Movies - AFI's 100 Top Movie Quotes (June 2005)

**ROCKSTAR** · 11-18-2004, 10:44 PM

Yes, that is a long time but what the hell? We need a place to discuss this topic as the info comes.

AFI'll Be Back on CBS for Movie-Quotes Special

Bogey, Judy and Arnie Vie for AFI's Top Movie Quotes

Here's a little something for the article:

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Some of the quotes on the ballot include:

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." ("Gone with the Wind")
"Here's looking' at you kid." ("Casablanca")
"May the Force be with you." ("Star Wars")
"I'll be back." ("The Terminator")
"Show me the money!" ("Jerry Maguire")

Not surprisingly, one of the most competitive movie years, 1939, boasts the most movie quotes on the ballot with 19. Film classics such as "Stagecoach," "Of Mice and Men," "Ninotchka," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind" were all released that year, with the latter winning the best picture Oscar.

What about, "Stupid is as stupid does"

I have a bumper sticker with that one. It's glued to my bedroom door, as a warning

WARNING! This for discussing AFI's list and until the results come out, we'll discuss the developments.

If you have your own favorite quotes, please post them here: Favorite Quotes Thread

Thank You.

capesidefan · 11-18-2004, 10:46 PM

yeah I saw that on the news, it should be fun. thanks for starting the thread

**ROCKSTAR** · 11-18-2004, 10:49 PM

Yup Yup. And no problem. I'm a bit impatient so

capesidefan · 11-18-2004, 10:50 PM

yep have a while to wait, but seems like there will be some oppurtunities to have some great quotes on the list, but I bet few will be missed, but thats ok.

Maliejandra · 11-22-2004, 06:52 PM

I thought they were running out of ideas for AFI lists but I guess not. I actually like it. I love those programs and I'm realy going to enjoy this one. Those five quotes listed are some of the most universally known quotes ever. People don't even know what movie they come from half the time.

I'll bet "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" will be on there.

I don't see how they'll find quotes from Ninotchka and Goodbye, Mr. Chips though. I love the first movie and liked the second but they're not very quotable films.

I think there should be some Austin Powers 2 quotes in there. That movie is quoted SOOOO much in my family and with my friends.

Too bad they can't put any silent movies on the list. I think the silents have been badly presented in the AFi list.

**ROCKSTAR** · 06-02-2005, 10:32 PM

So, it's June 2005.

Anyone heard anything? I haven't.

shrrshrr · 06-02-2005, 11:22 PM

Nope - but whow, what an exceptionally racy avi you have!

**ROCKSTAR** · 06-02-2005, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by shrrshrr

Nope - but whow, what an exceptionally racy avi you have!

It is?? Oh my! It wasn't supposed to be at all.

That_70s_Ho · 06-04-2005, 08:28 PM

What is your avi anyway? It looks like a skull pendant on lopsided cleavage.

roswellcharmed_2000 · 06-04-2005, 09:02 PM

its the pirates medallian from pirates of the caribbean. its elizabeth's chest, aka kiera kneightly.

**ROCKSTAR** · 06-04-2005, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by That_70s_Ho

What is your avi anyway? It looks like a skull pendant on lopsided cleavage.

roswellcharmed_2000 is right on. It's a scene from "Pirates of the Caribbean" when the character of Elizabeth goes underwater with the pirate medallion at the center of the movie's plot.

When she gets rescued, Jack, a pirate, asks her "where did you get that?"

My God, and here I was thinking everybody and their mother had seen "POTC".

**ROCKSTAR** · 06-22-2005, 09:49 PM

Alarmingly enough "Why is the rum gone?" (POTC),
"I am Jack's smirking revenge" (Fight Club),
"On my signal, unleash hell" (Gladiator),
"What's in the box?" (SEVEN),
"So, what are we doing for New Year's?" (GO),
"I can't believe it... They *****ing forgot my birthday." (Sixteen Candles),
"This, this is not real. You know what this is? It's St. Elmo's Fire." (St. Elmo's Fire),
"You want me to stop, Pearl?" (A walk on the moon),
"Why are you all wearing green?" (I capture the castle) yeah, foreign movie I know,
"See anything you like?" (Face/Off),
"The things I'm gonna do for my country..." (XxX),
"What do you mean everybody?"
"E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y!" (The Professional),
"Who do you think you are? Superman?" (Spider-Man),
I'll apologize for anything but today. Today I give a *****! (Life as a house),
Today we celebrate our Independence day! (Independence Day), and
"What's more American than that?" (CLUE) didn't make AFI's top 100 quotes.

I taped the show, it was very cool. I wasn't surprised by the #1 choice of course.

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The American Film Institute's list of top 100 quotes from U.S. movies

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 Part 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 serious ... 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: The 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!", "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.

100. "I'm king of the world!", "Titanic," 1997.

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How cool that "nobody puts Baby in a corner" made it! I would've swapped #2 and #3. Anyway, that list is very nice and I though there are a lot of quotes from movies I haven't seen, I don't have major disagreements.

LittleMilkJug · 06-23-2005, 02:11 AM

One of my favorites is..

46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," "Now, Voyager," 1942.

I also like the little lighting the two cigarettes thing that goes with it.

But my absolute favorite line, not on the list, is from a Mae West film..

Hat check girl "Goodness! Diamonds!"

Mae Wests character "Goodness had nothing to do with it honey."

And I almost forgot, I adore

"Fire! Fire! Cat?" from Pleasantville

but as I have just read the first post, umm please ignore the last two

jthorton17 · 06-23-2005, 07:00 AM

I liked this list, I think they did a great job of picking them actually. I didn't know if some lesser known movies would be shafted, but they weren't they did a pretty good job of staying fair to all contestants.

~Melissa~ · 06-23-2005, 09:49 AM

I would agree that they did a good job incorporating all the quotes that have been around forever, and new ones like "My, precious".