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elwoodblues
11-18-2004, 12:39 PM
Coming soon to a tv near you...

Predictions on what will make the list?

The obvious top choices are noted by CNN here. (http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/film.quotes.ap/index.html)

I would love to see "we're on a mission from God" in the list.

Others:

Here's Johnny --- the shining
We're not in Kansas anymore - oz
Those aren't pillows -- planes, trains, and automobiles (I still chuckle at that one)

Bubbagump
11-18-2004, 12:44 PM
"We're going to need a bigger boat...." Jaws

Lumpy
11-18-2004, 12:51 PM
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" -- Blazing Saddles

elwoodblues
11-18-2004, 12:52 PM
Your screen name reminded me of this one. One of the two below:

Stupid is as stupid does
Life is like a box of chocolates...

elwoodblues
11-18-2004, 12:54 PM
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, not Blazing Saddles. Still, a good candidate for the list.

Men the Master
11-18-2004, 12:57 PM
"Yo, Adriiiiiaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!"

TheRake
11-18-2004, 01:02 PM
In my best Godfather voice..

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"

TheRake

ThaSaltCracka
11-18-2004, 01:08 PM
It might be in the movie you said first, but it is also in Blazzing Sadles.

kyro
11-18-2004, 01:10 PM
i'll be bahck

nicky g
11-18-2004, 01:13 PM
and
Hasta la vista, baby.

andyfox
11-18-2004, 01:17 PM
http://www.afi.com/Docs/tvevents/pdf/quotes400.pdf


My favorites:

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.

Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.

You’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

No wire hangers, ever.

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore

I could’ve been a contender.

Does your dog bite?

Hoo-ah

Why don’t you come up some time and see me?

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Stella!

Vegas, baby

You talkin’ to me?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

And a few that didn't make the list:

---You should see the other guy.

---What’s a Yout’?

---I’m f*cking full.

---There’s not much meat on her, but what’s there is cherce.

elwoodblues
11-18-2004, 01:20 PM
[ QUOTE ]
In my best Godfather voice..

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"

[/ QUOTE ]

That didn't sound like Pacino at all. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Another one that just came to me:
I like to watch --- Being There

B00T
11-18-2004, 01:23 PM
"Yippie Kai Yay Mutha Fuckah!"

"Say hello,,,,,to my little friend"

ArchAngel71857
11-18-2004, 02:00 PM
May the Force Be With You.

You must be a general, I must be a King.

Will Smith saying "Awwwwwwwww, helllllllllll naw."

He beyat me, straight up. Pay him. Pay thyis man his mahney.

My analysis of your flight performance was RIGHT ON!

The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

You can't handle the truth!

Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?

and my personal favorite from Conan the Barbarian, when asked what is best in life:

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

There are more, but I don't want to write them.

-AA

Boris
11-18-2004, 02:03 PM
"The truth? You can't handle the truth!"

kerssens
11-18-2004, 02:07 PM
"The price is wrong, bitch"

Danenania
11-18-2004, 02:39 PM
"I'm an American, honey. Our names don't mean [censored]."

Bubbagump
11-18-2004, 02:42 PM
I'm suprised you didn't post these gems:

"We're on a mission from god."

"Ze weeman, how much for ze weeman."

I'm sure there are a few others from this movie that should be on the list. But I'm drawing a blank right now.

Bubbagump

Bubbagump
11-18-2004, 02:46 PM
"Are you a Mexican, or a Mexican't? - Once Upon A Time In Mexico

This will never make AFI's list, but it is once of my favorite lines from a fairly recent movie.

Bubbagump

elwoodblues
11-18-2004, 02:47 PM
[ QUOTE ]
I'm suprised you didn't post these gems:

"We're on a mission from god."

[/ QUOTE ]

I would be too, but then I re-read the initial post in this thread /images/graemlins/grin.gif

slickpoppa
11-18-2004, 02:49 PM
Cream?
No thank you. I take it black, like my men
-Airplane

Bubbagump
11-18-2004, 02:58 PM
"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniff'n glue....."

That movie still cracks me up. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Popinjay
11-18-2004, 02:59 PM
May the force be with you.

ddollevoet
11-18-2004, 05:26 PM
E.T. phone home.

Jett Rink
11-18-2004, 05:40 PM
Given our ages and our current salaries, we're not gonna have another nest egg for...ever (Albert Brooks in Lost in America)

Beavers and ducks!!! (Bandits)

If you are always gonna do more than your share, it's my obligation to do less. (Robert Duvall in Lonesome Dove)

Daliman
11-18-2004, 08:21 PM
The princess bride has at LEAST 3 viable candidates;

"Inconcievable!"

