FAVORITE LINES FROM MOVIES AND TV
STAR TREK
1966
"The Corbomite Maneuver"
Air Date: November 10, 1966
Captain Kirk: William Shatner
Mr. Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Dr. McCoy: DeForest Kelly
Lt. Bailey: Anthony Call
Mr. Sulu: George Takei
Mr. Scott: James Doohan
Lt. Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Yeoman Rand: Grace Whitney
Clint Howard: Balok
Written by Jerry Sohl
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Music: Fred Steiner
Cinematography: Jerry Finnerman
The episode begins with the crew of the Enterprise exploring uncharted space when they encounter an unknown buoy intercepting their path. Captain Kirk gives the order to destroy the buoy because it is emitting dangerous radiation harmful to human life.
By destroying the alien object, a large ominous ship comes to investigate the faith of the their security marker.
Capt. Kirk: Not chess Mr. Spock, poker. Do you know the game?
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: It's blocking the way!
Mr. Spock: Quite unnecessary to raise your voice, Mr. Bailey.
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: Raising my voice back there doesn't mean I was scared or couldn't do my job, it means I happen to have a human thing called an adrenalin gland.
Mr. Spock: That sounds most inconvenient, however. Have you considered having it removed?
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: [sees Sulu quietly laughing at him] Very funny.
Sulu: Try and cross brains with Spock, he'll cut you to pieces every time.
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: Sir, we gonna just let it hold us here? We got phaser weapons. I vote we blast it.
Capt. Kirk: I'll keep that in mind, Mr. Bailey, when this becomes a democracy.
Capt. Kirk: There's no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.
Sulu: Four minutes, thirty seconds.
Scott: You have an annoying fascination for time pieces, Mr. Sulu.
Mr. Spock: I believe it adds up to either one of two possibilities: First, a space buoy of some kind.
Capt. Kirk: Second?
Mr. Spock: Flypaper.
Capt. Kirk: This is the Captain speaking. First Federation vessel is in distress. We're preparing to board it. There are lives at stake, by our standards Alien life, but lives nevertheless. Captain out.
"What are Little Girls Made of?"
Air Date: October 20, 1966
Guest Appearances
Michael Strong as Dr. Roger Korby
Sherry Jackson as Andrea
Ted Cassidy as Ruk
Nurse Chapel: Majel Barrett
Written by Robert Block
Directed by James Goldstone
Music: Fred Steiner
Cinematography: Jerry Finnerman
Nurse Chapel reunites with her former fiancé. She discovers he has been develop artificial life forms that resemble the human profile and have a sophisticated operating system. It is difficult to tell if the androids are living organisms. The episode with Captain Kirk is shirtless and gets slapped by an android.
Dr. Korby: Andrea, kiss eh, Captain Kirk.
Andrea goes up to kiss Captain Kirk. Kirk does not resist.
Dr. Korby: Now, strike him!
Andrea slaps Kirk with her right hand. Kirk is shocked.
Dr. Korby: You see, no emotion in it.
Cinematographer Jerry Finnerman lit the scenes in the original Star Trek TV series. His use of dramatic lighting on the actors along with the use of colored gels made the scenes have depth.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
He was subsequently hired, and, at the age of 32, was one of the youngest cinematographers in Hollywood.[1] He later said, "On a show like Star Trek, you have to push the envelope, the result of playing it safe is a diet of pabulum."[1] He used light placements and colored gels as mood lighting. Employing lighting techniques and changing background wall colors, he discovered that a range of effects could be seen on a single set.[1] One enhancement he made was the effects for the transporter; he explained, "I put fixtures in the bottom and fixtures in the top, and [the actors] would stand on them. Then I would have somebody on a dimmer work the visual, the special effect of light going on and off, and then they would zap them."
