No, that’s not one of my all-time favorite movie lines. Those are listed below. But it is one of the Top 100 movie quotes of all time as determined by—well, I’ll let them tell it:
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. [read: two interns on leave from USC film school]
Jury members were asked to choose up to 100 movie quotes from a comprehensive list [read: cadged from imdb.com], including entries such as “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid” (CASABLANCA), “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” (GONE WITH THE WIND), “Why don’t 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 can’t handle the truth!” (A FEW GOOD MEN), “I’ll be back” (THE TERMINATOR) and “Show me the money!” (JERRY MAGUIRE). [read: every cliché known to man and beast]
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. [read: sure, show us up—if you want a room facing the La Brea tar pits in the Old Actors Retirement Home]
So click here to discover both the nominees and the winners. (I can’t believe “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” didn’t make the final cut. I mean, Chariots of Fire was a great flick.)
Anyway, here’s my top 10:
1. I don’t really like talking about my flair. (Jennifer Aniston, Office Space)
2. Who am I, Rand McNally? (Paul Reiser, Diner)
3. Unemployed lumberjack are sitting around sawing legs off chairs. (Jack Lemmon, The Prisoner of Second Avenue)
4. Scut Farkas—what a rotten name! (Jean Shepherd, A Christmas Story)
5. What hump? (Marty Feldman, Young Frankenstein)
6. I do not believe one should devote his life to morbid self- attention, but should become a person like other people. (Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver)
7. Oh my God. What have I done? (Alec Guinness, Bridge on the River Kwai)
8. My name is Jenny Hill, and I’m simultaneously sad and funny. (Madeleine Khan, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother)
9. Big John, do you think this boy is a hustler? (Jackie Gleason, The Hustler)
10. (Deep space, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
(H/T to TitusOneNine)
March 30th, 2010 | 2:23 pm
These are pretty good, except the quote for “2001″ should have gone on for eight or nine lines.
March 30th, 2010 | 2:26 pm
I have to go with this line from Raising Arizona:
But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.
Whether it was the Nicolas Cage deadpan delivery on the v/o that sold it I cannot say, but that line cracks me up every time I hear it.
March 30th, 2010 | 2:57 pm
BTW “Chariots of Fire” wouldn’t have been considered by AFI as it isn’t an American film, which means a lot of my favorite lines would have never been considered, such as:
John Lennon: “She looks more like him than I do.”
from “A Hard Day’s Night”
John Lennon: “Funny. They usually reckon dogs more than people in England. You’d expect something more palatial.”
from “A Hard Day’s Night”
Paul McCartney: “He’s very clean.”
from “A Hard Day’s Night”
George Harrison: “Not a bit like Cagney.”
from “Help!”
Dennis: “Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses! Not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Danny: “Should we put it out of its misery?”
Mac: “What do you mean?”
Danny: “You know, hit it with something heavy.”
Mac: “You just did that with a two tonne automobile.”
from “Local Hero”
March 30th, 2010 | 3:38 pm
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March 30th, 2010 | 3:55 pm
How about one from “The Princess Bride”
“Hello, my name in Iniego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
And from “The Godfather”
“Leave the gun. Take the canollis.
March 30th, 2010 | 4:12 pm
“All I want is to enter my house justified”
Joel McCrea, Ride the High Country, 1962
March 30th, 2010 | 4:18 pm
Wait a minute. Ya gotta have some from the Pink Panther. Like “Does your dog bite?” or “Do you have a rheum?” Or “My good man, are you blind?” “Oui, monsieur. Zat is why I am stanDING on ze street cornair, begGING!”
Or James Bond: “Something big has come up.” or “I’m all ears”, the latter from the modern “Casino Royale.”
March 30th, 2010 | 6:19 pm
“Remember men, we’re fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably more than she ever did!”
Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
“Non.”
Marcel Marceau, Silent Movie
March 31st, 2010 | 12:42 am
“Nihilists!? Well _____ me. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism. At least it’s an ethos.”
March 31st, 2010 | 9:22 am
“Shane! Come back! from Shane
March 31st, 2010 | 12:46 pm
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” Darth Vadar
March 31st, 2010 | 1:39 pm
One more:
[last lines]
Gwen: It hurts when I smile…
Bertram Pincus: I can fix that for you.
Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais, Ghost Town, 2008.
A movie worth seeing.
March 31st, 2010 | 2:22 pm
“I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I’m gonna send you over. The chances are you’ll get off with life. That means if you’re a good girl, you’ll be out in 20 years. I’ll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I’ll always remember you.”
Sam Spade (Bogart) to Brigid O’Shaughnessey (Mary Astor) near the end of The Maltese Falcon. That’s about five lines, give or take.
March 31st, 2010 | 8:36 pm
“Go ahead, make my day!” Dirty Harry
April 5th, 2010 | 4:07 pm
Also by Sam Spade: “When I slap you you’ll take it and like it!”
Groucho Marx: “If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
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