My favourite quote is when Chuck (Henry Winkler) turns up for work and Leonhard is watching and laughing at "The Flinstones", then he gets up and says
"Barney Rubble, what an actor"
What do you think?
In the jail cell:
Chuck: "What are you, running for cell president?"
Bill: "They have that?"
scuffling in the lawyer's office..."Chuck, I'm wearing white!"
shareBill: I gave you $100
Chuck: I didn't ask for it.
Bill: That's what makes it such a beautiful gesture on my part!
My wife and I quote that line all.the.time.
and
"Men love scrambled"
"The Girls Scout of America?!!.....AMERICA!!!!!!!"
shareBilly Blaze has so many great ones, most of which have been mentioned, but how about the psycho looking guy in the jail cell (did voice for Roger Rabbit etc, forget his name though).
after CHUCK says "i'd rather be dead"
PSYCHO: "do you want to be dead?"
to the cops from inside the car "hey we got teenage girls in here"
"hold the phone" i couldn't stop saying that for years
CHUCK: we're supposed to use those cars to carry dead people
BILL: yeah did you see that guy
BELINDA: haven't you had a fantasy about a way that you'd like to do it
CHUCK: yea, once i'd like to do it without checking the apartment first
DELIVERY GUY: 4K !!! (i don't know that makes me laugh the most)
"everything i say, by definition, is a promise." CARMINE SABATINI -(The Freshman)
I realize this one was already mentioned, but in order to do it true justice, it needs the preceding lines to really set it up:
SCENE: "Chuck" (the Henry Winkler character) is having second thoughts about the new love brokers business he and partner "Bill" (the Michael Keaton character) have set-up, and mentions his reservations late one night, while "working" at the morgue:
BILL: So, what's the matter?
CHUCK: Ever since we've started this, I have been ill. I have headaches......stomachaches.......I get the chills.......my gums are bleeding......and my hair keeps falling out into the sink!!
BILL: So?
CHUCK: Bill, let me try to explain this to you.........as we sit here and idly chat, there are women, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and WE are making money from that!!!
BILL: Is this a great country, or what?????
Something about the look on Michael Keaton's face, and the timing of his delivery on that particular line that is just so utterly, absolutely, priceless!!!
And just one great example of a truly brilliant performance in this very funny, and hugely underrated, movie!
Chuck in jail imitating Bill: come on, we have to be pimps,lets be pimps
Bill: well we couldn't be doctors!
<at the Paradise Club pool, demanding a towel>
Client: I'm not getting outta this tub naked! Not with all these parrots around!
the thing is, most of the lines are bill's and they're ok lines, but the way keaton delivers them is hysterical. i could hear his voice in my head saying the lines as i read them here, and he just makes them so funny. "You two guys?" is not funny as a line, but when he says it - comedy gold.
shareSo what's our job, we drive around and pick up stiffs?
That guy's dead!
It wouldn't be right to let you live after we killed Franklin; he was our friend.
There are too many great lines in this movie to mention.
Luckily, the ground broke my fall.
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It's all in the reflexes!
It was very funny to me when Chuck told off Bill and ended it by saying "feeding mayonnaise to tuna fish!" HAAAAAA! Really made Bill's inventions appear idiotic.
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