"I caught you a delicious bass."
Posted on 06/22/2005 8:05:40 AM PDT by 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.
Can't believe they ignored the Duke, especially True Grit.
Wait, yes I can.
"There ain't no way you couldda come from my genes. The first thing umma gonna do when I get home is punch your mamma right in the mouth" ....Sheriff Buford T. Justice.
Good ones.
Man, I have so many more...
"Dallas get out of there!" - Lambert from Alien
"Stay away from her you B****!" - Ripley from Aliens
"The good of the many outweighs the good of the few...or the one...live long and prosper" - Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan
"You and I have unfinished business" - Kill Bill
"It's always better to have a gun and not need it then need a gun and not have it" - True Romance
"You know those 5,000 ships you say the British don't have? Well, they have them!" - The Longest Day
"You still need confirmation? Look outside, there's your confirmation!" - Tora, Tora, Tora!
"What do you know about death?" - Platoon
"A black magic marker...a felt pen...just get me a F****** black magic marker!" - Pulp Fiction
"Where's the commode in this dungeon, I have to take a squirt" - Reservoir Dogs
"You have the power John" - Dark City
Forgive me if they're not 100% accurate, just off the top of my head...
Dodgeball rocks
We don't need no stinking badges was later in several movies, including Blazing Saddles.
"I ask him who own the Chiefs?"
"Bleed all over them. Let 'em know you're there."
"O-gil-torp."
"You go to the box for two minutes, by yourself, and you feel shame. And then you get free."
"Like a horse."
Okay, so they aren't classic lines, but they're good ones, anyway.
Huh? I thought that a lot more movies were made in the days before television. I know the actors were in a lot more movies when they were under contract to the studios. It wouldn't be surprising to see a major star in 3 or 4 movies in a year.
I was disappointed that Dr. Strangelove didn't get more quotes.
". I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. "
"Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat."
"Ok. I'm gonna get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's going to happen to you?" "What?" "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
lol....I love Office Space
That entire script is classic.
You couldn't even make that movie today.
"This used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. "
"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace."
"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
[Drinking his Jim Beam.] "Here's the first of the day, fellas! To old D.H. Lawrence."
[He starts flapping one arm like a chicken.] "Neh! Neh! Neh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Indians."
~ George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), "Easy Rider" (1969)
"I never ate a bug that big." (Tom Horn)
"But, doctor, he's a prisoner of war." "So are you, you just don't know it." (MASH)
"Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting." (Le Mans)
"You're going to have to answer to the Coca Cola people for this" (Dr. Strangelove).
"You shot an unarmed man." "He should have armed himself" (Unforgiven).
"A man's got to know his limitations." (Dirty Harry).
My favorite is #18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", "White Heat," 1949......just before the big KABOOM!
No doubt. They tried, and really failed miserably.
Eddie Shore?
"What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chickennn?"
We all thoroughly enjoyed it in this house.
Old Time Hockey?!?
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