1. Witmer, Jon D. (July 2011). "In Memoriam: Gerald Perry Finnerman, ASC, 1931-2011". American Cinematographer.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
1985
Michael J. Fox: Marty McFly,
Christopher Lloyd: Emmett "Doc" Brown
Lea Thompson: Lorraine Baines McFly
Crispin Glover: George McFly
Thomas F. Wilson: Biff Tannen
Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Music: Al Silverstri
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
A teenage aspiring rock guitarist finds himself driving a Delorean built by his quirky friend who is a scientist with intentions of traveling to the future. He accidentally gets in the Delorean to escape bundling terrorists in need of plutonium for their terrorizing lifestyle and zips into thin air leaving a trail of fire in his wake.
Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
Marty McFly: Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Whoa. This is heavy.
Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, George McFly: If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
1968
Keir Dullea: Dr. Dave Bowman
Gary Lockwood: Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester: Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
Douglas Rain: HAL 9000 (Voice)
Written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Short Story: Arthur C. Clarke
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
The year is 2001, a space mission scientific crew is sent to Jupiter and find information on a mysterious object that was left on the moon millions of years ago but an AI operational computer has disquieting sinister objectives during the mission flight.
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Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors please, HAL. (Pause) Open the pod bay doors please, HAL. (No answer from HAL) Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Do you read me HAL? (No answer from HAL) Do you read me HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? (No answer from HAL) Hello, HAL, do your read me? Do you read me, HAL?
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HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
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Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
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HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
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Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
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HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
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Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
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HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
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HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
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Dave Bowman: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
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HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
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Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
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HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.
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Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!
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HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
ENTER THE DRAGON
1973
Robert Wall: Oharra
Angela Mao: Su Lin
Geoffrey Weeks: Mr. Braithwaite
Written by Michael Allin and Bruce Lee
Directed by Robert Clouse
Music: Lao Schifrin
Cinematography: Gil Hubbs
A contemporary Shaolin monk has been chosen to infiltrate an island governed by an outcast Shaolin monk using it as a front for illicited drug operations. He enters the island through a martial arts tournament to investigate and complete the mission of exposing the illegal activities. He kicks some serious butt during the mission and is a one man wrecking crew.
Williams: [to Han] Man, you come right out of a comic book.
Lee: You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin temple.
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Parsons: What's your style?
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Lee: My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
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Parsons: The art of fighting without fighting? Show me some of it.
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Lee: Later.
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[Parsons grabs Lee's shoulder as he turns away]
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Lee: Don't you think we need more room?
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Parsons: Where else?
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Lee: That island, on the beach. We can take this boat.
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Lee: [Lao approaches Lee; both bow] Kick me.
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[Lao looks confused]
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Lee: Kick me.
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[Lao attempts kick]
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Lee: What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content. Try again.
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[Lao tries again, but with more aggression]
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Lee: I said "emotional content". Not anger! Now try again... with me.
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[Lao tries again and succeeds]
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Lee: That's it! How did it feel to you?
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Lao: Let me think...
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[Lee smacks his head]
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Lee: Don't think. FEEL! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon.
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[Lee looks at Lao, who is looking at the finger; Lee smacks him again]
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Lee: Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory. Do you understand?
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[Lao bows; Lee smacks him again]
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Lee: Never take your eyes off your opponent... even when you bow.
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[Lao bows again, this time keeping his eyes on Lee]
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Lee: That's it.
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[Lao walks away; opening credits begin]
Han: The battle with the guards was magnificent. Your skill is extraordinary. And I was going to ask you to join us.
Chuck Norris on Conan O'Brien
Air Date: 2/6/1995
THE ROCKFORD FILES
"Chicken Little is a Little Chicken"
Air Date: November 14, 1975
Jim Rockford: James Garner
Rocky: Noah Berry Jr.
Dennis Becker: Joe Santos
Written by Stephen J. Cannell
Directed by Lawrence Doheny
Music: Pete Carpenter and Mike Post
Cinematography: Lamar Boren
Jim Rockford is private investigator assisting cases that are his level of experience but is apprehensive in physical confrontations.
