Showing posts with label Joke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joke. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Self-introduction, Sean Connery as Patrick Hale from Wrong Is Right (1982)


I was an actor, and a coal miner, and a bartender, and a sailor, and a soldier of misfortune.

- Sean Connery as Patrick Hale from Wrong Is Right (1982)

soldier of fortune [NOUN] a man who seeks money or adventure as a soldier; mercenary

Friday, February 7, 2014

Birth, Selina Kyle from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)


Selina Kyle: You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor
Bruce Wayne: [interrupting] Actually, I was born in the Regency Room.

- Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Joke, Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)


Flo Marlowe: Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!
Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush: If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you!

- Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Joke, Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)


Baravelli: There's a man outside with a big black moustache.
Professor Wagstaff: Tell him I've got one.

- Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Joke, Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)


Spaulding: How much would you want to run into an open manhole?
Ravelli: Just-a the cover charge! Ha, ha, ha.
Spaulding: Well, drop in some time.

- Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)


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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Communication, the President of Earth from Barbarella (1968)


President: One day, Barbarella, we must meet in the flesh.

- Claude Dauphin as President Dianthus of Earth from Barbarella (1968)

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Humor, Terry Cohen


He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

- Terry Cohen

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

U.K., Colvin R. de Silva

(The sun never sets on the British Empire.) That's because God does not trust the British in the dark.

- Colvin R. de Silva (1907–1987)

U.K., Unknown history student


The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.

- Unknown history student

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

TV, Woody Allen as Alvy Singer from Annie Hall (1977)


[In California]
Annie Hall: It's so clean out here.
Alvy Singer: That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

- Woody Allen as Alvy Singer from Annie Hall (1977)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Humor, John Kenneth Galbraith


Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Monday, September 5, 2005

AFI #053 Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

- Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

The bolded line is ranked #53 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

AFI #064 Peter Sellers as Merkin Muffley from Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

- Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The bolded line is ranked #64 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


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