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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.
 

Haggai

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Thanks for posting this in readable form! Their website was having bandwith problems.
 

Richard_D_Ramirez

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Wow, I'm surprised "No, I am your father!" didn't make it...

8^B

EDIT And no The Princess Bride quotes either... I'm bummed.... :frowning:
 

Walter Kittel

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With quotes from Titanic, Dirty Dancing, and Dead Poet's Society in the first segment I had a feeling it was going to be a long night. :frowning: :) But it was still pretty enjoyable seeing all of the clips.

Biggest ommisions for me were...

No, I am your father - The Empire Strikes Back
Game over man - Aliens
That's the fact, Jack! - Stripes

also surprised that nothing from A Clockwork Orange or Full Metal Jacket made the cut.

- Walter.
 

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Ones I particularly missed:

"Shut Up & Deal"

"When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go."

"I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself 'slightly' killed."

"Those AREN'T PILLOWS!"

And many, many more.

The highlight was when they took the line "It's Alive", and showed how great it worked not just in the original, but the brilliant comedy Young Frankenstein. Too bad they didn't do the same thing for "I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
 

Haggai

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They did a similar thing with "love means never having to say you're sorry." In addition to the Love Story clip, they also showed the bit from the end of What's Up Doc, where Ryan O'Neal pokes fun at the line at his own expense: Babs says it to him and flutters her eyebrows, and he says, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
 

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After some of the discussion in the ROTS thread I was surprised to see only one OT quote. ;)

Some great quotes on there, though. Some of those quotes I am only familiar with because they were reused in other movies I've seen...which, of course, just proves how great the quotes are in the first place. :emoji_thumbsup:
 

Jeff Gatie

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I like this list, if only to use as further proof in the "Most Quoted Movie" thread that Casablanca is the most quotable movie of all time (6 quotes total, next are Wizard of Oz and GWTW with 3). Couldn't tell the whippersnappers anything in that thread, maybe they'll listen now.

However, "Leave the gun, take the cannoli" is sadly missing.
 

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"Inconceivable!"

"I'm not left handed"

"I'm not left handed either."

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

"You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?"

"Don't rush me, sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

"Have fun storming the castle!"

"As you wish."


All these quotes, and not one listed... :frowning: (Yeah, I'm a The Princess Bride nut...)

8^B
 

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The show was long but fun to watch. Got bored and DVRed the last hour. Funny how clips of movies I haven't actually seen can still give me chills with familiar lines!
 

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If they were going to put an Aliens quote in there it should have been:

"Get away from her, you bitch!"

Some friends and I had a little game going with this last night, trying to guess the top five and top ten. I got three of the top five in the right order and six of the top ten, though, two of them were not in the correct spot.
 

Walter Kittel

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Yep, that was one of the memorable lines from the film. I also liked George's suggestion of "Those AREN'T PILLOWS!" :)

- Walter.
 

John Kilduff

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Here are some they missed:

-"Match me, Sidney" from "Sweet Smell Of Success"

-"Follow the money" from "All The President's Men"

-"Life moves pretty fast...If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

-"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock...Plymouth Rock landed on us!" from "Malcolm X"

Anybody care to guess what the AFI "100 Years..." list that follows the "film scores" list will be? I've winnowed it down to one of the following 3:

-"AFI's 100 Years, 100 Visions: America's Greatest Fantasy Movies"

-"AFI's 100 Years, 100 Looks: America's Most Stylish Movies"

-"AFI's 100 Years, 100 Casts: America's Best Movie Ensembles"

Which would you go with?

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...

I'm glad that "Say hello to my little friend!" made it on the list.
 
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To me, the biggest line missing is from It's A Wonderful Life...

"Everytime a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

-Not sure how that one wasn't in the top 100.
 

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Nothing from Better Off Dead !?!?

That's it - I renounce the AFI !!!


I WANT MY...TWO...DOLLARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH...and how about the whole last quote from Roy in Bladerunner...you know, ends with "...lost in time, like tears in rain."
 

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