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.

[FoxInSocks]

Doc Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need . . . roads.

[durasell]

What's the watermelon for?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Some say you're dead because of it...some say you never will be because of it."

Best movie ever made.

"Jeremiah Johnson".

"What's on the spit?"
"Grown particular?"

[Steve_Seattle]

Frank: What's your name, neighbor?

Jeffrey: Jeffrey.

Frank: Jeffrey what?

Jeffrey: Jeffrey nothing.

Frank: Hey, neighbor, wanna go on a joy ride?

Jeffrey: No.

Frank: No? What does that mean?

Jeffrey: I don't want to go.

Frank: Go where?

Jeffrey: For a joy ride.

Frank: A joy ride? That's a good idea! Our neighbor wants to go on a joy ride!

[Protagoras]

Paul Newman in "Hombre".

"If you run, they will catch you and kill you, if you believe anything, you believe that".

[durasell]

OOOOh good one. You know, when I read the trilogy, I always pictured Flem as Don Johnson. And kinda pictured Mink as Jack Nicholson.

[antidisestablishment]

"I don't think that word means what you think it does."

[Betis70]

You wanna go for a ride?

-No thanks.

No thanks. what does that mean?

-I don’t want to go.

Go where?

-On a ride.

A ride?. Hell, that’s a good idea. okay, let’s go. Hey, let’s go.

[Betis70]

LOL just a bit quicker than me.

[PoorMuttly]

Laundry and Morale Officer.

"Now THAT"S a FIRECRACKER !"

[Nabber]

"What we've got here....is a failure to communicate" Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke

[RightWingAtheist]

"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. "

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles!"

"Say "what" again! SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! I dare you, I double dare you, m----------er! Say "what" one more g-----n time...."

"Mister Robbins, you're forgetting something....I'm a SMOKER!"

[Lockbar]

From The Usual Suspects: "(Lee Harvey) Oswald was a fag!"

[Spok]

"You've come far, pilgrim"

"Seems like far."

[TexasCajun]

I'm surprised I didn't see:

Ahhh...You're gonna need a Bigger Boat!

Jaws, of course.

[Cruising Speed]

"Sushi, that's what my ex-wife called me--cold fish." Harrison Ford, "Blade Runner"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Ahhhh, Juicyfruit"

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

[najida]

Just about anything Mae West said:

from Night After Night

Woman: Goodness, what beautiful diamonds

MW: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.

from She Done Him Wrong

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

"Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost."

[Protagoras]

Moe: So, do you have worms for the fishing trip? Larry: Yeah, but I'm going anyway.

You owe me a keyboard!

[Steve_Seattle]

Edward G. Robinson to Claire Trevor in Key Largo: I don't like a woman who drinks.

Trevor: But, Johnny, you gave me my first drink!

Robinson: Everyone has their first drink, but everyone isn't a lush!