“I’ll Bet You Could Suck a Golf Ball Through a Garden Hose” (Full Metal Jacket)
Stanley Kubrick was an obsessive and hardworking director who left no detail to chance. And yet, he gave an unprecedented amount of freedom to the Full Metal Jacket actor R. Lee Ermey. Reportedly, over 50% of Ermey’s lines in the film were unscripted and improvised, including the now-iconic insult “I’ll bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.”
There are many other remarkable Ermey lines in the movie, but we have to refrain from repeating most since he was a big fan of foul language. Released in 1987, Full Metal Jacket is still considered one of the best war-based films of all time.