Favorite 2011 Movie Quotes
The following is a selection of my favorite movie quotes from 2011. Some because they’re great and some because they’re terrible (which is its own form of greatness). You can decide what category each fits in…
Hanna
“Sometimes children are bad people, too.”–Marissa (Cate Blanchett)
Melancholia
“The earth is evil.
We don’t need to grieve for it.
Nobody will miss it.”–Justine (Kirsten Dunst)
Rio
“Yep. I know just how you feel. Watchin’ ’em up there, makes you want to chase them and grab ’em in your mouth and bite their heads off, huh?”–Luiz (the bulldog voiced by Tracy Morgan)
Moneyball
“I hate losing more than I love winning. And there’s a difference.”–Billy Beane (Brad Pitt)
The Ides of March
“Because you want to win. Because you broke the only rule in politics. You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can’t fuck the interns… they’ll get you for that.”–Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling)
Friends with Benefits
“Here’s an idea, next time, instead of being late, just shit on my face. Because that’s kind of the same thing as missing ‘Your Body is a Wonderland’.”–Kayla (Emma Stone)
Midnight in Paris
“Who wants to fight?”–Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll)“But I will say that we both like Indian food. Not all Indian food, but, you know, the pita bread. We both like pita bread. I guess it’s called naan.”
–Gil (Owen Wilson)“You like the shape of the rhinoceros?”
–Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody)“You always take the side of the help, as usual. That’s why daddy says you’re a communist.”
–Inez (Rachel McAdams)“I don’t understand, what’s holding them in the room?”
–Luis Bunuel (Adrien de Van)
Shame
“Does your boyfriend go down on you? I do.”–Brandon (Michael Fassbender)
The Mechanic
“I’m going to put a price on your head so big, that when you look in the mirror your reflection’s gonna want to shoot you in the face.”–Dean (Tony Goldwyn)
Drive
“You want a toothpick?”–Driver (Ryan Gosling)“If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours no matter what. I don’t sit in while you’re running it down; I don’t carry a gun… I drive.”
–Driver (Ryan Gosling)“How about this? Shut your mouth, or I’ll kick your teeth down your throat and I’ll shut it for you.”
–Driver (Ryan Gosling)
Attack the Block
“This is too much madness to explain in one text!”–Jerome (Leeon Jones)
Scream 4
“I’m gonna slit your eyelids in half so that you can’t blink when I stab you in the face.”–Ghostface
50/50
“50/50, if you were a casino game you’d have the best odds.”–Kyle (Seth Rogen)
Contagion
“Blogging is not writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation”–Dr. Ian Sussman (Elliott Gould)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“I don’t know about you, George, but I feel seriously underfucked.”–Connie Sachs (Kathy Burke)
The Descendants
“Well, guess what, I’m Matt’s friend too! Okay? And this is a unique and dramatic situation. I would want to know.”–Mark (Rob Huebel)“Your friend is completely retarded, you know that?”
–Matt King (George Clooney)“How often do old people just haul off and cold cock you like that?”
–Sid (Nick Krause)“She’s a twat. She’s a twat, twat, twat, twat, twat, twat, twat, twat…”
–Scottie King (Amara Miller)“Elizabeth is dying. Oh, wait, fuck you, and she’s dying.”
–Matt King (George Clooney)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
“Isn’t it amazing the fear of offending is greater than the fear of pain?”–Martin Vanger (Stellan Skarsgard)
…and finally, the guy with three total words in this year’s megahit…
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
“Possibly!”–Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone)“We’re outnumbered.”
–Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone)
