Some are great standalone lines. Some are perfect in the context of the situation, in the film.
“This is Hollywood. We don’t like liars.”
Knocked Up
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m glad to hear it. I wish it were enough.”
Johnny Skidmarks
“There’s something about collaboration that brings out the worst in writers.”
Starting Out in the Evening
“You’re still the nicest person I ever met, even if you’re not dying.”
The Good Life
“You mustn’t kid Mother, dear; I was a married woman before you were born.”
The Women
In House of Games, written and directed by David Mamet, it’s the climactic confrontation scene. Mike starts out thinking he’s still scamming Maggie. Soon, however, he comes to understand that she knows everything, and her intention toward him at this point is potentially homicidal. You can see the realization dawn on him, and he says,
“You’re a bad pony, and I’m not gonna bet on you.”
“I like it. I want more.”
Christopher Walken in Brainstorm. For some reason the delivery of that line just knocked my socks off.
“What fresh hell is this?”
The character is quoting Dorothy Parker, though it sounds like Shakespeare.
War of the Roses
“You can dance to anything.”
A Home at the End of the World
Kid to mother “Why can’t you make anybody love you?”
Later she tells him, “It’s not my job to make somebody love me. Love isn’t a trick you play on somebody.”
The Buddy System
A falsely imprisoned alleged terrorist, to a fellow convict –
“You’re better off being guilty. Al least you get some respect.”
In the Name of the Father
“If you saw that on television you would laugh.”
Knocked Up
Joey is in the hospital, victim of an attempted murder by a hired killer his wife hired because of his constant cheating. His mother visits, scolds him, hits him.
Joey: “Hey, Mama, please, I got a bullet in my head.”
Mama (swats him again): “You should have two bullets in your head. Three bullets. Four bullets.”
I Love You to Death
The cop thinks a killer is putting on airs, and takes him down a peg.
“You’re about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a fuckin’ plumber.”
Insomnia
“We came over to sit. That’s what people do when tragedy strikes. They come over and sit.”
Lars and the Real Girl
A Gypsy to a cop who is threatening him –
“By jeez, you’re a brave man. I wouldn’t argue with you sir, I wouldn’t. For you’re a brave man always.”
Into the West
“When you throw a stone into a lake, it’s not happy until it hits the bottom. Make sure he doesn’t drag us all down with him.”
Into the West
“You want me to stop smoking pot because there’s an earthquake every ten years?”
Knocked Up
“If my life were a movie, this would be the end.”
The Good Life
“I lied to you when I said that I would never lie to you again.”
The Good Life
“If we don’t meet, this allows the possibility that it could have been perfect.”
Bad Timing
about the French-
“They have a whole relationship to dairy products which I don’t understand.”
French Kiss