“Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? AHGGHHAHH!”
10. ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Jim Carrey – The annoying sounds scene was entirely unscripted. Jim did it on a whim.
“My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful idiosyncrasies.She used to fart in her sleep. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up!”
9. ‘Good Will Hunting‘ Robin Williams – Robin’s entire story of the farting wife is completely ad-libbed. Matt’s laughing is genuine.
“Leave the gun, take the cannoli.”
8. ‘The Godfather’ Richard S. Castellano
7. ‘Saving Private Ryan‘ Matt Damon – The entire barn story was made up by Matt.
“I know.”
6. ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back‘ Harrison Ford – His original scripted response was, “I love you too.” George Lucas didn’t like it and told Harrison to say whatever he wanted and ‘I know’ fit perfectly.
“Here’s looking at you kid.”
5. ‘Casablanca‘ Humphrey Bogart
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.Hsssss!”
4. ‘Silence of the Lambs‘ Anthony Hopkins – This was not in the script and Anthony said it as a joke. It was creepy enough that it made the cut. *Correction – The noise Hopkins makes at the end of the line was unscripted.*
“Here’s Johnny!”
3. ‘The Shining‘ Jack Nicholson
“You talking to me? Are you talking to me?”
2. ‘Taxi Driver‘ Robert De Niro – He was originally told to talk to the mirror and Robert came up with the line on his own.
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
1. ‘Jaws‘ Roy Schneider
There are a ton more out there. These are just the ones I hear repeated the most. What was your favorite that should have made the list?
Here are some more movie lines that enthusiasts are sharing…
“It’s in the hole!”
‘Caddyshack’ Bill Murray – Most of this film has an ad-lib element, but one of the lines repeated on golf courses.
“What do you mean I’m a funny guy. Funny how? Funny like I’m here to amuse you?”
‘Goodfellas’ Joe Pesci – It has long been said that Joe ad-libbed his way through most of this film. According to Maxim, Pesci claims to have come up with the entire “Funny How” scene.
‘Blazing Saddles‘ also had a ton of unscripted lines that are constantly repeated…
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
“These are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know…morons.”
If movies are your thing, then check out some Movie Mistakes and Goofsin films like: ‘Harry Potter,’The Avengers,’Twilight‘ and The Hunger Games‘…
Hardly an ad-lib.
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” is a well-known and widely (mis)quoted line from cinematic history.[1] In 2005, it was chosen as #36 on the American Film Institute list, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes.[2] It comes from a line of dialogue from a 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and first appeared in film 21 years later in a movie of the same name; the line was parodied in the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles in 1974 and was cited in many movies after that.
Seriously Gisby. The point was it was not in the script. Go take your superiority complex somewhere else. I would suggest trolling threads for spelling/grammar mistakes instead of having a life, but something tells me you already do that.
Anyway…my fav has to be Roy’s from Jaws. Maybe it’s because it is shark week.
The Han Solo line was Lucas’ idea but everyone else hated. When Ford ad-libbed the line, Lucas didn’t like it and only agreed to leave it in after test audiences responded well to it. As a general rule, if there is something positive from any of the Star Wars movies, it came from someone other than George Lucas.
I meant the original line was Lucas’ idea and the ad lib was not.
Blazing Saddles: bad guys at the toll booth to the fake rock ridge town
‘does anybody got a dime?’
while everyone is looking in their pockets and shake their heads no
‘somebody’s gotta go back to town and get a shitload of dimes!’