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 The
American Film Institute's (AFI) eighth polling, 100 Years...100
Movie Quotes highlighted "America's Greatest Quotes in the
Movies."
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes revealed the
100 greatest movie quotes in American films, as chosen by leaders of
the entertainment community, in a three-hour television event, that
aired on the CBS Television Network in June 2005. Other AFI pollings
were for:
A
ballot was distributed in 2004 with 400
nominated quotes from films to a jury of 1,500 leaders from
the film community, including filmmakers, actors, historians, scholars,
journalists and industry types. Voters could submit up to five write-in
choices not included among the 400 nominees. The jurors were asked to
consider the following criteria in their selections of greatest movie
quotes:
Facts
(and some opinions) about the nominees for the Greatest American Movie
Quotes:
- The list ranged from the first sound motion picture
The Jazz Singer (1927) ("Wait
a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!") to The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ("My precious!").
- 1939 was the biggest year for memorable catchphrases
with 19, followed by 1942 with 17, and 1980 with 12.
- The most represented male actor was Humphrey Bogart
with 10 quotes, followed by Al Pacino, Tom Hanks, the Marx Brothers,
Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Jimmy Stewart with five apiece.
Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Mike Myers each had four quotes represented.
- The most represented actresses were Bette Davis,
Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh, each with four memorable
movie quotes on the ballot.
- Billy Wilder had 13 lines from films he wrote or
cowrote, followed by Francis Ford Coppola with nine classic lines
- seven of which came from The Godfather
trilogy, which he wrote with Mario Puzo (who had a total of eight
quotes). Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch each
had seven quotes (all from Casablanca (1942)),
and Woody Allen followed with six, while William Goldman tied Stanley
Kubrick and Cameron Crowe with five each.
- 1939 was the biggest year for memorable catchphrases
with 19, followed by 1942 with 17, and 1980 with 12.
- Casablanca (1942),
written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, was
the most represented film in the countdown with seven quotes. The
Wizard of Oz (1939) was the second most represented film with
six quotes.
These
are just a few of very memorable quotes that are missing from
AFI's official list of 400 nominees:
- Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando): "The horror, the
horror" in Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Austin (Mike Myers): "Do I make you horny?"
in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- "You know what happens to nosey fellows?"
in Chinatown (1974)
- Dude (Jeff Bridges): "It really tied the room
together" in The Big Lebowski (1998)
- "Give me Librium or give me meth" in The
Boys in the Band (1970)
- "I never drink...wine" in Dracula
(1931)
- Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa): "Do not speak
to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!"
and
Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa): "Be happy in your work!"
in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): "Do you think
you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" and
Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "I couldn't do that. Could you do
that? How can they do that? Who are those guys?" and
- Sundance Kid (Robert Redford): "I can't swim."
- Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "Why, you crazy, the fall'll probably
kill ya!" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1969)
- Bill McKay (Robert Redford): "What do we do
now?" in The Candidate (1972)
- Modell (Paul Reiser): "You gonna finish that?"
in Diner (1982)
- Major T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens):
"Nuclear combat. Toe to toe with the Rooskies!" in Dr.
Strangelove (1964)
- Young Jenny (Hanna Hall): "Run, Forrest, Run"
in Forrest Gump (1994)
- Smokey (Chris Tucker): "You got knocked the
fuck out" in Friday (1995)
- - Molly (Demi Moore): "I love you."
- Sam (Patrick Swayze): "Ditto." in Ghost (1990)
- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable): "You need to be
kissed. And often. And by someone who knows how!" in Gone
With the Wind (1939)
- Henry Hill (Ray Liotta, voiceover): "As far
back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster" in
GoodFellas (1990)
- Tuco (Eli Wallach): "When you have to shoot,
shoot…don't talk." in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
(1966)
- Budduskey (Jack Nicholson): "I am the
motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker!" in The Last Detail
(1973)
- - Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe): "How do you find
your way back in the dark?"
- Langland (Clark Gable): "Just head for that big star straight
on. The highway's under it - it'll take us right home." in The
Misfits (1961)
- Black Knight (John Cleese): "Just a flesh wound..."
in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- - Frank (Leslie Nielsen): "Saayyy, nice beaver!"
- Jane (Priscilla Presley): "Thanks. I just had it stuffed!"
in The Naked Gun (1988)
- Carter (Chris Tucker): "Do you understand the
words that are coming out of my mouth?" in Rush
Hour (1998)
- Ethan Edwards (John Wayne): "That'll be the
day." in The Searchers (1956)
- - Superman (Christopher Reeve): "Easy miss.
I've got you."
- Lois Lane (Margo Kidder): "You, you've got me?!" Who's
got you?!" in Superman: The Movie (1978)
- Rose (Kate Winslet): "I'll never let go. I'll
never let go, Jack." in Titanic (1997)
- HAL (voice of Douglas Rains): "Look, Dave, I
can see you're really upset about this" in
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- - Blanche (Joan Crawford): "You wouldn't be
able to do these awful things to me if I wasn't in this chair."
- Jane (Bette Davis): "But ya AAH Blanche, ya AAH in that chair!"
in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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