Your Favorite Line From A Movie?

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Whether because it's moving, personally meaningful, or absolutely hilarious.

I'll tell you mine, and it's such a camp I advise you not to have any liquids in your mouth as you face the screen:

It's Zsa Zsa Gabor's immortal utterance in 1958's Queen of Outer Space:

"I hate that kveen."

Something about the overly rouged nonchalance with which Zsa Zsa tosses off that acid-laced bonbon makes it utterly irresistible.

The movie -- about hijinks on an all-female planet Venus -- aims for that inspired level the whole time, but it only achieves it with that one quick bit of Hungarian bitchery.

Plus, the last time that movie was on TV, I happened to turn it on just as she was saying that!

This kveen loved it!

Yours?

Come on! Kvick!


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Sally Barry
Sally Barry

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase's Christmas RANT near the end.

"Someday machines will take the place of EVERY profession" sez Jean Harlow to Marie Dressler in Dinner At Eight.  "Oh my dear, that's something YOU'll never have to worry about."

"There is no spoon."  The Matrix.

Tony50
Tony50

"hetero stink shit"

Tony50
Tony50

"what are you doing with howard's rocks"

Melinda9
Melinda9

Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

GayWill
GayWill

Robert Preston from Victor/Victoria:  There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold!

Melinda9
Melinda9

I know what a rusty trombone is, Jerri; I used to be a stewardess.

La Grand Puta
La Grand Puta

:Mah parents are gonna be real sorry If I don't get those cha-cha heels." Anyone who doesn't know who said that forfeits their gay card.....

MDtopdad
MDtopdad

Baltimore's own Glenn Milsap, aka Divine!

Cheryl
Cheryl

Also from Raising Arizona "Her womb was a barren place where my seed could find no purchase"

Eric P
Eric P

"Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water. BAM! A f—in’ bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask you: Would you give a f— what kind of pants the son of a b—- who shot you was wearing?!" –Mona Lisa Vito (Oscar winner Marisa Tomei) in My Cousin Vinny

Robert Seth Vorisek
Robert Seth Vorisek

"Truly, THAT man was the Son of God." (or something like that) spoken by John Wayne as a "Centurion Warrior" in "The Greatest Story Ever Told". It's like the greatest pay-off line after watching a 4-hour movie. And spoken with such Texan/Western fe-eeeeling!

TheRudeDog
TheRudeDog

Also from Raising Arizona:  "Of course I changed my name.  Would YOU buy anything from a store called 'Unpainted Huffhines?' "

Movielover
Movielover

This is also good, Kate Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer..."The narrow beach, the color of caviar, was all in motion. The sky was in motion, full of flesh-eating birds. ... And I looked and saw the sand all alive, all alive. ..."

Movielover
Movielover

"Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of."  Blanche Dubois 

Caesarion
Caesarion

Three favorites:"Infamy ! Infamy ! Everyone has it in for me !" Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo."I was in the Sound of Music . I played one of the fuckin Trapp kids. " Rita Moreno's character in The Ritz. Secretary "The Dean is waxing  wroth !" Univ. President (Groucho) "Let Roth wax the Dean".

mjm
mjm

In Horse Feathers ('32):

Dean of the college: "What are you doing here?Chico Marx: "I'm-a the music teacher, giving her singing lessons."Dean (to Thelma Todd): "Since when have you been getting singing lessons?"Chico: "Since you came in"Dean (to Groucho Marx): "What are you doing here?"Groucho: "I'm the plumber. Just hanging around in case something goes wrong with her pipes.... I haven't used that joke in 20 yrs."

strickla
strickla

"It's my happening and it freaks me out!" Z-Man in "Beyond The Valley of The Dolls"

Glamor
Glamor

"This town needs an enema." Jack Nictholson in one of the Batman films. Does it matter which one?

