AFI Ranks Top Movie Quotes

Yahoo ^ | 6/22/05 | Sarah Hall

[Licensed-To-Carry]

"I intend to kill you Ned, or see you hang in Ft. Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which will it be?"

"You can't serve a writ to a rat, baby sister."

John Wayne, "True Grit"

[SeamusVA]

"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!" from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[slapshot]

Slapshot
Puttin on da foil coach-
Daves a Killer, No Daves a mess
I'm listenin' to the $&%()_ing song

Dr. Strangeglove
You cant fight in here, this is a war room

Back to School
Your'e a poetry major? Care to see my longfellow?

Godfather:
It's not personal its business

Goodfellas
How am I funny, funny like clown, Do I amuse you?

Young Frankenstein
Care to roll in ze hay? Rollll Rollll Rolll

Beverly Hills Cop
When I was a kid I might have fractured a law or two

Various Clint Eastwood movies
Marvelous
You know youre mouthwash aint making it

Predator
Man your one ugly M)(*^() f*()&*()

[lunarbicep]

from Blazing Saddles

Excuse me while I whip this out.

[kinsman redeemer]

"One day, my boy, ALL OF THIS will be yours."

"What? The curtains?"

[CaptRon]

Yes!

[mc5cents]

"This watch is two days slow." --Mad Hatter Alice In Wonderland

[Tennessean4Bush]

"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!" from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I love that one! Also, do you remember...

"We - thought - you - wes - a - TOAD"

[Tribune7]

2 From Sunset Boulevard in the top 25?

[jocon307]

"Leave the gun.....take the cannoli's"....

Well, not sure if it's enumerated on the list, but they did show the clip on the show.

[SeamusVA]

That movie is loaded with memorable lines!

"You two are dumber than a bag of hammers"

[mc5cents]

"What would you do with a brain if you had one." Dorothy to Dick Durbin Scarecrow

[acad1228]

Raising Arizona?

How about, "Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps, real hard."

[jocon307]

"Nothing from "Raising Arizona'?!?!"

My fave line from that movie is "Isn't that your god damned raison d'etre?"

[acad1228]

From "O' Brother, Where Art Thou"

Everett: "Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speakin'! Pete 'n Delmar here have just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only on who remains unaffiliated!"

[knak]

Only thing I can think of isn't from a movie but, "No soup for you".

[SeamusVA]

The Coen Brothers seem to have a knack for this stuff :)

[Tanniker Smith]

I only saw the top 10 last night. The special was a little stupid with people repeating the lines incessantly. I'd have preferred that they put more quotes on for that last hour.

I haven't checked on the list yet, but I was wondering about the rules last night. Some of the movies obviously have numerous memorable lines, but in some cases, not all of them need to be mentioned.

For example, it was obvious that they would use "May the Force be with you" (which is spoken by numerous people in one form or another), but in sci-fi circle (or I should say, at cons or in game rooms), I hear more variations on "Use the Force, Luke" the MtFbwy.

As for "Casablanca", that film is loaded with quotable quotes. A newbie might think the film was one giant cliche until informed, "No, this is the film were all those lines originally came from."

"Round up the usual suspects." "I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- ..." (the rest of the line doesn't matter, that's the part that's overused).

Okay, I'm off to list the list and the rest of this thread.

TS

[absolootezer0]

if you're going for john wayne quotes, i'd have to say "Not Hardly" from big jake is one of my favourites. or from the shootist, "see that gun? make like it's your mother's nipple"

[Licensed-To-Carry]

"Work Work Work Work, Oh, Hello Boys"

To quote a famous line from Gov. William J. LePetomaine (Mel Brooks) in Blazing Saddles as he notices the ample bosom of Lili Von Shtupp.