Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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"You can't handle the truth!"
Not too famous, but deserves to be among the best: "My dear, that's something you need never worry about."
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Another NTFBDTBATB: "I know. And you know I know. And I know you know I know. And Henry knows it. We're a very knowledgeable family."
Somehow I think the "hill of beans" speech in Casablanca is better known than "Of all the gin joints." Anyway, when AFI does their top 100 films, and they get to Casablanca (usually #2), they show the "hill of beans" speech.
In terms of classic lines, I think "Top of the world, ma!" is the sort of line that people know despite having no idea what movie it comes from. I would say it is very meta, but I don't think you can be meta if you have no idea what you are talking about.
I don't think you can be meta if you have no idea what you are talking about.
Don't you have to be meta, if you don't know what you're talking about?
My head hurts. I should have tea.
I'm trying to decide if "Play it again, Sam" should be in the list, since it's not the actual quote.
Well, not from Casablanca, anyway.
"Luke, I am your father."
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
NTFBDTBATB:
"Positively the same dame!"
My thinking is that meta is a knowing abstraction of an idea out of context (or juxtaposition of contexts and ideas). This version of acontextual quoting is more like verbal eggcorns, where people invent plausible meanings for words/phrases, that happen to be completely wrong, but kind of work if you're willing to overlook recorded history.
Like turning "card sharp" into "card shark," which has come to be the norm, but not in a meta or ironic way.
I should probably do a re-watch of Salem's Lot. I was ten or so the first time and I watched most of it while hiding behind my mom. The sound of fingernails tapping and/or scraping on a window pane still gives me goosebumps.
I'm sure I'd giggle at it *now* but nsm then.
Another NTFBDTBATB: "I know. And you know I know. And I know you know I know. And Henry knows it. We're a very knowledgeable family."
That movie is just FULL of wonderful, wonderful lines
My favorite:
John: A knife! He's got a knife!
Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
Not to be rude/nitpicky, but it's "Frankly."Because correcting corrections is more fun, it's "Frankly, my dear..."
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"Come with me if you want to live."
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
"STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA!"
"You talkin' to me?"
Another one that's usually misquoted: "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
We're a very knowledgeable family."Heh. I always liked "The royal corkscrew finds me twisted?"