#1. "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my closeup" Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950)
#2. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night." Margo Channing, All About Eve (1950)
#3. "Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men." Tira, I'm No Angel (1933)
#4. "I want to be alone" Grusinskaya, Grand Hotel (1932)
#5. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Rhett Butler: Gone With the Wind (1939)
#6. "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore", Dorothy, Wizard of Oz, (1939)
#7. "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles (1974). update: thanks to a few readers who reminded me that this is of course based on the film "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Bonus entry: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." Rick, Casablanca (1942)
Post Script: OK, I admit- this is somewhat of a rehash of a prior Saturday Seven Post, but its such a great topic, and after all I have renovated the site this weekend. Also because I was a little buzzed from the martinis last night, so it was hard to think! Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable,Judy Garland, Mel Brooks, Joan Crawford, Hollywood.
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Hey, there, PSS! Thanks for stopping by West of Mars; hope you'll come back more often. My fictional character of Trevor often spouts lines that Mae West would be proud of.
Nice of you to let me know you were visiting! Seriously. Come by more often.
Ahhhh Yes! I am familiar with almost all of them...Not the Blazing Saddles one though...That was not a favorite film of mine...All the rest---Yes!
I must put you on my Blogroll---that way I will come over more frequently...I need the quick reminder! (lol) Hope you are doing well...!
Movie quotes are a major part of pop culture. Great post.
so true, that is one of those things that we all just do in normal conversations. i like your list. what about this one:
"Go Ahead, make my day"
So, should I confess that I've only seen The Wizard of Oz? So sheltered and living in the dark, I know. Your celebrating and parties look amazing and like a ton of fun!
Lewis, you must rent All About Eve immediately or risk having your pink card revoked irrecovably!
For my money, all seven lines could have come from that film alone.
1) "That cynicism you refer to I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys."
2) "I admit I've seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail ... like a salted peanut."
3) "Bill is thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, and he'll look it five years from now. I hate men."
4) "Is it possible, is it even conceivable, that you've confused me with that gang of backward children you play tricks on?"
5) "You'd better sit down; you look a little wobbly."
6) "You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're magnificent!"
7) "Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common - being a woman. Sooner or later we've got to work at it no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings but you're not a woman. Slow curtain, the end."
And plenty more where that came from.
Great movies!
Mae West was a peach, wasn't she?!?
thanks for stopping by my little blog!
But you are Blanche!!! You are in a wheelchair!!! Gotta love Bette!
Rick- Albert is right, you left off one of my favorite Joan Crawford lines from The Women:
"And by the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society...outside of a kennel."
great, great movies!!
Great lines from great movies. "We don't need no stinkin badges!" was also from "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Great list!
Hey There, Thanks for the comment on my site, I love your weblog. If your site was amovie it would probably be Stage Door with Ginger Rogers, Ann Miller, KateHepburn, Lucille Ball mashed into The Women, mashed into Palm Springsweekend with Robert Conrad and Connie Stevens! Good stuff!
Hey PSS! Great blog! Thanks for checking mine out!
And, Lewis, my friend, you need to take a trip to Blockbuster and do some catching up!! ;-)
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