The idea's courtesy of Ginger Sister, but the quotes are all chosen by me. I didn't go for the most obscure quote from the movies, but I also didn't pick the most obvious. Happy guessing, and I'll try to update as the answers are guessed in the comments. (SPOILER WARNING: Guess before you scroll to the end of the quotes, as the answers are posted directly below the quotes area)
The Rules:
1. Pick 30 of your favorite movies. (These aren't necessarily my all time faves, but they'll do.)
2. Find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
NO CHEATING. Guess what you know, don't wikiquote them.
1) "Are you classified as human?" "Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
2) "Lena. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I left you at the hospital. I called a phone-sex line… I called a phone-sex line before I met you, and four blond brothers came after me and they hurt you, and I'm sorry. Then I had to leave again because I wanted to make sure you never got hurt again. And I have a lot of puddings, and in six to eight weeks it can be redeemed. So if you could just give me that much time, I think I can get enough mileage to go with you wherever you go if you have to travel for your work. Because I don't ever want to be anywhere without you. So could you just let me redeem the mileage?"
3) "Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin' – but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?"
4) "The warrior code. The delight in the battle, you understand that, yes? But also something more. You understand there is something outside yourself that has to be served. And when that need is gone, when belief has died, what are you? A man without a master." "Right now I'm a man without a paycheck."
5) "McManus came to us with the job, Fenster got the vans, Hockney supplied the hardware, I came through with how to do it so no one got killed, but Keaton… Keaton put on the finishing touch. A little 'fuck you' from the five of us to the NYPD."
6) "Uh, whose car is that out front?" "Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!"
7) "Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."
8) "The helmet I was wearing… Oh come on, that's funny. That's really funny, I mean I'm the only person who wears a helmet to work who isn't putting out fires or racing for NASCAR. But what do you do, I can't quit… their insurance is amazing, what do you do? You laugh. I'm not saying I don't cry but in between I laugh and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good."
9) "Well, most recently, there's room 309, there's this scary Mexican gangster dude poking his finger in my chest. There's his hooligan kids snapping their fingers at me. There's a putrid, rotting corpse of a dead whore stuck in the springs of the bed. There's rooms blazing afire. There's a big fat needle from God knows where, stuck in my leg, infecting me with God knows what. And finally there's me, walking out the door, right fucking now. Buenas noches."
10) "I don't know why you died, Goldie. I don't know why and I don't know how, I never even met you before tonight. But you were a friend and more when I needed one. And when I find out who did it, it won't be quick and quiet like it was with you. It'll be loud and nasty. My kind of kill. And when his eyes go dead the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him. I love you, Goldie."
11) "So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help."
12) "Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you."
13) "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway… I've started to make a tape… in my head… for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done."
14) "First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have… reproductive organs under those little, white pants. It's just so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. You know, what's the point of living… if you don't have a dick?"
15) "I am finished doing what I swore an oath to God 28 years ago to never do again. I've created, "something that kills people." And in that purpose, I was a success. I've done this because, philosophically, I am sympathetic to your aim. I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut."
16) "Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence."
17) "That's right. When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I'm gonna read it to you."
18) "There was this guy, and he was always requesting shows that had already played. Yes. No. You have to tell her before. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the charge nurse couldn't make it be yesterday. She couldn't turn back time, thank you, Einstein! Now, *he* was nuts! *He* was a fruitcake, Jim!"
19) "Who the hell do they think they are? I report to the Prime Minister and even he's smart enough not to ask me what we do. Have you ever seen such a bunch of self-righteous, ass-covering prigs? They don't care what we do; they care what we get photographed doing. And how the hell could Bond be so stupid? I give him double-O status and he celebrates by shooting up an embassy. Is the man deranged? And where the hell is he? In the old days if an agent did something that embarrassing he'd have a good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold War."
20) "Well, when I came home from school my head started to get really hot. So I drank some cold water, but it didn't do nothing. So I laid in the bathtub for a while, but then I realized that it was my hair that was making my head hot. So I went into my kitchen and I shaved it all off. I don't want anyone to see."
21) "We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
22) "Watch your mouth kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home. We'll be safe enough once we make the jump to hyperspace. Besides, I know a few maneuvers. We'll lose em'!"
23) "Do you have any idea what it's like to have two people look at you, with total lust and devotion, through the same pair of eyes?"
24) "I just mean during the day. Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday. Last week. Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even… exists… in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here."
25) "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."
