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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

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: films; quotes; topten
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To: churchillbuff

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

Brando in On the Waterfront

Greatest line of all time, IMO


41 posted on 11/24/2004 9:01:30 AM PST by cold_dead_fingers (Skinny chefs and Democrats... you can't trust either.)
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To: churchillbuff

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

-Bogie in The Maltese Falcon


42 posted on 11/24/2004 9:01:42 AM PST by PoorMuttly ("The right of the People to be Muttly shall not be infringed,")
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To: churchillbuff
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)
43 posted on 11/24/2004 9:01:58 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!)
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To: durasell

Either that one or "Going South"


45 posted on 11/24/2004 9:02:17 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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To: durasell
Im Spartacus.
46 posted on 11/24/2004 9:03:08 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: EveningStar

Gosh don't you just love these movie threads?


47 posted on 11/24/2004 9:03:20 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: muir_redwoods

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

Bogie in The Big Sleep

(Bonus Points: Who wrote the screenplay?)


48 posted on 11/24/2004 9:03:30 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: churchillbuff
Best movie line ever:

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


50 posted on 11/24/2004 9:04:11 AM PST by Skooz (Kerry Voters = Parasites of Freedom: 56,936,504 Americans obeyed Osama's orders)
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To: muir_redwoods

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


51 posted on 11/24/2004 9:04:34 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: churchillbuff

"Leave the gun. Take the cannolis."


52 posted on 11/24/2004 9:05:03 AM PST by small_l_libertarian (Snuggled back down into my cozy duvet of rage...)
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To: islander-11

"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"


54 posted on 11/24/2004 9:05:32 AM PST by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT, PURE AND SIMPLE!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: churchillbuff

"Ahhhh, Juicyfruit"


55 posted on 11/24/2004 9:05:36 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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To: churchillbuff
"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.

56 posted on 11/24/2004 9:06:14 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If whiskey was his mistress, his true love was the West . . .)
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To: churchillbuff
From Die Hard:

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

57 posted on 11/24/2004 9:07:37 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: churchillbuff

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


58 posted on 11/24/2004 9:08:05 AM PST by Socratic (Death be not proud; but wear clean underwear.)
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To: ZellsBells

AND WE HAVE A WINNER!


59 posted on 11/24/2004 9:08:56 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Alberta's Child
Barf: "Funny, she doesn't LOOK Druish."
Princess: "What's your name?"
Barf: "Barf!"
Dot: "Not in here, mister! This is a Mercedes!"
60 posted on 11/24/2004 9:08:57 AM PST by COBOL2Java (If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
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