The world needs ditch diggers, too. "What's wrong with lumber? I own two lumber yards." "I notice you don't spend to much time there." "Not sure where they are..." "I was born to love you!""I was born to lick your face!" "I was born to rub you.""But, you were born to rub me first."
I think "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and were wearing sunglasses." is the best line from the blues brothers, but the only clip i could find had every other good quote from it. [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGfnsjdJec[/MEDIA]
"I'm your huckleberry." "Richard, who's your favorite little rascal?" I could do this all day, and I am not much of a movie guy.
That opening narration by Annie Savoy is a classic. The best part to me is how it set up two of the best dialogues between Annie and catcher Crash Davis later in the movie: Annie Savoy: These are the ground rules. I hook up with one guy a season. Usually takes me a couple weeks to pick the guy - kinda my own spring training. And, well, you two are the most promising prospects of the season so far, so I just thought we should kinda get to know each other. Crash Davis: Time out. Why do you get to choose? Annie Savoy: What? Crash Davis: Why do you get to choose? I mean, why don't I get to choose, why doesn't he get to choose? Annie Savoy: Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. Uh, it's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral. [Crash laughs] Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: So is somebody going to go to bed with somebody or what? Annie Savoy: Honey, you are a regular nuclear meltdown. You better cool off. Ha ha, ha ha! Annie Savoy [to Crash]: Oh, where are you going? Crash Davis: After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. ===================== Crash Davis: I never told him to stay out of your bed. Annie Savoy: You most certainly did. Crash Davis: I never told him to stay out of your bed. Annie Savoy: Yes you did. Crash Davis: I told him that a player on a streak has to respect the streak. Annie Savoy: Oh fine. Crash Davis: You know why? Because they don't - -they don't happen very often. Annie Savoy: Right. Crash Davis: If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that! [long pause] Crash Davis: Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullsh*t. Come on, dazzle me. Annie Savoy: I want you. ===================== The cool thing about Annie Savoy's opening narration is that a guy like Crash Davis would look at that like a bunch of self-indulgent crap, just like Crash also thinks "the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap" (as he said to Annie later in that first dialogue with Annie that I quoted above). One of the main reasons Annie wants Crash is because she knows Crash thinks she is full of crap, but he still likes her anyway.
The Hustler (1961) Fast Eddie: Cause, ya see, twice, Sarah... once at Ames with Minnesota Fats and then again at Arthur's, in that cheap, crummy pool room, now why'd I do it, Sarah? Why'd I do it? I coulda beat that guy, coulda beat 'im cold, he never woulda known. But I just hadda show 'im. Just hadda show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's REALLY great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care, BRICKLAYING can be great, if a guy knows. If he knows what he's doing and why and if he can make it come off. When I'm goin', I mean, when I'm REALLY goin' I feel like a... like a jockey must feel. He's sittin' on his horse, he's got all that speed and that power underneath him... he's comin' into the stretch, the pressure's on 'im, and he KNOWS... just feels... when to let it go and how much. Cause he's got everything workin' for 'im: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's uh - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before. Sarah Packard: You're not a loser, Eddie, you're a winner. Some men never get to feel that way about anything.
