“Animal House” quotes

(1978)
Movie Animal House
Title Animal House
Year 1978
Director John Landis
Genre Comedy
Plot – In 1962 two young freshmen, Eric and Kent, want to join the famous 'Omega club', but its leaders try in every way to humiliate them. The two are forced to fall back on the shabby 'Delta club', by which they are successfully integrated. While the two clubs struggle one against the other through big parties and bad jokes, Eric, Kent and all the Delta members risk the expulsion because of their bad conduct. They plan the most incredible "Toga Party" in the university's history to save themselves.
All actors – Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst, Mark Metcalf, Mary Louise Weller, Martha Smith, James Daughton, Kevin Bacon, John Belushi, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Bruce Bonnheim, Karen Allen, James Widdoes, Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Bruce McGill, Joshua Daniel, Donald Sutherland, John Vernon, Junior, Cesare Danova, Sunny Johnson, Verna Bloom, Sarah Holcomb, Stacy Grooman, Stephen Bishop, Otis Day, Eliza Roberts, Lisa Baur, Aseneth Jurgenson, Katherine Denning, Raymone Robinson, Robert Elliott, Reginald Farmer, Jebidiah R. Dumas, Priscilla Lauris, Rick Eby, John Freeman, Sean McCartin, Helen Vick, Rick Greenough, , Maida Belove, Judith Belushi-Pisano, Robert Cray, Lorraine Furst, Elizabeth Huff, Tracy K. Shaffer, Fred Simonds, James 'Izzy' Whetstine
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  • “- Larry Kroger: I won't go schizo, will I?
    - Dave Jennings: It's a distinct possibility.”

    Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
    Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
    [Tag:drugs, madness]
  • “Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.”

    John Belushi - John Blutarsky
    [Tag:university]
  • “- Kent Dorfman: What is my Delta Tau Chi name?
    - John Blutarsky: Dorfman, I've thought long and hard about this. Your Delta Tau Chi name is... Flounder.
    - Kent Dorfman: Flounder?”

    Stephen Furst - Kent Dorfman
    John Belushi - John Blutarsky
    [Tag:nickname]
  • Dad! Mom, Dad, this is Larry Kroger. The boy who molested me last month. We have to get married.”
    Sarah Holcomb - Clorette DePasto
    [Tag:marriage, meeting]
  • “- Dean Vernon Wormer: Greg, what is the worst fraternity on this campus?
    - Greg Marmalard: Well that would be hard to say, sir. They're each outstanding in their own way.”

    James Daughton - Greg Marmalard
    John Vernon - Dean Vernon Wormer
    [Tag:test, university]
  • “- Eric Stratton: Mrs. Wormer, I'm so glad you could come.
    - Marion Wormer: Cut the crap. Give me a drink.”

    Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
    Verna Bloom - Marion Wormer
    [Tag:drinking]
  • “- Donald Schoenstein: It's not gonna be an orgy! It's a toga party.
    - Katy: Honestly, Boon, you're 21-years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head. It's cute, but I think I'll pass this time.
    - Donald Schoenstein: Want me to go...” (continue)
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    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
    Karen Allen - Katy
  • “- Larry Kroger: I was thinking, maybe we could get some beer.
    - Clorette DePasto: Nah, not tonight. Besides, you might get lucky without it.”

    Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
    Sarah Holcomb - Clorette DePasto
  • “Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our generation, and his jokes are terrible.”
    Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
    [Tag:boredom, writers]
  • “You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!”
    Mark Metcalf - Doug Neidermeyer
  • - John Blutarsky: Kroger, your Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto.
    - Pinto: Why "Pinto"?
    - John Blutarsky: Why not?

    John Belushi - John Blutarsky
    Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
    [Tag:nickname]
  • “- Katy: Boon, I think I'm in love with a retard.
    - Donald Schoenstein: Is he bigger than me?”

    Karen Allen - Katy
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
  • “- Eric Stratton: Flounder, I am appointing you pledge representative to the social committee.
    - Kent Dorfman: Gee Otter, thanks. What do I have to do?
    - Eric Stratton: It means you have to drive us to the Food King.”

    Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
    Stephen Furst - Kent Dorfman
    [Tag:driving, food]
  • “- Doug Neidermeyer: How does it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?
    - Donald Schoenstein: How does it feel to be an asshole, Neidermeyer?”

    Mark Metcalf - Doug Neidermeyer
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
    [Tag:feeling, insult]
  • “- Dave Jennings: Teaching is just a way to pay the bills until I finish my novel.
    - Donald Schoenstein: How long you been workin' on it?
    - Dave Jennings: Four and a half years.
    - Larry Kroger: It must be very good.
    - Dave Jennings: It's a piece of shit. Would anyone like to smoke some pot?”

    Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
    Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
  • “- Eric Stratton: Ah, she broke our date.
    - Donald Schoenstein: Washing her hair?
    - Eric Stratton: Dead mother.”

    Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
  • “- Greg Marmalard: Delta's already on probation.
    - Dean Vernon Wormer: They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on double secret probation!”

    James Daughton - Greg Marmalard
    John Vernon - Dean Vernon Wormer
    [Tag:punishment]
  • “They kicked us out of school? That makes sense.”
    Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
    [Tag:school]
  • What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble". Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man!... (continue)(continue reading)
    John Belushi - John Blutarsky
  • “We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even.”
    Bruce McGill - Daniel Simpson Day
    [Tag:proverbs, revenge]
  • “- Larry Kroger: What are you majoring in?
    - Brunella: Primitive cultures.”

    Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
    Eliza Roberts - Brunella
  • “- Katy: It must have been some party.
    - Donald Schoenstein: Unbelievable. A new low. I'm so ashamed.
    - Katy: I'm almost sorry I missed it.”

    Karen Allen - Katy
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
    [Tag:party]
  • “- Robert Hoover: We're in trouble. I just checked with the guys at the Jewish house and they said that every one of our answers on the psych test was wrong.
    - Donald Schoenstein: Every one? Those assholes must have stolen the wrong fucking exam!”

    James Widdoes - Robert Hoover
    Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
    [Tag:answers, test]
  • “- Mayor Carmine DePasto: If you want this year's homecoming parade in my town, you have to pay for it.
    - Dean Vernon Wormer: Carmine, I don't think it's right that you should extort money from the college.
    - Mayor Carmine DePasto: Look, these parades you throw are very expensive. You using my police, my sanitation people, and my Oldsmobiles free...” (continue)
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    Cesare Danova - Mayor Carmine DePasto
    John Vernon - Dean Vernon Wormer
    [Tag:money, threat]
  • “The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.”
    John Vernon - Dean Vernon Wormer
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