Comedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres,Topically Arranged and Indexed
Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a staple of movie dialogue since the advent of talkies. Collected here are over 4,000 of the best comedic lines from the movies. The compilers of this book have tried to bring together some of the funniest, wittiest and most outrageous snatches of dialogue on film over a sixty year time period.\ For each entry the authors set the quotation in context, provide the name of the actor or actress, the name...
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Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a staple of movie dialogue since the advent of talkies. Collected here are over 4,000 of the best comedic lines from the movies. The compilers of this book have tried to bring together some of the funniest, wittiest and most outrageous snatches of dialogue on film over a sixty year time period.For each entry the authors set the quotation in context, provide the name of the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by a broad range of categories, such as politics, food and eating, gambling, and many others. A title index and a name index follow the body of the book. Author Biography: Flushing, New York's Larry Langman has been an instructor of film history and English for over twenty years. He has written more than a dozen books on film, including Destination Hollywood (2000, $46.50) and The Media in the Movies (1998, $65). Brooklyn's Paul Gold is a mathematics teacher. Booknews Collects 4,256 funny lines from American movies, arranged into 117 categories such as adultery, gender, money, police, show business, and vanity. For each entry, the authors set the quotation in context and provide the name of the actor, the movie, and the year of release. This is a paperbound reprint of the clothbound edition published in 1994. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface and AcknowledgmentsixIntroductionxiAccidents2Actors and Actresses4Adultery and Affairs7Aging14Ambition19Ancestry21Animals and Insects21Appearance25Army34Art and Artists38Assassins and Hit Men39Babies40Bachelorhood42Battle of the Sexes43Body Beautiful48Bosses52Bravado53Business and Businessmen56Captivity59Children60Cleanliness64Clothing66Communication70Con Artists77Courage79Courtroom80Cowardice82Crime and Criminals84Cultures90Dance91Dating93Death96Detectives101Diplomacy103Disguise104Divorce106Doctors107Domestics109Drink110Eccentrics117Education121Ethics and Morality125Etiquette and Manners127Family131Fear134Fighting137Flirtation138Food142Friendship149Gambling151Gender152Generation Gap159Government160Happiness162Health164High Society and Socialites167Honesty and Dishonesty167Honeymooners169Husbands and Wives170Ideals and Convictions177Incarceration179Incompetence182In-Laws184Innocence185Intelligence191Journalists194Languages196Law and Lawyers198Lawmen (Western)201Life and Living202Literature206Love208Marriage211Marriage Proposals218Media220Miserliness222Money223Movies227Music231Names233Nationalities238Nature241Navy242Old West243Outlaws (Western)245Pain246Parents247Philosophy251Places253Police258Politics and Politicians261Poverty264Prejudice267Prostitution269Psychiatry271Religion274Revenge277Rivalry277Romance280Rooms284Royalty286Sales and Salespeople288Science and Scientists289Secretaries290Seduction290Self295Sex299Show Business311Sleep and Dreams314Spies and Spying315Sports317Structures321Stupidity322Success and Failure326Suicide327Supernatural328Transportation331Travel332Vanity334Villains and Villainy337War339Wealth344Widows and Widowers346Winners and Losers347Work and Workplace349Writers and Writing354Youth356Name Index361Title Index381
\ BooknewsCollects 4,256 funny lines from American movies, arranged into 117 categories such as adultery, gender, money, police, show business, and vanity. For each entry, the authors set the quotation in context and provide the name of the actor, the movie, and the year of release. This is a paperbound reprint of the clothbound edition published in 1994. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
