There are a lot of things I don’t like about Facebook, but I’ve been using the platform going on 14 years now and there are some things I really enjoy.
This isn’t always true, but often I get a kick out of lists of clues and seeing how many of them I can solve. This particular one was posting 15 quotes from movies and then identifying the movies. The funny thing about this list is that it was published five years ago — by ME — and there are a few I can’t remember.
As I said when I posted it, most of these movies are among my favorites, although the quotes are generally not the best known ones. To help you out, I’ll give you the year of the movie and the name of its star (not necessarily the person speaking the quote).
Here goes:
1. I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.
1996, Geena Davis.
2. Zero … point … zero.
1978. John Belushi.
3. I want to party with you, cowboy.
1981. Bill Murray.
4. You dirt-eating piece of slime! You scum-sucking pig! You son of a motherless goat!
1986. Steve Martin.
5. Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don’t buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free!
2003. Hugh Grant.
6. If you go any faster we’re gonna travel back in time.
1991. Bruce Willis.
7. A good friend of mine used to say, “This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” Think about that for a while.
1988. Kevin Costner.
8. Listen, no matter what she says to you, don’t answer her back. There’s a Confederate pistol in her lap under her shawl and she’ll kill you quick as look at you.
1962. Gregory Peck.
9. She can’t act, she can’t sing, she can’t dance. A triple threat.
1952. Gene Kelly.
10. I don’t care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.
1959. Jack Lemmon.
11. We just don’t recognize life’s most significant moments while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “Well, there’ll be other days.” I didn’t realize that that was the only day.
1989. Kevin Costner.
12. Great game, Jimmy. I especially liked that move in the seventh inning when you scratched your balls for an hour.
1992. Tom Hanks.
13. Boss needs to be knocked on his ass every once in a while.
1988. Tom Hanks.
14. We should mate.
2004. Vince Vaughn.
15. Don’t worry about it. They always hire bums like me for jobs like this.
1984. Michael Pare.