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." 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.

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.

Facts (and Commentary) 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.
  
• 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 f--k 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)

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films