Movie Quotes Blog

Dr. John Rollason:
[on learning that Friend has placed animal traps to catch a yeti] Of all the idiotic, maniac ideas!

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Lhama:
They are in danger, all of them, from their own actions.

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[last lines]

Lhama:
There is no Yeti.

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Dr. John Rollason:
This creature may have an affinity for man, something in common with ourselves. Let’s remember that before we start shooting.

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[Ed’s being used as bait in a trap]

Dr. John Rollason:
This is complete madness, Friend, and you know it.

Dr. Tom Friend:
Relax, will ya. He knows how to hold his fire.

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Ed Shelley:
[Very excitedly] The size of ‘em! You wouldn’t grasp the speed that they could move!

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Dr. John Rollason:
If they can deal with *us*, their secret’s kept.

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Peter Fox:
[an upset Helen wants to accompany him to see the Lama] You’ll stay right there. If you should feel like another nip of that

[indicating the decanter]

Peter Fox:
, nobody’s gonna call you a tippler.

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Fleet Admiral William F. ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr.:
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

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Melissa Etheridge:
I remember Jackie’s song “Look At Me.” She sang it at the Oscars that year. Um, it was from that, uh… movie… ah ah ah… the one… um, the one where Raquel Welch plays, um, the nun… yeah, it was called “Stacked Sister.” That’s it.

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Robert Townsend:
It brought to an end the black-exploitation movies of the ’70s. After the studio saw that one film, they said “We’re not making another.” I just remember, a lot of the people in Hollywood were really upset. You know? Normally somebody says “You’re not gonna work in this town again,” and with Jackie a lot of people said “You’ll not work in this *country* again.”

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Ethyl Washington Rue Owens:
Bitter? I’m not bitter. If I was bitter, she’d be dead.

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Shaniqua Summers Wells:
I wasn’t out of the house two hours before my mother turned my room into a den. She calls it a “den”; I call it a “shrine to her ego”. When I was growing up, my mother’s priorities were her career, her makeup, her hair, and then, her children, and that’s the best thing I can say about her. To be fair, she did think about our hair and makeup. I got my first wig at age three. How many kids get that?

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Ethyl Washington Rue Owens:
She tells that lie child - she does that every year, telling somebody we’re related to George Washington. It’s George Washington Honor from up there around Peckinpah, Idado. Because our people are mixed - did she tell you that? We are one quarter Korean and half black and one quarter Kawchodinne Indian.

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Dolly Parton:
Oh I saw “Coco’s Revenge.” I saw that. What can I say about that movie? That sucked.

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Edward Whatsett St. John:
Now, I admit that when they proposed you as a subject, I didn’t really know who you were.

Jackie Washington:
They sold my records in England.

Edward Whatsett St. John:
Yes, but *I* never heard them.

Jackie Washington:
Are you trying to provoke me? ‘Cause you are *not* gonna make me get ugly on film. This ain’t “60 Minutes,” okay?

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Chris Rock:
I influenced… a lot of Jackie’s work. I never wanted money. I didn’t want the fame. I just wanted some love… and she couldn’t give it.

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Jackie Washington:
Momma’s gonna need some of her special cough medicine… and make it a double, Antandra.

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Jackie Washington:
Of course, now, I *do* pay homage to all the dead divas — Billie, Ella, Shirley Bassey…

Edward Whatsett St. John:
Shirley Bassey is alive.

Jackie Washington:
Really? God bless her. But now them others — I’m not gonna name names… but they all stole from me. Aretha, Whitney, Little Brandy, Streisand, Diahann Carroll… Oh. and Bea Arthur. They all stole from me.

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Snookie Tate:
I heard you get a check every time they play one of your old songs on the radio. And with just one of them checks? WOOH. I could get me a new refrigerator. Y’know, one of them frost free.

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Penny Marshall:
Jackie’s a diva.

Don Cornelius:
I think, if you look in the dictionary for the word “Diva,” you’d probably see Jackie’s picture.

Eva Marie Saint:
A diva is a very spoiled singer who lies… like Jackie.

Bruce Vilanch:
It’s a larger-than-life creature who can turn on a dime… or on a friend.

Diahann Carroll:
It’s a word that some gay man made up…

Howie Mandel:
What is a diva?