26) "…Our files are confidential Mr. Barish so we can't show you any evidence. Suffice it to say, Miss Kruczynski was not happy and she wanted to move on. We provide that possibility."
27) "Let me put it this way. If you ever start feeling sentimental, go to Barstow, California. When you get here, walk into a florist and buy a bunch of flowers. Then you take those flowers to Huntington cemetery on Fuller and Guadalupe, look for the headstone marked Paula Schultz, then lay them on the grave. Because you will be standing at the final resting place of Beatrix Kiddo."
28) "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?' "
29) "You all wanna be looking very intently at your own belly buttons. I see a head start to rise, violence is going to ensue. Probably guessed we mean to be thieving here but what we're after is not yours. So, let's have no undue fussing."
30) "You just couldn't let me go could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible aren't you? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you, because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
Answers:
*1) The Fifth Element
*2) Punch-Drunk Love
*3) 12 Angry Men
*4) Ronin
*5) The Usual Suspects
*6) American Beauty
*7) Reservoir Dogs
*8) Garden State
*9) Four Rooms
*10) Sin City
*11) Good Will Hunting
*12) Unforgiven
*13) High Fidelity
*14) Donnie Darko
*15) Kill Bill: Vol. 1
*16) Back to the Future II
*17) The Princess Bride
*18) Twelve Monkeys
*19) Casino Royale
*20) Napoleon Dynamite
*21) The Matrix
*22) Star Wars (Ep IV)
*23) Being John Malkovich
*24) Dark City
*25) Say Anything
*26) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
*27) Kill Bill: Vol. 2
*28) Grosse Pointe Blank
*29) Serenity
*30) The Dark Knight
[NaBloPoMo 2008 - #19.2/2008]
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November 19th, 2008 on 2:45 PM
I am guessing on a couple of these:
7. Resevoir Dogs.
14. Donnie Darko
17. Princess Bride.
19. Casino Royale
21. Terminator (?)
22. Star Wars (the very first one.)
28. Grosse Pointe Blank.
30. Dark Knight (?).
I see you love words. Nice list.
November 19th, 2008 on 2:46 PM
2. Punch drunk love14 is killing me because I've seen this movie in the last month…and can't place it.16 Back to the future 2?17 The Princess Bride20 Napoleon Dynamite21 The Matrix22. Star Wars ( a new hope)25. My favorite Say Anything quote.27 Kill Bill30. I couldn't place this…I knew I knew it. I was going to guess Seven, but then it hit me. The Dark Knight.
November 19th, 2008 on 2:50 PM
whoa. these are seriously hard.
13. High Fidelity
17. Princess Bride. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3
18. One flew over the cuckoo's nest (?)
19. Casino Royale
21, The Matrix.
there are a couple that resonate but I cant' place them…
November 19th, 2008 on 2:54 PM
4, I believe, is Ronin. Perhaps I am wrong.5. The Usual Suspects6. American Beauty
November 19th, 2008 on 2:56 PM
Correct on all but #21…Ginger Sister got that one…
November 19th, 2008 on 2:56 PM
9. Four Rooms10. Sin City12. Unforgiven
November 19th, 2008 on 2:57 PM
All the ones you put names to are right…Ancora Impara got #14 (Donnie Darko). I'll give the Kill Bill: Vol. 2 to you since it has the same name, even though you didn't specify it was the second of the two films…
November 19th, 2008 on 2:58 PM
15. Kill Bill Part I
November 19th, 2008 on 2:58 PM
13, 17, 19, and 21 are right…Good attempt at a guess on 18, but that's not the film…
November 19th, 2008 on 2:59 PM
Nicely done, sir. All 7 of your guesses so far are correct.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:02 PM
5) Usual Suspects
10) Sin City
13) High Fidelity
14) some Kevin Smith movie (Jay and Silent Bob?)
21) Terminator (3?), oops, Yes I see now it's The Matrix
22) Star Wars
25) Say Anything
27) Kill Bill
28) Grosse Pointe Blank
November 19th, 2008 on 3:02 PM
Trying to fill in the blanks. #18 is SO familiar to me, it's killing me.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:03 PM
Cool idea—wow, this could turn into a real time killer.
