Thursday, June 26, 2008

AFI's 400 Greatest Movie Quotes - Nominees

ACE VENTURA (Jim Carrey): "All-righty then!"
ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE, Warner Bros., 1994

SHERLOCK HOLMES (Basil Rathbone): "Elementary, my dear Watson." # 65
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Twentieth Century Fox, 1939

TERRY McKAY (Deborah Kerr): "Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there."
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, Twentieth Century Fox, 1957

CHARLIE ALLNUT (Humphrey Bogart): "A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature."
ROSE SAYER (Katharine Hepburn): "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above."
THE AFRICAN QUEEN, United Artists, 1951

TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): "Surely you can't be serious."
DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen): "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." # 79
AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever been in a cockpit before?"
JOEY (Rossie Harris): "No sir, I've never been up in a plane before."
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever seen a grown man naked?"
AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

RIPLEY (Sigourney Weaver): "Get away from her, you bitch!"
ALIENS, Twentieth Century Fox, 1986

MARGO CHANNING (Bette Davis): "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." # 9
ALL ABOUT EVE, Twentieth Century Fox, 1950

PAUL (Lew Ayres): "And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Universal, 1930

JOE GIDEON (Roy Scheider): "It's showtime!"
ALL THAT JAZZ, Twentieth Century Fox/Columbia, 1979

DEEP THROAT (Hal Holbrook): "Follow the money."
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, Warner Bros., 1976

EMPEROR JOSEPH II (Jeffrey Jones): "There are simply too many notes."
AMADEUS, Orion, 1984

RICKY FITTS (Wes Bentley): "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
AMERICAN BEAUTY, DreamWorks, 1999

CAPT. JEFFREY T. SPAULDING (Groucho Marx): "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." # 53
ANIMAL CRACKERS, Paramount, 1930

ANNA CHRISTIE (Greta Garbo): "Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby."
ANNA CHRISTIE, MGM, 1930

ANNIE HALL (Diane Keaton): "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." # 55
ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen): "I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."
ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen): "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

FRAN KUBELIK (Shirley MacLaine): "Shut up and deal."
THE APARTMENT, United Artists, 1960

LT. COL. BILL KILGORE (Robert Duvall): "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." # 12
APOCALYPSE NOW, United Artists, 1979

JIM LOVELL (Tom Hanks): "Houston, we have a problem." # 50
APOLLO 13, Universal, 1995

MORTIMER BREWSTER (Cary Grant): "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, Warner Bros., 1944

ARTHUR BACH (Dudley Moore): "I'm going to take a bath."
HOBSON (John Gielgud): "I'll alert the media."
ARTHUR, Warner Bros., 1981

MELVIN UDALL (Jack Nicholson): "You make me want to be a better man."
AS GOOD AS IT GETS, TriStar, 1997

LOU PASCAL (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns."
ATLANTIC CITY, Paramount, 1980

MAME DENNIS (Rosalind Russell): "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" # 93
AUNTIE MAME, Warner Bros., 1958

AUSTIN POWERS (Mike Myers): "Yeah, baby!"
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, New Line Cinema, 1997

DR. EVIL (Mike Myers): "One million dollars!"
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, New Line Cinema, 1997

FARMER HOGGETT (James Cromwell): "That'll do, pig. That'll do."
BABE, Universal, 1995

DR. EMMETT BROWN (Christopher Lloyd): "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."
BACK TO THE FUTURE, Universal, 1985

JONATHAN SHIELDS (Kirk Douglas): "Georgia, love is for the very young."
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, MGM, 1952

SUGARPUSS O'SHEA (Barbara Stanwyck): "I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!"
BALL OF FIRE, RKO, 1941

THE JOKER (Jack Nicholson): "Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"
BATMAN, Warner Bros., 1989

BETELGEUSE (Michael Keaton): "I'm the ghost with the most, babe."
BEETLEJUICE, Warner Bros., 1988

CHANCE (Peter Sellers): "I like to watch."
BEING THERE, United Artists, 1979

ROSA MOLINE (Bette Davis): "What a dump." # 62
BEYOND THE FOREST, Warner Bros., 1949

JOSH (Tom Hanks): "Okay, but I get to be on top."
BIG, Twentieth Century Fox, 1988

DEBBY MARSH (Gloria Grahame): "We're sisters under the mink."
THE BIG HEAT, Columbia, 1953

VIVIAN RUTLEDGE (Lauren Bacall): "I don't like your manners."
PHILIP MARLOWE (Humphrey Bogart): "I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings."
THE BIG SLEEP, Warner Bros., 1946

BILL/TED (Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves): "Excellent!"
BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, Orion, 1989

ROY BATTY (Rutger Hauer): "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
BLADE RUNNER, Warner Bros., 1982

BART (Cleavon Little): "Excuse me while I whip this out."
BLAZING SADDLES, Warner Bros., 1974

BERT HARRIS (James Cagney): "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!
BLONDE CRAZY, Warner Bros., 1931

ELWOOD BLUES (Dan Aykroyd): "We're on a mission from God."
THE BLUES BROTHERS, Universal, 1980

MATTY WALKER (Kathleen Turner): "You aren't too bright. I like that in a man."
BODY HEAT, Warner Bros., 1981

CLYDE BARROW (Warren Beatty): "We rob banks." # 41
BONNIE AND CLYDE, Warner Bros., 1967

BILLIE DAWN (Judy Holliday): "Wouldja do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead!"
BORN YESTERDAY, Columbia, 1950