"You use that word alot, I no think you know what it means."

"and another, less known corollary, is never go in with a sicilian when DEATH is on the line"(IIRC)

"as you wish"

"Get used to disappointment."

"Have fun storming the castle!"

"'ello. My Name is Innigo Montoya. Dju killed my fatha. Prepare to die"

"The ROUS's? I doubt they exist"

I know i'm forgetting some other great one's from it....been awhile since i've seen it.

Sarge85
11-18-2004, 08:24 PM
"I've got a bad feeling about this"....

(I do believe that was the most common quote in the Star Wars trilogy, said by the most characters)

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BadBoyBenny
11-18-2004, 08:26 PM
If a man builds a 1000 bridges and sucks one cock, that doesnt make him a bridge builder it makes him a cock sucker.

Slacker13
11-18-2004, 08:28 PM
“Over? Did you say… over? Nothing is over until we say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

Classic

goofball
11-18-2004, 08:49 PM
what are you gonna do? bleed on me?


you tell them the law's coming! you tell them I'M coming and HELL's coming with me you hear?? Hell's coming with me!

jesusarenque
11-18-2004, 08:59 PM
Women are the [censored] rake.

ArchAngel71857
11-18-2004, 11:50 PM
Here is the list of nominees. (http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx)

-AA

andyfox
11-18-2004, 11:57 PM
My favorite line from that movie is Billy Crystal's when asked about the dead man: "I've seen worse."

nothumb
11-19-2004, 12:43 AM
"Alright, I'm comin' out now. Nobody better shoot. Hear me? If I see anybody, I'm gonna shoot him. If anybody shoots, I'm gonna shoot him, and kill his family, and kill all his friends, and burn his house down."

NT

Beerfund
11-19-2004, 12:58 AM
2 from the best movie scene ever;

"English Mother Fukcer, Do you speak it?"

"Do they speak english in what?"

Jim Kuhn
11-19-2004, 01:09 AM
Are you going to pull those pistols are you going to whistle dixie?

There are two kinds of people in this life, those with guns and those that dig - you dig!

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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maryfield48
11-19-2004, 02:01 AM
Just from Casablanca:

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

Louis, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Play it once Sam. For old times sake.

Round up the usual suspects.

A_C_Slater
11-19-2004, 02:14 AM
"I must break you."

Ivan Drago-- Rocky IV

slickpoppa
11-19-2004, 02:34 AM
Pretty good list, but they picked the wrong lines to nominate from a lot of movies. Like in caddyshack, they nominated the cinderella story speech, but not the Dali Lama speech. And for Aliens they forgot "they mostly come out at night, mostly." ANd from Fight CLub they didn't nominate, "I haven't been [censored] like that since grade school." The list goes on.
But I have to give them credit for the dazed and confused line: That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.

mmbt0ne
11-19-2004, 02:36 AM
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Usual Suspects

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."
Dazed and Confused

Blarg
11-19-2004, 03:18 AM
Some of these lines are rip-offs, so they won't work -- like the Conan one. There are some good ones up there, and the AFI site has some real lame ones too.

"I'll think about it tomorrow" and "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn" are ones from Gone with the Wind; at least one of those is guaranteed to be included. Women always screech and swoon when they hear Rhett Butler's other line, though: "You look good enough to eat!"

There was one from North by Northwest that went something like, "CIA, FBI, it doesn't matter. We're all in the same alphabet soup."

"Even a man who is pure at heart
And says his prayers by night
Will become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright"

Maria Ouspenskaya in "The Wolfman"

"Ah, the children of the night! What sweet music they make!" Lugosi as Dracula

"You think I'm a clown? I'm a clown to you?" or something like that, from Goodfellas

"Talk? No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!" Auric G. in Goldfinger

tolbiny
11-19-2004, 03:20 AM
"Mostly dead is still slightly alive. With all dead there is only one thing you can do."
"what's that"
"go through his pockets looking for lose change"

Dantes
11-19-2004, 03:21 AM
I always liked "I want to have your abortion".

maryfield48
11-19-2004, 03:38 AM
couple others from Scarface (I haven't looked at the official list yet)

I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.

Is this it? That's what it's all about, Manny? Eating, drinking, f***ing, sucking? Snorting?

youtalkfunny
11-19-2004, 05:43 AM
[ QUOTE ]
"I'm an American, honey. Our names don't mean [censored]."

