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Contents.Criteria Jurors were asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:. Movie Quotation: A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film. Lyrics from songs are not eligible. Cultural Impact: Movie quotations that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon. Legacy: Movie quotations that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.The list The table below reproduces the quotes as the AFI published them. 19392'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.'
19723'You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.' Terry Malloy19544'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.' 19395'Here's looking at you, kid.' Rick Blaine19426'.'
The best quotes ever have to slap you in the face. They have to focus on the one thing you’ll always strive for: Being authentic and genuine, and not falling victim to external pressures that push you to become who you “should” be, instead of enhancing who you already are.
19837'All right, I'm ready for my close-up.' 19779'Fasten your seatbelts.
It's going to be a bumpy night.' Margo Channing195010'197611'.' Captain196712'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.' Bill Kilgore197913'.' Oliver Barrett IV197014'The stuff that dreams are made of.' E.T.198216'They call me Mister Tibbs!'
194118'Made it, Ma! Top of the world!' Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett194919'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' 197620'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.' Rick Blaine194221'A census taker once tried to test me.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.' 196223'There's no place like home.' 193924'I am big! It's the pictures that got small.' 195025'Show me the money!' Rod Tidwell199626'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?'
Lady Lou193327'I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!' 'Ratso' Rizzo196928'Play it, Sam. 'Ilsa Lund194229'You can't handle the truth!' Jessup199230'I want to be alone.' Grusinskaya193231'After all, tomorrow is another day!'
193932'Round up the usual suspects.' Louis Renault194233'I'll have what she's having.'
Customer198934'You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.' Marie 'Slim' Browning194435'You're gonna need a bigger boat.' Martin Brody197536'Gold Hat194837'.' 198438'Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.' 194239'If you build it, he will come.' (voice)198940'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.' 199441'We rob banks.'
Maguire196743'We'll always have Paris.' Rick Blaine194244'I see dead people.' Cole Sear199945'Stella! Hey, Stella!' 195146'Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon.
We have the stars.' Charlotte Vale194247'Shane. Joey Starrett195348'Well, nobody's perfect.'
Osgood Fielding III195949'It's alive! 193150'Houston, we have a problem.' 199551'You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?' 197152'You had me at 'hello.' 'Dorothy Boyd199653'One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.'
Spaulding193054'There's no crying in baseball!' Jimmy Dugan199255'La-dee-da, la-dee-da.' Annie Hall197756'A boy's best friend is his mother.' 196057'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.'
198758'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.' 197459'As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.' 193960'Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!' Oliver193361'Say 'hello' to my little friend!' 198362'What a dump.' Rosa Moline194963'Mrs.
Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. 196764'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the!' President Merkin Muffley196465'Elementary, my dear.'
193966'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.' 196867'Of all the in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.' Rick Blaine194268'Here's Johnny!' 198069'They're here!' Carol Anne Freeling198270'Is it safe?' Christian Szell197671'Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!'
Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin192772'No wire hangers, ever!' 198173'Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?' Rico Bandello193174'Forget it, Jake, it's.'
Lawrence Walsh197475'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.' 199177'Soylent Green is people!' Robert Thorn197378'Open the pod bay doors,.' 196879Striker: 'Surely you can't be serious.'
Rumack: 'I am serious and don't call me Shirley.' Ted Striker & Dr. Rumack&198080'Yo, Adrian!' 197883'Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.' 193184'Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes.
It was Beauty killed the Beast.' 193385'My precious.' Sonny Wortzik197587'Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!' Julian Marsh193388'Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor.
Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!' Ethel Thayer198189'Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for.' 194090'A martini.' Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the champion. It looks like a mirac.It's in the hole!
It's in the hole! It's in the hole!' Carl Spackler198093'Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!' Mame Dennis195894'I feel the need—the need for speed!' Pete Mitchell & Nick Bradshaw&198695'. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary.' John Keating198996'Snap out of it!' Loretta Castorini198797'My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.'
194298'Nobody puts Baby in a corner.' Johnny Castle198799'I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!' 1939100'I'm the King of the World!' Jack Dawson1997. On the real Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell reporting, 'Houston, we've had a problem'.Problems playing this file?
See.Trivia With six movie quotes, is by far the most represented film on this list. And are tied for second, with three each., and each have two quotes.Rick Blaine ( ) is the character with the most quotes (four); ( ), ( and ), ( and ), ( ), ( ), and ( and ) have two quotes each.With five, is the actor with the most quotes (four from Casablanca and one from The Maltese Falcon);, and all have three, while, and have two each. Sixty-three of the other sixty-four actors appear once each. Also has two entries, but his two quotes were also spoken by five other actors. As well as the five quotes spoken by Bogart, two further quotes on the list (from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and To Have and Have Not) were spoken to him, by and respectively. Another ('Round up the usual suspects' from Casablanca) was spoken in his presence and for his character's benefit by, and another ('Play it Sam', also from Casablanca) is often attributed to Bogart because he uses a slight variation of the same line, saying to Sam, 'Play it'.The line 'My precious.'
