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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: doug from upland

Roxy: And then I started foolin' around... and then I started screwin' around, which is foolin' around without dinner.

Billy Flynn(Lawyer): I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.


"Chicago"


761 posted on 11/18/2004 1:05:43 PM PST by FeliciaCat
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To: UsnDadof8
"My mother hung me on the back of a door.....ONCE!"

Crime don't pay. Well, maybe it pays a little.

762 posted on 11/18/2004 1:07:24 PM PST by Radix (Will the last person out please turn off the Tag Lines?)
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To: Mad Dawgg
"Gentleman! You can't fight in here...this is the WAR ROOM!"

"Chrrrist. Seven years of college down the drain."

763 posted on 11/18/2004 1:07:28 PM PST by NorCoGOP (Kerry/Edwards 2004 - The Gang that couldn't spin straight!)
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To: uncitizen

I think it's "Dude, I'm telling you, it's jobs. We gotta get jobs. Then we get the khakis. Then we get the chicks. Starting tomorrow, we gotta stop playing games."


764 posted on 11/18/2004 1:07:58 PM PST by Starter ("I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.")
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To: Dr.Deth

"Give Dr. Klan a big hand!"


765 posted on 11/18/2004 1:12:15 PM PST by hoppity
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To: GunnyHartman
I'm sorry I started a fight in the middle of your black panther party.<

Nobody leaves this place without singing the Blues!

766 posted on 11/18/2004 1:12:24 PM PST by Radix (Will the last person out please turn off the Tag Lines?)
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To: The SISU kid

"Fairly nice peace"
" I have morons on my team"


767 posted on 11/18/2004 1:13:45 PM PST by wordsofearnest (St. Louis bring back Torre.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

"I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."


768 posted on 11/18/2004 1:14:11 PM PST by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: Starter

Dumb movie... memorable line:

"You killed Ted, you medieval d**kweed!"


769 posted on 11/18/2004 1:14:14 PM PST by pgyanke (The profit motive is the driving force of freedom.)
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To: wordsofearnest

peace=piece.


770 posted on 11/18/2004 1:14:17 PM PST by wordsofearnest (St. Louis bring back Torre.)
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To: acad1228
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

Oh, MAN! Another good one!!

771 posted on 11/18/2004 1:14:23 PM PST by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, and victory.)
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To: Fruitbat
"You, sir, are a cowardly son of a b*tch. You just shot an unarmed man!"

"Well he shoulda armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."

772 posted on 11/18/2004 1:14:28 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Gumption

Hey, where are the white women at?


773 posted on 11/18/2004 1:15:51 PM PST by weave09
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To: Mad Dawgg

From the classic movie Spaceballs

"Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb."


774 posted on 11/18/2004 1:16:12 PM PST by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
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To: Starter

Dude, DUDE. DUDE, Dude. Duude! Good point.


775 posted on 11/18/2004 1:16:48 PM PST by uncitizen
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To: weave09

Biff of "back to the future"--- "Why do you make like a tree... and get the hell outta here.."


776 posted on 11/18/2004 1:18:09 PM PST by Hand em their arse
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To: Zebra

The look Eddie Murphy gave the camera after that statement was priceless.


777 posted on 11/18/2004 1:21:31 PM PST by weave09
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To: Mad Dawgg

I'm guessing that you won't be camping out in line to see the sequel then, huh?


778 posted on 11/18/2004 1:23:27 PM PST by Starter ("I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.")
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To: thefactor

Office Space is a classic movie. Way underated.

Bob1- I see you've been missing alot of work lately.
Peter- I wouldn't say I have been "missing" it Bob.

Yeah, Hi its Bill Lundberg.


779 posted on 11/18/2004 1:23:48 PM PST by weave09
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To: Countyline

If you're asking about the quote, its Aragorn's speech to the troops in The Return of the King (last Lord of the Rings triology movie).


780 posted on 11/18/2004 1:28:29 PM PST by dawn53
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