Are there little snatches of film dialogue that you mutter to yourself over and over?

No, I do this virtually constantly

Are you insane?

I sometimes repeat random sentences over and over, but usually they're from somewhere else than movies. (Songs, for example.)

Or something I've heard someone say.

Are you insane?

Probably. It's more that there are certain phrases that I find are constanly triggered in my head, and I have no control over them - usually from Monty Python or Woody Allen.

Hey, three out of three people who've posted this far say they do this, so maybe it's normal and not crazy?

Self-selecting group.

I don't actually say anything during the hours that I spend working at home in front of a computer. I don't sing or hum or anything. I'm not sure that is sane - particularly for the poor person who ends up being the first person I speak to after the long silence.

I think I've said "I hate most people" about 30 times today. I am quite looking forward to going to work and interacting with real people, though if I end up just saying "I hate most people" to them, then I will know the game is up.

Do you actually *relate* to the sentiments that you find yourself repeating, or are they just stuck in the same way that songs or melodies get stuck in one's head? Do you pay attention to the meaning of the words, or just the rhythm and cadence and sound of them?

All day I mutter "CoooOOOOOOKIE CRISP!" under my breath. Does that make me insane?

And I do not relate to the sentiment.

You are odder than I thought, Alba.

I don't even think that film was very good or memorable.

In my completely unprofessional opinion, I would hazard that if one is actually repeating the phrase over and over for the sentiment, then it is what I call a "thoughtworm" and possibly symptomatic of mental disorder.

If it's just the sound of the phrase, then it's just another form of musicosis, which is perfectly normal, even common.

Also, thanks to the transnationalism of ilxor: "Golden pips...of a sunshine princess".

I don't even eat sugary cereals!

And goodness or badness of the source material has nothing to do with it, simply its stickiness or catchiness. (It's often the worst pop songs that get stuck in one's head.)

My former housemate and I used to be obsessed with this terrible programme, Forever Knight, or "Vampire Cop" as we called it. It was on late at night, sort of post pub time and we'd stumble in, and part of the fun was reciting the utterly ridiculous introductory blurb that was played as part of the credits. There was a bit that went "repay society for its sins" in a really sing-song descending tone. And I used to get that stuck in my head - not even the original, but my housemate saying it in an even more exaggerated sing-song tone of voice.

And it was the descending sing-song tone that stuck in my head for days at a time.

It was an absurd programme. And now, oh god, I've got that bit stuck in my head again. Bah.

i channel this impulse into calling my cat ridiculous names

Do you actually *relate* to the sentiments that you find yourself repeating, or are they just stuck in the same way that songs or melodies get stuck in one's head? Do you pay attention to the meaning of the words, or just the rhythm and cadence and sound of them?

There is something about the the way Jolie and Day-Lewis say the lines, certainly. I kind of mocked her "I love you" answer to the journalist's "Do you have a message for your husband?" when I first heard it in the trailer, but it began to haunted me, and it wasn't just about the rhythm of the line or its unusual cadence per se. Its unabashedness, perhaps.

And though, as I say, I don't actually hate most people, and it's partly about the way DDL delivers it, it's also got to be something in the actual sentiment that has hooked me.

I don't even think that film was very good or memorable.

I didn't like it when I first saw it and now do. Though I'm not sure whether my opinion of them film has much bearing on this.

The other line that runs through my mind a lot is Naomi Watts's "I'm in love with you ... I'm in love with you" from Mulholland Drive.

Love and hate, then. It think it just reveals a weakness for melodrama.

"life moves pretty fast"

"where's that son?"

but no, i don't really do this.

I like to mutter «Il m'arrive que la réalité soit trop complexe» in my best mock-tracheotomy voice.

my sister and i quote stupid movies all the time

favorites include: don't tell mom the babysitter's dead, the stoned age, showgirls.

"Those aren't pillows!"

'it's okay with me'

i wasn't really feeling this thread but all week i've been muttering "you're fucked up, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded." so there's that.

