June 23, 2005
The American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time.
The winner: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
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what? no mention of "nice marmot" or "it really tied the room together"?
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Let the bitching and moaning begin!
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tee & hee
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It's like a list of all the annoying things geeks quote at each other. Except that if that was the case, there'd be stuff like "Search your feelings, Luke, you know it to be true," and "Khaaaaaan!" Maybe I should just get my two-year-old to quote from The Incredibles for y'all.
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Well, I think we could all do without "Show me the money" and "I'm king of the world", but some of these are okay, I mean as far as the parameters of this go: movie quotes that have ended up in the vernacular. I would have liked to see more stuff along the following lines, but perhaps these are too specific to my generation: "Plate of shrimp", "Let's get sushi and not pay" and "did you do a lot of acid in the hippie days?" from Repo Man; "I want you to hold the chicken between your knees" from Five Easy Pieces, "this isn't Russia, Danny... is this Russia?" from Caddyschack; and "it's the one that says 'bad motherfucker'" from Pulp Fiction.
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Any list - of movies quotes or otherwise - that doesn't include the entire script of the movie Willow is dead to me.
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"Traitor child...I must despise you now."
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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
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"InconCEIVable!"
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"Ooh, you lucky bastard."
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"Well, deadish." Dawn of the Dead, 2004...best movie quote ever, and it wasn't even in the script..
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"you're only supposed to blow the bleedin' doors off"
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"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now"
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"Son, you got a panty on your head."
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I'm glad the first comment here was a Big Lebowski reference. I would have been quite dissapointed otherwise. And rather than "Open the bay doors, Hal." I would have gone with "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." Scariest. Line. Ever.
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Keep firing, assholes!
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"I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!!!"
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"It's beyond my control."
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"Dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick."
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"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell!" I use that one every day. Often while shaving. I've seen virtually nothing but children's films for the last ten years. Does your 2-year-old do this one, tracicle - "Greater good"? I'm your wife! I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!" Mrs P's favourite.
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I see your "Dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick" and raise it a "Peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck". There's a peck here with an acorn pointed at me!
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"This is going to be my ticket outta here" Tom Cruise, All the Right Moves. It's one that Mr. Koko and I quote frequently.
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"We've had to make certain concessions to the war..."
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(But if we're talking most-cited in the Captain's life, we have to go with "What's the world's fastest land animal?" I will NEVER get tired of that joke. NEV. ER.)
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" Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some ass of the giant lizard person!"
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(And not to brood or anything, but Woody's greatest quote being "La Di Da, La Di Da"? C'mon.)
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withnail and i is just full of classics "then the f***er will rue the day" or "why has my head gone numb?". i'm watching that tonight
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist."
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"But cha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE in that chair!" this is going to keep me distracted all day. Thanks Hwingo!
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Brian: Alright, alright, I am the Messiah. Now Fuck off! Followers: How shall we fuck off, oh Lord?
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Two from Risky Business: "Sometimes you just gotta say 'what the fuck.'" "Are you ready for me, Ralph?"
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"Brace yourself, Effie."
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They got most of the good Bogie ones, but a couple they missed: "I stick my neck out for no one." "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it." "I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings." "My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!" "You oughta wean her, she's old enough." "[Carmen]: Was he as cute as you? [Marlowe]: No one is." I could go on like this all day.
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"Aren't you gonna take your skates off? I never take my skates off."
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well any list that doesn't include Samuel Jackson's delivery of my fav line "oh fooey, I burned the darn muffins" just doesn't do it for me...
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"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!"
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"InconCEIVable!" posted by mecurious at 01:32PM UTC on June 23, 2005 Hello. My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
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"On a similar note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought...to eating your wife."
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"Iroquois" From one of the most stylish films of all time - Subway
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Perhaps I'm exceeding my quota with this, but: "I know we've only known each other for 4 weeks and 3 days, but to me it seems like 9 weeks and 5 days. The first day seemed like a week, and the second day seemed like 5 days, and the third day seemed like a week again, and the fourth day seemed like 8 days, and the fifth day, you went to see your mother, and that seemed ... just like a day. But then you came back, and then later, on the sixth day in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like 2 days. So in the evening it seemed like 2 days, spilling over into the next day, and that started seeming like 4 days. So at the end of the sixth day, on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of 5 days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. ... I have it written down, I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it."
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"In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
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"The Dude abides" "I say we take off and nuke the site from space" "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum" "Hey, you can't bring a frozen guru into California" "What do women want? They have half the money and all the pussy" "Pooberty hit her hard" "I believe in God, and I fear Keyzer Soze" "War-ee-ors, come out and play-ay" "You fucked up. You trusted us"
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I just wanted to let you know, good luck...
