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.

[slowry]

Gods and Generals:

Rebel soldier:

That's the Irish. What are those boys doing fighting in blue? Don't they know we're fighting for our independence? Did they learn nothing at the hands of the English?

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Gen. 'Stonewall' Jackson:

Just as we would not send any of our solders to march in other states, and tyrannize other people -- so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our states, and tyrannize our people.

Like many of you, indeed most of you, I have always been a Union man. It is not with joy or with a light heart that many have welcomed secession.

Had our neighbors to the North practiced a less bellicose form of persuasion, this day might not have come. But that day has been thrust upon us, like it was thrust upon our ancestors. The Lincoln administration required us to raise three regiments. Tell them we have done so!

[JoeGar]

"Failure is not an option." -- Apollo 13

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Gods and Generals was a great, great movie.

[Cyclone59]

Both of my favs are from Get Shorty

"eg, ie, f@#$ you"

"It's Chili inside, it's chilly outside, it's a regular f@#$n' Chili Fest"

All Freepers need to see this movie - it makes so much fun of Hollywood.

[DTA]

More classics missing from the list:

"Consider this a Divorce"

"A preview of coming attractions"

"Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

" I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch. That's a twenty footer!

"About as subtle as a cockroach crawling across a white rug"

"My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?"

"You know I don't wear any underwear."

"My partner stopped to help a damsel in distress. He's got his priorities all screwed up"

[GreenLanternCorps]

"Doc! Doc! You built a time machine, out of a DELOREAN?"

-Marty McFly - Back to the Future

Crucifixion?
Yeah, first Offence.

-Monty Python's Life of Brian

[Phsstpok]

Ironically, the last time I posted a mention of Harry's War and swore it would never be on TV, the local cable access chanel showed it as a filler within a week. I set up my computer, which I use as a DVR, and proceeded to record it, since I was going to be out.

When I played back the recording, about halfway through, the channel switched over to one of their normal cable access programs.

You wonder if a phone call was made!

I'm not joking about this, by the way.

[Phsstpok]

Harold and Maude. I cried when he took the torch to the Jaguar, but then I liked it!

[NotADove]

"Yes, it's true. This man has no di*k" - GhostBusters

[xusafflyer]

"Well Hello Mr. FancyPants. I got news for you pal. You ain't leading but two things, Jack and Sh*t and Jack left town."

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The number 1 of all time is easily:

"May the Force be with You"

[Choose Ye This Day]

Classic Ahnuld, from Kindergarten Cop:

"It's not a tumor!"

"Stop whining!"

[Texas Songwriter]

"Kill them all. Kill every man." General Stonewall Jackson.

[Sam the Sham]

I was looking for that line.

An underappreciated gem of sociopathy was "Bad Company" with Ellen Barkin, Laurence .... darn, the guy who played Morpheus about employees of a private black ops security firm. Ellen plots with Laurence to murder the owner.

Ellen: I hate him. Do you know why I hate him ?

Laurence: Sure. If you didn't hate him you'd have to be grateful and who wants to be grateful ?

Great lines from "42nd Street"

Be so good, you'll make me hate you.
You're going out there a kid but you've got to come back a star.

[Bernard]

Okay, you and I combined know too many lines out of Buckaroo. If you know where this one came from, then I'll start to worry;

"Are you going to kill me now, Snake?"

"No, I'm too tired. maybe later."

[ssaftler]

And let's not forget the immortal:

"Pardon me while I whips this out!"

[Willie Green]

"I'm a sinful man, and I'm going to Pittsburgh to be sinful again."

~ Jimmy Stewart in How The West Was Won

[VOA]

My nominee for best "we are through" line from a war movie...by William Holden
as the falsely-accused (and acquitted) Sgt. Sefton as he made his break from Stalag 17.

Sefton: If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner,
just let's pretend we've never met before.

There's not a person alive who "made it over the wall" from some institution
(company, university, etc.) who didn't have someone they'd love to have told that
sort of punchy "so long".

[jokar]

William Faulkner

[churchillbuff]

"This is the West. In the West, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." --- The Man who shot Liberty Vallance.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Are you going to kill me now, Snake?"

Why, it could only be "Escape From New York".

Hilight the blank space to reveal the answer.