AFI's top 100 movie quotes. Anything missing from the list or something that should be dropped?
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• Jun 23 2005 • 1:34AM
"I am not left-handed either".
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:35AM
"I am your father."
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:44AM
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:09AM
No Coen brothers films made the cut?
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:24AM
Bill Murray's Caddyshack line in at 92 made me laugh as I remembered it.
"Excellent" (Bill & Ted)
"Bueller ... Bueller ... Bueller"
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:25AM
Dang! You got shocks, pegs... lucky! You ever take it off any sweet jumps?
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:32AM
I came to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of chewing gum -- They Live
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:33AM
"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:45AM
I think they should fire their copyeditor, as "quote" is a verb, not a noun. What they really mean is "quotation".
• Jun 23 2005 • 3:36AM
i am not drinking any fucking merlot.
• Jun 23 2005 • 3:49AM
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." should really be: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
And dear August, next time you're going to be a smart-ass, get the facts right please. "Quote" is in fact a noun. It can mean quotation mark, it can be a stock market valuation, or a tender offer, and it can very well mean quotation.
Now it's my turn: while mhegge's quot(e|ation) is from Full Metal Jacket, actually it's originally from Woody Allen.
• Jun 23 2005 • 4:10AM
Klaatu barada nikto.
• Jun 23 2005 • 4:19AM
Basic Instinct: "Have you ever fucked on cocaine, Nick? It's nice."
Good Morning Vietnam: "Goooooooood morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll! Time to rock it from the Delta to the D.M.Z.!"
Magnolia: "The book says, we might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
• Jun 23 2005 • 4:55AM
Oh fukk, I shot Marvin in the face.
• Jun 23 2005 • 5:13AM
Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you! (Pulp Fiction)
• Jun 23 2005 • 5:20AM
"Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
(Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
• Jun 23 2005 • 5:25AM
nex, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.
• Jun 23 2005 • 6:01AM
Damn shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that. (Better Off Dead)
• Jun 23 2005 • 6:02AM
"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" - The Italian Job (1969)
• Jun 23 2005 • 6:26AM
"I'm an ugly little man, mama" from Marty
• Jun 23 2005 • 7:05AM
"I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone: my kind of people, and assholes." – Pink Flamingos
• Jun 23 2005 • 7:17AM
Heineken? F*** that s***! Pabst Blue Ribbon! -- Blue Velvet
• Jun 23 2005 • 7:29AM
"That is one big pile of shit."
(Jurassic Park)
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:12AM
QUINTANA I see you rolled your way into the semis. Deos mio, man. Seamus and me, we're gonna fuck you up.
DUDE
Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man.
Quintana looks at Walter.
QUINTANA
Let me tell you something, bendeco. You pull any your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger till it goes "click".
DUDE
Jesus.
QUINTANA
You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:34AM
Full Metal Jacket - "Looks like Charles has got his shit together today"
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:44AM
"But this one goes to eleven." Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) Spinal Tap
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:45AM
"Who are those guys?" - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:46AM
forgot this one:
"Your gonna shoot your eye out..."
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:08AM
I totally agree with nex about the 2001 quote, it should be the one from HAL, not Dave.
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:14AM
I've been ready for this my whole life. - Rudy
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:36AM
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. --Usual Suspects
(I could have predicted that Tarantino quotes would have been all over the snub list. Face it, Q fans: his dialogue is not that great.)
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:41AM
from transformers: the movie:
Kup: Don't act hostile, I'll use the universal greeting... "Bah weep granah weep ninni bong."
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:42AM
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:53AM
I'm shocked, shocked I say, to find that they didn't list my favorite Casablanca quote.
Plus, "It's the fall that'll kill ya."
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:54AM
"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:16AM
"Get busy living, or get busy dying." -- The Shawshank Redemption
"Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."-- To Kill A Mockingbird
"Groovy."-- Army of Darkness
I think the HAL quote was also the better one than Dave's quote.
I was going to say that "You had me at hello." and "I'm king of the world!" should be dropped, but so many people quote those damn lines, I guess that's really what the list was getting at. 6 quotes from Casablanca is a bit excessive. Some of the lines that I never hear quoted, like the ones from King Kong, Dracula and Animal Crackers could be dumped in favour of something from, oh, I don't know, the last 20 years?
