Favorite lines to recite


Come on, who doesn't love to say "How HIGH a ridge ah could not TELL"?


--"The principles of surgery are the same above and below the neck."--

reply

Oh man best movie ever...

My family is constantly quoting the lines from this movie so here are our faves...(Some have probably been mentioned but I just want to post them anyways)

"Everybody dance."

"A Penny for you thoughts..."

"You can get anything at the Dairy Queen. You just drive in a nd get a Coke if you want...a...Coke."

"Corky we love you! We don't want you to die!"

"You know what kind of people you are? You're bastard people! And I'm just gonna go home and bite my pillow, thats what I'm gonna do!"

I'll do whatever I feel like...GOSH! -Napoleon Dynamite

reply

[deleted]

Its just a great sentence...I probably say almost 20 times a day to almost everyone lol

I'll do whatever I feel like...GOSH! -Napoleon Dynamite

reply

[deleted]

My favorites (not mentioned yet)

"You can't just drive through and get a Coke...if you're thirsty."

"This is the day of the show, ya'll" (In our community theatre group, we saw this line to each other constantly before every performance)

"I'd like to make like a healthy, low-fat or non-fat....healthy....Blizzard"

"Always the years between us. Always the years, always the love, always... the hours."

reply

[deleted]

(Mayor) All right, who's going first?
(Steve Stark) I'll go.
(Mayor) Okay, Gwen, go ahead.

He's right. Security is important. Remember last year when we got egged?

I can't deliver a stinky product...

LOOKOUT! Camptown races sing that song, doo dah, doo dah!

You want us to leave it here, or strike it? A little theater terminology..we've done shows with Corky before.

reply

I can't believe no one has mentioned the brief but unmistakable Catherine O'Hara muttering in times of surprise:

Oh, hubbub, hubbub!

Gets me every time :)

reply

Thats my FAVORITE!!! Me and my friend do that all the time!!!!

reply

ok my two favourite are (three really but i only get to say "who's on to and who's on bottom now?" to people who know what i mean.) "I always have a place at the DQ" (Libby) and "oh i just made a call, you know, made a call. oh you!" (Corky) the latter one i use ALL the time... and my mother can now feel any opportunity in which i might be able to use it, and tries to stop me before i can. :)

if you can't say something nice, at least say it where i can't see it.

reply

I love "Everybody dance!" All I have to say to my friend Missy is those two words, and she starts screaming with laughter.

I love waaay to many lines from this movie...!

-"Specs"
-"I hate you, and I hate your stupid ass...face!"
-"I said to him, 'Ron, you gotta do something about this,' and he said 'Well why don't you just get one of those vagina enlargements?'"
-That line that goes "He's a musical director, and he shops at Walmart"
-"It's a zen thing, like how many babies can fit in a tire."
-"I was shopping for my wife, Bonnie. I buy all her clothes."
-"I hate you because you people are bastard people."
-To paraphrase a quote I don't know exactly..."People think Roswell was the first sighting of a UFO, but it was actually here in Blaine. And it didn't just fly over, it stopped, and the citizens of Blaine were invited on for a pot-luck dinner."

There are tons more...I just LOVE all of his movie!

reply

[deleted]

Isn't anyone going to mention....

STOOL BOOM from the parlor to the pool room!

Yes, sometimes I'm just un-sophisticated enough to appreciate really great potty humor.

reply

[deleted]

[deleted]

Agreed:

'bastard people'

'I'm going to go home and BITE MY PILLOW' - ohhh dear, what an awkward situation it is when you're watching it with someone who hasn't heard the term 'pillow biter'...

'ass face'

'everybody dance' (that tone of voice is just classic)

the one about Dances with Stumpy (oh, Eugene, what will you think of next?!)

the whole of Nothing Ever Happens on Mars... but I might jump to the 'fave moment' thread now...

SF :)

reply

most definitely steve stark(michael hitchcock) "god I wish I was in the show!"...actually, all of his lines

reply

Michael Hitchcock shouting "CORKY!" at the top of his lungs at the end of the show.

and... "I'll tell you why I can't deal with you people, it's because you're bastard people."

heh, i still use the expression bastard people today.

Excuse me. I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.

reply

The screaming "Corky!" line is definitely my favorite, too.

I scream it at random intervals throughout my day.

Life is just more fun with quotes, huh?

Just,
Dani

reply

In an early practice, before they know their lines:
Sheila: "STOOL! Oh, sorry."

reply

I know this isn't the exact quote but when they are eating in the restaurant Fred Willard says to his wife (about why he doesn't get circumcized) "you should get vagina enlargement surgery". FUNNY, FUNNY MOVIE AND CAN'T WAIT ON THE NEXT ONE!!

reply

[deleted]

"He's trying to get me to change my instincts... or at least ignore them."
Sheila Albertson

Hadn't been mentioned yet and I thought it was really funny!

reply


whenever i direct a show and i have notes at the end of the nite, i always say "gather round for i have news...how high a ridge i could not tell"
and whenever i'm in a conversation that's on the verge of being disgustingly pretentious and intellectual i always throw in
"it's like that buddhist zen saying...how many babies can u fit in the tire"

* * * all that work. all that pain. all that glitter. all that love. all that jazz. * * *

reply

"I was shopping for my wife Bonnie...I buy most of her clothes...and Mrs. Pearl was in the same shop! And it just was an accident you know, we started talking...about panty hose, she was saying..whatever that's not the point of the story but what the point is is that through this...accidental meeting...its like a Hitchcock movie you know where you're thrown into a rubber bag and...put in the trunk of a car. you find people. you find them. something, is is it karma? maybe. but we found him, that's the important thing. And I got Bonnie a wonderful pantsuit."

and then of course...

"so what i'm understandin here, correct me, if i'm wrong, is that you're not givin' me any money, so i'm left with nothin' i'm left with ZERO in which in which..what can i DO with zero? you know? what can i...i can't do anything with it! i can't do..this is my life here we're talkin about! this isn't just somthin else this is MY life and its forcin me to do somethin i don't wanna do.. to leave. to just go out and just leave and go home and make a clean cut here! and say 'no way corky, you aren't puttin up with these people' and i'll tell you why i can't put up with you people...because you're BASTARD PEOPLE! that's what ya are you're just bastard people and i'm goin home and i'm gonna...bite my pillow is what i'm gonna do!"

reply

Oh, I wonder who knows I'm vacationing here at the Oasis?

reply

I often find myself repeating "How high a ridge I could not tell" incessantly when I'm doing repetitive tasks like folding laundry.

Sometimes that worries me......

reply

"People don't like fire poked, POKED in their faces"

reply

Every now and then I do like to randomly yell "MMMMMGood question, Earthling!"

--"The principles of surgery are the same above and below the neck."--

reply

[deleted]

[deleted]

Not a line but the Remains of the Day lunchbox is hilarious.

Ariel

reply

[deleted]

An early practice, before they know their lines:
Sheila: "STOOL- oh sorry."

reply