"I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I'm alone. And I deserve to be alone"

I've muttered "In the new century, I think we will all be insane" for much of the last nine years or so.

Shakes the Clown: "fuckin people"

Fargo: "Where is pancakes house?"

He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.

"I'm getting a bit bored with this, can we swap over?"

From Bedazzled, Pete&Dud

you never open your mouth until you know what the shot is

http://www.pacinoworldwide.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/img178.jpg

It's TV, but
"I'm a grown-ass man" and "...like some grown fuckin' men" -- both from The Wire

"Ordinary fuckin' people; I hate em."

http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/repo-man-harry-dean-stanton-emilio-estevez1.jpg

not surprising

I judge ordinary ppl case-by-case!

I I want to go to there'd a statement last week that had my boyfriend in tears and passed swiftly over everyone else's head.

Ever since I saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, my head is filled with Carol Channing saying "raaaaaaaspberries"

Word to the wise: don't ever imitate that quietly in a men's room you think is empty

Tootsie: "It's two o'clock in the morning, Michael, can't this WAIT?"

I have a bunch from The Wire, actually

"That sound like one of them good problems."

"You want it to be one way"

etc.

Ever since I saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, my head is filled with Carol Channing saying "raaaaaaaspberries"

― nabisco, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I say this a lot, but beacause of Bart Simpson

I'm sorry, little snatches of what, again?

nabisco, that would fit well in the culture of some men's rooms.

whenever i'm hungry i sometimes mutter/think to myself, "Are you hungry? I'm hungry." Elliot to ET.

"Nothing is fucked? The plane has crashed into the goddamn mountain!"

"for your information, hairdo... "

Most of mine are from Waiting for Guffman, but it's less "and I hate your ass face!" and more mundane lines like "other people with, uh, babies" and "and that's ... different for me."

I guess what we're talking about here is slightly different from "lines from bad comedies that you mechanically repeat whenever they're applicable," right? Because I'm pretty horrible, like Steve-Carrell-on-The Office horrible, about lines from Billy Madison.

(Although some of those I just mutter apropos of nothing -- "stop looking at me, SWAN")

Not so much anymore, but for a while, I would repeat a Drew Barrymore line from the trailer of Ever After: "I shall try!" (said in some weird French/Irish accent).

Yeah, it's definitely supposed to be about things you mutter apropos of nothing, nabisco.

I don't actually say the whole Mickey Rourke line above, actually. I just say "And I deserve to be alone" mostly.

"I ain't got time to bleed."

and

"Hired goons?"

and

"Who shot who in the what now?"

"Those days are over", often in a thick Mancunian accent. (David Thewlis to Ewan Bremner in Naked).

I still trade lines from 'After Hours' with a friend who shared my obsession for it years ago. It's something about the weird emphasis in the delivery of the lines combined with some incongruous phrases that appeals.

Favourites (not guaranteed to be 100% accurate after after these years):

"Right now?"

"Yes - right now. Because as we sit here talking, papers are flying rampant around my apartment because I don't have anything to hold them down with."

"Friends like that (pause).. can be difficult to deal with sometimes"
(Snaps right back) "Well that's what friends are for."

"I don't know what came over me."
"Lack of discipline." (said by S&M enthusiast)

and the odd solo line, such as:

"I'll take your money so you don't feel you left anything untried"

"I guess I've really been putting you through the mill tonight."

Oh and one from 'Spaced':

'Now this ..is the good shit'

"It's true, this man has no dick."

"the dishes are done, man" - from don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
"i got fists!" - from 'cybil'
'whatarewegonnado??" - from 'wet hot american summer'
'you're TEARING ME APART, Lisa!" - from "the room"
"you like to SHOW 'EM off?" - from 'showgirls'

ugh there are like a million more, basically all i do is quote shitty movies, and not even recognizable quotes, just random ones

i also dont know if any of you watched the tv show 'stella' but in the episode when they start their own coffee shop, michael ian black says "when are we gonna hang out?" in a really pathetic voice, and i use that one a lot, too.

