100 Most Memorable Phrases From Film to be Celebrated in AFI special (Can they handle the truth?)

American Film Institute ^ | Nov 24 04 | American Film Institute

[churchillbuff]

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.

[cold_dead_fingers]

"I could'a had class, I could'a been a contender!"

Brando in On the Waterfront

Greatest line of all time, IMO

[PoorMuttly]

"The cheaper the hood, the more colorful the language."

-Bogie in The Maltese Falcon

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Lake Placid - I'll just wipe myself with a poison oak leaf and spend the day scratching my ass blending in with the natives. Then you'll be back on my side. (Paraphrased)

[muir_redwoods]

Either that one or "Going South"

[No Blue States]

Im Spartacus.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Gosh don't you just love these movie threads?

[durasell]

She tried to sit on my lap, and I was standing up.

Bogie in The Big Sleep

(Bonus Points: Who wrote the screenplay?)

[Skooz]

Best movie line ever:

"Batchez? Batchezzz?? Wee don' need no steeeenking batchezzzzzzzzzz !!!!"

[durasell]

McGuane wrote Missouri Breaks and Rancho Deluxe. Good scripts. Okay movies.

[small_l_libertarian]

"Leave the gun. Take the cannolis."

[NCC-1701]

"I don't take to talking to vermin, but I'll do it just this once. If you do ANYTHING to that store, I'm not going to the marshall, the govenor, or the president of the United States. The one I'm coming to see is YOU."
John Wayne - "Chism"

[muir_redwoods]

"Ahhhh, Juicyfruit"

[Alberta's Child]

"Fast Eddie, let's play some pool."

--- A remarkably fresh Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) to an exhausted Fast Eddie (Paul Newman), after they took a brief break from playing pool through an entire night.

[Junior]

From Die Hard:

"I guess we're going to need some more FBI guys, huh."

[Socratic]

"Frankly, my beer, I don't give a dram."

[durasell]

AND WE HAVE A WINNER!

[COBOL2Java]

Barf: "Funny, she doesn't LOOK Druish."

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Princess: "What's your name?"
Barf: "Barf!"
Dot: "Not in here, mister! This is a Mercedes!"