Wisdom From Movies
Posted by ListenToLeon on
January 23, 2009
One staple of the film industry is the all-important “Life Lesson.” The part where something so profound is said that it is followed by an obligatory pause to let things soak in for the slow folks. As Keenan Ivory Wayans so eloquently put it, the MESSAGE!
Here are a few examples of memorable MESSAGE! quotes from films. Some good, some ridiculous, but ALL memorable!
“Just because you pour syrup on shit, don’t make it pancakes!” – Samuel L Jackson, Juice
“Make the money, don’t let the money make you!” – Diamond, Player’s Club
“What are you lookin’ at? You’re all a bunch of f*ckin’ @ssholes. You know why? You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f*ckin’ fingers, and say “that’s the bad guy.” So, what’ll that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth… even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy. Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.” – Tony Montana, Scarface
“You remember lesson about balance? Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?” – Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” – Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects
“You smoke crack, dont ya? You smoke crack dont ya? Look at me, BOY! DON’T YOU SMOKE CRACK? You know what that does to you? Huh? It kills your brain cells, son. IT KILLS YOUR BRAIN CELLS! And when your killing brain cells your doing the same thing, only slower! Now, I say if your gonna kill yourself, don’t f*ck around with it. Do it expeditiously! Now go on and JUMP!” – Joe Clark, Lean On Me
Now, it’s your turn to spread the MESSAGE! Place your favorite MESSAGE! quotes from films in the comment section. I can’t wait to see what you all come up with.
28 Responses to “Wisdom From Movies”
“I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead ‘fore I let him beat me.”
By thembi on Jan 23, 2009
@ Thembi, I was WAITING for a “Color Purple” quote! Thank you!!!
By ListenToLeon on Jan 23, 2009
“Don’t the p***y whip you, MArcus… you gotsta to WHIP THAT P***Y!”
By Mr. Smart Guy on Jan 23, 2009
“Thats why I took those funny lookin nickles of yours” – Crooklyn
By JoJo on Jan 23, 2009
“She’s your Queen to be!——Completely free from infection, To be used at your discretion, Waiting only for your direction, Your Queen to be!!!
By MissE on Jan 23, 2009
“Theres a difference between knowing the path and walking the path”…The Matrix
“the green fairy in the absinthe wants your soul, but don’t worry you are safe with me”..Bram Stokers Dracula circa 92
“I like GOd do not play with Dice”…V for Vendetta
By Phoenix7 on Jan 23, 2009
Lorraine: [jerking open bottom drawer of her dresser and pulling out her underwear] Do you see this? There are two things that have been constant in my life since I was sixteen years old: beige bras and oatmeal. The day before I first fell in love with a woman, I got up, had oatmeal for breakfast, and put on a beige bra. I was no different the day before or after that happened, Tee- Women of Brewster Place
I don’t know why but that quote cracks me up.
By Blair on Jan 23, 2009
“Love should have brought your azz home last night”….Boomerang
By Desiree on Jan 23, 2009
DAMN!!! They already got the Colah Purple AND Coming to America. *Sigh* I have nothing. lol
I may be back after I think of quotes not from either of those flicks.
By Luvvie on Jan 23, 2009
“Nothing but death can keep me from her” Color Purple
“Fame ain’t nothing with out someone you love beside you to share it with” Billy Dee Williams — Mahogany
By The Common Share on Jan 23, 2009
“That’s life,man”
“Life my ass, motherfucker! This is a business, and you ain’t too far gone to see that.”
Purple Rain
By clayizaiken on Jan 23, 2009
“That’s right, brush – brush that weak-ass fade… You think you buff? Nigga you ain’t buff!… The fuck you do, take steriods?… That’s why I’m fucking somebody else!” – Aiesha, Poetic Justice. Love the movie, love the character.
Peace.
By Terry on Jan 23, 2009
“Anna Mae I’m off that narcotic” Ike Turner, What’s Love Got To Do With It.
CLASSIC
By OG on Jan 23, 2009
“Didna bidness!”