FATHER EDWARD J. FLANAGAN (Spencer Tracy): "There is no bad boy."
BOYS TOWN, MGM, 1938

WILLIAM WALLACE (Mel Gibson): "They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
BRAVEHEART, Paramount, 1995

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (Audrey Hepburn): "How do I look?"
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, Paramount, 1961

PRINCIPAL RICHARD VERNON (Paul Gleason): "Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!"
THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Universal, 1985

THE MONSTER (Boris Karloff): "We belong dead."
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Universal, 1935

MAJ. CLIPTON (James Donald): "Madness. Madness."
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Columbia, 1957

DR. DAVID HUXLEY (Cary Grant): "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!
BRINGING UP BABY, RKO, 1938

AARON ALTMAN (Albert Brooks): "I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
BROADCAST NEWS, Twentieth Century Fox, 1987

VIRGINIA HILL (Annette Bening): "Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda?"
BUGSY, TriStar, 1991

CRASH DAVIS (Kevin Costner): "...I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."
BULL DURHAM, Orion, 1988

BUTCH CASSIDY (Paul Newman): "Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia."
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, Twentieth Century Fox, 1969

GLORIA WANDROUS (Elizabeth Taylor): "Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time."
BUTTERFIELD 8, MGM, 1960

MADGE NORWOOD (Bette Davis): "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair."
CABIN IN THE COTTON, Warner Bros., 1932

CARL SPACKLER (Bill Murray): "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" # 92
CADDYSHACK, Orion, 1980

TY WEBB (Chevy Chase): "Be the ball."
CADDYSHACK, Orion, 1980

CAPT. QUEEG (Humphrey Bogart): "Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them."
THE CAINE MUTINY, Columbia, 1954

MARGUERITE GAUTIER (Greta Garbo): "His eyes have made love to me all evening."
CAMILLE, MGM, 1936

MAX CADY (Robert DeNiro): "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
CAPE FEAR, Universal, 1991

ILSA LASZLO (Ingrid Bergman): "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" # 28
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." # 67
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "We'll always have Paris." # 43
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Here's looking at you, kid." # 5
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

CAPT. RENAULT (Claude Rains): "Round up the usual suspects." # 32
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." # 20
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

MICHAEL KELLY (Kirk Douglas): "For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding."
CHAMPION, Universal, 1949

WALSH (Joe Mantell): "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." # 74
CHINATOWN, Paramount, 1974

EVELYN MULWRAY (Faye Dunaway): "She's my sister! She's my daughter!"
CHINATOWN, Paramount, 1974

MRS. PARKER (Melinda Dillon): "You'll shoot your eye out."
A CHRISTMAS STORY, MGM, 1983

DR. WILBUR LARCH (Michael Caine): "Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, Miramax, 1999

CHARLES FOSTER KANE (Orson Welles): "Rosebud." # 17
CITIZEN KANE, RKO, 1941

MITCH ROBBINS (Billy Crystal): "Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?"
CURLY (Jack Palance): "Day ain't over yet."
CITY SLICKERS, Columbia, 1991

CHER HORWITZ (Alicia Silverstone): "As if!"
CLUELESS, Paramount, 1995

SHUG (Margaret Avery): "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."
THE COLOR PURPLE, Warner Bros., 1985

CAPTAIN (Strother Martin): "What we've got here is failure to communicate." # 11
COOL HAND LUKE, Warner Bros., 1967

HUBERT HAWKINS (Danny Kaye): "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true."
THE COURT JESTER, Paramount, 1956

LINDY CHAMBERLAIN (Meryl Streep): "The dingo took my baby!"
A CRY IN THE DARK, Warner Bros., 1988

FLO MARLOWE (Esther Muir): "Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!"
DR. HUGO Z. HACKENBUSH (Groucho Marx): "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you."
A DAY AT THE RACES, MGM, 1937

HELEN BENSON (Patricia Neal): "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, Twentieth Century Fox, 1951

DAVID WOODERSON (Matthew McConaughey): "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."
DAZED AND CONFUSED, Universal, 1993

JOHN KEATING (Robin Williams): "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." # 95
DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Touchstone, 1989

MICHAEL VRONSKY (Robert DeNiro): "This is this."
THE DEER HUNTER, Universal, 1978

MOUNTAIN MAN (Bill McKinney): "I bet you can squeal like a pig."
DELIVERANCE, Warner Bros., 1972

VERA (Ann Savage): "Stop makin' noises like a husband."
DETOUR, Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945

ANNE FRANK (V.0.) (Millie Perkins): "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, Twentieth Century Fox, 1959

JOHN McCLANE (Bruce Willis): "Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!"
DIE HARD,Twentieth Century Fox, 1988

KITTY (Jean Harlow): "I was reading a book the other day."
CARLOTTA (Marie Dressler): "Reading a book?"
KITTY: "Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?"
CARLOTTA: "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."
DINNER AT EIGHT, MGM, 1933

JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze): "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." # 98
DIRTY DANCING, Artisan, 1987

HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood): "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" # 51
DIRTY HARRY, Warner Bros., 1971

DA MAYOR (Ossie Davis): "Always do the right thing."
MOOKIE (Spike Lee): "That's it?"
DA MAYOR: "That's it."
MOOKIE: "I got it, I'm gone."
DO THE RIGHT THING, Universal, 1989

SONNY WORTZIK (Al Pacino): "Attica! Attica!" # 86
DOG DAY AFTERNOON, Warner Bros., 1975

DONNIE BRASCO (Johnny Depp): "Forget about it."
DONNIE BRASCO, TriStar, 1997

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