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AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES
AFI.com ^ | November 17th 2004 | unknown

Posted on 11/18/2004 8:19:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

THE MOST MEMORABLE PHRASES FROM FILM CELEBRATED IN EIGHTH ANNUAL AFI/CBS TELEVISION EVENT

"Here's Looking at You, Kid," "Show Me the Money!" "I'll be Back" and Hundreds More Vie for the Title of "Movie Quote of The Century"

LOS ANGELES, November 17, 2004-The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes will be the theme for AFI's eighth annual celebration of 100 years of American movies.

AFI'S 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases will count down America's 100 greatest lines of dialogue spoken in the movies, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community, in a three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2005.

Last year's special, AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Songs, was the most popular AFI special in the series to date, winning the night handily and coming in third for the week with an 8.3 household rating and a 14 share, representing a 66% ratings advantage over its nearest competitor. Due to its popularity, CBS rebroadcast the special on August 13, 2004.

Each year, the AFI program has garnered considerable attention from movie lovers around the world. Previous programs within this series have included AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (1998), . . . 100 Stars (1999), . . . 100 Laughs (2000), . . . 100 Thrills (2001), . . . 100 Passions (2002), . . . 100 Heroes & Villains (2003) and . . . 100 Songs (2004).

"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary," stated AFI's Director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg. "When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we re-ignite interest in classic American movies."

For the eighth consecutive year, the primetime special will be executive produced and directed by Gary Smith; executive produced for AFI by former AFI Board chair Frederick S. Pierce; and produced by Dann Netter and Bob Gazzale. SFM Entertainment LLC is the distributor of the program. Past sponsors of the series have included General Motors, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Best Buy, Anheuser-Busch, Colgate-Palmolive and all major motion picture companies.

About the Jury Process
Today, AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie quotes to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.

This year, the jury will be asked to choose up to 100 movie quotes from a comprehensive list, including entries such as "Here's lookin' at you, kid" (CASABLANCA), "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" (GONE WITH THE WIND), "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" (SHE DONE HIM WRONG), "May the Force be with you" (STAR WARS), "Houston, we have a problem" (APOLLO 13), "Snap out of it!" (MOONSTRUCK), "You can't handle the truth!" (A FEW GOOD MEN), "I'll be back" (THE TERMINATOR) and "Show me the money!" (JERRY MAGUIRE).

Due to the extensive number of memorable movie lines in American film, jurors may also write in votes for up to five quotes that may not already appear on the ballot.

The jurors have been asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:

MOVIE QUOTE
A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film.* (Lyrics from songs are not eligible.)

CULTURAL IMPACT
Movie Quotes that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon.

LEGACY
Movie Quotes that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

*AFI defines 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, will be considered. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length.

Interesting Facts about the Ballot

Chronologically, the ballot spans from 1927-with the first full-length sound film, THE JAZZ SINGER: "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"-to 2002 and "My precious" from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS.

CASABLANCA has seven quotes in AFI's ballot, making it the most represented film.

THE WIZARD OF OZ is the second most represented film with six quotes.

Humphrey Bogart has 10 quotes on the ballot, the most represented male actor. Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers follow with six quotes each and Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, James Stewart and Jack Nicholson are all represented with five quotes each. Funnymen Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Mike Myers each have four quotes represented.

Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh each have four memorable movie quotes on the ballot.

Billy Wilder is the top represented writer with 13 quotes, some co-written with I.A.L. Diamond, Charles Brackett and Raymond Chandler. Frances Ford Coppola has nine quotes represented, with seven coming from THE GODFATHER Trilogy. Mario Puzo, Coppola's collaborator on THE GODFATHER trilogy, has a total of eight quotes. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch each have seven quotes (all from CASABLANCA), followed by Woody Allen with six and Cameron Crowe, William Goldman and Stanley Kubrick with five quotes each.

1939 is the most represented year with 19 movie quotes. 1942 has 17 quotes and 1980 has 12.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: moviequotes
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To: Mad Dawgg
Princess Bride:

"Stop that rhyming - I mean it!!.....anybody want a peanut?"

