Posted on 11/24/2004 8:47:38 AM PST by 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.
"Lighten up, Francis."
all these things will be lost
in time...
like tears
in rain."
Rutger Hauer (dying) to Harrison Ford, "Blade Runner"
One of the strangest, but enjoyable movies I have ever seen.
Sunday on WPIX channel 11 New York, they are running a Stooge marathon from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. I am ready!!
Yes, Casablanca is one of the all-time greats for good dialogue throughout.
My friends get a worried look on their face when I start quoting from Blue Velvet. Can't imagine why ...
"Fwowews. How Owdinawy."
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"
"What do you make of this?"
"Why I can make a boat, or a hat, or ..."
"What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is going' on here?!"
Where did you get that brain?
Oh, Abby something. Abby Normal I believe
Buckaroo Banzai to a soon to be "New Jersey" in the middle of brain surgery:
"Don't pull on that. You don't know where it goes!"
John Worfen (Dr. Emelio Lizardo)preparing to leave the mental institution: "I feel so break up. I wanna go home!"
Also. On the PA system in the Red Lectroids' Warehouse:
"Monkey Boys are in the building!"
From "Treasure Of The Sierra Madre":
"Badges?... We don't got no steeeenkin' badges... We don' need no steeenkin' badges!"
Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove":
"Gentlemen! You can't fight here. This is The War Room!"
Jack.
"Somebody's got ta ride back t' town and git a shitload o' dimes!"
"hey Moe..look at the grouse!"
O.K.....what was the man's name who Goldfinger had to remove his gold from ?! (me forgot)
"Thank you gentleman, you're everything we've come to expect from years of government training."
...Men in Black
Oh no, not Platoon quotes. I was teamed up with one of my buddies on a gas pipeline survey, and we were trading Bunny and Junior quotes back and forth ALL DAY. We were cracking up and the rest of the crew thought we had gone nuts.
"Redneck noise dude. Make about as much sense as you do."
"Don't drink that a-hole, you'll get malaria"
"Yeah, I hope so"
Casablanca is going to rule this list. Here are some of the top quotes:
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
"I'm make 'em an offer he can't refuse."
"You lookin' at me?"
"I couldda had class. I couldda been a contender."
"Here's looking at you kid."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
"Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?"
"Play it once Sam. For old time's sake."
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
O.K.....what was the man's name who Goldfinger had to remove his gold from ?! (me forgot)
(previous post didn't take your screen name)
Edward Olmos to Harrison Ford: "Hoofah belickisht hockeytie"
Chinese waiter to Harrison Ford; "He say you Brade Lunner"
Harrison Ford; "Tell him I'm eating."
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