The American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, California conducted their eighth polling, 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes highlighting "America's Greatest Quotes in the Movies."

See also this site's informative sections listed at Greatest Film Quotes, including:

• Top 10 Most Famous Movie Quotes
• Top 10 Best Movie Lines Ever
• Great Film Quotes From Great Films - ( Part 1 (with some files for listening) | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 )
• Most Popular Movie Lines
• Great Brief Film Quotes
• Best Film Speeches and Monologues
• Greatest Film Misquotes
• Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes
• Greatest Last Words and Film Lines
• Great Film Tag Lines

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:

• AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (1998)
• AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars/Legends (1999)
• AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs (2000)
• AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills (2001)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions (2002)
• AFI's Heroes and Villains (2003)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs (2004)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes (2005)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (2006)
• AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)

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.

Selection Criteria for Selection of Greatest Movie Quotes:

• Movie Quote - A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film. [AFI defined an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. Additionally, only Movie Quotes from feature-length American films released before January 1, 2004 were considered. AFI defined a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that was typically over 60 minutes in length.]
  
  
• Cultural Impact - Movie Quotes that viewers used in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, and becoming part of the national lexicon.
  
  
• Legacy - Movie Quotes that viewers used to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.
  

  NOT ELIGIBLE: Lyrics from songs.