, from, is the only quote from a movie released in the 21st century and the only one by a CGI character.Quotation distribution by decade:. 1910s: 0. 1920s: 1. 1930s: 16.
1940s: 17. World War II years (1939–1945): 21.
1950s: 9. 1960s: 13. 1970s: 16. 1980s: 17. 1990s: 10. 2000s: 1Top years:. 1942: 9.
1939: 7. 1967: 5.
1933: 4. 1976: 4Footnotes. AFI defines an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. Additionally, only quotations from feature-length American films released before January 1, 2004, were considered.
AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length. (PDF). American Film Institute.
Retrieved March 13, 2015. as repeats Brando's speech in. The ballot entry for this quote included the word 'got,' which was removed from the AFI web page at some point. Often misattributed to. Often misquoted as 'I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Often paraphrased as 'Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride'.
repeats the line later in the film, mocking the prison warden, though he says 'a failure', rather than simply 'failure.' Also heard quoted in this form. This paraphrases a line from by: 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' (often misquoted as 'made of'). ^ Also, and. Appears in some form in a total of 24 films; Dr.
No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre. According to The Annotated Wizard of Oz, 'L. Frank who quotes the phrase in appears to be playing with the famous sentiment of 's 1823 song, ' the melody of which, by Sir, is played over several repetitions of the line: 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.' Baum's irony was apparently lost on the makers of the famous movie., assistant to the producer, was responsible for making 'There's No Place Like Home' the theme of the 1939 MGM picture.He was adamant that Dorothy repeat 'There's No Place Like Home' when she clicks her heels together three times.' ' Michael Patrick Hearn (Ed.), The Annotated Wizard of Oz, p. 1. Mae West paraphrased the line in her next film, as 'Come up and see me sometime'.
Hence the line in She Done Him Wrong is often misquoted as 'Why don't you come up and see me sometime?' . Sometimes claimed to be an. Usually misquoted as 'Play it again, Sam.' ., pp. 201–202 Reportedly an. Commonly misheard as ' We're gonna need a bigger boat,' as for example at the. Popularly misquoted as 'Badges?
We don't need no stinking badges!' , most likely from, in which the line was so worded. An actual quotation from. Often misquoted as 'If you build it, they will come.'
. The line is based on an actual message from Apollo 13. Astronaut Swigert said 'Houston, we've had a problem here,' then Lovell repeated 'Houston, we've had a problem'. Often misquoted as 'Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?' Or 'Are you feeling lucky? Well, do ya, punk?'
Or, more popularly, 'Do you feel lucky, punk?' . Often misquoted as 'How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.'
The time frame also varies ('yesterday,' 'once,' etc.). The scene from the film in which this line appears is also excerpted in the movie's trailer, but in the trailer the sequence is edited so that Gekko's line occurs as simply 'Greed is good.' This shorter version of the line has become more popular – and more widely quoted – than the fuller version. This maxim is attributed to several military strategists, notably, Chinese general. Often misquoted as 'Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!'
. Although occurring in the 1949 film, this line did not become a widespread catchphrase until after the 1961 premiere of 's play. In the opening scene of that play, Martha quotes this line and then (since she has apparently forgotten) she asks George which of Bette Davis's films it is from. Often misquoted as 'Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?' .
This line, which does not appear in any of 's stories, was first said onscreen in. The line's first occurrence is in the stage play Sherlock Holmes, written entirely by with Doyle's approval, for which Gilette listed Doyle as co-author.
An ad-lib. The line is 's signature introduction of on.
A longtime Jolson catchphrase also heard, with variations, in his earlier short film ' (1926). Usually misquoted as: 'No more wire hangers, ever!' . Parodied in the film when Danny Butterman tells Nicholas Angel , 'Forget it, Nicholas, it's Sandford.' . Frequently heard as '.
Twas beauty killed the beast'. This quotation is sometimes attributed to portraying George Gipp. Reagan's line—from earlier in the film—is 'Ask 'em to go in there with all they've got, win just one for the Gipper.' .
Later, 'Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred.' In the film You Only Live Twice, accidentally 'Stirred, not shaken.' . Appeared in multiple other films. Although 'Who's on first?' Appeared in numerous other films prior to 1945, the one featured in The Naughty Nineties is considered the best rendition of the sketch.
'During the 'Gay Nineties' period, George M. Coined this as his famous curtain speech.' The New York Times. November 6, 1942. Retrieved December 29, 2018. Originally a quote by who repeatedly. Soon after winning his first bout against Sonny Liston in 1964.External links.
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