[/ QUOTE ] Sounds familiar, what's it from?

Off the top of my head:

Go ahead--make my day!

If you ever shoot me in a DREAM, you'd better wake up and apologize!

Show me the money! (I hate this line, but give it its due.)

To my big brother George: the richest man in town!

That's not a knife. THAT'S a knife!

What we're dealing with here is a failure to communicate.

Houston, we have a problem.

Rambo! DON'T!!!

They're heeeeeeeeeeere!

Don't say a word, Sidney. Don't say a fukcing word. I'll get up, I'll bury this telephone in your head.

(Sorry about that last one, I couldn't help myself.)

Rick Nebiolo
11-19-2004, 08:02 AM
I would be very disappointed if Michelle Phiefer's (sp?) line from Scarface isn't included (as she lies be the pool getting her toenails painted and snorting massive quantities of coke):

"Nothing exceeds like excess"

~ Rick

maryfield48
11-19-2004, 08:28 AM
[ QUOTE ]
Go ahead--make my day!

[/ QUOTE ]

Which brings to mind:

Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you?

Rushmore
11-19-2004, 09:50 AM
Jeez. There have been a few omissions, to say the least.

"The horror. The horror."-- Apocalypse Now
"You're dead, son. Get yourself buried."-- The Sweet Smell of Success
"I could have been somebody. I could have been a contender."-- On The Waterfront
"Rosebud."-- Citizen Kane
"Let's F*ck! I'll f*ck anything that moves!"-- Blue Velvet
"Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets."-- Taxi Driver
"Don't call me Shirley."-- Airplane
"George and Martha. Sad, sad, sad." Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"It goes to eleven."-- (This is) Spinal Tap

So many more.

James Boston
11-19-2004, 10:26 AM
What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Say hello to my little friend.

You talkin to me?

Man's got to know his limitations.

Go ahead, make my day.

The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!

It's good to be the king.

...just a few off the top of my head

elwoodblues
11-19-2004, 10:38 AM
The odd couple quote on the list was fantastic. I haven't watched that in SO long, I didn't remember the line:

I cannot stand little notes on my pillow. "We are all out of cornflakes, F.U." It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Unger.

Great line

Skjonne
11-19-2004, 10:49 AM
Well, you should know Elwwod:

[ QUOTE ]
There's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got half a pack of cigarettes, a full tank of gas, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. HIT IT!

[/ QUOTE ]

slickpoppa
11-19-2004, 10:53 AM
Rushmore, at least three of those quotes that you said aren't on the list, are on the list (Rosebud, don't call me shirley, etc.) Bush league research.

slickpoppa
11-19-2004, 10:56 AM
[ QUOTE ]
I always liked "I want to have your abortion".

[/ QUOTE ]
That was not actually in the movie. It was the alternate line to "I haven't been [censored] like that since grade school." Damn shame.

elwoodblues
11-19-2004, 11:00 AM
That would be a good one, but really only quotable by true fans. We're on a mission from god is eminently more quotable.

Even better would be:

One unused prophylactic...One soiled.

Rushmore
11-19-2004, 03:41 PM
[ QUOTE ]
Rushmore, at least three of those quotes that you said aren't on the list, are on the list (Rosebud, don't call me shirley, etc.) Bush league research.

[/ QUOTE ]

I didn't mean they weren't on the list. I didn't look at the list.

What I meant was that I was surpised they weren't mentioned by any of my fellow 2+2 denizens, which is a list I would always value more anyway.

So, my "research" was fine, to the extent that I had read all of the posts in the thread, which were many.

Thanks anyway.

A_C_Slater
11-19-2004, 09:04 PM
"If he dies, he dies." Ivan Dargo-- Rocky IV

Jim Kuhn
11-19-2004, 09:45 PM
They aren't girls Gilbert, they are WOMEN!!

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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Legend27
11-19-2004, 10:00 PM
Most of Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail has some great quotes.

WillMagic
11-20-2004, 03:25 AM
Obviously you are all forgetting the Third Man, right?

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."

Other than that, my personal favorites have to be Spacey's devil line in the Usual Suspects, and of course, "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

Will

Alobar
11-20-2004, 04:02 AM
Jesus, don't you people watch any good movies?


"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me? Blow."

"Good.....Bad.....I'm the guy with the gun"

"Gimmie some sugar baby"

"Remember, shop smart, shop S-Mart!"

"NI!!"

"Tis but a scratch!"

"I faart in your general direction"

"It's just a rabbit....Kill the rabbit!!"