My guesses for just a few:
8-Garden State
10-Sin City
15 Kill Bill
16 Back to the Future–which one–no clue
20-Napolean Dynamite
25-Say Anything
November 19th, 2008 on 3:06 PM
Yes to all but #14…it got guessed already though – Donnie Darko.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:11 PM
I think 18 is Twelve Monkeys.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:12 PM
You're right on #8! (And the others, too)
November 19th, 2008 on 3:13 PM
Yes! (And thanks for helping Kevin to stop wracking his brain on that one)
November 19th, 2008 on 3:20 PM
haha, I didn't even see that, just checked if anyone guessed it. I have only seen that movie once and it was a few months ago.
*pats self on back*
some of the others seem like I should know em…
like, 1, 3, 23 and 26. most of the leftovers….haha
November 19th, 2008 on 3:21 PM
29. Wild guess: Boondock Saints.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:22 PM
Dammit. I've seen 12 Monkeys, but only once.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:23 PM
1 has been killing me, because I knew that I knew it. It finally came to me:
The Fifth Element. One of the all-time great bad movies.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:24 PM
23. Being John Malkovich?
November 19th, 2008 on 3:25 PM
24. Dark City, maybe.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:31 PM
Yep, yep, yep! Always good for a view on a rainy weekend afternoon!
November 19th, 2008 on 3:32 PM
Correct on on both 23 and 24!
November 19th, 2008 on 3:33 PM
No, 29 isn't Boondock Saints…I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't actually seen that yet, and definitely need to.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:34 PM
11-Good Will Hunting–is that the name? doesn't look right
November 19th, 2008 on 3:34 PM
The whole "Brad Pitt is a crazy-sane-crazy person" totally steals the show in the middle of the movie. Probably why I decided to use that quote instead of one of the others…
November 19th, 2008 on 3:35 PM
I wouldn't hurry: I hate that goddamned movie.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:38 PM
You nailed #11. This might have been hard because it's only about 1/2 of Robin Williams' monologue. I had to cut it down because it would have been waaay too long for this post, but I think the ending would have given more hints.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:40 PM
Oh I hated that movie too, Willem Dafoe (who I love) was HORRIBLE and totally not saleable (? i don't think I used that right) as a gay guy. I didn't even see the whole thing and I hated it. and I think you are the only other person I've encountered who feels the same. (whew, I was thinking I should give it another shot….)
November 19th, 2008 on 3:44 PM
Don't listen to Kevin about Boondock Saints. If The Fifth Element is on your all-time great bad movie list, then Boondock Saints should be on your all-time great terrible movie list. Bad over the top acting, with an especially awful performance by Willem Dafoe, a horrible script, cartoon violence. It's the cinematic equivalent of a really bad highway accident. You will be forced to slow your car down to look. Hating this movie is the easy way out.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:44 PM
Is 29 Pulp Fiction???
November 19th, 2008 on 3:51 PM
You intrigue me…I may have to try to rent this over Thanksgiving now. I'll make sure not to include my family though – they already think I have the worst taste/luck in picking movies for us all to watch.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:53 PM
No, not Pulp Fiction…
November 19th, 2008 on 3:53 PM
3. Twelve angry men.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:54 PM
29. Point Break?
November 19th, 2008 on 3:55 PM
Right-o! I actually didn't see 12 Angry Men until about 3-4 years ago, but it is definitely on my top 10 favorite movies list.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:56 PM
arrrrrrrrghhh. I know I know #29 and now it will drive me nuts.
November 19th, 2008 on 3:59 PM
No, not Point Break, either. I'm thinking maybe my Vox neighborhood didn't bother to see this one when it came out, or else didn't like it and put a mental block on dialog like this.
November 19th, 2008 on 4:00 PM
I cheated on 29 and now I am kicking myself. I should have so totally known that one.
November 19th, 2008 on 4:01 PM
26. Brazil
November 19th, 2008 on 4:02 PM
#29—O Brother Where Art Thou????
November 19th, 2008 on 4:03 PM
I saw it in the theatre opening day and then bought it on DVD.
looks like I was wrong on 26.
November 19th, 2008 on 4:03 PM
gosh, is 29 Alien?Aliens?
November 19th, 2008 on 4:07 PM
29. The Road to Perdition? Only saw it once and hated it, but who knows?
November 19th, 2008 on 4:10 PM
Closer, but #26 is more recent.
November 19th, 2008 on 4:11 PM
Not quite, although looking back, the dialects of the two movies are very similar. Other than that though, they're about as different as can be…
November 19th, 2008 on 4:12 PM
Nope, not yet on #29!
November 19th, 2008 on 4:12 PM
ok is 29 Serenity?I read over the cadences, and it sounds very much like Captain Mal.