It’s odd, but given what I do, I’m surprisingly uninterested in a fest of line quoting. I think it’s because I’m not at all good at it–certainly not without IMDB’s help–and my business is full of people who can and will do it endlessly from memory at the slightest provocation. And I just hate them hate them hate them.

So I offer you a page of good lines from a movie that is just stuffed with them — Broadcast News. And since this is so rarely done when people do the movies quotes thing — let’s credit the writer, James L. Brooks. A personal favorite line isn’t listed here, but I think it goes like

this:

Man Firing Someone: Is there anything else I can do?
Man Being Fired: Well, I certainly hope you die soon.

Okay, one other movie. Quiz Show, written by Paul Attanasio, based on Richard Goodwin’s book. Not listed here:

Charles Van Doren, having been asked to cheat: I’m wondering what Kant would make of this.

Albert Freedman, crooked producer: I think he’d be okay with it.