You Should Read Every Word They Write:
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
We're getting close to the June unveiling of the American Film Institute's Top 100 movie quotes. Our review of the list of 400 candidate quotes continues (#110-188): - E. T. phone home. - Joe Welsh (voice) (E. T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL)
- You know, Billy. We blew it. - Peter Fonda (EASY RIDER)
- I am not an animal! I am a human being. I am a man. - John Hurt (THE ELEPHANT MAN)
- They're called boobs, Ed. - Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH)
- What an excellent day for an exorcism. - Linda Blair, Mercedes McCambridge (voice) (THE EXORCIST)
- You betcha! - Frances McDormand (FARGO)
- Hey, Bud, let's party! - Sean Penn (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)
- I won't be ignored, Dan! - Glenn Close (FATAL ATTRACTION)
- Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Matthew Broderick (FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF)
- You can't handle the truth! - Jack Nicholson (A FEW GOOD MEN)
- If you build it, he will come. - Ray Liotta (voice) (FIELD OF DREAMS)
- First rule of Fight Club is -- you do not talk about Fight Club. - Brad Pitt (FIGHT CLUB)
- Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. - Jack Nicholson
You want me to hold the chicken, huh? - Lorna Thayer I want you to hold it between your knees. - Jack Nicholson (FIVE EASY PIECES) - Help me! Help me! - David Hedison (THE FLY)
- Be afraid. Be very afraid. - Geena Davis (THE FLY)
- I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? - Ingrid Bergman (FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS)
- Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does." - Michael Conner Humphreys (FORREST GUMP)
- My mama always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Tom Hanks (FORREST GUMP)
- Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star! - Warner Baxter (42ND STREET)
- I'm your worst fucking nightmare, man! A nigger with a badge. - Eddie Murphy (48 HOURS)
- It's alive! It's alive! - Colin Clive (FRANKENSTEIN)
- Gooble gooble, gooble gooble. We accept her. One of us, one of us. - Ensemble (FREAKS)
- When's the last time you picked your feet, Willy? Who's your connection, Willy? What's his name? I've got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you. You ever been to Poughkeepsie? - Gene Hackman (THE FRENCH CONNECTION)
- Damn! - Chris Tucker, Ice Cube (FRIDAY)
- Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance. - Kathy Bates (FRIED GREEN TOMATOES)
- What is your major malfunction? - R. Lee Ermey (FULL METAL JACKET)
- Hello, gorgeous. - Barbra Streisand (FUNNY GIRL)
- If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. - Ben Kingsley (GANDHI)
- But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart! - Ingrid Bergman (GASLIGHT)
- Chance is the fool's name for fate. - Fred Astaire (THE GAY DIVORCEE)
- I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever. - Marilyn Monroe (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES)
- It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. - Patrick Swayze (GHOST)
- We came. We saw. We kicked its ass. - Bill Murray (GHOSTBUSTERS)
- I've been slimed. - Bill Murray (GHOSTBUSTERS)
- If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing. - Rita Hayworth (GILDA)
- Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Russell Crowe (GLADIATOR)
- I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. - Marlon Brando (THE GODFATHER)
- Leave the gun. Take the cannolis. - Richard S. Castellano (THE GODFATHER)
- It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. - Richard S. Castellano (THE GODFATHER)
- I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
- Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
- Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel. - Lee Strasberg (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
- Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. - Al Pacino (THE GODFATHER: PART II)
- A martini. Shaken, not stirred. - Sean Connery (GOLDFINGER)
- Fiddle-dee-dee. - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
- I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies. - Butterfly McQueen (GONE WITH THE WIND)
- As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
- After all, tomorrow is another day! - Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND)
- Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. - Clark Gable (GONE WITH THE WIND)
- Good morning, Vietnam! - Robin Williams (GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM)
- Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? - Joe Pesci (GOODFELLAS)
- Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you? - Dustin Hoffman (THE GRADUATE)
- Plastics. - Walter Brooke (THE GRADUATE)
- I want to be alone. - Greta Garbo (GRAND HOTEL)
- Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. - Henry Fonda (THE GRAPES OF WRATH)
- If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. - William Demarest (THE GREAT McGINTY)
- Out here, due process is a bullet. - John Wayne (THE GREEN BERETS)
- You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. - Sidney Poitier (GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER)
- We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together. - John Dall (GUN CRAZY)
- You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. - Cary Grant (GUNGA DIN)
- L-I-V-E! Live! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room. - Ruth Gordon (HAROLD AND MAUDE)
- Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. - James Stewart (HARVEY)
- Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? - Jean Harlow (HELL'S ANGELS)
- It's good to be the king! - Mel Brooks (HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I)
- You sing-a high. - Chico Marx
Yes, I have a falsetto voice. - Thelma Todd That's-a funny; my last pupil she got-a false set-a teeth. - Chico Marx (HORSE FEATHERS) - Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then. - Roddy McDowall (HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)
- I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away. - Paul Newman (HUD)
- Sanctuary! - Charles Laughton (THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME)
- Eddie, you're a born loser. - George C. Scott (THE HUSTLER)
- How do you live? - Helen Vinson
I steal. - Paul Muni (I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG) - Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men. - Mae West (I'M NO ANGEL)
- I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. - Humphrey Bogart (IN A LONELY PLACE)
- They call me Mister Tibbs! - Sidney Poitier (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT)
- To God, there is no zero. I still exist. - Grant Williams (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN)
- They're here already! You're next! You're next! - Kevin McCarthy (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS)
- Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. - Claudette Colbert (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT)
- What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. - James Stewart (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
- To my big brother George, the richest man in town! - Todd Karns (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
- Look, Daddy. Teacher says, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings." - Karolyn Grimes (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
It's a long list, I know, but just remember, America needs us.
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