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Last night on CBS, the American Film Institute did another of its annual Top 100 specials. This time around, it was the top 100 quotes from U.S. movies, chosen through ballots sent to 1,500 filmmakers, actors, critics and others in Hollywood. Enjoy, and remember, it's all in good fun! :)

The top 100 quotes, with film title and year of release:

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," Gone With the Wind, 1939.

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," The Godfather, 1972.

3. "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," On the Waterfront, 1954.

4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

5. "Here's looking at you, kid," Casablanca, 1942.

6. "Go ahead, make my day," Sudden Impact, 1983.

7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," Sunset Blvd., 1950.

8. "May the Force be with you," Star Wars, 1977.

9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," All About Eve, 1950.

10. "You talking to me?" Taxi Driver, 1976.

11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate," Cool Hand Luke, 1967.

12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," Apocalypse Now, 1979.

13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry," Love Story, 1970.

14. "The stuff that dreams are made of," The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

15. "E.T. phone home," E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.

16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!", In the Heat of the Night, 1967.

17. "Rosebud," Citizen Kane, 1941.

18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", White Heat, 1949.

19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!", Network, 1976.

20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," Casablanca, 1942.

21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," The Silence of the Lambs, 1991.

22. "Bond. James Bond," Dr. No, 1962.

23. "There's no place like home," The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

24. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small," Sunset Blvd., 1950.

25. "Show me the money!", Jerry Maguire, 1996.

26. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", She Done Him Wrong, 1933.

27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!", Midnight Cowboy, 1969.

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

29. "You can't handle the truth!", A Few Good Men, 1992.

30. "I want to be alone," Grand Hotel, 1932.

31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!", Gone With the Wind, 1939.

32. "Round up the usual suspects," Casablanca, 1942.

33. "I'll have what she's having," When Harry Met Sally, 1989.

34. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow," To Have and Have Not, 1944.

35. "You're gonna need a bigger boat," Jaws, 1975.

36. "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.

37. "I'll be back," The Terminator, 1984.

38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," The Pride of the Yankees, 1942.

39. "If you build it, he will come," Field of Dreams, 1989.

40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get," Forrest Gump, 1994.

41. "We rob banks," Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.

42. "Plastics," The Graduate, 1967.

43. "We'll always have Paris," Casablanca, 1942.

44. "I see dead people," The Sixth Sense, 1999.

45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!", A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.

46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," Now, Voyager, 1942.

47. "Shane. Shane. Come back!", Shane, 1953.

48. "Well, nobody's perfect," Some Like It Hot, 1959.

49. "It's alive! It's alive!", Frankenstein, 1931.

50. "Houston, we have a problem," Apollo 13, 1995.

51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", Dirty Harry, 1971.

52. "You had me at 'hello,"' Jerry Maguire, 1996.

53. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas, I don't know," Animal Crackers, 1930.

54. "There's no crying in baseball!", A League of Their Own, 1992.

55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da," Annie Hall, 1977.

56. "A boy's best friend is his mother," Psycho, 1960.

57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," Wall Street, 1987.

58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," The Godfather Part II, 1974.

59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again," Gone With the Wind, 1939.

60. "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", Sons of the Desert, 1933.

61. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!", Scarface, 1983.

62. "What a dump," Beyond the Forest, 1949.

63. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?", The Graduate, 1967.

64. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", Dr. Strangelove, 1964.

65. "Elementary, my dear Watson," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1929.

66. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape," Planet of the Apes, 1968.

67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," Casablanca, 1942.

68. "Here's Johnny!", The Shining, 1980.

69. "They're here!", Poltergeist, 1982.

70. "Is it safe?", Marathon Man, 1976.

71. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!", The Jazz Singer, 1927.

72. "No wire hangers, ever!", Mommie Dearest, 1981.

73. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?", Little Caesar, 1930.

74. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," Chinatown, 1974.

75. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.

76. "Hasta la vista, baby," Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991.

77. "Soylent Green is people!", Soylent Green, 1973.