(this is a business)
from Purple Rain
“Cant trust the big butts when they smile!”
from In Living Color, one of Tommy Davidsons characters
“Hey, man…dont you mess with John!”
some weird indy flick
L
By lola gets on Jan 23, 2009
Aww, you motherfuckers. Okay. Alright. I’m putting cases on all you bitches. Huh. You think you can do this shit… Jake. You think you can do this to me? You motherfuckers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you. SHU program, nigga. 23 hour lockdown. I’m the man up in this piece. You’ll never see the light of… who the fuck do you think you’re fucking with? I’m the police, I run shit around here. You just live here. Yeah, that’s right, you better walk away. Go on and walk away… ’cause I’m gonna’ burn this motherfucker down. King Kong ain’t got shit on me. That’s right, that’s right. Shit, I don’t, fuck. I’m winning anyway, I’m winning… I’m winning any motherfucking way. I can’t lose. Yeah, you can shoot me, but you can’t kill me.
-Training Day
By Anonymous on Jan 23, 2009
“Hell yeah I want my cornbread and if anybody try to take my cornbread, its gon’ be some consequences and reprecussions!” ~Eddie Murphy in “Life”. If those aren’t words of wisdom, I don’t know what is. Never eff w/a man’s cornbread!!
By PBG on Jan 24, 2009
“Hey my man, what it look like?”
-Bruce Leroy, The Last Dragon
By brran1 on Jan 24, 2009
“Eat the cake Anna Mae!”
-Ike Turner
By bay2la on Jan 24, 2009
Easy Rawlins: A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?
denzel/devil in a blue dress
By ShonQuayshah on Jan 24, 2009
you hittin’ my spot!!!
coretta to easy rawlins
lisa nicole carson/denzel
By ShonQuayshah on Jan 24, 2009
“A boy like that will kill your brother” Anita, West Side Story
“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind
“You must chill. You must chill.” Lloyd Dobbler, Say Anything
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.” William Somerset, Se7en
And a bunch from The Godfather (which I can’t believe people didn’t already quote!):
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“Women and children can be careless. But not men.”
“I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman; blood is a big expense.”
and the ever so smooth:
“Don’t ask me about my business, Kay.”
that’s all I got for now :D
By The Jaded NYer on Jan 25, 2009
“Mama gotta have a life too”
-Baby Boy
“That just happened”
- Talladega Nights
“When you hear grown folks talkin’ shut the f*ck up!”
-The Mack
“Sister can’t fly on only one wing..”
-Sparkle
By Candy on Jan 26, 2009
“I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, DAN”
- Glenn Close to Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction (umm, right before she boiled the bunny)
By tracey in Ohio on Jan 26, 2009
“I’d like to dip you in cheese whiz and spread you over a ritz cracker -if I’m not being too subtle. “- Eugene Levy, Bringing down the house
By CurlyQ on Jan 26, 2009
“Say hello to my little friend”
By CurlyQ on Jan 26, 2009
“AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?” New Jack City
By MissJay on Jan 26, 2009
The CIA ain’t got shit on a woman with a plan.
-Two Can Play That Game
I’ll help you out if you mess up three times, but after that, you’re on your own. Because that’s how it is in the world.
-Ray
You win some, you lose some…but you live. You live.
-Friday
I have a sex addiction. It’s a real disease…with medicine and doctors and everything.
-Blades of Glory
There is no such thing as bad student…only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
-The Karate Kid
Crossover ain’t nothin’ but a double cross. Once we lose our audience, we’ll never get them back. They can hear our music as long as they can’t see our faces? How many of them cross-over to us? I don’t see five niggas on an Elvis album cover!
-The Five Heartbeats
Nina-Why is everything so urgent with you?
Darius-I love you…and that’s urgent like a muthafucka.
Falling in love ain’t shit. Somebody show me how to stay there.
-Love Jones
There’s nothing in this world worse than wasted talent.
-A Bronx Tale
By Furious_styles on Jan 27, 2009
I got mind control over Dee-Bo he be like “Shut da f@ck up”. I be quiet. Soon as he leave. I be talking again.
—-Smokey, Friday
By not ready for commitment on Feb 1, 2009