'Frankly, My Dear' Is Top AFI Movie Quote

Channel 5 Cincinnati ^ | June 22, 2005

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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.

[HEY4QDEMS]

"OK..so,....she's a dog"

Q: "Where do these stairs go"
A: "They go up"

"Are you the key master?"

Ghostbusters

[Taft in '52]

Here are a couple of my favorite from Star Wars I (1977):

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

[NCC-1701]

The entire opening monologue, and other gems, Sgt. Hartman,(R. Lee Ermey), delivered in "Full Metal Jacket". That was about the most intense opening of a movie until "Saving Private Ryan" came along.

[cyncooper]

I don't know about you, but my favorites didn't make the list

#1. Jack Nicholson as "Colonel Jessep" in "For a Few Good Men".
"You can't handle the truth!

"You can't handle the truth" did in fact make the list.

[rightinthemiddle]

"You gotta wh**e in there? Heard you gotta wh**e in there."

"I knew it was you, Earl. That's why I missed."

[Bar-Face]

"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. and BLAZING SADDLES 1976

[kAcknor]

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

"Germans?"

"Forget it, he's on a roll..."

[cyncooper]

I am shocked, SHOCKED that Claude Rains line about gamblng in Casablanca is not included. You can hear that one at least once a month on the Sunday morning talk shows.

It was shown in one of the many clips of the movie and they pointed out that practically every word of Casablance makes the list every time. I believe there are four on this current list? (I'm not going to bother checking right now).

[Fellow Traveler]

Fat Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life son

Animal House

We came, we saw, we kicked it's @$$!

Yes this man has no D###!

Both from Ghostbusters

We are on a mission from God

The Blues Brothers

[Taft in '52]

"No lights on the Christmas tree, Mother. They're using the electric chair tonight." --The Girl Can't Help It, 1956

[cyncooper]

What about, "I'd love to kiss ya but I just washed my hair" - Betty Davis.

They played that clip last night.

In addition to the quotes on the list, they played lots of clips from the various movies that have made past lists.

[kAcknor]

"We don't need no stinking badges"

Not totally sure, but I believe the misquote comes from Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles.

[cyncooper]

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...

That was pointed out in the program, too.

[Colonel_Flagg]

"Wait. You can't see this. I'm on radio."

[fr_freak]

"Lighten up, Francis."

[jackv]

I'da left her but I'da had to kiss her goodbye!

(I have no idea who said it, I just think it's funny!)

[uglybiker]

"You farging icehole bastages!" Johnny Dangerously

[Fellow Traveler]

Two Dollars

Better Off Dead

[mnehring]

Badgers, we don't need no stinkin Badgers

UHF

[Trampled by Lambs]

"Game over, man!"
"Stow that sh*t, Hudson,," - Aliens