AFI to Declare America's Top 100 Movie Quotes

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By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES - Humphrey Bogart, Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) and Jack Nicholson are competing in a war of words. The American Film Institute (news - web sites) is surveying Hollywood types for the top 100 quotes from U.S. movies, with contenders including Bogart's "Here's looking at you, kid" from "Casablanca," Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back" from "The Terminator" and Nicholson's "You can't handle the truth!" from "A Few Good Men."

Chosen from 400 classic lines of dialogue, the winners will be revealed in the CBS special "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes" in June.

"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary," said Jean Picker Firstenburg, AFI director.

The top 100 will be chosen through ballots sent to 1,500 directors, screenwriters, actors, critics and others in the film business.

Other contending quotes include Clark Gable's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from "Gone With the Wind," Mae West's "Why don't you come up and see me?" from "She Done Him Wrong," Tom Hanks (news)' "Houston, we have a problem" from "Apollo 13," Cuba Gooding Jr.'s "Show me the money" from "Jerry Maguire" and the "Star Wars" gang's "May the Force be with you."

The quotes range from the first full sound feature film with Al Jolson (news)'s "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet" from 1927's "The Jazz Singer" to creepy creature Gollum (Andy Serkis) hissing "My precious" in 2002's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."

The TV special is the eighth top-100 list for the AFI, whose previous specials included best U.S. films, comedies, love stories, movie tunes and heroes and villains.

"Casablanca," which was No. 1 on AFI's list of best love stories and ranked second on the list of top overall films, leads the competition with seven quotes among the 400 nominees, followed by "The Wizard of Oz" with six.

Bogart has the most quotes on the ballot with 10, followed by Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers with six each. Billy Wilder leads screenwriters with 13 nominated quotes.

I'm betting on "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"

"I've been, uh, working out"

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Wednesday said:
I'm betting on "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"

Tht would rock...

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Wednesday said:
I'm betting on "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"

Word.

I want to see lines from movies like Fight Club (I want you to hit me as hard as you can) and Office Space (Didn't you get the memo?

I want to see some tits.

These are lines from people in movies, not lines from people watching movies.

Shut up Donny.

You mean SHUT THE FIND ALPS, DONNY!

you have no frame of reference.

If you're gonna insult me by saying I have no Phillip Johnson, please be more creative. "Frame of reference" is too obvious.

off the top of my head...

10) "everytime the bell rings, an angel gets his wings"
9) "heeeeeeeeeeere's johnny!"
8) "i'll be back"
7) "stupid is as stupid does"
6) "say hello to my little friend"
5) "ET phone home"
4) "may the force be with you"
3) "frankly, scarlet, i don't give a damn"
2) "here's lookin at you, kid"
1) "there's no place like home"

honorable mentions:
"everytime i think i'm out, they pull me back in"
"if you build it, he will come"

"Yippie-ka-yay, motherfucker!"

I work with retards.

"I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"

ahh, thats a good one, cj.

i'm trying to think of all of the lines that have become cliche over the years -- or anything that has been repeated in a commercial or jim carrey movie. those will more than likely fill the top 10.

Some other good ones-

"Snootchie bootchies!"
"I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way."
"Why does it always have to be snakes?"
"Getcher stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty apes!"

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

KNEEL before ZOD!!!

Uhm...

Live long and prosper. - Spock, Star Trek

Heeeeeey, yooooou guuuuuuys! - Sloth, The Goonies

Shit, I'm drunk or I'd think a' more.

Non

I want my motherfucking movie check!

Is it true chicks fart when you blast them in the ass.

Afterwards I want you to say "Oh what a lovely teaparty"

This towns one great big pussy, just waiting to get fucked!

My dear boy, I thought we were fucking each other.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHNNN!!!

"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."

"Pizza dude's got thirty seconds!"

"That's not your mother, that's a man, baby!"

"Your gun is sticking into my hip"

"What does God... need with... a starship?"

HULK SMASH!

"I bet he blows his load like a shotgun through her back."

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the hulk said:
HULK SMASH!

Was that line even in the movie?

I think Hulk says "ME HULK SMASH!" once.

"37!"

"Yousa tinkin yousa people gonna DIE?"

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King Snarf said:
"37!"

"...in a row?"

"Try not to suck any dick on your way to the parking lot! "

IMO the "I'll be back" sux, cause it mighta been unintentionally funny.
Best quote(have to retranslate this though):
The bums will always lose, Lebowski!

There should be some quote from Transformers: The Movie on this list.

Unfortunately, that won't happen.

"Gizmo, ca-ca!"

"Chester Copperpot!"

And to paraphrase a character from Red Dawn, "Man, people are waking up with their throats cut!"

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" will surely be on the list. Of that, I have no doubt.