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"Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up"
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"Ain't love grand?" --Rowdy Roddy Piper, from They Live Those who know, know.
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"I'm not going to worry about overpopulation just yet " greatest - movie - ever
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"It's been absolutely impossible to work through these Earth creatures. Their soul is too controlled." Plan 9 from Outer Space
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"They Live" is awesome. Also, from a different movie, I'd add: "things are the same, but different... there are computers... SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!"
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"Sonny: So what country do you want to go to? Sal: Wyoming.
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"Would you ever date a guy with Elephantitis of the nuts? If he drove a really nice car? Of course, you'd have to sit in the back, 'cause his nuts would ride shotgun..."
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"You see? It's your stupid minds! Stupid! STUPID!" --also Plan 9 And for those that didin't know, the famous "chew bubble gum and kick ass" line was also from the classic They Live, and was apparently ad-libbed by Roddy Piper, who had considered it for use in a future wrestling spot. I myself had assumed the line was either from Stripes or Ghostbusters, but there you go.
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Preview is for loosers.
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"That is not my dog."
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"Insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops." Cary Grant - Arsenic and Old Lace
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I really wish y'all would name the movies. I know I know some of these, but I can't think of them for the life of me. afj the quote is: "I say we nuke the sight from orbit. Only way to be sure." One of my favorites. Oh, and "Eight year olds, Dude. Eight year olds." Runs through my head any time I see someone that looks pervert-ish.
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Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven. - This is Spinal Tap
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"Send more cops." The Return of the Living Dead
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"And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future." also from Plan 9
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Igor: "Dr. Frankenstein?" Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "Fronkensteen." Igor: "You're putting me on." Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "No, it's pronounced, Fronkensteen." Igor: "Do you also say, Froaderick?" Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "No, Frederick." Igor: "Well, why isn't it, Froaderick Fronkensteen?" Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "It isn't. It's Frederick Fronensteen." Igor: "I see." Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "You must be Igor." Igor: "No, it's pronounced: I-gore." Marty Feldman and Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein
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"Respect the cock... and tame the cunt. Tame it!" - Magnolia
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Heh, I was thinking of a Curious George post where everyone could name off fave movies, but this is even better!
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"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it." A Fistful of Dollars
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My precious. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS 2002 One of a 100 top movie quotes, or "Best" quote when a book's storyline is filmed into a movie?
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Nick: " 'Hillary.' That's an unusual name." Hillary: "It's a German name. It means, 'she whose bosoms defy gravity.' " --that and a bunch more at Top Secret! "I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven." --Kentucky Fried Movie
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Self-link in which I picked out some quotes from the nomination list that "should've but didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of making the list" and my surprise when 5 of them DID.
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Wolfman's got nards!
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"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." I don't need to reference something THIS easy.
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"Elphantitis of the nuts" is from "The Breakfast Club" (Judd Nelson to Molly Ringwald) I would nominate pretty much any line from the screenplay...
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And a good long one: My wife's mother is visiting, Father, and Tuesday she's cooking us a carp. It's a tasty fish, I'm not against it. But because it's supposedly filled with impurities, Mary's mother buys it alive, and for three days now it's been swimming in my bathtub. Up and down. Cleaning out the impurities. And I hate it. I can't stand the sight of it moving it's gills. Now, you're standing very close to me, Father. Have you noticed? Yes. I haven't had a bath in days. So I never go home until the carp is asleep. I'm afraid that if I see it while it's swimming, I'll kill it. --Exorcist III
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Tha'll do pig. Tha'll do.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Braaaaaains! Braaaaains! and, "Send more paramedics." From Evil Dead or Dawn of the Dead or one of those most wonderful movies.
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and then one day... Fuck fish. Fuck fish? Fuck fish.
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Edward D. Wood, Jr (on the phone).: Listen, hit the bars, work some parties, and get me transvestites. I need transvestites! All right. Bye. Bela Lugosi: Eddie, what kind of a movie is this?
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"Adaptation." Nice! "Dont say industry." and of course, the great Ron Livingston: "See that girl over there. I fucked her in the ass."
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I kick arse for the Lord!
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"No, I AM SPARTACUS!" I'm not going to reference something that easy, either. Which isn't to say that some people still don't get that reference, as I find out to my surprise every time I yell it in a crowded bar close to last call.
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...and just for once, I would like it to catch on, everyone standing up and saying "I am Spartacus". Just once. It'd be so much cooler than my other last-call revolt, "You can't do that to me -- do you know who I am? I am CHARLES FOSTER KANE!!!" That doesn't seem to work, either. I need to start hanging around people born prior to 1980...
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No one geevs two fahks for Bela!
