You Should Read Every Word They Write:
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Friday, June 03, 2005
Well, we've reached the end of AFI's list of potential top movie quotes. From this list of 400, the top 100 will be chosen and unveiled in a 3-hour television event on June 21. Before AFI reveals their list, I'll be revealing mine. In the meantime, take a look at these and pick out the best. - Does this look like "gub" or "gun"? - Ensemble
Gun. See? But what's "abt" mean? - Ensemble It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural. - Woody Allen Oh, I see. This is a holdup? - Ensemble (TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) - Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan. - Johnny Weissmuller (TARZAN THE APE MAN)
- You talkin' to me? - Robert De Niro (TAXI DRIVER)
- Years from now, when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind. - Deborah Kerr (TEA AND SYMPATHY)
- Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool! - Anne Baxter (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS)
- I'll be back. - Arnold Schwarzenegger (THE TERMINATOR)
- Hasta la vista, baby. - Arnold Schwarzenegger (TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY)
- Would you like to come in? - Shirley MacLaine
I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. - Jack Nicholson (TERMS OF ENDEARMENT) - I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum. - Roddy Piper (THEY LIVE)
- They say you were shot in the tabloids. - Myrna Loy
They never got near my tabloids. - William Powell (THE THIN MAN) - Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking! Keep watching the skies! - Douglas Spencer (THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD)
- In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles (THE THIRD MAN)
- These go to eleven. - Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP)
- I'm king of the world! - Leonardo DiCaprio (TITANIC)
- What he did to Shakespeare, we are doing now to Poland. - Sig Ruman (TO BE OR NOT TO BE)
- Do you want a leg or a breast? - Grace Kelly (TO CATCH A THIEF)
- You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. - Lauren Bacall (TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT)
- Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing. - William Walker (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD)
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. - Gregory Peck (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD)
- I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back? - Doris Belack
How do you feel about Cleveland? - Cameraman (TOOTSIE) - I feel the need... - Tom Cruise
...the need for speed! - Anthony Edwards (TOP GUN) - He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people? - Marlene Dietrich (TOUCH OF EVIL)
- To infinity and beyond! - Tim Allen (voice) (TOY STORY)
- Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! - Alfonso Bedoya (THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE)
- You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake. - Kay Francis (TROUBLE IN PARADISE)
- Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch! - John Wayne (TRUE GRIT)
- Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. - Douglas Rains (voice) (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
- Open the pod bay doors, HAL. - Keir Dullea (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
- It's a hell of a thing killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. - Clint Eastwood (UNFORGIVEN)
- The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. - Kevin Spacey (THE USUAL SUSPECTS)
- If you wanna call me that, smile. - Gary Cooper (THE VIRGINIAN)
- This is nothing! - Dustin Hoffman (WAG THE DOG)
- Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. - Michael Douglas (WALL STREET)
- Would you like to play a game? - James Ackerman (voice) (WARGAMES)
- Warriors, come out to play! - David Patrick Kelly (THE WARRIORS)
- Schwing! - Mike Myers, Dana Carvey (WAYNE'S WORLD)
- We're not worthy. We're not worthy. - Mike Myers, Dana Carvey (WAYNE'S WORLD)
- Have you checked the children lately? - Tony Beckley (voice) (WHEN A STRANGER CALLS)
- I'll have what she's having. - Estelle Reiner (WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...)
- But I would be proud... - Billy Crystal
But I would be proud... - Meg Ryan ...to partake... - Billy Crystal ...to partake... - Meg Ryan ...of your pecan pie. - Billy Crystal ...of your pecan pie. - Meg Ryan (WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...) - Made it, Ma! Top of the world! - James Cagney (WHITE HEAT)
- I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. - Kathleen Turner (voice) (WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT)
- And that's how you play "Get the Guests." - Richard Burton (WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?)
- If they move, kill 'em. - William Holden (THE WILD BUNCH)
- Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against? - Peggy Maley
What've you got? - Marlon Brando (THE WILD ONE) - Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. - Judy Garland (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! - Margaret Hamilton (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! - Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! - Margaret Hamilton (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! - Frank Morgan (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- There's no place like home. - Judy Garland (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
- Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries. - Roscoe Karns (WOMAN OF THE YEAR)
- There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel. - Joan Crawford (THE WOMEN)
- I have a head for business and a bod for sin. - Melanie Griffith (WORKING GIRL)
- No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me -- now -- standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever. - Merle Oberon (WUTHERING HEIGHTS)
- My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you. - James Cagney (YANKEE DOODLE DANDY)
- What hump? - Marty Feldman (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN)
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