"Did you see a sign on my lawn that said dead nigger storage?" "Man jimmy, you know I aint see no sign" "you know why?? cuz I aint in the habbit of storing dead niggers!!"

"Snootchie bootchies!"

"What you need is a fat chronic blunt! Then I guaruntee you'll see the ocean, a sailboat, and maybe even some of them big tittied mermaids doing that lesbian [censored]. Look at me look at me you sloppy bitch!!!"

"This horse was a diabetic!!"

"Man, what was that [censored]?? We used to eat it all the time.....oh yeah! pussy!!"

"Man, I remember when a dime bag cost a dime. You know how much condoms cost back then?" "no" "heh, me either...we never used 'em"

"abba zabba, you my only friend!"

"back up, sit the gun down, and get me a pack of tropical fruit bubblalicious" "and some skittles!"

"heeeeeeeey yoooooouuuuu guuuuuuyyyyyyssss"

"Bay bee, ruuth"

"I see your schwartz is as big as mine"

"hey everybody, run for your lives, there's a giant [censored] cloud coming this way!!"

Reef
11-20-2004, 05:14 AM
I'll be back

-the schwarzennegar

youtalkfunny
11-21-2004, 06:52 AM
I just read the list (and it's got 400 quotes, not 100).

Most of those lines suck.

But they included a line that we had all forgotten:

"I have come here to chew bubblegum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

--Roddy Piper, "They Live"

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!
11-21-2004, 09:13 AM
"Its a trick. Get an axe."

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!
11-21-2004, 09:15 AM
[ QUOTE ]
Jesus, don't you people watch any good movies?


"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me? Blow."

"Good.....Bad.....I'm the guy with the gun"

"Gimmie some sugar baby"

"Remember, shop smart, shop S-Mart!"

"NI!!"

"Tis but a scratch!"

"I faart in your general direction"

"It's just a rabbit....Kill the rabbit!!"

"Did you see a sign on my lawn that said dead nigger storage?" "Man jimmy, you know I aint see no sign" "you know why?? cuz I aint in the habbit of storing dead niggers!!"

"Snootchie bootchies!"

"What you need is a fat chronic blunt! Then I guaruntee you'll see the ocean, a sailboat, and maybe even some of them big tittied mermaids doing that lesbian [censored]. Look at me look at me you sloppy bitch!!!"

"This horse was a diabetic!!"

"Man, what was that [censored]?? We used to eat it all the time.....oh yeah! pussy!!"

"Man, I remember when a dime bag cost a dime. You know how much condoms cost back then?" "no" "heh, me either...we never used 'em"

"abba zabba, you my only friend!"

"back up, sit the gun down, and get me a pack of tropical fruit bubblalicious" "and some skittles!"

"heeeeeeeey yoooooouuuuu guuuuuuyyyyyyssss"

"Bay bee, ruuth"

"I see your schwartz is as big as mine"

"hey everybody, run for your lives, there's a giant [censored] cloud coming this way!!"

[/ QUOTE ]

You and i may be nerds, come on man....

Blarg
11-21-2004, 10:51 AM
[ QUOTE ]
But they included a line that we had all forgotten:

"I have come here to chew bubblegum, and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

[/ QUOTE ]

I haven't forgotten that one; that's always been one of my favorites. You can still use it sometimes, because plenty of people haven't heard it; still gets a laugh.

You're right about lots of the lines being crap. I think they thought of famous scenes that would look good in a program that could be used to sell commercials, which also happened to have some lines that people would recognize, not that were necessarly memorable. It seems to me that's the only way they could have included some very mediocre lines in there that were attached to salable scenes people would recognize. That would explain why so many of the lines are from relatively new-ish movies -- they wanted audience recognition more than really good writing or deliveries.

Like could you imagine "Good Morning Vietnam!" could possibly be considered one of the best movie quotes of all time? Nah, that was put in there just so they could consider putting in everyone's favorite(yawn) "genius," Robin Williams -- always good for a laugh, eh? I can just see the marketing guys figuring out his TVQ and how to fill out a segment, and then saying, "Williams - let's get a crazy guy like him to beef up this segment! He must have said something funny and memorable once, right?"

tolbiny
11-21-2004, 10:56 AM
Haven't read them all, but just to make sure it wasn't missed.

"I've sent boys younger than you to the electric chair. I didn't want to do it, I felt i Owed it to them."

Perfect delivery judge smeals.

natedogg
11-21-2004, 01:22 PM
nuff said. Oliver Stone should be crucified.

natedogg