The Ace & TJ Show, a morning radio show based out of Charlotte, NC and syndicated throughout various markets nationwide, featured a bit about female movie quotes this morning. Their point was that most famous movie quotes were spoken by male characters; their mission was to find exceptions to that rule. Many listeners called in with suggestions but few were deemed acceptable. Here were their guidelines:
*It needs to be a quote that has become part of the pop culture vernacular. It can't just be any memorable line from a movie.
*It needs to be a quote that, when heard, most people immediately recognize it.
*It needs to be a quote that men and women would be equally familiar with.
After an hour, they had only a few lines that they had accepted onto their list. They were:
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"You had me at 'hello'" - Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) in <i>Jerry Maguire</i> (1996)
"You sho is ugly" - Shug Avery (Margaret Avery) in <i>The Color Purple</i> (1985)
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too" - Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> (1939)
"I'll have what she's having" - Woman in Restaurant (Estelle Reiner) in <i>When Harry Met Sally</i> (1989)
"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night". Bette Davis as Margo Channing in "All About Eve". Most people misquote it, saying, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride". At any rate, it's one I believe qualifies.
If anyone wants to hear the conversation, you can download just that portion of the show as an .mp3 at this link: http://www.acetjshow.com/ (see #s 10 and 11 under 9/4/07).
AwallaceUNC wrote:If anyone wants to hear the conversation, you can download just that portion of the show as an .mp3 at this link: http://www.acetjshow.com/ (see #s 10 and 11 under 9/4/07).
-Aaron
Thanks.
Do you think that the quote I suggested qualifies, Aaron?
Definitely. That quote didn't come up on the show but I think it fully meets all the criteria, even if people don't always know the source. (Ace & TJ might complain that people today aren't as familiar with the movie itself).
I have to respectfully disagree on the "I'm flying" quote from <i>Titanic</i>, however. I don't think you could expect most people to immediately recognize the quote or use it in conversation outside of the <i>Titanic</i> context.
I haven't seen <i>Notting Hill</i> so I can't really comment on that one, but I think the <i>Roger Rabbit</i> and 2nd <i>Wizard of Oz</i> quotes are great.
And as long as we're adding <i>Oz</i> quotes, we can't overlook "There's no place like home".
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
-Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind
"Every time you leave me for a minute, it's like goodbye. "
-Angela Vickers, A Place in the Sun (okay, this may not be well-known, but I love it to bits)
"All I could say was hello."
-Terry McKay, An Affair to Remember
-Meg Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle
"Get away from her, you BITCH!"
-Ellen Ripley, Aliens
"Ditto."
-Molly Jensen, Ghost
And of course, the following timeless lines from Mommie Dearest...
"I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt." - Joan
"I can handle the socks." - Joan
"TINA! Bring me the axe!" - Joan
"No... wire... hangers. What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you: no wire hangers EVER? I work and work 'till I'm half-dead, and I hear people saying, "She's getting old." And what do I get? A daughter... who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her... as she cares about me. What's wire hangers doing in this closet? Answer me. I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dishrag. You do. Three hundred dollar dress on a wire hanger. We'll see how many you've got if they're hidden somewhere. We'll see... we'll see. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. You've got any more? We're gonna see how many wire hangers you've got in your closet. Wire hangers, why? Why? Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live in the most beautiful house in Brentwood and you don't care if your clothes are stretched out from wire hangers. And your room looks like some two-dollar-a-week furnished room in some two-bit back street town in Okalahoma. Get up. Get up. Clean up this mess." - Joan
"Did you scrub the bathroom floor today? DID YOU?" - Joan
"Yes, Mommie." - Christina
"Yes, Mommie what?" - Joan
"Yes, Mommie Dearest." - Christina
"When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it." - Joan
"Miss Jenkins said it was clean? Do YOU think it's clean? Do YOU think it's clean? Look at that, DO you?" - Joan
"I'm not actin'! I'm not actin'. " - Joan
"You love it, don't you? YOU LOVE TO MAKE ME HIT YOU." - Joan
"Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?" - Joan
"Because I am NOT one of your FANS!" - Christina
"Tear down that BITCH of a bearing wall and put a window where it OUGHT to be." - Joan
"Don't fuck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo." - Joan
"Bill... could you... could you CALL..." - Joan
Scaps
WIST #60:
AwallaceUNC: Would you prefer Substi-Blu-tiary Locomotion?
WIST #61:
TheSequelOfDisney: Damn, did Lin-Manuel Miranda go and murder all your families?
"The only disease that can survive in our bloodstreams is alcoholism."
- Caro, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
"Now our blood flows through eachother as is done for all eternity, loyal forever, we raise our voices in the words of Mumbo Gumbo... YA YA!"
- Vivi, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Unfortunately, I can't recall Vivi's speech to Sidda near the end of the movie word-for-word. It was the speech in which she said something along the lines of "I was looking for something to make me stronger, make me saner, and it was you."
"As if!!!!" Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) in Clueless (1995)
"But enough about me, let's talk about you..... what do YOU think of me?" CC Bloom (Bette Midler) in Beaches (1988)
"He didn't get out of the COCKADOODIE CAR!!!" Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) in Misery (1990)
[answering phone] "Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs.....Mum.....Hi" Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
"All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!" Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond) in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