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:18AM
"Moses couldn't reroute this shit." -Volcano
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:26AM
"This ain't lucky Lager!" --Kalifornia
"This is my BOOMSTICK!" -- army of darkness
"Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?" -- Full metal jacket
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" --Revenge of the Sith
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:27AM
"Nerds!!!!!!" -- Revenge of the Nerds
"I have a bad feeling about this..." -- Any and all Star Wars movies
"He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!" -- The Jerk
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:28AM
[Luke Wilson character] : These are O.R. scrubs.
Max Fischer: Oh, are they?
and:
"I saved Latin!"
both from Rushmore
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:40AM
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." -Back to the Future
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:48AM
How about the missing alternating row colors or aligning all the quotes and attributions at the top of the various table cells?
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:05AM
"We're on a mission from God."
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:11AM
"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."
Raising Arizona
"Ever seen a spleen that large?"
"No, not since breakfast. "
Fletch
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:14AM
nex: How about next time I'm trying to be a 'smart-ass', I let you know that I teach people how to write like literate human beings for a living. Using 'quote' to mean 'quotation' is an informal (ie. non-standard) 'Americanism' (to quote a lovely entry I found in the OED).
And guess what! It developed because people were too lazy or too stupid to use the term "quotation" when talking about quotation marks, market valuations, tenders, and so on. The fact that people's mistakes have made its usage dead common doesn't change the 'mistake' part.
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:15AM
My Star Wars choice would be, "Who you callin' scruffy-lookin'?!"
And to round out the Harrison Ford trifecta: "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage" and, reluctantly,
"Get off my plane!!"
The 80s were sorely neglected on the AFI list, in favor of forgotten faves of the 30s. I'll add:
"I could be the Walrus -- I'd still have to bum rides off of people."
"Goonies never say die!"
"Did Lardass have to pay to get into the contest?"
"I myself am...strange and unusual."
"There's that word again, 'heavy'. Why are things all so heavy in the future- is there some problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:31AM
"Okay ramblers, let's get rambling."
- Joe Cabot, Reservoir Dogs
• Jun 23 2005 • 12:44PM
"Now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? Cause you, you're part eggplant."- Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) said to Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) while smoking a Chesterfield in True Romance
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:03PM
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stopsniffing glue.
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:19PM
"It's Daddy, you shithead! Where's my bourbon?"
- Frank Booth, Blue Velvet
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:38PM
"i love you, maude."
"i love you, harold."
• Jun 23 2005 • 1:41PM
oh! and "the horror! the horror!" -- apocalypse now
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:33PM
Dear August, I'm really sorry if I came across a bit rude, I was just upset (not because of you, I'll get to that in the next paragraph); there's nothing wrong with being a smart-ass. The OED is my favourite dictionary, I own one. However, as this site is more or less American, and I'm not, I specifically consulted an American dictionary before replying.
Merriam-Webster, to be precise (as it's available online), and boy, do I fucking hate that Webster guy! 'Color', 'center', 'pajamas'; that's bloody insane! Now I always have to type two alternatives whenever I use a search engine, and it just doesn't fit together any longer, etymology-wise. These only stuck because people are too lazy or too stupid to use the proper spellings, but they are so wrong! The fact that people's mistakes have made their usage dead common doesn't change the 'mistake' part. 'Math': ouch. 'Auto': big mistake. And don't get me even started on 'aluminum'. But if you asked just about anyone here, you'd find they don't see a fault with any of them. See?
By the way, why did you address me with 'you'? Using this one word instead of all of 'thou', 'thee', 'thy', and 'thine' (not even talking about 'ye' yet) is pure stupid lazyness -- o, the ambiguity!
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:47PM
Puhnhuh-uhnhuh-ehhhfth
--Young Frankenstein
• Jun 23 2005 • 2:57PM
couple more...
'Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo' -- Fletch
'What the fuck is this?'
'They're for the bullet holes, Bitch!'
(King of New York, after Laurence Fishburne pays for a shipment of cocaine with a suitcase full of tampons...)
• Jun 23 2005 • 3:21PM
I really hope people quit quoting(quotationifying) Napoleon Dynamite soon.
"if you build it, they will come."
"you complete me"
"who wants a mustache ride?"
