The AFI, which I would think stands for American Film Institute has recently published the top 100 movie quotes. Some of the top ten are so immerced in our culture that the quote is more famous than the movie. Today I will so you the top 30.
out the Top 100:
1. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.- GONE WITH THE WIND
2. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.- THE GODFATHER
3. You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.- ON THE WATERFRONT
4. Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.- THE WIZARD OF OZ
5. Here's looking at you, kid.- CASABLANCA
6. Go ahead, make my day.- SUDDEN IMPACT
7. All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.- SUNSET BLVD.
8. May the Force be with you.- STAR WARS
9. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.- ALL ABOUT EVE
10. You talking to me?- TAXI DRIVER
11. What we've got here is failure to communicate.- COOL HAND LUKE
12. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. - APOCALYPSE NOW
13. Love means never having to say you're sorry.- LOVE STORY
14. The stuff that dreams are made of.- THE MALTESE FALCON
15. E.T. phone home.- E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
16. They call me Mister Tibbs!- IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
17. Rosebud.- CITIZEN KANE
18. Made it, Ma! Top of the world!- WHITE HEAT
19. I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!- NETWORK
20. Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.- CASABLANCA
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
22. Bond. James Bond.- DR. NO
23. There's no place like home. - THE WIZARD OF OZ
24. I am big! It's the pictures that got small.- SUNSET BLVD.
25. Show me the money!- JERRY MAGUIRE
26. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?- SHE DONE HIM WRONG
27. I'm walking here! I'm walking here!- MIDNIGHT COWBOY
28. Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'- CASABLANCA
29. You can't handle the truth!- A FEW GOOD MEN
30. I want to be alone.- GRAND HOTEL
Now it is up to Hollywood to go back and make the magic and more memorable quotes!
I'm surprised at how many of those movies I've seen.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I believe that the quote from the Maltese Falcon is the movie's (and possibly the novel's -- I haven't read it) misquote of a line from Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST. From memory, I think the line from the play is, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on/And our little lives are rounded by a sleep."
I think they really wanted to put just enough to satisfy every genre. Some of those are debatable.
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