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I'll tell you what he said! He asked me to forcibly insert the Lifeline exercise card into my anus!

-Beth Grant recalls Jake Gyllenhaal's unorthodox, yet understandable request in Donnie Darko
I smoke so much I'm not running out of cigarettes, I'm running out of lighters.

-Thomas Lennon puts things in perspective on a Reno 911 commentary track.
You know, good at chess usually means bad at life. You do realize that she's in love with you, don't you? I've been her 20 minutes and I know it... but then, I'm bad at chess.

-An observant doctor comments on his friend's love life, or lack thereof in Dirty Pretty Things
Fred Stearns passed away again.

-Gary Dourdan relays the improbable in CSI: Season Three
I can't say that I don't think you're not without talent.

-Anna Meara comments on the abilities of an acting client of hers in Chump Change
...and after that, we're doing a very serious drama called Retard.

-Tim Matheson talks about his next project in Chump Change
Hey! Are you even sure you need a liver?

-A clueless Eva Mendes asks a fitting question in Stuck on You.
Are you a Mexican or a Mexican't?

-Johnny Depp finishes an inspiration pep talk in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Girls who are raped on Friday usually don't have sex on Saturday.

-Jay Karnes explains the ins and outs of accusing someone of rape in The Shield: Season Two.
I smell like an ass. Or a foot. Or some kind of foot that's been lodged deep, deep, deep, deep inside an ass.

-Kevin Pollack manages to make bad dialogue good in The Whole Ten Yards.
I'm a bitch with a capital 'C'.

-Cher either delivering a joke with a straight face or mispelling 'bitch' in Stuck on You.
I keep telling you not to think. You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon, just simply isn't one of them.

-Bruce Willis loses his mind in The Whole Ten Yards.
You're awfully clean for someone who likes the cinema so much.

-Eva Green delivers the most truthful line in film history in The Dreamers.
I performed fellatio on my wife after lunch. Is there a problem with that?

-An irate suspect has issue with Williams Peterson's line of questioning in C.S.I.. And yes, this is what he meant to say.
I'm as sure as I can be without, you know, proof.

-Ben Stiller plays detective in Starsky and Hutch.
They really should tell you if they're just gonna let komodo dragons run loose around the hotel.

-Ben Stiller expresses outrage at his hotel's policies in Along Came Polly.
I'm not stupid. Ask me who has the best pitching staff in the National League.

-A teenager proves his stupidity in The Perfect Score.
She's a great human being and a whore. She's got a wonderful, great big heart and a little bit of a crack problem. God vomitted and there was Jackie.

-Carlos Alzraquai has a way with descriptions in Reno 911: Season One.
Do you see midgets hanging off trees like crabapples?

-Tony Cox asks a good question in Bad Santa.
I am an eating, drinking, shitting, fucking Santa Claus.

-Billy Bob Thornton weaves together a poetic verse during his voice over in Bad Santa.
It has everything to do with anything.

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I know some people who know some people who robbed some people.

-Snoop Dogg explains how he obtained some of his belongings in Starsky and Hutch.
Honey? I'm sorry I pointed a gun at your face and said I was going to blow your brains out, okay?

-Bruce Willis apologizes in The Whole Ten Yards.
When we get a minute together, le me explain to you the concept of a 'secret' hideout.

-Kevin Pollack talks to his brain dead henchmen in The Whole Ten Yards.
I've had a crush on you since we met. Couldn't you tell from the way I was ignoring you?

-Christina Ricci shines a spotlight on the female psyche in Anything Else.
Certainty of death? Small chance of success? What are we waiting for?

-John Rhys-Davies in Return of the King.
Have you heard of avoidance behavior? I have and I don't want to talk about it.

-Kevin Pollack delivers the definition of irony in The Whole Ten Yards.
Do you want some more dope? Do you want a Dr. Pepper?

-Val Kilmer negotiates in Spartan.
When we get a minute together, let me explain to you the concept of a 'secret' hideout.

-Billy Bob Thornton gets to the point in Bad Santa.
There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?

-Emma Thompson questions her daughter's role in her school's Christmas play in Love Actually.
I would say that I'm a morning person in that I go to sleep in the morning.

-Jack Black hits the nail on the head in a featurette on The School of Rock DVD.
I couldn't tell you everything I hated about this film.

-Jack Nicholson jokes (we think) with director Nancy Meyers on the commentary track for XXXXXXXXXXX.
So we're not supposed to tell anybody what nobody knows?

-Jake Gyllenhaal grasps bureaucracy in Donnie Darko.

If you give my daughter an alcoholic beverage or a joint, I will hunt you down and neuter you.

Matt Travis hated to swim more than anyone I knew hated to do whatever they hated to do.

I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.

I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're Jewish, okay?

Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo

Farva, you are under arrest for being a complete and total fuckhead.

I believe you have an absolutely breathtaking heiney. I would like to become friends with it.

There, there. You had no way of knowing the man you were dating was a vicious, murdering sociopath.

“I just couldn't figure legal ramifications of bringing you back from the dead. .”

“She hasn't answered your calls... She didn't reply to the candygram. God only knows what happened to the kitten you got for her.”

Vince Vaughn waxes philosophically about his friend’s dating situation in The Wedding Crashers.

“What was the point of all those push-ups if you can’t even lift a bloody log?”

—Michael Caine delves into the core of body-building after spying Christian Bale trapped under a burning piece of wood in Batman Begins.

“You’re the new me. No. You know what? I’m the new me.”

—Clark Gregg demonstrates his lack of pronoun comprehension in In Good Company.

“Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.“

—John Goodman delivers a diatribe against nihilism in The Big Lebowski. This wasn’t on AFIs list either.

“When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I’m about as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench.“

—Bruce Willis has a way with metaphor in Sin City.

“These were the best years of our life. At least that’s what they told us. Personally, I hated high school. I hated all of you and I hope you all rot in hell.”—the conclusion of the best validictorian speech ever in Imaginary Heroes.

“Why aren’t you scared?! You were nearly eaten by a tree!”—Matt Damon ponders the nature of things in The Brother’s Grimm

What was the point of all those push-ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?

Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements. One - guns down. Two - come on out.

And it has a town center. That's a place where people can gather. --a publicist in The Corporation

Hey, Porky Pig, I hope someone molests you.

“In this country, it’s illegal to run over children.”

I believe you have an absolutely breathtaking heiney. I would like to become friends with it.

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