"Ever heard of Aristotle? Plato? Socrates?...Yes...Morons."

421 posted on 11/18/2004 9:44:26 AM PST by UsnDadof8
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To: Finny

Lawrence of Arabia


422 posted on 11/18/2004 9:44:30 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: gimme1ibertee

Are you sure about that five minutes?


423 posted on 11/18/2004 9:44:32 AM PST by buddyholly (We flushed the Johns!!!)
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To: FeliciaCat

Animal House.

"Germans?"
"Let it go. He's on a roll."


424 posted on 11/18/2004 9:44:44 AM PST by Starter ("I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.")
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To: dangus

I think the movie was called Baby Blues.


425 posted on 11/18/2004 9:45:02 AM PST by Sapper26 ("I don't flip-flop, I pander. America deserves a President who knows the difference" JF'nK)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I LOVE this one-from John Carpenter's "The Thing"...
"I realize you gentlemen have been through a lot...But when you can find the time...I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F@#KING COUCH!!!!"


426 posted on 11/18/2004 9:45:19 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Looking forward to '08........)
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To: BBT

"I've fallen MADly in love with the dark side of your nature" (The Stunt Man)

"Get off... the nuclear... warhead." - (Armageddon)

"Daddy says there are two kinds of people: the ones who are asleep, and the ones who go through their lives in a constant state of amazement." - (Joe Versus the Volcano)


427 posted on 11/18/2004 9:45:48 AM PST by SlowBoat407 ( Just drive away and remove the piece of paper that is stuck to window later.)
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To: Wneighbor
Have you seen the new DVD? They show screen tests of several other women who tried out for the role of Scarlett. Uuughh! Terrible. Hideous!

And if you happen to think that Leslie Howard was the wrong man for the role of Ashley, wait'll you see the ones that didn't get picked!
428 posted on 11/18/2004 9:45:56 AM PST by uncitizen
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To: TheBigB

"I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them."


429 posted on 11/18/2004 9:46:22 AM PST by danno3150
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

I don't think that the problem was that the band was down. I think the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on stage that was in danger of being crushed...by a dwarf>


430 posted on 11/18/2004 9:46:32 AM PST by buddyholly (We flushed the Johns!!!)
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To: TheBigB
"The rose goes in the front, big guy." :^)

You're right - thanks!

(Conference on the mound):
"Candlesticks always make a nice wedding gift."

431 posted on 11/18/2004 9:46:34 AM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: uncitizen

"If you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, then why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces?!?"


432 posted on 11/18/2004 9:46:49 AM PST by thefactor
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To: Mad Dawgg

Josey Wales, an easy man to track. Leaves dead bodies wherever he goes.


433 posted on 11/18/2004 9:46:57 AM PST by namvetcav
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To: TheBigB

Oh,yeah! Harry is the man!
Also....
"..And when used correctly, it can REMOVE the fingerprints".


434 posted on 11/18/2004 9:47:00 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Looking forward to '08........)
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To: UsnDadof8

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said... 'I drank what?!'


435 posted on 11/18/2004 9:47:16 AM PST by pgyanke (The profit motive is the driving force of freedom.)
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To: thefactor
I'll stop there. You know the rest.

LOL!! Yes, I do.

436 posted on 11/18/2004 9:47:34 AM PST by retrokitten (Hell yeah!)
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To: thefactor
Office Space:(don't think anyone here has seen it, or at least liked it).

Either put a sarcasm tag on that comment, or keep reading this thread.
437 posted on 11/18/2004 9:47:43 AM PST by uncitizen
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To: mass55th

woof...


438 posted on 11/18/2004 9:47:58 AM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: sandbar

Another classic from that one: No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food.


439 posted on 11/18/2004 9:48:00 AM PST by pa mom
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To: pgyanke

Val Kilmer in "Real Genius"


440 posted on 11/18/2004 9:48:03 AM PST by SlowBoat407 ( Just drive away and remove the piece of paper that is stuck to window later.)
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