The actor: Adam Arkin The character: Don Milgram The film: A Serious Man The quote: “What, did he tell you about the goy’s teeth.” I wish there were still key changes in pop music. This article provides a pretty good overview about how and why they’ve been phased out of popular music, and I understand… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #83
The actor: Eric Bana The character: Avner The film: Munich The quote: “Every man we’ve killed has been replaced by worse!” A person’s judgment of the best Disney movie they’ve ever seen and the best Spielberg movie they’ve ever seen are both largely dictated by how old they were when they saw it. It’s the… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #84
The actor: Christopher Mintz-Plasse The character: Fogell The film: Superbad The quote: “I am McLovin.” First Verse Put your eyes on my ID, And I’ll tell you who I be: A Hawaiian who’s thirsting for brew. And when I get away, I’ll say, “Seth! Evan! Hey! I’ve been ‘McLovin’ for you!” Verse 2 They’ll send… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #85
The actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman The character: Lancaster Dodd The film: The Master The quote: “Close your eyes. From now on you are not to blink. If you blink we go back to the start.” There are three categories of great lines from The Master. The first is a small category. It’s lines from skeptics… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #86
The actor: James Franco The character: Cowboy The film: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The quote: “First time?” I have The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as a top-10 Coen Brothers film, which is to say that it’s in the top half. As far as I can tell, this is not a terribly popular opinion. I… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #87
The actor: Samuel L. Jackson The character: Lucius Best / Frozone The film: The Incredibles The quote: “Where’s my super suit?” The first animated movie on this list and, hold onto your butts, the only animated movie on this list. No Shrek, no Frozen, no Finding Nemo. All of them made the shortlist but none… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #88
The actor: Johnny Depp The character: Captain Jack Sparrow The film: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl The quote: “But why is the rum gone?” There are multiple movies on this list which have two entries, like I’ve hinted elsewhere. However, there are no characters with more than one line represented. This… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #89
The actor: Chadwick Boseman The character: T’Challa The film: Black Panther The quote: “Wakanda forever!” Wonderland, Narnia, Shangri-La, Oz, Brigadoon, the Wizarding World, Atlantis. One accesses these fantasy places from a place in the real world, as we know it. A rabbit hole or a wardrobe, a plane crash or a tornado, a train platform… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #90
The actor: Sacha Baron Cohen The character: Borat Sagdiyev The film: Borat The quote: “Very nice, how much?” At the moment, I didn’t expect this to become a formative memory. Looking back across half of my life, this is absolutely a formative memory. I saw the teaser trailer for Borat on MySpace. Most of it… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #91
The actor: Leonardo DiCaprio The character: Jordan Belfort The film: The Wolf of Wall Street The quote: “I’m not leaving. I’m not fucking leaving!” In 2013, Martin Scorsese had yet to make two of his best movies period in Silence and The Irishman, which both turn on extended moments of indecision from their protagonists. Rodrigues,… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #92
Seeing Things Secondhand 