Ethyl Washington Rue Owens:
A dumb… ignorant… vicious–

[asshole bleeped out]

Ethyl Washington Rue Owens:
And if that’s what Jackie calls herself, she’s right.

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‘Slov’ Slovnik:
Lemme get this straight. Now we’re *sharing the same f*cking head*!

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Listen, you moron! I am here to stay and if you don’t wanna be in my life, you’ve got two choices. Move out or Ring out! That’s it! End of File!

‘Wick’ Wickwire:
[to Slovnik] I say you’ve got less than one minute to get your f*cking clothes on!

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Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
You were given the Navy Cross right? May I ask what you got it for?

Master Chief John Urgayle:
Since it bears on this conversation, I got it for pulling a 250-pound man out of a burning tank.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
So stopping to save a man makes you a hero, but if a man stops to help a woman, he’s gone soft?

Master Chief John Urgayle:
Could you have pulled that man clear? Lieutenant, you couldn’t even haul your own body weight out of the water today.

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to ya.

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Lt. Blondell:
Lieutenant, why are you doing this?

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Do you ask the men the same question?

Lt. Blondell:
As a matter of fact: yes, I do ask them.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
And what do they say?

Lt. Blondell:
“Cause I get to blow sh*t up.”

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Well, there you go.

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C.O. Salem:
Welcome to SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. You have volunteered for the most intensive military training known to man. You are all proven operators within the SpecOps communtiy: SEALs, EOD, Army Delta, Marine Force Recon, Naval Intel community, and so on. In spite of your expertise, many of you will not successfully negotiate this program. Those that do, will experience an operational tempo that exceeds that of any other unit within the US arsenal. That is all that is to be said about the special nature of the CRT training program. I now turn you over to my Command Master Chief, John James Urgayle.

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Sgt. Cortez:
You know O’Neil, I like you better when you drink.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
You know Cortez, I like you better when I drink.

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
Is there anything *else* we can do for your celebrity career, Lieutenant?

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
That will be all…

Master Chief John Urgayle:
[to all the CRTs] You now have exactly *one minute* to *muster*!

Sgt. Max Pyro, Instructor:
[as the CRTs are scrambling] If even *one* of you Van Winkle wannabes are late I will *personally* see to it *none* of you sleep for a week!

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Sen. Lillian DeHaven:
Don’t you even think of playing politics with me, little darlin’, you’ll be up way past your bedtime.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
And don’t YOU think that I’ll sit idly by while anyone smears my good name. Now you get those charges VOIDED, Senator. And you do it today!

Sen. Lillian DeHaven:
[tauntingly] Or what?

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
You like pissed off? Watch this.

[storms out]

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
[quoting “Self-Pity” by D.H. Lawrence] I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
Sergeant Cortes, however brief your stint with this command might be, there are two words you will learn to put together: Team-Mate.

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Don’t know!

Master Chief John Urgayle:
It lets you know you’re not dead yet!

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
Remember, there are no bad crews, only bad leaders.

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[after everyone is on board the chopper]

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
All Right! All parties in! Let’s get the hell out of Dodge!

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Sen. Lillian DeHaven:
[on why she started Lt. O’Neil on the SEAL program in the first place] Truthfully, I never expected you to do so damn well! I figured you’d ring out in two weeks, bing bang it’s over, and we’re popular. In Washington, you don’t even need the Ten Commandments when you’re popular!

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
60% of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact! Now for the bad news, I always like to get one quitter on the first day, and until I do, that first day does not end!

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Sgt. Cortez:
Hey, O’Neil! I’d go to war with you any day!

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world! Is that clear?

Stamm:
Yes, Command Master Chief!

Master Chief John Urgayle:
[to Everyone] IS THAT CLEAR?

All the CRT Trainees:
YES, COMMAND MASTER CHIEF!

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Master Chief John Urgayle:
I don’t know what the hell’s been going on in the last 48 hours. And frankly I don’t give a sh*t.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Good to see you too, Master Chief.

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Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Master Chief…

Master Chief John Urgayle:
Lieutenant, seek life elsewhere.

Lt. Jordan O’Neil:
Suck my dick!

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Sen. Lillian DeHaven:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mr. Hayes. If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress too?

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