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My Top 100 Movie Quotes

The American Film Institute has released its list of the top 100 movie quotes. I agree with a lot of them, although there are some I would not have listed, like that damn sappy line from "Love Story". All right, it did have a big cultural impact, because people still quote it to this day. But I'm with Ryan O'Neal's character from "What's Up, Doc?". "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."

Michele is asking people to come up with their list of most memorable movie quotes. Since I'm going to be posting a lot of them, I'm going to do it here. However, if you want to play the game, please go to her comments section and play there. It is her idea, after all. I'm only leaving comments open here so you can mock me for my choices.

In no particular order and to be updated throughout the day.

  1. "Yippie-kye-aye, motherfucker!" - Die Hard
  2. "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." - The Silence of the Lambs (I cannot hear the words liver, fava beans, and/or chianti without immediately hearing this line in my head.)
  3. "Does your dog bite?" "No." ... "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite." "It's not my dog." - The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  4. "Yes, it's true. This man has no dick." - Ghostbusters
  5. "Lighten up, Francis." - Stripes
  6. "Party on, Wayne." - Wayne's World
  7. "No, I am your father." - The Empire Strikes Back
  8. "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time." - Monty Python
  9. "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver
  10. "That is a tasty burger." - Pulp Fiction
  11. "Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi party." - The Producers
  12. "Frankenstein. Frankenstein." - Young Frankenstein
  13. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke
  14. "And don't call me Shirley." - Airplane. Okay, I never thought this one would make it on the AFI list, since I figured they would be way too snobby. They weren't. So they got that going for them. Speaking of which...
  15. "So I've got that going for me." - Caddyshack
  16. "...remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
  17. "Oh, baby, you're so talented... and they are so dumb." - Blazing Saddles
  18. "All we are is dust in the wind, dude." - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
  19. "That makes me angry, and when Dr. Evil gets angry Mr. bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people DIE!" - Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
  20. "Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?" - Donnie Darko
  21. "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." - The Godfather. Oddly, I personally prefer that quote to "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
  22. "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." - They Live. I totally have to figure out how to work that quote into my every day speech.
  23. "Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?" ... "I lied." - Commando. This may, in fact, be my favorite movie quote ever.
  24. "Good, bad. I'm the guy with the gun." - Army of Darkness
  25. "Yeah, two youts." - My Cousin Vinny
  26. "The world is a big place. Thank goodness my needs are small. As it turns out, I have this affinity for beach front property." "What do you want?" "Australia!" - Superman II
  27. "You fargin' sneaky bastage." - Johnny Dangerously
  28. "It's showtime!" - Betelgeuse
  29. "They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on double secret probation!" - Animal House
  30. "There is no spoon." - The Matrix
  31. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - The Princess Bride
  32. "Feed me, Seymour." - Little Shop of Horrors
  33. "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" - 2001: A Space Odyssey. I know this isn't the quote most people would pick from the film, but for some reason, it's the one that always stuck with me. Pretty amazing, considering I was 5 when I saw the film, and I fell asleep for large parts of it. But that one line, I have always remembered.
  34. "Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, and McCormick. Dear Sirs, question mark" - Animal Crackers
  35. "You can only fool a Firefly twice." - Duck Soup
  36. "Sa da tay" - Pootie Tang
  37. "'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you are ever gonna get!" - The Incredibles
  38. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." - Rebecca. Best opening line of a book ever.
  39. "You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!" - A Night at the Opera
  40. "When Cameron was in Egypt land ... Let my Cameron go." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  41. "Here's Johnny!" - The Shining
  42. "Don't go into the light." - Poltergeist
  43. "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
  44. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" - Dirty Harry
  45. "It's good to be the king." - History of the World, Part I
  46. "I was born a poor black child." - The Jerk
  47. "Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!" - The King and I
  48. "We're not worthy. We're not worthy." - Wayne's World
  49. "Check out the big brains on Brett." - Pulp Fiction
  50. "We came; we saw; we kicked it's ass." - Ghostbusters
  51. "...1 million dollars!" - Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
  52. "Donny, you're out of your element." - The Big Lebowski
  53. "But this is the hand I shoot with." - Blazing Saddles
  54. "Oh, an Oriental." - What's Up Tiger Lily.
  55. "All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up. This is my boomstick." - Army of Darkness
  56. "You know, walk the earth. Meet people. Get into adventures. Like Cain in Kung Fu." - Pulp Fiction
  57. "Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?" - Office Space
  58. "I know I'm gonna miss her. A tomato ate my sister." - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Okay, so it's from the theme song. Still, it counts. Right?
  59. "Hello, Dr. Banzai. Penny for your thoughts?" - Buckaroo Banzai
  60. "Where are we going?" "Planet 10!" "When?" "Real soon!" - Buckaroo Banzai
  61. "The Fuhrer never said 'baby'." - The Producers
  62. "I lieb you, baby. I lieb you. Now leave me alone." - The Producers
  63. "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!" - The Godfather: Part II
  64. "Just when I thought that I was out, they pull me back in." - The Godfather: Part III. You know, this actually would have been a really good movie, had Sofia Coppola (a fine director, but a bad actress) not been in it.
  65. "KHAAAAANNNNN!" - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.
Don Lucchesi: You understand guns?
Vincent Mancini: Yes.
Don Lucchesi: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Godfather Part III

small correction: I believe #34 should end "Gentleman, question mark."

Sigh. I stand corrected! Indeed, it is "Gentlemen, question mark."

My all time favorite movie quote,

"They're Dead. . . They're all messed-up."

Night of the Living Dead

My all time favorite quote, and I can't even remember the movie: "I'm not gonna hit ya. No, I'm not gonna hit ya. Like hell I'm not." John Wayne

It's hell to get old...

A Google turned up that quote (or something similar) coming from the movie McClintock.

One of my favorites, but I can't imagine it on too many other lists:

(while handing other character a rifle)

"Gordy's gone, man. I'll be outside. Good luck."

Hi, Lesley! One of my favorites is from Reservoir Dogs - from Mister Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?"

You beat me to it! I just watched that movie for the first time on Saturday, and I was going to add that line (I still will). And I swear, I was planning it before I even read your comment.

is anybody familiar with the line" for some reason i've been given a second chance, so i'm taking my work underground...I can't let it get into the wrong hands again"

I wasn't, but a quote search on IMDB shows it's from The Lawnmower Man.

I was looking at number 38 and I thought of my favorite opening line:
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
- from "The Go-Between"

Man, this is the first blog that contains more movie quotes than mine.

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