Best Line - Shirley Valentine (1989) Discussion

[–] infinata 21 years ago

The Best Line in the movie is "That's right,I'm going to Greece for the Sex.
Sex for Beakfast,Sex for Lunch, Sex for Tea, and Sex for Supper. Sounds like a marvelous Diet. It is it's called the F Plan."

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[–] Manicheus 21 years ago

"Sex is greatly overrated...lots of pushing and shoveling and you always end up a bit short!"
Or:
"Marriage is like Middle East: there's no solution!"
Or:
"It's not that my Joe is a bad fellow...he's just no bleeding good!"
et c.

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[–] tcoffman 20 years ago

"Someone must have told you the answer!"

"Of course somebody told me. How else would I have learned it?"

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[–] nurse_sarah 20 years ago

"you're afraid I wanna make fu*k with you"

classic!

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[–] icklejonesy 20 years ago

The English? Don't talk to me about the English, while the Greeks were building roads and cities and temples, what were the English doing? I'll tell you what the English were doing; they were running around the loin cloths, plowing up the earth with the arsebone of a giraffe!

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[–] dextermovies 20 years ago

After Costas gives her his speach about her stretch marks:

"Aren't men full of $h!t"

On the beach talking to us about how Jane went off with the man she met on the plane and hasn't come back:

"They must be marvelous olives"

And, of course, her nickname for the man on the plane:

"What, the walking groin?"

"A Jester unemployed - is Nobody's Fool"

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[–] nightjourney90210 20 years ago

I haven't even seen the whole film, I was flicking channels and there it was on some obscure channel. I only saw a tiny bit but it must have made some impression on me because the next day at work I couldn't stop exclaiming "Well tickle my tits 'til Friday!" And I'm a bloke. Surprised I didn't get chucked out of the office!

Oh Doctor, will I still be able to criticise?

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[–] sirjeremy 11 years ago

Yep, that's mine too...and I've even said it a few times in real life.

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[–] ChicagoLamb 19 years ago

I agree that line was very clever and perfectly timed. I think many of the other folks who chimed in with their favorites may have missed the brilliance in that. I also reveled in the scene in which Costas assumed Gillian was the maid and Shirley quickly introduced her to "Dougy and Jeannette from Manchester". All in all a very clever film.

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[–] jennierose 19 years ago

What I thought was the best line was (from memory, not exact):

"Why can't you name a girl Clitoris? Plenty of guys walking around named Dick!"

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[–] rossrobinson 19 years ago

That's right Malandra I'm going to Greece for the sex. Sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea and sex for supper.

I like that line that best.

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[–] roobad 19 years ago

What about when she turns to the camera and says:
'I'm glad we're not having soup or I'd put me head in it and drown meself'

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[–] will_simmo 19 years ago

In the lingerie shop:
"Oh I'm not wearing them for me, I'm wearing them for my lover."

Marriage is like Middle East: there's no solution.

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[–] david1731048 18 years ago

Not the funniest line, but "'I love you'. They should bottle it and sell it, it cures everything." How sadly true

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[–] smck_82uk 18 years ago

I love the whole chips and egg line

"I like chips and egg on a tuesday today is Thursday"

"Well pretend its tuesday"

"Wheres my steak"

"I gave it to the dog"

"What dog?"

"Gillians dog across the street"

"Is this is? have you finally went round the flipping twist, look at me I work all the hours god sends and for what? to come home to you talking to the wall for you to give my tea to any stray dog that passes and you expect me to eat this? well Im not eating this Im not eating *beep*

Or something to that effect lol

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[–] BelleDameSansMerci 14 years ago

"Well pretend its tuesday"

I LOVE that part too, the entire dinner conversation!
The husband's stunned expression when he sees a dinner not corresponding to the day of the week is priceless.

And of course, the part when HE starts talking to the wall....

But this movie is chock full of gems anyway.

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[–] rttoronto 16 years ago

The sputnik miss.

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[–] coventrycitynil 16 years ago

I love it when Shirley is getting her passport photo done and she says
"I think sex is like supermarkets...over rated, just alot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end"

Then Gillian says that they need to buy a bikini and Shirley exclaims:
"Bikini! ME!?! with my stretchmarks! id be arrested for bringing the human form into disrepute"

Love it

"What? The Curtains?"

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[–] mackay254 11 years ago

Headline..."JOE EATS LATE!"

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[–] katinka1969 11 years ago

"I certainly travel widely but I´m not an air hostess! Darling, I’m a hooker, I’m a whore!"

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