Opening scene
Jim Rockford: [telephone answering machine] This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
Beth Davenport: Jim, it's Beth. You have the vet's number, the flea collar, and extra litter. One thing I forgot. Keep him away from other cats. He's not very discriminating.
HOUSE OF GAMES
1987
Lindsey Crouse: Margaret Ford
Joe Mantegna: Mike
Ricky Jay: George
William H. Macy: Sargent Moran
Written by David Mamet
Directed by David Mamet
Music: Alaric Jans
Cinematography: Juan Ruiz Anchía
An established psychiatrist enters a shadowy world of a professional grifter with an assortment of experiencing stings and con men games.
Margaret Ford: You took my money.
Mike: How naughty of me.
Mike: It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.
Mike: I'm from the United States of kiss-my-ass.
Mike: Did I ever tell you my name? My name is Mike.
Margaret Ford: Glad to meet you.
Mike: Well, I'm glad to meet you, too.
Margaret Ford: I have a proposition for you.
Mike: And what's YOUR name?
[after the con has failed due to Margaret noticing water dripping from the gun]
George: Told you a squirt gun wouldn't work.
Mike: A squirt gun would've worked- you didn't have to fill it!
George: You expect me to threaten someone with an empty gun?
TWILIGHT ZONE
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
Air Date: December 21, 1961
Susan Harrison: The Ballerina
William Windom: The Major
Murray Matheson: The Clown
Kelton Garwood: The Tramp
Clark Allen: The Bagpiper
Written by Rod Serling and Marvin Petal
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Music: Marius Constant
Cinematography: George T. Clemens
A Major, a ballerina, a clown, a tramp and a bagpiper are together in a space they are unfamiliar on how they arrived in the confined domain. They converse and have questions about their existence.
[opening narration]
Narrator: Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an Army major - a collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation; just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness, and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment, we'll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we'll only explain it - because this is the Twilight Zone.
The Major: Who are we?
The Ballerina: None of us knows, Major. We don't know who we are, we don't know where we are. Each of us woke up one moment and here we were in the darkness.
The Major: How can that happen?
The Ballerina: That's the question we asked ourselves Major, a question with no answer. We're nameless things with no memory, no knowledge of what went before. No understanding of what is now, no knowledge of what will be.
The Tramp: For our purposes, this is the universe. This little room, right here.
DIRTY HARRY
1971
Clint Eastwood: Inspector Harry Callahan
Harry Guardino: Lieutenant Al Bressler
Andy Robinson: 'Scorpio'
Written by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink and Dean Riesner
Directed by Don Siegel
Music: Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography: Bruce Surtees
[last lines]
Harry Callahan: [to Killer] Uh uh. I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question:
"Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
THE GUNFIGHTER
1950
Gregory Peck: Jimmy Ringo
Karal Malden: Mac
Helen Westcott: Peggy Walsh
Written by William Bowers
Directed by Henry King
Music: Alfred Neweman
Cinematography: Arthur C. Miller
A tack sharp shooter is being challenged to a gunfight contest when he travels from town to town whether his likes it or not.
Jimmy Ringo : How come I've got to run into a squirt like you nearly every place I go these days? What are you trying to do? Show off in front of your friends?
Cowboy: If he ain't so tough, there have been alot of sudden natural deaths in his vicinity.
Jimmy Ringo: Ain't some of you fellas in charge of this donkey?
ARMY OF DARKNESS
1993
Bruce Campbell: Ash
Bridget Fonda: Linda
Ted Raimi: Cowardly Warrior
Written by Sam and Ted Raimi
Directed by Sam Raimi
Music: Joseph LoDuca
Cinematography: Bill Pope
A retail store associate is unwillingly traveled back to medieval times and has to rely on his 12 gauge double barrel Remington boomstick to get him out of tricky situations.
Ash: Yeah!
[after shooting King Arthur's sword in half]
Ash: Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?