Rabbit
Rabbit

"The uh...stuff that dreams are made of." - Bogart in The Maltese Falcon"Vodka. And don't be stingy, baby" - Garbo in Ninotchka"This is no dream!" - Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby"I better get them cha cha heels." - Divine, Female Trouble

1,256 more!

Movielover
Movielover

Rabbit, I love the Garbo quote, but you got it a little skewed.  It's Garbo in Ana Christie and it's "Gimmie a visky.  And don't be stingy."

Rabbit
Rabbit

Thanks for the clarification, Movielover. I knew it was something along those lines.

Movielover
Movielover

You might love Ana Christie with Garbo.  A great movie and it has Marie Dressler playing Garbo's dad's girlfriend.  Marie also has a fab line in which she says, "Said she, with all the dignity in the world."  She's playing a riverboat hag!

Jack E. Jett
Jack E. Jett

boobies boobies boobies----nellie o'hara ----valley of the dolls

TuttiFrutti
TuttiFrutti

Carmen Miranda singing in "The Gang's All Here":

Some people say I dress too gay, but every day I feel so gay, and when I'm gay I dress that way, is something wrong with that? Noooo!

Babbity Lil' Snob
Babbity Lil' Snob

"I don't take whores in taxi-cabs."  Said by Dirk Bogarde upon confronting his cheating girlfriend, Julie Christie.  "Darling" (and a line I've used many times!!)

Cheryl
Cheryl

"Hope is a good thing" - Shawshank Redemption"I'm the player to be named later" - Bull Durham"How much is it if it isn't buffered?" - What's Up Doc?"I bring you nine pies" - Defending Your Life

Melinda9
Melinda9

We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now! said by Withnail in Withnail and I.

MarkyMark
MarkyMark

"It is the duty of a slave to please her master - and if he be young and handsome, so much the better!"

Maria Montez "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" 

Connor Cruise
Connor Cruise

You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin Temple. 

last line from Bruce Lee in "Enter the Dragon" (before skewering the offender)

CMG
CMG

"Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa?"- Heathers

Johndlawincrw
Johndlawincrw

I'm in a nervous state. If I should strike you, you would surely die.

jonster
jonster

Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life.* Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.  (Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude)

James
James

Another VOTD moment: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.Helen Lawson

Monsieurpatric
Monsieurpatric

Michael choux...For me it is always Hugh Griffith:  "I thought it was a costume ball!"  from start the Revolution Without Me.

Joe Hammes
Joe Hammes

"You are now the proud owner of rabies."  Mink Stole as Peggy Gravel in John Waters' Desperate Living

Lost Weekend
Lost Weekend

Jane Wyman to Rock Hudson in "All That Heaven Allows":  "And you want me to be a man."  Rock replies (with a leering smile), "Only in that one way."

Jason
Jason

Luke, I'm your father!

Rdavisnj
Rdavisnj

It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily!

Timmmyk
Timmmyk

Dorothy Michaels' / Michael Dorsey's entire speech at the emotional climax of Tootsie - the greatest soliloquy in movie history.

Dukeraoul40
Dukeraoul40

"You Samoans are all the same. You have no faith in the essential decency of the white man's culture." Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

TheRudeDog
TheRudeDog

Ha!  The entire 1st paragraph of that movie rocks!

Allan
Allan

RuPaul in Crooklyn says to a Puerto Rican guy at the bodega, "I'm no puta! I keep my panties clean!"

TheRudeDog
TheRudeDog

"I don't know what kind of jammies they were.  They had Yodas & shit on 'em."  Raising Arizona

Bill Huelbig
Bill Huelbig

I think my favorite is the same as Michael's.  I really loved seeing that line in print after more than 50 years. 

Two more favorites are from "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman", a close cousin of "Queen of Outer Space":

"I know where my husband is!  He's with that woman!"  (The tragic Yvette Vickers played that woman).

and

"HARRRRYYYYY!!!"

James
James

Your name is not Eve Harrington. It is Gertrude Slescynski.

Bruce
Bruce

What of it?!?!?

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