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")

"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"

― all i wanna do is poll poll poll poll and zing and discuss mia (history mayne), Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:51 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

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).