I will make you think a bit and guess who said the following five lines from the classic Ingrid Bergman/Humphrey Bogart starrer Casablanca, culled from the book Hollywood Trivia by Aubrey Malone (a gift to me by Drs. Willie and Liza Ong):
• ”Here’s looking at you, kid.”
• ”We’ll always have Paris.”
• ”The problem of three people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”
“This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”
• ”Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walked into mine.”
If you know the answers and have time to spare, send them at the e-mail addresses at the end of this column.
Anyway, that little “quiz” is a fitting intro to today’s column which is, by insistent readers’ clamor (ehem!), a follow-up to “So who said what again?” several issues ago about unforgettable lines from local movies. This time around, let’s do Hollywood with the help of the book from Drs. Willie and Liza I mentioned earlier and Famous Hollywood Quotes by Alan Lane which has been gathering dust in my library.
Okay: Lights, camera, action!!!
• ”I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like…victory.” — Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.
• ”The horror, the horror.” — Marlon Brando (photo) in Apocalypse Now.
• ”Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?” — Jack Nicholson in Batman.
• ”That was the most fun I‘ve had without laughing.” — Woody Allen to Diane Keaton after a love scene in Annie Hall.
• ”What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?” — Ryan O’Neal (photo) in Love Story, 1970.
• ”My mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’.” — Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.
• ”I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” — Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
• ”Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind.
• ”I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin’ here!” — Dustin Hoffman to a cabbie who has almost run him over in Midnight Cowboy.
• ”Are you talkin’ to me?” — Robert De Niro to himself in Taxi Driver.
• ”All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close up.” — Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.
• ”E.T. phone home.” — Debra Winger in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
• ”There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.” — Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.
• ”Hey, boy, what you doin’ with momma’s car?” — Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
• ”I’ll be back.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, 1984.
• ”Hey, I’m back!” — Paul Newman on his return to a life of pool hustling in The Color of Money.
• ”Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” — Ryan O’Neal to Ray Milland in Love Story.
• ”Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?” — Dustin Hoffman to Anne Bancroft in The Graduate, 1967.
• ”Show me the money!” — Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.
More from the book Hollywood Trivia are these “5 famous misquotations” under the head “You Don’t Say”:
• Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca. What he actually said was, “Play it, Sam. If she can take it, I can.”
• Neither did James Cagney ever say, “You dirty art” — well not like that anyway. He said, “You dirty double-crossing rat,” in Blonde Crazy (1931) and “You dirty yellow-bellied rat,” in Taxi (1932).
• Neither did Charles Boyer ever say, “Come wiz me to ze Casbah” in Algiers (1938).
• And nor did Greta Garbo say, “I want to be alone.” The actual line was “I want to be left alone,” in Grand Hotel (1932).
I will end this piece the way I started it — with five classic lines also from Casablanca with the names of the characters that delivered them:
• ”Great balls of fire! Don’t bother me anymore, and don’t call me sugar!” — Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh).
• ”Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee! Fun for men you mean.” — Scarlett.
• ”After all… tomorrow is another day.” —Scarlett.
• ”With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” — Rhett Butler (Clark Gable, photo).
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