78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

79. Striker: "Surely you can't be serious." Rumack: "I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley," Airplane!, 1980.

80. "Yo, Adrian!", Rocky, 1976.

81. "Hello, gorgeous," Funny Girl, 1968.

82. "Toga! Toga!", National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978.

83. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make," Dracula, 1931.

84. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast," King Kong, 1933.

85. "My precious," The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002.

86. "Attica! Attica!", Dog Day Afternoon, 1975.

87. "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", 42nd Street, 1933.

88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armour. 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!", On Golden Pond, 1981.

89. "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper," Knute Rockne, All American, 1940.

90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred," Goldfinger, 1964.

91. "Who's on first," The Naughty Nineties, 1945.

92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac ... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", Caddyshack, 1980.

93. "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!", Auntie Mame, 1958.

94. "I feel the need - the need for speed!", Top Gun, 1986.

95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary," Dead Poets Society, 1989.

96. "Snap out of it!", Moonstruck, 1987.

97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you," Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.

98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," Dirty Dancing, 1987.

99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!", The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

100. "I'm king of the world!", Titanic, 1997.
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Wow reading that list I felt like I was riding the "Great Movie Ride" at Disney's MGM Studios!

They must own a lot of those movies.
Great list of movies.

I just recently saw Gone with the Wind for the first time.
It was really good!
Actually I'm starting to enjoy the older movies more now.
I just enjoy listening to them speak.
So much faster and clearer than today.
I read once that if you compare the scripts then to today you can see how much more speaking was done in the old days.
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MM,

Great, great list. :D

One of my favorites:
92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac ... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", Caddyshack, 1980.
:lol:

A couple should have been higher IMO. "Damn dirty ape," and "Here's Johnny," namely.
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What? No Princess Bride?! Pah, I scoff at that list.

The order seemed kinda off... some of the really famous quotes are way at the bottom. Maybe I'm too young to appreciate some of the quotes from the older movies... meh. I was glad to see Airplane on there :lol:
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The Leper Fairy wrote:What? No Princess Bride?!
INCONCEIVABLE!

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I do not think that word means what you think it means....

The Jaws quote should have been top 10.

And nothing from Blazing Saddles?
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"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Yeah, any list that doesn't have that quote isn't a list.

There are a whole bunch of others that deserve to be on the list too.-jay
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Hmm......I think my top 100 list would have about 50 Mony Python quotes, 30 Mel Brooks quotes, and 20 Naked Gun quotes......I can't believe "Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to keep on my toes" didn't make it.
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Thanks for the list, MM. I only caught the 2nd half of this show, so I was initially disappointed that this line:

67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," Casablanca, 1942.
wasn't included, but I'm glad to see now that it was. What a great line!
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to keep on my toes
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Where's that line from?
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50. "Houston, we have a problem," Apollo 13, 1995.

Tell me how this isnt number one?
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Overall, I think it's a great list. Much more so than most of things turn out to be. I would, however, have included:

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dlbpharmd wrote:
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to keep on my toes
:haha: :LOLS:

Where's that line from?
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. It also had this gem:

"Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through"

and....

"Kinky. But I like my sex the way I play basketball, one-on-one with as little dribbling as possible".
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Bah. I hate lists. 64 and 79 were good. And how does 28 count when nearly everyone quotes it incorrectly?

Jerry McGuire but no Pulp Fiction? League of Their Own and no Fight Club. In a word... boo.
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Sylvanus,
Bah. I hate lists
The fact that we are taking the time to discuss it says that the list has done its job. ;)
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Sylvanus wrote:Jerry McGuire but no Pulp Fiction? League of Their Own and no Fight Club. In a word... boo.
Yeah, "Do they speak english in what?" shoulda been on there :lol:
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Sylvanus wrote:how does 28 count when nearly everyone quotes it incorrectly?
Hey, 36 gets superceded by the similar quote in "Blazing Saddles"all the time.......
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Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
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Iwould have expected to see:
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