"you're welcome stockholm"

The only film one I can think of that I say often is "...it's not me", from Grosse Pointe Blank.

I do this a lot with TV though, saying things like "thats it I'm outta here" and "you guys like swarms of things, right?" and other Bender-isms.

homosexual 2 and I would get along very well, I think.

Again from a TV show, not a film, but "Don't look at the dogs, work the lock", from Magnum PI, when I'm trying to concentrate on some fiddly task.

"Swell" (from most any Clint Eastwood movie from the past twenty years)

Most of mine are from Waiting for Guffman, but it's less "and I hate your ass face!" and more mundane lines like "other people with, uh, babies" and "and that's ... different for me."

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:01 PM (3 hours ago)

i know, when i woke up this morning, i was so happy...

whenever there are tator tots around, i say clint's 'i like tator tots' from a perfect world. i live in mn so this is a pretty regular occurence.

"Don't condescend me, man... I'll fuckin' kill ya, man" Brad Pitt from True Romance

"God hates me, that's what it is"
"I'm too old for this shit" Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon

"Yeah, well... that's just, like, your opinion, man."

"I'm too old for this shit" Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon

Ha yes, that ones good.

"Yeah, well... that's just, like, your opinion, man."

― fwiw (rockapads), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:57 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol yes. despite or because of its lameness.

tbh there is still a lot of minor lebowski lines in me. that's fuckin interesting man, that's fuckin interesting...

"maybe. maybe not. maybe fuck yourself."

Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's: "After lunch. Quite a bit ... after lunch." replacing lunch with whatever thing i'm planning to do shit after.

i know, when i woke up this morning, i was so happy...

OMG, I didn't know about this. (I was trying to figure out what you were talking about and so I just typed "guffman" into Google News.)

Oh wait, that's old news (Guffman on Broadway). OK, I don't know what you're talking about.

(Is it a line I'm forgetting?)

"it's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. do you know what i mean?"

http://www.olsen-twins-news.com/show/olsen-twins-news-7dc5d34016f8a458699209aa7934e975.jpg

jmc: there are two ppl sitting outside, the guy says "you couldn't order up a better day" and the woman says "i know, when i woke up this morning i was so happy" but they both sound like they're on xanax. had to be there.

and yeah lots of lebowski. [x] is not the issue here! is deathless

Buffalo Bill's lines from Silence of the Lambs

KIDDING

i think i still spew out Aliens lines, such as 'fuckin ey' randomnly

"little snatches... little snatches"

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sites/bfi.org.uk.whatson/files/images/american_friend_01.jpg
A little older, a little more confused

Although that falls under the rubric of "snatch of film dialogue that has been taken out of context and put on a record."

I would never know what homosexual II is talkin about.

"ain't nuthin but a thang" is recently atop my mental playlist.

Another Lebowski one: "New shit has come to light!"

it's from his final appearance on the Merv Griffin Show, not a film, but Orson Welles: "Old age is a shipwreck."

(He died the next day; seems he was quoting Charles de Gaulle)

Although that falls under the rubric of "snatch of film dialogue that has been taken out of context and put on a record."
Another example being:

My marker's good for a moment?

Marker? Where are you from?

Where am I from? The United States of Kiss My Ass. My marker's good.

The one from Lebowski I always hear is "We! The royal we!"

I can't see why anyone, especially on this borad, would think this is weird. It is just a natural result of letting your mind's iPod run on shuffle mode. And with the mind's iPod, you don't have to worry getting tinnitus or not hearing the ambient traffic noises.

"It's just barbecue sauce."

"Sausages! They will eat sausages!"

Hm. Google tells me I have been muttering most of these little snatches somewhat incorrectly.

The other thing about muttering -and is everybody actually moving their lips, or just hearing it their head, or doing some kind of Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy routine? - is that it is more civil to do this than to actually yell out your movie catchphrases every half hour or so, which is what I've seen some people do.

"Now a warning?!"

Favorite William Demarest bit: "Let me ask you a hypothermical question."

"Yeah, well... that's just, like, your opinion, man."