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weezel I was disremembering, so I Googled both versions of that line before I posted. The version I quoted had 3 times the hits as yours, so I went with it. Maybe we've got another "Play it again, Sam" or "We don't need no stinkin' badges" on our hands. I really wish y'all would name the movies. Mine in order: The Big Lebowski Alien They Live Candy DC Cab Support Your Local Sheriff Usual Suspects The Warriors Animal House
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/ falshback overload from so many imagery evocations. Emotions ranging from laughter to sadness engulf self /head explodes
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Sigh: "It puts the lotion on it's skin..." Jame Gumb, Silence of the Lambs "It's good to be the King..." King Louis (?) - History of the World, Part I -- corq
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"Tiden, NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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"Stupid fucking white man."
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"The evil stench of white man precedes him."
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/pauses. *thinks hard. I got one too. Frankly, my dear... /preview oh my, not good.
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"Bite the weinie, Rizzo." "...with relish." ~Grease
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"Nice catch, Hayes. Don't ever fuckin' do it again." "I got news for you Mr. Brown, you haven't heard the last of me. You may think I'm shit now, but someday you're gonna be sorry you cut me. I'm gonna catch on somewhere else and every time that I pitch against you I'm gonna stick it up you're fuckin' ass!" "Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, YP, MP. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That fucking heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like assholes, man." "So, Jack tells me you've got a great big cock."
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Inigo Montoya's line is, of course, the best, but these were always my favorite. I can't quote them, much too long, but both were delivered so perfectly in the original.wendell, those are some good quotes, especially your first block. I can hear Katherine Hepburn's voice perfectly.
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THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!!!!!!!
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"This is this. This ain't somethin' else. THIS is THIS." A personal favorite, from The Deer Hunter. I'll also second the nomination for 'those aren't pillows'.
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Are there really no Army of Darkness quotes in here or did I miss them? Honey, you got real ugly. Good... bad... I'm the guy with the gun.
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This...is my BOOMSTICK!
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I can't believe you guys came up with three Army of Darkness quotes without touching 'gimme some sugar'.
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First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow.
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What are these 'movies' of which you speak?
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Glastonbury's starting about now ... I'm not going for the first time in many years ... I'm trying hard not to be annoyed about it. But this thread is reminding of when they screened 'The Blair Witch Project' During the scene where the lost camperds run around the woods shouting 'Where's Josh' some wag stood up and shouted: "I'm over here" Then someone else shouted "No, I'm here" Before long nearly everyone was at it and for the rest of the festival you'd hear outbreaks of people shouting "Where's Josh?" ... "I'm over here ..." etc etc
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Stan the Bat, thanks for reminding me of the "this is this" line. God, that film is good.
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"Hey, that's my mother you're pissing on." -Dead Alive
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Shop smart. Shop S-mart.
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"Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!" The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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"Listen! You smell something?" One of my favorite Ghostbusters lines.
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"Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" (if you need an attribution, yuo haven't been on the web long enough)
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Mmmm - if we're going to go THERE - strange women lying about in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
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*grabs woefully inadequate umbrella, waits for avalanche*
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The movie line I probably use the most: "Bunch of savages in this town." -Clerks
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"I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman." The Royal Tenenbaums
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Just to save time...
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(Of course, I guess that's not under the juristiction of the 'Murican Film Institue)
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What, no Roy Baty monologue from Blade Runner?
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Better get it up! I'm gonna have to kill ya! that's my favorite line of his, anyway ...
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Just another snake cult. /Conan
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I'm shocked that no one's mentioned Bluto Blutarsky's "when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" speech from Animal House. Or, "Mind if we dance wit yo dates?" Or, "Major league yabbos!" Ah, youth.
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TenaciousPettle, the AFI states right upfront that it considered American films for this list. It's an American film institute, after all. Good bet that The Holy Grail would have been on the list otherwise.
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Movie line I use the most is from Bad Santa: "Are you fucking with me?" When sombody says something that I can't comprehend, I ask them if the chickens have large talons. Then we're both confused.
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"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are" "Put it on a plate, dear. You'll enjoy it more." "Goddamn dipshit Rodriguez gypsy dildo punks." Weez and AFJ: interesting. My recollection of the line is sort of a mix of both of yours. "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." at any rate great quote from a great movie FULL of great quotes.
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>"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Or, for that matter, "GAME OVER, MAN!!!"
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"People on ludes should not drive"
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Yes, dirtdirt! "I blame society. Society made me what I am." "Let's go get sushi and not pay."
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"So go! And never darken my towels again!" G.M. from D.S.
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The list seems to be a list of the most popular quotes of all-time. As such, our arguing over what should be there is like arguing over what should be the number one answer on Family Feud: it is number one because of what is most familiar to people.
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Personal favorite: "You know what ol' Jack Burton says at a time like this?" "Who?"
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Have ya paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir I have, the check is in the mail.
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Silencio... Mulholland Drive