Sean Connery smelling liquor in a carafe while sitting a a dining table with an unknown actor of in … [+]
There are plenty of “movie quotes” books and on-line collections, and you can type in any subject under the sun and find a slew of memorable lines about honor, women, corruption, motherhood, children, war, love, and so on and on. Many of my favorite lines involve food and drink, some very well-known and others quite obscure. Here are 21 of them. The answers are at the very bottom of this newsletter. The photos are hints.
Name who spoke the following lines in which movie. Answers below.
1. “What’s tiramisu? Some woman is going to ask me to do it to her, and I’m not going to know what it is.”
2. “I’ll have what she’s having.”
3. “Burn me a good, thick one.”
4. “Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.”
5. “My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs.”
6. “Who wants to eat flies? Not when I can get nice, fat spiders.”
LOS ANGELES – 1942: A movie still of Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson on the set of the Warner Bros … [+]
7. “Lunch is for wimps.”
8. “I’d like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast. Now hold the chicken, bring me the toast and you haven’t broken any rules.”
9. “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
10. “Food fight!”
American actors (left to right) James Stewart (1908 – 1997), Lee Marvin (1924 – 1987) and John Wayne … [+]
11. “Your wife she is safe with Tonetti. He prefers spaghetti!”
12. “Sometimes the spaghetti likes to be alone.”
13. “It tastes like the back of a f**** L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn’t de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit. F*****’ Raid.”
14. “It seems to be a 30-year-old fine, indifferently blended, with an overdose of Bon Bois.”
15. “You bring in a sous chef from an Italian restaurant and I’m the one in therapy?”
16. “You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?”
17. “Just one little mint, Monsieur? They are wafer thin.”
18. “Nicko! Don’t play with the food! When I was your age, we didn’t have food!”
19. “Every time I see you, you’re buying a chicken.”
20. “We have to convince the little housewife out there that the tomato that ate the family pet is not dangerous!”
21. “I always had my doubts about the Anjou ’22.”
ANSWERS
1. Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993)
2. Estelle Reiner in “When Harry Met Sally” (1989)
3. John Wayne in “The Man That Show Liberty Valance” (1962)
4. Sean Connery in “From Russia with Love.” (1963)
5. George Kennedy in “Cool Hand Luke” (1967)
6. Dwight Frye in “Dracula” (1931)
7. Michael Douglas in “Wall Street” (1987)
8. Jack Nicholson in “Five Easy Pieces” (1970)
9. Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca” (1942)
10.John Belushi in “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978)
11.Eric Rhodes in “The Gay Divorcee” (1934)
12. Stanley Tucci in “The Big Night” (1996)
13. Paul Giamatti in “Sideways” (2004)
14. Sean Connery in “Goldfinger”
15. Catherine Zeta-Jones in “No Reservations” (2007)
16. Samuel L. Jackson in “Pulp Fiction” (1994)
17. John Cleese in “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life” (1983).
18. Lainie Kazan in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (2002)
19. Mickey Rourke in “Nine ½ Weeks” (1986)
20. Al Sklar in “The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” (1978)
21. Richard Chamberlain in “The Four Musketeers”
