The Princess Bride
1987
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5 quotes from Nigel Tufnel: '...This one goes to eleven.', 'You look at it and think "How much more black can it be?" and the answer is... none!', and 'You can't really dust for vomit.'.
- Armadillos
- Fans of Your Music
- Sex, Drugs and Rock N’ Roll
- Spinal Tap Stonehenge Quote
- Airport Security
- One of Britan’s Loudest Bands
- None More Black
- Mime Is Money
- “I Feel My Role in The Band Is to Be… Kind of Like Lukewarm water.”
- I Envy Us
On why the composition of Spinal Tap’s audience is full of “predominantly young boys” and not many females.Nigel Tufnel: We’ve got Armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.Lt. Hookstratten: May I start by saying how thrilled we are to have you here. We are such fans of your music and all of your records. I’m not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of th...
Marty DiBergi: What would you do if you couldn’t play music anymore?Mick Shrimpton: Well, as long as there’s, you know, sex and drugs, I could do without the rock n’ roll.David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in dang...Ian Faith: I really think you’re just making much too big a thing out of it.Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.Airport Security Officer: Do you have any artificial plates or limbs?Derek Smalls: Er, not really. No.Marty DiBergi: They’ve earned themselves a distinguished place in rock history as one of Britan’s loudest bands.
Nigel Tufnel: It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Morty the Mime: Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah. How come you got so much here?Mime Waiter: I don’t know, they’re not eating it.Morty the Mime: Did you do the wind?Mime Waiter: I did the wind, I did the wind.Derek Smalls: We’re very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they’re like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They’re two distinct types of visionaries, it’s like fire an...
Derek Smalls: We’re lucky.David St. Hubbins: Yeah.Derek Smalls: I mean, people should be envying us, you know.David St. Hubbins: I envy us.Nov 11, 2011 · From ‘these go to 11’ to ‘none more black’, these are the best Nigel Tufnel quotes from the mockumantary film This Is Spinal Tap (1985).
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- “These go to eleven.” Nigel Tufnel is easily the stupidest member of the band. As he explains to Marty, the director (who’s played by the actual director, Rob Reiner), that his amps go up to eleven, whereas most only go up to ten, Marty asks, “Does that mean it’s louder?
- “We’ve got a bigger dressing room than the puppets. That’s refreshing.” The members of Spinal Tap are pretty peeved to arrive at a gig and find that their name is second on the marquee after “Puppet Show.”
- “Have a good time, all the time.” This is Spinal Tap pokes fun at the fact that rock stars say a lot of things that they think are deep and intellectual and insightful, but actually don’t really mean anything.
- “It’s like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.” One of the satirical targets of This is Spinal Tap was the deification of rock bands in the “rockumentaries” of the 1970s.
Nigel Tufnel: [on what he would do if he couldn't be a rock star] Well, I suppose I could, uh, work in a shop of some kind, or... or do, uh, freelance, uh, selling of some sort of, uh, product. You know...
May 19, 2024 · Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like — I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really.
Jan 7, 2020 · If you've seen this hilarious mock rockumentary then we want you to vote up the best This Is Spinal Tap quotes. These quotes prove how funny the movie really is even if you haven't seen it in a while. Starring Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest, This Is Spinal Tap was released in 1984 and directed by Rob Reiner.
