'Frankly, My Dear' Is Top AFI Movie Quote

Channel 5 Cincinnati ^ | June 22, 2005

[flutters]

LOS ANGELES -- Rhett Butler said it best -- "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

That parting shot in 1939's "Gone With the Wind" topped the list of the American Film Institute's best quotes from American movies.

Clark Gable's line beat out a pair of Marlon Brando classics -- "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" from "The Godfather" and "I coulda been a contender" from "On the Waterfront."

Judy Garland's realization in "The Wizard of Oz" -- "I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" -- was fourth.

In fifth place was "Casablanca" and Humphrey Bogart's "Here's looking at you, kid."

"Casablanca" led the list with six quotes.

[drjimmy]

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch."

[Tadhg]

From Animal House it has to be, "seven years of college down the drain"..

[rightinthemiddle]

"Joe Bob's Fine Foods...eat here or I'll kill ya." North Dallas Forty

"Do you mind if we dance with jo' dates?" Animal House

"What in the Wide Wide World of Sports in going on here?" Blazing Saddles

"No it isn't...it's only a flesh wound." Monty Python & The Holy Grail

"Fill your hand, you sonofab***h." True Grit

[mware]

add this to the list. Breaker Morant

"We shot them under Rule 303"

a reference to the.303 calibre rifle gauge.

[roylene]

What about, "I'd love to kiss ya but I just washed my hair" - Betty Davis.
Or "If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball"?

[Dashing Dasher]

I watched it - and really enjoyed the show.

[Physicist]

"Home? I have no home. Hunted! Despised! Living like an animal. The jungle is my home. Then I will show the world I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world." Bride of the Monster, 1955.

[The Brush]

Do you want to use my panties to make soup?"
Neighbors. mid 80's Akroyd & Belushi

[GOPJ]

As a proportion, most of the great quotes came from a time when fewer movies were being made. Is great dialogue incompatible with car chases and gratuitous violence? Can someone do the math? ( Movies made in any given year vs number of great quotes)

[KarlInOhio]

Two of the most quoted movie lines were never actually said in movies. "Play it again, Sam" and "We don't need no stinking badges" are misquotes of:

28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By,"' "Casablanca," 1942.

and

36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.

[blue-duncan]

The greatest movie quote of all time is "Why do I always get the warped ones?" from Blazing Saddles. Every parent at one time or another, looking at their child/children, has thought that.

[Tanniker Smith]

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[One Proud Dad]

I like " don't piss down my back and tell me its raining" or "hell with them fella's, worm and buzzards got to eat" or "you gonna pull them pistols or whistle dixie."


From Animal House, " ... you f__ked up, you trusted us."

[Spruce]

Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it, Bob.

[rightinthemiddle]

Good line from the Aviator, to Kate Hepburn's elitist, liberal, socialist family:

"The reason you don't care about money is because you have money."

[Republican Red]

We turned on this show for a few minutes last night. It was a bunch of Hollywood types reading into quotes more than they ever meant. When Bill Maher came on to relate
ie.#51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", "Dirty Harry," 1971.

Bill Maher comes on to tell us all the quote ushered in the death of the justice system. huh?

i.e.#55 Laa-dee-daa-laa-dee-dah

Some female author comes on and relates that quote in 1977 was the "most freeing" moment for women everywhere". I also learned that Diane Keeton was a major sex symbol for all males when she arrived on screen with her Annie Hall hat and tie. My husband's laughing tells me he didn't agree.

[murdoog]

11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate," "Cool Hand Luke," 1967

28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By,"' "Casablanca," 1942.

36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.

These three probably belong on the list of "Movie Quotes that people always get wrong."

[rightinthemiddle]

"...do you like movies about gladiators?

Classic.

"We are all individuals." Life of Brian

"you could kill your mother and most of the guys in wouldn't care. But fixing a football game...that's un-American." Paraphrased from The Longest Yard (the real one)

[hobbes1]

RMFE. So many that don't belong.


Missing...about half of the Dialogue from Slap Shot.

"The Fans are on their Feet screaming KILL KILL KILL....This is Hockey"...

"Hey, Hanrahan..."

"I Look like some C***su**ing Fag in this...You know what I'm going to do, I'm gonna walk out there and wiggle my d*** at them. And do you know why? Because I want you to have a heart attack and die so we don't have to do this shit again. Everyone with the exception of my wife will be headed for the exits. You and your f***** fashion shows!!!"

"1: You cheap sonofabitch, are you crazy? Those guys are retards! 2: I got a good deal on those boys. The scout said they showed a lot of promise. 1: They brought their fucking TOYS with 'em! 2: I'd rather have 'em playing with their toys than playing with themselves. 1: They're too dumb to play with themselves!"

[rwfromkansas]

I am just surprised they even attempted to find movies older than 1995. Usually in lists like this, people are really lazy and somehow every quote ends up being from within the last 20 years.

Most of these are from the 30s through the 60's.

Somebody actually did some research. I am surprised.