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Quotes from the movie The Big Lebowski
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Calmer than you are....
Walter Sobchak


Of course they were Nazis, Donny; they were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here? Am I wrong?
Walter Sobchak


You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. With nail polish.
Walter Sobchak


The Chinaman is not the issue.
Walter Sobchak


We've got a man down!
Walter Sobchak


No these are nihilists, Donny. Don't worry they're cowards.
Walter Sobchak


Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Walter Sobchak


Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - there's a name no man would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. See, they call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels"; but I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But I'll allow it as there are some nice folks there. 'Course I ain't never been to London, and I ain't never seen France. And I ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. But I'll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I'm about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin' every bit as stupefyin' as you'd seen in any of them other places. And in English, too. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me. Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place in the early '90s - just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the I-raqis. I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? Sometimes, there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here - the Dude from Los Angeles. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude. The Dude, from Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in all of Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. Sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Well, I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced it enough.
The Stranger


One a those days, huh. Wal, a wiser fella than m'self once said, sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar, wal, he eats you.
The Stranger


Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.
The Stranger


'The Dude abides'. Dunno about you, but I take comfort in those words. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.
The Stranger


I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.
The Stranger


Say, friend - you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?
The Stranger


I didn't blame anyone for the loss of my legs - some Chinaman took them from me in Korea. But I went out and achieved anyway!
The Big Lebowski


Mr Lebowski, this is Bill Salinger of the Southern Cal bowling league. We received an, uh, an informal complaint that a member of your team - a Walter Sobchak? - drew a firearm during league play. If this is true, of course, it contravenes a number of the league's by-laws and also article 27...
Answering Machine


I am the Walrus.
Donny


I'm throwin' rocks tonight. Mark it, Dude.
Donny


Let me tell ya something - I dig your work. Playing one side against the other, in bed with everybody - just fabulous stuff.
Da Fino


Oh, no. He has health problems.
Pilar