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Fri 24 Jun, 2005 05:04 am
* THE TOP 100
AFI'S 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases
"I'm going to let you in on a little secret...and tell you that six of tonight's greatest movie quotes come from one film. CASABLANCA.
In the eight years we've aired these specials, CASABLANCA has been honored in seven of them. And when we counted down the greatest love stories of all time...it was #1.
Jean Picker Firstenberg
AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES
06.21.05
"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies."
Jean Picker Firstenberg
Director and CEO, American Film Institute
The Honorees Are...
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Quote
Movie
Year
1
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
GONE WITH THE WIND
1939
2
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
THE GODFATHER
1972
3
You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
ON THE WATERFRONT
1954
4
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
1939
5
Here's looking at you, kid.
CASABLANCA
1942
6
Go ahead, make my day.
SUDDEN IMPACT
1983
7
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
SUNSET BLVD.
1950
8
May the Force be with you.
STAR WARS
1977
9
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
ALL ABOUT EVE
1950
10
You talking to me?
TAXI DRIVER
1976
11
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
COOL HAND LUKE
1967
12
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
APOCALYPSE NOW
1979
13
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
LOVE STORY
1970
14
The stuff that dreams are made of.
THE MALTESE FALCON
1941
15
E.T. phone home.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
1982
16
They call me Mister Tibbs!
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
1967
17
Rosebud.
CITIZEN KANE
1941
18
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
WHITE HEAT
1949
19
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
NETWORK
1976
20
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
CASABLANCA
1942
21
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
1991
22
Bond. James Bond.
DR. NO
1962
23
There's no place like home.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
1939
24
I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
SUNSET BLVD.
1950
25
Show me the money!
JERRY MAGUIRE
1996
26
Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
SHE DONE HIM WRONG
1933
27
I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
1969
28
Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
CASABLANCA
1942
29
You can't handle the truth!
A FEW GOOD MEN
1992
30
I want to be alone.
GRAND HOTEL
1932
31
After all, tomorrow is another day!
GONE WITH THE WIND
1939
32
Round up the usual suspects.
CASABLANCA
1942
33
I'll have what she's having.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
1989
34
You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
1944
35
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
JAWS
1975
36
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
1948
37
I'll be back.
THE TERMINATOR
1984
38
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
1942
39
If you build it, he will come.
FIELD OF DREAMS
1989
40
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
FORREST GUMP
1994
41
We rob banks.
BONNIE AND CLYDE
1967
42
Plastics.
THE GRADUATE
1967
43
We'll always have Paris.
CASABLANCA
1942
44
I see dead people.
THE SIXTH SENSE
1999
45
Stella! Hey, Stella!
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1951
46
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
NOW, VOYAGER
1942
47
Shane. Shane. Come back!
SHANE
1953
48
Well, nobody's perfect.
SOME LIKE IT HOT
1959
49
It's alive! It's alive!
FRANKENSTEIN
1931
50
Houston, we have a problem.
APOLLO 13
1995
51
You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
DIRTY HARRY
1971
52
You had me at "hello."
JERRY MAGUIRE
1996
53
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
1930
54
There's no crying in baseball!
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
1992
55
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
ANNIE HALL
1977
56
A boy's best friend is his mother.
PSYCHO
1960
57
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
WALL STREET
1987
58
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
THE GODFATHER II
1974
59
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
GONE WITH THE WIND
1939
60
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
SONS OF THE DESERT
1933
61
Say "hello" to my little friend!
SCARFACE
1983
62
What a dump.
BEYOND THE FOREST
1949
63
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
THE GRADUATE
1967
64
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
DR. STRANGELOVE
1964
65
Elementary, my dear Watson.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
1929
66
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
PLANET OF THE APES
1968
67
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
CASABLANCA
1942
68
Here's Johnny!
THE SHINING
1980
69
They're here!
POLTERGEIST
1982
70
Is it safe?
MARATHON MAN
1976
71
Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
THE JAZZ SINGER
1927
72
No wire hangers, ever!
MOMMIE DEAREST
1981
73
Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
LITTLE CAESAR
1930
74
Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
CHINATOWN
1974
75
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1951
76
Hasta la vista, baby.
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
1991
77
Soylent Green is people!
SOYLENT GREEN
1973
78
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
1968
79
Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am seriousÂ…and don't call me Shirley.
AIRPLANE!
1980
80
Yo, Adrian!
ROCKY
1976
81
Hello, gorgeous.
FUNNY GIRL
1968
82
Toga! Toga!
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
1978
83
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
DRACULA
1931
84
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
KING KONG
1933
85
My precious.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS
2002
86
Attica! Attica!
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
1975
87
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
42ND STREET
1933
88
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!
ON GOLDEN POND
1981
89
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN
1940
90
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
GOLDFINGER
1964
91
Who's on first.
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES
1945
92
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
CADDYSHACK
1980
93
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
AUNTIE MAME
1958
94
I feel the need - the need for speed!
TOP GUN
1986
95
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
1989
96
Snap out of it!
MOONSTRUCK
1987
97
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
1942
98
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
DIRTY DANCING
1987
99
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
WIZARD OF OZ, THE
1939
100
I'm king of the world!
TITANIC
1997
For some reason I seem to remember hearing Rhett say in GWTW 'I dont give a dam, frankly my dear'.
Did he ever say it this other way round?
"Nobody puts Baby in the corner." -- Are they serious?
Hi Drewdad. That one surprised me too. I only reported as voted. I can't even remember that line. They eliminated one of favorites which was in Charade. James Coburn said to Cary Grant you fell for her like an egg from a tall chicken.
I started to tally the quotes by actor, wondering who had the most, when I decided that somebody else must have done it already (plus I wouldn't have known who uttered some of the older film's quotes). So I searched on the AFI site and found these statistical highlights:
Quote:Chronologically, the ballot spans from 1927, with the first full-length sound film, THE JAZZ SINGER: "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" to 2002 and "My precious" from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS.
CASABLANCA has seven quotes in AFI's ballot, making it the most represented film.
THE WIZARD OF OZ is the second most represented film with six quotes.
Humphrey Bogart has 10 quotes on the ballot, the most represented male actor. Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers follow with six quotes each and Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, James Stewart, Woody Allen and Jack Nicholson are all represented with five quotes each. Funnymen Peter Sellers and Mike Myers each have four quotes represented.
Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh each have four memorable movie quotes on the ballot.
Billy Wilder is the top represented writer with 13 quotes, some co-written with I.A.L. Diamond, Charles Brackett and Raymond Chandler. Frances Ford Coppola has nine quotes represented, with seven coming from THE GODFATHER Trilogy. Mario Puzo, Coppola's collaborator on THE GODFATHER trilogy, has a total of eight quotes. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch each have seven quotes (all from CASABLANCA), followed by Woody Allen with six and Cameron Crowe, William Goldman and Stanley Kubrick with five quotes each.
1939 is the most represented year with 19 movie quotes. 1942 has 17 quotes and 1980 has 12.
I can see why it was spread around for Billy Wilder -- instead of just one or two of his films, the greatest screenwriter of comedy (some of it even darkly serious), his contribution to movie history is phenominal.
bobsmythhawk wrote:Hi Drewdad. That one surprised me too. I only reported as voted. I can't even remember that line.
I only remember it 'cause I thought it was such a stupid line.
I didn't vote for that line, so don't blame me (I'm a voting AFI member).
LW~
Did you get a ballot with pre-selected quotes to chose from?
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