Favorite 2012 Movie Quotes
The following is a selection of my favorite movie quotes from 2012 with my top three being the following…
21 Jump Street
“One particle of unobtanium has a nuclear reaction with the flux capacitor, carry the two, changing its atomic isotope into a radioactive spider. Fuck you science!”– Brad, aka Jenko (Channing Tatum)
Killing Them Softly
“This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community? [points to President Obama on the television] Don’t make me laugh. I’m living in America, and in America you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now fuckin’ pay me.”– Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt)
This last one is probably best understood while watching the movie, but try and read it as Christopher Walken would say it…
Seven Psychopaths
“Hal-lu-ci-no-gen”– Hans (Christopher Walken)
Here are some more I enjoyed and thanks to a lot of you who helped me remember several of these on Facebook.
Zero Dark Thirty
“I’m the mother fucker that found this place.”– Maya (Jessica Chastain)
The Avengers
“That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn’t notice. But we did.”– Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.)
Lincoln
“I am the President of the United States, clothed in immense power!”– Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis)
Skyfall
“What makes you think this is my first time?”– James Bond (Daniel Craig)
The Cabin in the Woods
“I just think it would have been cooler with a Merman.”– Hadley (Bradley Whitford)
Magic Mike
“Fact is, the law says you cannot touch… but I think I see a lotta lawbreakers up in this house tonight…”– Dallas (Matthew McConaughey)
Looper
“I’m from the future. You should go to China.”– Abe (Jeff Daniels)
Django Unchained
“Alex Dumas was black.”– Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”– Charlie (Logan Lerman)
The Silver Linings Playbook
Pat: “You have poor social skills. You have a problem.”Tiffany: “I have a problem? You say more inappropriate things than appropriate things.”
– Pat and Tiffany (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence)
Seven Psychopaths
Hans: No.Paulo: What?
Hans: I said no.
Paulo: Why not?
Hans: Because I don’t want to.
Paulo: But I’ve got a gun…
Hans: I don’t care.
Paulo: It doesn’t make any sense!
Hans: Too bad!
– Hans and Paulo (Christopher Walken and Zeljko Ivanek)
Pitch Perfect
“Sometimes I have the feeling I can do crystal meth, but then I think, mmm… better not.”– Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson)
Django Unchained
“I think we all think the bags was a nice idea. But, not pointing any fingers, they could have been done better.”– Robert (Robert Carradine?)
The Avengers
“He’s adopted.”– Thor (Chris Hemsworth)
Cosmopolis
“My prostate is asymmetrical.”– Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson)
Moonrise Kingdom
“I always wished I was an orphan. Most of my favorite characters are. I think your lives are more special.”– Kara Hayward (Suzy Bishop)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Call it ‘The Slut and the Falcon.’ Make us solve crimes.”– Patrick (Ezra Miller)
The Hunger Games
“That is mahogany!”– Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks)
The Dictator
“Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.”– General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Django Unchained
“My good man, did you simply get carried away with your dramatic gesture, or are you pointing your weapon at me with lethal intention? “– Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz)
Moonrise Kingdom
Laura Bishop: Does it concern you that your daughter’s just run away from home?Walt Bishop: That’s a loaded question.
– Laura and Walt (Frances McDormand and Bill Murray)
Moonrise Kingdom
“I think you’ve still got lightning in you. “– Kara Hayward (Suzy Bishop)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
“You ever feel like you were waiting forever to figure out what your destiny is?”– Jeff (Jason Segel)
…and the most unintentially funny quote of the year came after Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) in Taken 2 had just instructed his daughter (Maggie Grace) to run around Istanbul throwing live grenades…
Taken 2
“Be casual.”– Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson)
