boob."

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[–] whitcombjl 16 years ago

Oh, let's face it . . . the entire movie is chock-a-block with brilliant one-liners.

As someone who freelances a newspaper column, however, I always crack up when Maggie screams to Fate and Max after they've locked her out of their compound, "You can't do this! I'm a journalist!!!!!!!" (Or words to that effect . . . )

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[–] Quinn76 16 years ago

Practically any line by the prince. xD

Darn right I'm good in bed, I can sleep for days!

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[–] shandy8 16 years ago

Maggie:"Come and get it!"

Max: "Maybe she's not talking about us..."

"I love corn!"

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[–] nasaretti 16 years ago

I like most

Texas Jack: "Fiddledy dee! I don't much like the way you celebrate."

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[–] MissSugarKane 15 years ago

[after Maggie blows up Fate's garage, they try to throw her out]
Max: Out! Out!
Professor Fate: Get out, you cunning witch!
Maggie: Don't treat me that way. I'll expose you, I'm a member of the press --
[she makes her way back in]
Professor Fate: Get out and stay out! A pox on you!
[Max closes the door on the Professor and Maggie]
Professor Fate: Max!
[Maggie kicks the Professor]
Professor Fate: Ow!
Max: What are you kicking the Professor for?!
[The Professor kicks Max]
Professor Fate: Close the door!
[Maggie kicks Max]
Professor Fate: Stop it, did you hear me?
[Maggie raises her fights to the Professor]
Maggie: Put up your dukes!
[The Professor hides behind Max....]
Maggie: Come on!
[Max ducks and the Professor is punched and falls backwards]
Max: You're a lunatic, a lunatic!
Maggie: You can't talk to me that way! I'm a member of the press!

Marilyn Monroe: I don't want to be rich. I just want to be wonderful.

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[–] rave-scream-shout 15 years ago

"Why you THIMBLE HEADED GHERKIN!"

"My apologies, there's a polar bear in our car!"

"He doesn't haev a hatchet, he doesn't even have a whole moustache..."

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[–] Ricochet84 15 years ago

Leslie: Are you a native of Borracho, Miss Olay?
Lily Olay: I ain't no native! I was born here!
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Fate: Genius, positive genius, Max! What's next?
Max: Car number five, the engine falls out!
Fate: Max...we're car number five...(engine drops out of car).
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Fate: "MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!
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Fate: You I hate. You and you hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, and your car that's always clean!
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Prince Hapnick: EEEWWW, rum! I never mix my pies!
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Fate: We can melt, we can blast, we can rise above - we are invincible!
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Fate: UP, YOU IDIOT. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!
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Death will come on swift wings...to whomsoever opens this chest!
-Dr. Allen Chamberlain

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[–] professorfate1965 15 years ago

I know it's been posted before but the one that had me in stiches has to be:

Leslie escaped with a small fryar.

Leslie escaped with a chicken?!

The upper lip line on the iceberg is a close second.

By far Professor Fate has to be my favorite Jack Lemmon performance. Wonderfully over the top. Sometimes it's a lot more fun to be the bad guy than the good.

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