Happy Oscar Week! ABC’s ad campaign for this year’s Oscarcast involves famous movie quotes, most of ‘em pretty short and fairly obvious (“Show me the money”, “Stella!”, etc). So here are 40 quotes from 40 different films. Each film was nominated for at least one Oscar. Name the films; bonus Frink points if you can name the actor or actress involved.
1. "I'm the guy who does his fucking job. You must be the other guy."
2. “Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."
3. "I think what we have on our hands here is a dead shark."
4. “If Jesus came back, and saw what was going on his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
5. “Then the question is, who gathered up all these remarkably different cultures and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?"
6. “Sleeping in the streets and pulling out their hair for someone they never knew. And they think *we're* mad! "
7. “You can't fight in here, this is the war room"
8. "It's a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he is and all he's ever going to be."
9. “First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize, a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired”
10. “Did you know the human head weighs 8 pounds?"
11. “You’re not gonna say that now! You’re not gonna say *that* NOW!”
12. “Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
13. “Give my daughter the shot!”
14. “It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion.”
15. "It rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again!"
16. “Frankly, you're beginning to smell, and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap”
17. “I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot! "
18. "Everyone wants to be us."
19. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
20. "What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?!"
21. “I have this thing about saxophone players ...especially tenor sax. I don't know what it is but they just curdle me, all they have to do is play eight bars of "Come To Me, My Melancholy Baby" and my spine turns to custard”
22. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve. And I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days”
23. “In short, to recap it slightly in a clearer version, uh, the words of David Cassidy in fact, uh, while he was still with the Partridge Family, uh, ‘I think I love you’”
24. "He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat -- I love this -- New York was his town. And it always would be."
25. “There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today”
26. “I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors in the ballpark -- and whadda I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville”
27. “When I was your age, I didn't have no bone structure. Took me years to get bone structure. And don't think bone structure's not important! Nobody started to call me mademoiselle until I was seventeen and getting a little bone structure”
28. “She needs me. It's not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?”
29. “I was a stand-up tomato, a juicy, sexy beefsteak tomato! Nobody does vegetables like me! I did an evening of vegetables Off-Broadway! I did the best tomato, the best cucumber - I did an *endive salad* that knocked the critics on their ass!”
30. “A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they're not dead, really. They're just... backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt, even! Play as well as you can. Go team! GO! Give me an L! Give me an I! Give me a V! Give me an E! L-I-V-E. LIVE! ...Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
31. “I was cured, alright.”
32. “You'll like these. You'll really ‘dig’ them. They're ‘fab’ and all the other pimply hyperboles.”
33. “Man o' War, after they retired him from racing, they put him out to stud. And he had an average of about a hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty foals a year, and he lived to be thirty-six. And then when he died, they did an autopsy, and they found out that he was a raving queen”
34. “Most people never have to face the fact that, at the right time and the right place, they're capable of... anything!”
35. “I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?”
36. "The last time I was inside a woman I was in the Statue of Liberty"
37. “ And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper.”
38. “What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... And he'll get all the great women.”
39. “Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start.”
40. “Girlie, tough ain't enough.”
