I'm watching Jaws right now. There's a lot of characters in the movies like Quint where every line is quotable. From his first line to his last, I think he's near perfect.



Gimme some others.

Herman Blume - Rushmore

Walter Sobchak - Big Lebowski

Dalton

lloyd christmas (jim carrey) dumb and dumber

inspector clouseau (peter sellers) pink panther movies

doc holliday (val kilmer) tombstone

toby n tucker - u-turn

Audrey Tautau(Amelie) - Amelie
Chiwetel Ejiofor(Okwe) - Dirty Pretty Things
Mandy Patinkin(Inigo Montoya) - The Princess Bride
Ellen Burstyn(the mom) - Requiem for a Dream

I have more I just can't think of them right now.

General Buck Turgidson [George C. Scott] from Dr. Strangelove

Dr Lester in Being John Malkovich is priceless. One of my favourite characters of all time.

Dr. Lester: She has her doctorate in speech impedimentology from Case Western.

Dr. Lester: I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

Dr. Lester: Which of these two letters comes first, this one or this one?
Craig Schwartz: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir?
Dr. Lester: Damn, you're good. I was trying to trick you.

Dr. Lester: Don't toy with Floris, Schwartz.
Craig Schwartz: Oh, no.
Dr. Lester: If I was 80 years younger, I'd box your ears.
Craig Schwartz: I wasn't toying with her sir, I wouldn't - pardon me, how old are you, sir?
Dr. Lester: 105. Carrot juice, lots of it. I swear, sometimes it's not worth it. I piss orange. I have to piss sitting down like a goddamn girlie-girl every fifteen minutes.

Dr Lester: Imagine a room full of women. Nubile, blonde, wet with desire, Schwartz. A harem, if you will. Me in leather. A harness, if you like. I am the object of this desire, and all eyes are on me as I speak. Ladies, I begin. I am the love god, Eros. I intoxicate you. My spunk is to you manna from heaven...

Also, Jerry Stiller as Frank Kostanza is the greatest TV character of all time, but i guess that's not a movie.

Keyser Soze.

As mentioned above,
John Goodman in Big Lebowski

Steve Buscemi in Fargo
Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Ben Stiller in Zoolander
Robert De Niro, either in Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, it is too hard to decide
Al Pacino in Scarface

Wouldn't Kevin Spacey's proper character name be Roger "Verbal" Kint in that movie.

WINNER.

Pesci as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas and Nicky Santoro in Casino


And aside from Syayze=Dalton, McConaughey as "Wooderson" in Dazed and Confused may be the best ever.

Goodfellas examples:
"Please ta meetcha Hendry"
"You Fuckin' Mutt!"
"Don't paint any more religious pictures ma"
"What, like I ain't never dug a hole before? Where do we keep the shovels"

Casino Examples:
"Monday mornin' your gonna go down to that bank of yours, and your gonna gimme back my money, or I'm gonna crack your fuckin head wide open. And right about the time I'm gettin out of jail, Hopefully, you'll be comin out of your coma. And I'm gonna crack your fucking head wide open again. You know why? Cos I'm fucking stupid like that. Jail don't mean nothing to me."

"Don't Fuck Up in Here!"

"I know he's a crazy Jew fuck and all, but I'm not gonna whack him for you. I known the guy 30 years, you think I'm gonna whack for YOU?"

My favorite casino lines by Joe Pesci are:

Charlie M, Charlie M, You got your motherfuckin head in a vice for Charlie "Fuckin" M.

Is that a little girl ace, Is that a little girl, you aren't so tough now, are you.

I also like when he describes digging a hole out in the desert before you bring the package, because you might end up digging holes all night.

Ha. When the Braves got Terry Mulholland, I used to to scream about "Terry fucking M"

Randal - Clerks

Yeah, I was thinking of these guys as well. Practically ever word out of Wooderson's mouth is quotable.

"Yeah well listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks your in the car and get in with us. But that's alright, we'll worry about that later. I will see you there. Alright?"

3 O Clock High

Buddy Revell:

I want you to understand something Jerry. I don't like people knowing about me, in fact I don't like it when ANYONE knows about me. So you can take that paper of yours and wipe off your dick with it! You made me mad Jerry... now I'm gunna have to do something to work it off...

You and me, we're gonna have a fight. Today. After school. Three o'clock. In the parking lot. You try and run, I'm gonna track you down. You go to a teacher, it's only gonna get worse. You sneak home, I'm gonna be under your bed.

Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction

Mr Pink - Reservior Dogs

that's awesome, I've got to get that movie on dvd

Red from Shawshank
Truman Sparks from Fandango
Milton from Office Space
Judge Smails (got it right that time, shiv) from Caddyshack
Sgt. Hulka from Stripes
Booger from Revenge of the Nerds
Niedermayer from Animal House
Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles
Vernon from The Breakfast Club
Chet from Weird Science
Ma from Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can
Damone from Fast Times at Ridgemont High
H.I. from Raising Arizona

I forgot these I mentioned in paper's thread...

Snake Plisskin ("Escape From New York")
Joe Bob ("North Dallas Forty")
Billy Jack
Ruprict ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels")
Asian Cosell ("Better Off Dead")
Billy Blaze ("Night Shift")
Virgil Starkwell ("Take the Money and Run")
Ed Rooney ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
Brewmeister Smith ("Strange Brew")
Pyle ("Full Metal Jacket")
Otto ("A Fish Called Wanda")
Darryl Revok ("Scanners")
Frank Booth ("Blue Velvet")

Layne (Cripsin Glover) in Rivers Edge:

This is like some fuckin' movie. Friends since second grade, fuckin' like THIS [crosses fingers] and then one of us gets himself in potentially BIG trouble, and now we've gotta deal with it; we've got to test our loyalty against ALL odds. It's kind of... exciting. I feel like... Chuck Norris, y'know