― fwiw (rockapads), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:57 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this the best line in the movie imo

ok, not supplying titles = not fair

i think i am gonna start doing "EN RA HA!" (Happy-Go-Lucky)

did you like H-G-L morbs

i don't really mutter, sorry!

generally yes except the last 15-20 mins.

xp

My two so far are from Wet Hot American Summer and Death Becomes Her.

E, do you agree Hawn now looks like she's living DBH?

"Do you remember where you parked the car?"

i think i am gonna start doing "EN RA HA!" (Happy-Go-Lucky)

Ha, I have actually been trying to remember this lately. I could hear Marsdan's voice, just not the exact syllables.

Too bad Sally Hawkins' character doesn't have anything as catchy and quotable, since I'd rather die than emulate Marsdan's character.

that's not required, you know

What, dying?

"It's just barbecue sauce."

Reminds me of one of mine, "That? No, that's dog's blood."

from Ferris Bueler: "ok, i'll go, i'll go, he'll keep calling me...."

Too bad Sally Hawkins' character doesn't have anything as catchy and quotable

No? She says "Isn't it just?" a couple dozen times.

snatch of film dialogue that has been taken out of context and put on a record

Billy Liar / Saint Etienne for me: "Lose himself ... lose himself in London!"

Oh I completely forgot about an obvious one of mine.

"Whats with today, today?"

"Still think there are no sharks in Venice?" - Stephen Baldwin as David Franks in the Sci-Fi original "Sharks in Venice"

Also, just about every line from the outtakes of Anna Nicole Smith's "Skyscraper"

my lebowski is "no you're not wrong, you're just an asshole."

"what's the rumpus?"

The wife and I imitate Werner Herzog from Grizzly Man all the time. "Timothy Treadwell loved the bears" *pause* "But the bears did not love him. Instead they ate him."

"I want you to promise me that under no circumstances will you ever ever listen to this tape. Ohmigod the sounds. This is just awful. Awful. Don't listen to it. It will upset you. Was that sound of an arm being torn off? Oh don't listen to this. It's terrible."

hahahaha I thought me and my wife were the only ones to do that lolz

"For me, there is no world of the bears"

"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder."

After a few drinks a couple of weeks ago a friend pointed and screeched. He was imitating Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

LOL. My husband and his best friend got kicked out of the Edinburgh Castle in SF for doing exactly that.

I have so many of these

"Keep antagonising me! Watch what happens!!" (Good Will Hunting)
"Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?" (Beaches)
"Throw yourselves to the road darlings! You don't stand a chance!" (Withnail & I)
"When Cameron was in Egypt land...let my Cameron go" (Ferris)
"We're gonna need a bigger boat" (Jaws)"
"Borg? Sounds Swedish..." (Star Trek: Final Contact)

also from TV (dethklok), and always in the Pickles voice - "Doochebehg"

Ah yes Withnail quotes, always handy.
"There must and shall be ASPRIN!" and "I feel like a pig shat in my head" are two I use way too often...

also "the sky is beginning to bruise"

"Balls! I'll take TWO pills and run a mile!"

"No, you fool, don't mix your drinks!"
and
"There's... MATTER... in the sink."
are also useful.

"Are you a hustler Amos?"

"...but if you wanna make me a couple of Yankee Doodles"

paul rudd's "fiiiine" in WHAS

"I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How are you?"

Every time I mutter than I get weird looks.

Most of Gummo

way too many from Lebowski, Caddyshack, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr.

Some highlights (or lowlights):
"Hey, careful, man. There's a beverage here!" (Lebowski)
"We don't stop here!" (Mulholland)
"So I got that going for me" (Caddyshack)
"He put his disease in me" (Velvet)
"I don't want to get bruised" (American Psycho)

I have noticed that 90 percent of what my friends and I say is just quotes from movies and tv shows. so sad.

"Bueller...Bueller...Bueller..."

"I'm a genius, you're all fucking wankers. You'll never see me again. You don't deserve to see me again."

