Friday, September 30, 2005

AFI #028 Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)


Ilsa: Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.

Ilsa: [whispered] Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
Sam: Why, I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. [Ilsa hums two bars. Sam starts to play] Sing it, Sam.
Sam: [singing] You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
Lyrics and Music by Herman Hupfeld (1931)

- Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #28 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

AFI #029 Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep from A Few Good Men (1992)


(Colonel Jessup testified that he ordered Lt Kendrick that Santiago "Wasn't to be touched" and the argument gets heated)
Kaffee: Colonel Jessup, did you order the Code Red?!
Judge: You don't have to answer that question!
Jessup: I'll answer the question. You want answers?
Kaffee: I think I'm entitled.
Jessup: You want answers?!
Kaffee: I want the truth!
Jessup: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom! You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the truth, because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall! You need me on that wall! We use words like "honor", "code", "loyalty". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "Thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Kaffee: Did you order the Code Red?
Jessup: I did the job that—-
Kaffee: Did you order the Code Red?!
Jessup: You're goddamn right I did!!

- Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep from A Few Good Men (1992)

The bolded line is ranked #29 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

AFI #030 Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)


I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

- Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

The bolded line is ranked #30 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

AFI #031 Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)


I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!

- Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #31 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, September 26, 2005

AFI #032 Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault from Casablanca (1942)


Major Strasser has been shot. [pause] Round up the usual suspects.

- Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #32 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

AFI #033 Estelle Reiner as Customer from When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Harry: You don't think that I could tell the difference?
Sally: No.
Harry: Get outta here.

[Sally begins to fake an orgasm]
Harry: Are you OK?

[Sally continues very audibly, attracting the attention of nearly every customer in the cafe. Afterwards, she returns to eating her dessert]

Older Woman Customer: [to waiter] I'll have what she's having.

- Estelle Reiner as a Customer from When Harry Met Sally (1989)

The bolded line is ranked #33 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, September 24, 2005

AFI #034 Lauren Bacall as Marie "Slim" Browning from To Have and Have Not (1944)


Slim: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

- Lauren Bacall as Marie "Slim" Browning from To Have and Have Not (1944)

The bolded line is ranked #34 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, September 23, 2005

AFI #035 Roy Scheider as Martin Brody from Jaws (1975)


"Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit. [the shark suddenly appears, causing Brody to recoil in shock] You're gonna need a bigger boat.

- Roy Scheider as Cheif Martin Brody from Jaws (1975)

The bolded line is ranked #35 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

AFI #036 Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)


Gold Hat: Hola, senor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police.
Dobbs: If you're the police, where are your badges?
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
Dobbs: You'd better not come any closer.
Gold Hat: We aren't trying to do you any harm. Why don't you try to be a little more polite? Give us your gun and we'll leave you in peace.

- Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

The bolded line is ranked #36 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

AFI #037 Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator from The Terminator (1984)


The Terminator: I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?
Desk Sergeant: No, you can't see her. She's making a statement.
The Terminator: Where is she?
Desk Sergeant: It may take a while. Want to wait? There's a bench over there.
The Terminator: [looks around, examining the structural integrity of the room, then looks back at him] I'll be back.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator from The Terminator (1984)

The bolded line is ranked #37 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

The character returns by driving a car through the front door. Schwarzenegger has been quoted that he hadn't thought much about the line when filming the movie. James Cameron notes in the DVD features that he expected the line to only get a laugh upon repeat viewings when what the character means is known, and was surprised to see it get a big reaction from first-time audiences who had quickly come to understand the character and immediately anticipated the outrageous violence the nonchalant line signifies. In the novelization of the film script, titled The Terminator by Shaun Hutson the Terminator says "I'll come back," rather than "I'll be back," on page 117. ISBN 0-352-31645-4.


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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

AFI #038 Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)


[his farewell speech]
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #38 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Dream, Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)


[Shoeless Joe Jackson has asked Terence Mann to come with them to the cornfield, but Ray is upset because he wasn't invited]
Ray Kinsella: I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what's in it for me!
Shoeless Joe Jackson: What are you saying, Ray?
Ray Kinsella: I'm saying... what's in it for me?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is that why you did this? For you? I think you better stay here, Ray.
...
Ray Kinsella: What are you grinning at, you ghost?
Shoeless Joe: "If you build it -" [gestures toward catcher, who is Ray's father, John Kinsella] "- he will come."
Ray : "Ease his pain. Go the distance." It was him!
Shoeless Joe: No, Ray. It was you.

- Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

AFI #039 Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)


If you build it, he will come.

- Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

The bolded line is ranked #39 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Field of Dreams is a 1989 film about an Iowa corn farmer who hears a voice telling him: "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this as an instruction to build a baseball diamond in his fields; after he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other dead baseball players emerge from the cornfields to play ball.

Sunday, September 18, 2005

AFI #040 Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)


Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

- Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)

The bolded line is ranked #40 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

AFI #041 Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow from Bonnie and Clyde (1967)


We rob banks.

- Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow from Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #41 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, September 16, 2005

AFI #042 Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)


Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?

- Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #42 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


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Thursday, September 15, 2005

AFI #043 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
[Ilsa lowers her head and begins to cry]
Rick: Now, now...
[Rick gently places his hand under her chin and raises it so their eyes meet]
Rixk: Here's looking at you, kid.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

"We'll always have Paris" is ranked #43 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

AFI #044 Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear from The Sixth Sense (1999)

Cole: I see dead people.
Malcolm: In your dreams?
[Cole shakes his head no]
Malcolm: While you're awake?
[Cole nods]
Malcolm: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
Malcolm: How often do you see them?
Cole: All the time.

- Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear from The Sixth Sense (1999)

The bolded line is ranked #44 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

AFI #045 Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Stella! Hey, Stella!

- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

The bolded line is ranked #45 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, September 12, 2005

AFI #046 Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale from Now Voyager (1942)

Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

- Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale from Now, Voyager (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #46 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

AFI #047 Brandon De Wilde as Joey Starrett from Shane (1953)

Shane. Shane. Come back!

- Brandon De Wilde as Joey Starrett from Shane (1953)

The bolded line is ranked #47 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

AFI #048 Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III from Some Like It Hot (1959)

Osgood: I called Mama. She was so happy she cried! She wants you to have her wedding gown. It's white lace.
Daphne: Yeah, Osgood. I can't get married in your mother's dress. Ha ha. That-she and I, we are not built the same way.
Osgood: We can have it altered.
Daphne: Oh no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Daphne: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn't matter.
Daphne: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
Osgood: I don't care.
Daphne: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player.
Osgood: I forgive you.
Daphne: [Tragically] I can never have children!
Osgood: We can adopt some.
Daphne/Jerry: But you don't understand, Osgood! [Whips off his wig, exasperated, and changes to a manly voice.] Uhhh, I'm a man!
Osgood: [Looks at him then turns back, unperturbed] Well, nobody's perfect!

- Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III from Some Like It Hot (1959)

The bolded line is ranked #48 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, September 9, 2005

AFI #049 Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein from Frankenstein (1931)

Henry: Look! It's moving. It's sha — it's... it's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive! It's alive, it's alive, it's alive! It's ALIVE!
Victor: Henry — in the name of God!
Henry: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to BE God!

- Colin Clive (1900-1937) as Henry Frankenstein from Frankenstein (1931)

The bolded line is ranked #49 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, September 8, 2005

AFI #050 Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell from Apollo 13 (1995)

Jim Lovell:Well, between Jack's back taxes and the Fred Haise Show, I'd say that was a pretty successful broadcast.
CAPCOM: That was an excellent show, Odyssey.
Jack Swigert: Thank you very much, Houston.
CAPCOM: We've a couple of housekeeping procedures for you. We'd like you to roll right to 0-6-0 and null your rates.
Jack Swigert: Roger that. Rolling right, 0-6-0.
CAPCOM: And then if you could give your oxygen tanks a stir.
Jack Swigert: Roger that. [flips switches]
[Sparking, explosion]
[Alarm buzzing]
Jack Swigert: Hey, we've got a problem here.
Jim Lovell: What did you do?
Jack Swigert: Nothing. I stirred the tanks.
CAPCOM: Uh, this is Houston. Say again, please?
Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem.

- Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell from Apollo 13 (1995)

The bolded line is ranked #50 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

In real life, the quote was "Houston, we've had a problem." Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, ch. 13.1, by James A. Lovell. The original phrase pronounced by Jack Swigert, "Houston, we've had a problem here" and then repeated by Lovell, "Houston, we've had a problem", was altered to a present-tense in the film script.

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

AFI #051 Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan from Dirty Harry (1971)

Callahan: I know what you're thinkin', punk. You're thinkin' did he fire six shots or only five? Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But bein' this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it'll blow your head clean off, You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?

- Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan from Dirty Harry (1971)

The bolded line is ranked #51 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

AFI #052 Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd from Jerry Maguire (1996)

Dorothy Boyd: Stop! Just shut up. You had me at hello.. You had me at hello..

- Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd from Jerry Maguire (1996)

The bolded line is ranked #52 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, September 5, 2005

AFI #053 Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

- Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

The bolded line is ranked #53 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

AFI #054 Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own (1992)

[Evelyn starts to cry.]
Jimmy: Are you crying? Are you crying? Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball!
Doris Murphy: Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Oh, zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager and he called me a talking pile of pig shit - and that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game! And did I cry?
Evelyn: (inbetween sobs) No, no, no ...
Jimmy: Yeah, no! And do you know why?
Evelyn: No ...
Jimmy: Because there's no crying in baseball. There's no crying in baseball--no crying!

- Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own (1992)

The bolded line is ranked #54 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, September 3, 2005

AFI #055 Diane Keaton as Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

- Diane Keaton as Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

The bolded line is ranked #55 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, September 2, 2005

AFI #056 Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates from Psycho (1960)

Marion Crane: Do you go out with friends?
Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates from Psycho (1960)

The bolded line is ranked #56 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

AFI #057 Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko from Wall Street (1987)

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko from Wall Street (1987)

The bolded line is ranked #57 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.