AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

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[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.

[UsnDadof8]

See post #680 and follow the link for a good explanation.

[womanvet]

"By all means, move."

"I got two guns; one for each of you."

"Are you just going to stand there and bleed?"

"He's down by the creek, walking on water."

"Meet a pair of fellow sophistocates."

"I have only begun to defile myself."

"Kate, no bustle! How lewd."

"A nocturne. You know, Fredrick F**king Chopin."

"You may go now."

and, from Purgatory: "Maybe they ain't Mennonites."

[b9]

You're a real daisy for finding that ;-)

[gimme1ibertee]

Yeah...Pretty good Sat.night fare.

[gimme1ibertee]

The scene where they drove down the highway backwards was funny!And...Terry bulldogging the jukebox was a riot as well.

[js1138]

Hint: when you want to know what something means, look it up in google. Try searching for "I'm your huckleberry". Seek and ye shall find.

[Preachin']

I know a little about search, thanks...

I'm at work and don't have all the luxuries I might have at home.

Fridays are busy.

[Mad Dawgg]

"The scene where they drove down the highway backwards was funny!And...Terry bulldogging the jukebox was a riot as well."

Another Reynold's Movie I love is Cannonball Run which Has Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis as one of the Race entries.

Remember that Mel Tillis was famous for stuttering but he could sing very well (Most people who stutter can) Anyhow Terry is driving and Mel is in the passenger seat and they are racing down the highway having a conversation and Mel is stuttering horribly and Terry is trying to coax it out of him when the hood of the car blows up over the windshield and they careen off the road and just as they are about to crash into a swimming pool you can here Mel Singing:

"I can't see sh*t, can you?"

Every time I see that I laugh hard enough to have my stomach muscles hurt for days.

[js1138]

OK, "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for".

[gimme1ibertee]

Oh,yeah..They are some of the craziest movies made!
I have a special place in my heart for Sheriff Buford T. Justice,because he reminded me so much of my late dad (seriously!) in his ways,his language and all-
just damn funny.

[Congressman Billybob]

The actual quote is the way you have it. However, it was not said BY Mae West, but TO Mae West by W.C. Fields, in the final scene in My Little Chickadee. Line was later altered, popularized, and shifted to West.

Congressman Billybob

[UncleDick]

"You get to drink from… THE FIRE HOSE!!"

"Here's to the Army and Navy, and the battles they have won. Here's to America's colors, the colors that never run."
"May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather."

"There is hope for the future. And when the world is ready for a new and better life, all this will someday come to pass; in God's good time."

"Sentries have come in from the hill, sir. They report Zulus to the south-east. Thousands of them."

"It's a strange world."

"Nothing is written."

"Wolverines!!!!"

"I believe I speak for everyone when I say, to hell with our orders."

[cold_dead_fingers]

Best line ever, IMO, Brando in On the Waterfront...

"I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender."

[NonValueAdded]

"Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

[cold_dead_fingers]

"Me love you long time!"

LOL

[cold_dead_fingers]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, the greatest Thanksgiving movie of all time!

[NonValueAdded]

Endeavor to persevere.

"We thought about it for a long time, 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union." ... "I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet."

I love that movie. RIP, Chief Dan George

[cold_dead_fingers]

Dr Strangelove!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One of my favorite quotes is from "The Rock".

"This morning you wanted a gun, well, now your getting a gun AND a wetsuit."

I dunno. For some reason it gives me a giggle.

[cold_dead_fingers]

""Leave the gun. Take the canolli."

Fat Clamensa in the first Godfather. One of my favorite lines.