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A jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists, critics and historians. Selection criteria included choosing quotes from American films which circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy. The television special AFIs 100 Years...100 Movie Quotesoriginally aired on CBS on June 21, 2005. # FILM YEAR STUDIO 1 Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn. GONE WITH THE WIND 1939 2 Im gonna make him an offer he cant refuse. THE GODFATHER 1972 3 You dont understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I couldve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. ON THE WATERFRONT 1954 4 Toto, Ive a feeling were not in Kansas anymore. THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939 5 Heres looking at you, kid. CASABLANCA 1942 6 Go ahead, make my day. SUDDEN IMPACT 1983 7 All right, Mr. DeMille, Im ready for my close-up. SUNSET BLVD. 1950 8 May the Force be with you. STAR WARS 1977 9 Fasten your seatbelts. Its going to be a bumpy night. ALL ABOUT EVE 1950 10 You talking to me? TAXI DRIVER 1976 11 What weve 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 youre 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 Im as mad as hell, and Im 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 Theres no place like home. THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939 24 I am big! Its the pictures that got small. SUNSET BLVD. 1950 25 Show me the money! JERRY MAGUIRE 1996 26 Why dont you come up sometime and see me? SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933 27 Im walking here! Im walking here! MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1969 28 Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By. CASABLANCA 1942 29 You cant 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 Ill have what shes having. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY 1989 34 You know how to whistle, dont you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 1944 35 Youre gonna need a bigger boat. JAWS 1975 36 Badges? We aint got no badges! We dont need no badges! I dont have to show you any stinking badges! THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948 37 Ill 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 My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what youre gonna get. FORREST GUMP 1994 41 We rob banks. BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967 42 Plastics. THE GRADUATE 1967 43 Well 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, dont lets ask for the moon. We have the stars. NOW, VOYAGER 1942 47 Shane. Shane. Come back! SHANE 1953 48 Well, nobodys perfect. SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 49 Its alive! Its alive! FRANKENSTEIN 1931 50 Houston, we have a problem. APOLLO 13 1995 51 Youve 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 pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I dont know. ANIMAL CRACKERS 1930 54 Theres no crying in baseball! A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 1992 55 La-dee-da, la-dee-da. ANNIE HALL 1977 56 A boys 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 II 1974 59 As God is my witness, Ill never be hungry again. GONE WITH THE WIND 1939 60 Well, heres another nice mess youve 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, youre trying to seduce me. Arent you? THE GRADUATE 1967 64 Gentlemen, you cant fight in here! This is the War Room! DR. STRANGELOVE 1964 65 Elementary, my dear Watson. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 1939 66 Take 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 Heres Johnny! THE SHINING 1980 69 Theyre here! POLTERGEIST 1982 70 Is it safe? MARATHON MAN 1976 71 Wait a minute, wait a minute. You aint 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, its 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 cant be serious. Rumack: I am serious...and dont call me Shirley. AIRPLANE! 1980 80 Yo, Adrian! ROCKY 1976 81 Hello, gorgeous. FUNNY GIRL 1968 82 Toga! Toga! LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE 1978 83 Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. DRACULA 1931 84 Oh, no, it wasnt the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast. KING KONG 1933 85 My precious. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS 2002 86 Attica! Attica! DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975 87 Sawyer, youre going out a youngster, but youve got to come back a star! 42ND STREET 1933 88 Listen to me, mister. Youre my knight in shining armor. Dont you forget it. Youre going to get back on that horse, and Im going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away were 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 Whos 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...Its in the hole! Its in the hole! Its 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 Ill get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939 100 Im the king of the world! TITANIC 1997 Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies. Jean Picker Firstenberg President Emerita, American Film Institute Im going to let you in on a little secret...and tell you that six of tonights greatest movie quotes come from one film. CASABLANCA. In the eight years weve aired these specials, CASABLANCA has been honored in seven of them. And when we counted down the greatest love stories of all time...it was #1. This kind of movie trivia is fun, but the movies are never trivial. Consider MRS. MINIVER...a film released the same year as CASABLANCA. Its closing lines were so powerful to President Franklin Roosevelt, that he ordered them printed on millions of leaflets and dropped over Nazi-occupied Europe. Jean Picker Firstenberg AFIS 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES 06.21.05 VICAR This is the peoples war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it, then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right. MRS. MINIVER MGM, 1942 ACTOR Henry Wilcoxon SCREENWRITERS Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West DIRECTOR William Wyler PRODUCERS William Wyler, Sidney Franklin MRS. MINIVER Click here to view the quote! SELECTION CRITERIA AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie quotes to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians. Jury members were asked to choose up to 100 movie quotes from a comprehensive list, including entries such as Heres lookin at you, kid (CASABLANCA), Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn (GONE WITH THE WIND), Why dont you come up sometime and see me? (SHE DONE HIM WRONG), May the Force be with you (STAR WARS), Houston, we have a problem (APOLLO 13), Snap out of it! (MOONSTRUCK), You cant handle the truth! (A FEW GOOD MEN), Ill be back (THE TERMINATOR) and Show me the money! (JERRY MAGUIRE). Due to the extensive number of memorable movie lines in American film, jurors could also write in votes for up to five quotes that may not already appear on the ballot. Jurors were asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections: MOVIE QUOTE A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film.* (Lyrics from songs are not eligible.) CULTURAL IMPACT Movie Quotes that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon. LEGACY Movie Quotes that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy. *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 Movie Quotes from feature-length American films released before January 1, 2004, will be considered. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE BALLOT Chronologically, the ballot spans from 1927, with the first full-length sound film, THE JAZZ SINGER: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You aint heard nothin yet! to 2002 and My precious from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS. CASABLANCA has seven quotes in AFIs ballot, making it the most represented film. THE WIZARD OF OZ is the second most represented film with six quotes. Humphrey Bogart has 10 quotes on the ballot, the most represented male actor. Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers follow with six quotes each and Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, James Stewart, Woody Allen and Jack Nicholson are all represented with five quotes each. Funnymen Peter Sellers and Mike Myers each have four quotes represented. Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh each have four memorable movie quotes on the ballot. Billy Wilder is the top represented writer with 13 quotes, some co-written with I.A.L. Diamond, Charles Brackett and Raymond Chandler. Frances Ford Coppola has nine quotes represented, with seven coming from THE GODFATHER Trilogy. Mario Puzo, Coppolas collaborator on THE GODFATHER trilogy, has a total of eight quotes. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch each have seven quotes (all from CASABLANCA), followed by Woody Allen with six and Cameron Crowe, William Goldman and Stanley Kubrick with five quotes each. 1939 is the most represented year with 19 movie quotes. 1942 has 17 quotes and 1980 has 12. AFIs 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is the eighth installment in AFIs centennial celebration of American cinema, meant to spark a national discussion of Americas film history among movie lovers across the nation. ©2014 American Film Institute. All rights reserved
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