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.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

"Charlie don't surf"

"What do you know, you're from Jersey"

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I love the Stooges. My mother is mad at me because I taught her Parrot to say "Nyuck, Nycuk, Nyuck.".

[Junior]

"Have fun storming the castle!"

[Cruising Speed]

"The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy"

Creator to Rutger Hauer, "Blade Runner"

[durasell]

"Rosebud."

Citizen Kane...

(I gotta crash. Thanks for a good time!)

[catonsville]

Lord Gainsford: "Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-la"

LOST HORIZONS

[EQAndyBuzz]

"My name is Bond, James Bond"

[durasell]

Uh, rather, thanks for a good time, all.

[Cruising Speed]

"I want more life, f****r!"

Rutger Hauer to Creator--"Blade Runner"

[Redcloak]

"...and stop calling me Shirley"

[Steve_Seattle]

My favorite movies for dialogue are Blue Velvet and Key Largo, as you might have gathered.

[Spok]

"Well I'm not afraid to be lazy."

Capt. Augustus McRae.

[zeugma]

"Every day is a beautiful day." - James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, in Harvey

"My mother told me you can be oh so smart, or you can be pleasant. I prefer pleasant, and you can quote me on that." - James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, in Harvey

I just love Harvey.

[InterceptPoint]

Snitched from another website:

Nicholson was on his way to wealth and superstardom, but it was the restaurant scene in Five Easy Pieces that had even the most jaded moviegoers rolling in the aisles. For those fans whose memories need refreshing, the young pianist, played by Nicholson, was in a diner, trying to order toast. Plain toast. The waitress, played beautifully by Karen Black, said she couldn't give him toast because it was past the hour when breakfast was being served. The punch line, delivered after he asks for a tuna sandwhich on toast without the tuna and she asks what should she do with the tuna--"Stick it between your legs"--has gone down in film history.

[Protagoras]

They have a new show on cable here in the Chicago area, it's called "Stoogapulloza". LOL

[Betis70]

"He can't go down with three barrels! Not with three he can't!"

On college party nights, that was our refrain for our third shot.

[matymac]

How bout:

"Leave it to a whop to bring a knife to a gun fight..."

Or:

Jester: "How can you kill woman and children...?"
Gunner: "Easy, don't lead 'em as much"

Some more:

"Smokey this is not 'Nam there are rules here..."

"I dabbled in pacifism once, not in 'Nam of course..."

Lebowski: "Walter your living in the past"
Walter: " 3,000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Kaufax...your god damn right I'm living in the past...I'm more Jewish than Tevye!"

[PMCarey]

Princess Bride holds a record for the most quotable movie in my book.

Sorry, that record belongs to Casablanca.

• "Play it, Sam"
• "Here's looking at you kid"
• "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
• "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
• "We'll always have Paris."
• "I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that."
• "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
• "How can you close me up? On what grounds?"
  "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
  "Your winnings, sir."
  "Oh, thank you very much."
• "You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust."
• "Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open."
  "Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette."
  "That is another reason."
• "Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?"
  "It's not particularly my beloved Paris."
  "Can you imagine us in London?"
  "When you get there, ask me!"
  "How about New York?"
  "Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
• "You despise me, don't you?"
  "If I gave you any thought I probably would."
• "Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so... parasitic?"
  "I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."
• "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
  "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
  "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert."
  "I was misinformed."

A small sample from a movie with dialogue that crackles from the start to the finish.

[Roccus]

"DON'T PANIC!"

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"Well I'm not afraid to be lazy."

Capt. Augustus McRae.

Lonesome Dove was a great movie.