'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.

[mnehring]

And a few more from UHF

If nobody comes down here and buys a car in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right. I'm gonna club this seal to make a better deal. You know I'll do it, to, cause I'm crazy.

Life is like a mop. Sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and hairballs and things and you gotta clean it out. You gotta stick it in here and rinse it off and start all over again. And sometimes life sticks to the floor so much that a mop, a mop, it's not good enough. You gotta get down there with like a toothbrush, you know, and you gotta really scrub 'cause you gotta get it off. But if that doesn't work, you can't give up. You gotta stand right up. You gotta run to a window and say, "These floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more."

Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.

Hey, kids. Where y'wanna go? That's right. To Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse. And boy-oh-boy, are we gonna have big fun today. We're gonna have so much fun, we'll forget about how miserable we are, and how much life sucks, and how we're all gonna grow old and die someday.

Hello, my name is Philo and welcome to Secrets of the Universe. Today we are going to learn how to make plutonium from common household items.

Shut up, you litle weasel... Okay. Right now I'd like to show you one of my favorite cartoons. It's a sad, depressing story about a pathetic coyote who spends every waking moment of his life in the futile pursuit of a saidistic roadrunner who MOCKS him and LAUGHS at him as he's repeatedly CRUSHED and MAIMED. Hope you ENJOY IT.

Not many people know this, but the turtle is nature's suction cup. [licks the bottom of a turtle, throws it towards the ceiling] /// Look. It sticks.

Gun control is for wimps and commies. Listen, let's get one thing straight. Guns don't kill people. I do.

And this one I dedicate to the DUmbasses
This community means about as much to me as a festering ball of dog snot. You think I care about the pea-brained yokels of this town? If you took their combined I.Q., and multiplied it by a hundred, you might have enough intelligence to tie your shoe, if you didn't drool all over yourself first. I can't stand those sniveling maggots. They make me want to puke. But, there is one good thing about broadcasting to a town full of mindless sheep. I always know I have them exactly where I want them. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

[Koblenz]

"Son, you've got a pantie on your head." -- Raising Arizona.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Animal House should have a list of its own. Some additions to those already posted:


"Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?"

"Cut the horsesh*t, son. I've got their disciplinary files right here. Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode."

"The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me."

"Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead!"

"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it."

"You f*cked up - you trusted us!

"So, if you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."

"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"

"Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little sh*t just like you."

"Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!"

"Food fight!"

[fredhead]

The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Bounty hunter tells Josey that "A man's gotta make a livin'."

Josey replies, "Dyin' ain't much of a livin'."

[Taft in '52]

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

As Time Goes By is originaly from the 1931 musical show Everybody's Welcome and was a hit that year by Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees.

[fredhead]

Different Mel Brooks movie:

"You have some more beans Mr. Taggart?"
"I'd say you had enough!"

[AgentEcho]

You forgot a few of my favorites:

What's your name//Barf//Your full name//Barfolomew

We're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed.

They've gone to plaid.

We ain't found sh*t.

Why didn't somebody tell me ass was so big.

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[Oztrich Boy]

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AFI Ranks Top Movie Quotes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1427975/posts

Nah. I prefer this thread which has all 100 quotes, instead of only the top 25

[uglybiker]

Uhh...can I still be the janitor?

[fredhead]

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to others, and I expect the same from them."

Also...

"Someone oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't. I won't. The hell I won't!!"

[clintonh8r]

"*&!(*!*&$%!)()+)!(*^%(!)(&^@$%:"{)(*$^*!!" (Raging Bull)

[clintonh8r]

"Is this a great country, or what?" (Night Shift)

[sandbagger]

Three out of many lapses on the list:

"If God didn't want them sheared, then why did He make them sheep?" Calvera (Eli Wallach) to the Seven, "The Magnificent Seven"

"Seven years of college down the drain." Bluto, "Animal House"

"No one ever won a war by dying for his country. You make the other poor dumb bastard die for HIS country." "Patton"

[Oztrich Boy]

Not a single Princess Bride (1987) quote in the list? Inconceivable!

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[GOPJ]

I was disappointed that Dr. Strangelove didn't get more quotes.

Dr. Stranglove's a silly liberal cult movie. Why on earth would you want more quotes from that movie? And do you have any facts about movies vs quotes, or is it just a "feeling"? DU is calling...

[fredhead]

I know the movie wsn't so great, but I couldn't help but post this line from "Grease"...

"If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter."

[Tanniker Smith]

Nah. I prefer this thread which has all 100 quotes, instead of only the top 25

Granted, but that thread has almost 300 responses and this one has fewer than 100. Although I imagine by the time the day is over, both threads will have over 500, with lots of repeated material.

Actually, I'm surprised that this thread hasn't been locked yet.

[Cecily]

"The Negroes stole our dates!"

[drjimmy]

And speaking of Mel Brooks movies:

What knockers!

I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen.

Abby who?
Abby Normal.

No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."

Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him.

A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun.

Put... the candle... back!

'UTTIN' ON THE 'IIIIITZ!!!

[bondserv]

Lawman: "You're not a hard man to find."
Josey: "Hows that"?
Lawman: "You leave a trail of dead men".

The Outlaw Josey Wales