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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:
These
are some facts about the official winning list of 100
Greatest Movie Quotes:
- Casablanca (1942)
has the most quotes (6) in the top 100, with Humphrey Bogart's (Rick
Blaine) "Here's looking at you, kid" the highest at #5;
see also #20, #28, #32, #43, and #67
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
and Gone With the Wind (1939) are the
second most quoted films, with 3 on the top 100 list -- Judy Garland's
(Dorothy) line "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas
anymore" is the highest at #4, also see #23 and #99; and the
#1 quote was Clark Gable's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a
damn"; see also #31 and #59
- The earliest film quote in the top 100 was from The
Jazz Singer (1927): Al Jolson's (Jakie Rabinowitz) "Wait
a minute, wait a minute - you ain't heard nothin' yet" at #71;
the most recent quote in the top 100 was from The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers (2002): Gollum's (aka Smeagol) (Andy Serkis) "My
precious" at #85
- The most recent quote in the top 10 was from Sudden
Impact (1983), "Go ahead, make my day" at #6
- Quotes from eleven films released since 1990 made
the top 100 list: The Silence of the Lambs
(1991) at #21, Jerry Maguire (1996) at #25 and #52,
A Few Good Men (1992) at #29, Forrest Gump (1994) at
#40, The Sixth Sense (1999) at #44, Apollo 13 (1995)
at #50, A League of Their Own (1992) at #54,
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) at #76, The Lord of
the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) at #85, and Titanic (1997)
at #100
- Humphrey Bogart had the most quotes (5) on the top
100 list: see #5, #14, #20, #43, and #67; Marlon Brando had 3 quotes:
#2, #3, and #45, as did Vivien Leigh: see #31, #59, and #75
- Many critics commented that two real-life quotes
shouldn't have been counted: # 50: "Houston we have a problem,"
and # 38: "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face
of the earth"
- Silent films were ignored, although there could be
some inter-titles that were worthy of choice
- Short, simple catchphrases and quips were over-emphasized,
rather than actual monologues/speeches,
words of true wit, or conversational dialogues
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, 100
Great Movie Lines We Can't Live Without, Great
Film Quotes From Great Films (in five parts: 1,
2, 3, 4,
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,
and Great Film Tag Lines.
The
films that are marked with a yellow star 
are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100
Greatest Films.
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