"i see (dead) people"
Jason, your current comment template reminds me of Speak-and-Spell:
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• Jun 23 2005 • 3:38PM
Asa Isi Masa, Asa Isi Masa
• Jun 23 2005 • 3:54PM
so llama, how about something, y'know, for the effort. so he says, on your death bed you will regain full consciousness, so I go that going for me.... which is nice.
-bill murray, caddy shack
• Jun 23 2005 • 7:12PM
Eric, check #44.
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:09PM
"That's it man, game over man, game over!" - Hudson, Aliens
Not a great or classic quote, really, but I like it.
• Jun 23 2005 • 8:11PM
Missing:
"Get three coffins ready."
"I'm Brian and so's my wife!"
"You will have: long blonde hair, big green eyes, world class breasts, ass that won't quit, and legs that go aaaall the way up!"
"Unfortunately no one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself."
"That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines, Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA!"
"What are you two talking about?" "Football. What were you talking about?" "Shopping."
I'll think of more as soon as I click Post, I know it.
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:37PM
"You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."
• Jun 23 2005 • 9:54PM
American Pie - band camp;
Say Anything - she gave me a pen;
Office Space - Hawaiian shirt day;
Real Genius - god to you, to jerry, to the cleaners;
Grease - athletic supporter;
Back to School - he really seems to care.... about what i have no idea;
Heathers - What's your damage, Heather?;
10 Thing I Hate About You - beer flavored nipples.
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:03PM
Therapist: "Were they [staged suicides] all done for your mother's benefit?"
Harold: [long pause] "No. No, I would not say 'benefit.'"
--Harold and Maude
• Jun 23 2005 • 10:51PM
"You know, for kids!"
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:51PM
"That's a big Twinkie." from Ghostbusters
"Put ... the candle ... BACK." from Young Frankenstein
" No, YOU must be Don Francisco's sister!" Love and Death
"I think I got the best one!" Raising Arizona
"KKKKen's cccoming to kkkill me!" A Fish Called Wanda
• Jun 23 2005 • 11:59PM
Top two Canadian movie quotes of all time:
"Are you some sort of housekeeper? Because I've had them before, but they tended to be older... more Germanic... more given to the wearing of clothes." (Whale Music)
"Lady, you can't cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can't. I won because I was lucky - lucky to wind up in a town full of losers! " (Highway 61)
Oh, and if you're gonna quote a line from Revenge of the Nerds, how about: "All jocks ever think about is sports--all nerds ever think about is sex."
• Jun 24 2005 • 12:10AM
1. "There's always got to be poison!" or "Is this an ultimatum? Answer me, you ball-busting, castrating, son of a cunt bitch! Is this an ultimatum or not?" or "Why don't you leave me?... For God's sake, I'd almost marry you if you'd leave me."
2. "I want you to hold it between your knees!" or "I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay."
3. "People always ask me if I know Tyler Durden." or "You met me at a very strange time in my life." or "My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." or "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." or "You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
4. "Trust me."
5. "I'm dyin' here."
6. "She's my sister AND my daughter!"
7. "Spanning time..."
8. "I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!"
9. "Hey little brother... I loooove to drive." or "Not unless you call round funny."
10. "My brother from another mother!"
11. "I'm Spartacus!"
12. "I think the end of the world just came for that bag of Fritos I had in my pants pocket." or "I think the man in the moon just fucked my sister."
13. "The power of Christ compels you!" or "Your mother sucks cocks in hell." (I mean really, how could that NOT have made the list?)
14. "You ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?"
15. "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?" or "Respect the cock... and tame the cunt. Tame it."
• Jun 24 2005 • 1:00AM
They're coming to get you, Barbara...
• Jun 24 2005 • 2:25AM
Nothing from Full Metal Jacket? That film's full of memorable gems, and not just from the drill sergeant.
Also, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those...moments...will be lost in time, like tears in rain." --Blade Runner
• Jun 24 2005 • 11:36AM
"You're terrible, Muriel." - Muriel's Wedding
• Jun 24 2005 • 10:27PM
"Klaatu barrada nikto."
• Jun 25 2005 • 9:51AM
"I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead." - Sam Elliot as Wade Garrett in Roadhouse
• Jun 25 2005 • 2:59PM
there is no spoon.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
ctsamurai • Jun 23 2005 • 1:30AM
"Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."