I've had a strange thing recently where whenever someone asks me about a film/song/anything, TV series Rome pops into my head, with Brutus saying "It was horrible, mother."

Also, 30 Rock's "This is untoward! This is NOT TOWARD!!!"

"Are you the farmer?"

"What's your name? MacFuck?"

My thumbs have gone weird!

"Oh, great. That’s another brilliant idea, Steinberg", to the point that "Steinberg" has become a replacement term for moron or idiot.

"C'mon, man, chicks don't want to hear that shit"

I mutter lines of dialogue from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" a lot. Perhaps too often.

"Son of a nutcracker!" (Elf)

the shelby sensation. the reverse apache master. the man with the golden dick. doctor cock-and-balls.

"C'mon, man, chicks don't want to hear that shit"

arrrrgh what is this from

it's someone in dazed and confused... argh

Right right, its the overall-wearing guy talking to Slater...

"catch ya later!"

"This place is crawling with chicks, Simon." (Henry Fool)

"What a shocking invasion of privacy" and "alright" from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgwjHBUW9MY

^^^funny movie. chockfull of ugly people!

The wife and I imitate Werner Herzog from Grizzly Man all the time. "Timothy Treadwell loved the bears" *pause* "But the bears did not love him. Instead they ate him."

lolol

xp so-so movie, but that scene is one of my favorites of all time

"now *tayne* i can get into"

"Will ya look at that - THE GREAT OUTDOORS!!!"

from Cheech & Chong

gypsy dildo punks

"now *tayne* i can get into"

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o man

id buy that for a dollar obvs

that's it man game over man, GAME OVER

17 days we won't last 17 HOURS MAN!!!

(any time somebody says something is going to take 17 days)

that must happen a lot

every 17 days

17 days?? we won't last 17 HOURS MAN!!!

no, i was just saying that it happens that often, we're not in any imminent danger that i'm aware of.

o word thx

I do this with so many things. Let me think:

"You LOSE!! GOOD DAY, SIR!" (Wonka)
"Affection!" while tapping my cheek (First Wives Club)

there are more, I just need a minute.

sure give us a shout when you're ready

"don't try to church it up boy" and others from joe dirt, partic. the chris walken lines.

stop looking at me, SWAN

oh wait nabisco OTM above

I quote most of Brenda Dickson's amazing and completely unironic "Welcome To My Home" a lot, namely:

"Well, hello!" <--- I say this allll the time
"Do you like this gown/_______? It's very dramatic."
"Or, a green, eyeliner pencil. And smudge them, this is a great look."
"Ostrich feathers, anyone?"
"You can make an outfit look dressy by adding a dressy accessory. Here I've added a fox."
"Or a rill rill dark, kind of orange"

The following lines from the movie The Ten have totally entered this category for me:

1. Tell her honor more about the "judicial system."
2. As a god-damned goof I did.
3. Get off me, I just ate a turkey burger!
4. Yo soy un hombre vaaaaggggggiiiinnnnnaaaa.

I occassionally come out with 'Rrrrrriccky! Rrrrricky!' from Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
I think it's just because it gives me an opportunity to roll my Rs.

haha nabisco i frequently say to myself "i did it as a GOOF!!"

NOW a warning?!

you take dead animals to the vet?
we take you to the vet

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

While walking down a crowded street I often say to myself "Form up. And stay alert. We could run out of space real fast."

whenever im golfing i use lines from caddyshack

Had a bit of a problem with 'Do it or don't, but I got places to be' for a while (from the Wire) most usually directed at myself during fits of even minor indecision.

Quite a lot from the Dead of Night esp 'Can't you see the problem's not in the mirror', and a bit where the Austrian psychoanalyst goes 'CRAIG!', oh and also 'Private show for the LOOOOONIES'.

and sometimes 'And put your tunic on!' from Zulu.

Do it or don't

"If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win." from Raging Bull

I think "Your punishment must be more severe!" is going to stick.

"Quick! Take hold of my hand, asshole!"

(This isn't from a film, but it should be).