Following on from yesterday, here’s a sample of thirty movie quotes that I would have included in the AFI List (all from films released at the time of the list in 2005, so as to be fair):
1. “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
-Roy Batty, Blade Runner 1982
2. “Get away from her, you bitch!”
-Ripley, Aliens 1986
3. “Shut up and deal.”
-Fran Kubelik, The Apartment 1960
4. “No. I am your father.”
-Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back 1980
5. “There is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard, and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”
-Susan Vance, Bringing Up Baby 1938
6. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
-Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride 1987
7. “Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch!”
-Rooster Cogburn, True Grit 1969
8. “Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!”
-John McClane, Die Hard 1988
9. “Free! Free at last!”
-Edward Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931
10. “Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say ‘Yes’!”
-Winston Zeddemore, Ghostbusters 1984
11. “How am I funny? Funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”
-Tommy de Vito, Goodfellas 1990
12. “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
-Maxwell Scott, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
13. “People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live.”
-Longfellow Deeds, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
14. “You think I’m licked. You all think I’m licked. Well, I’m not licked. And I’m going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me.”
-Jefferson Smith, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
15. “Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!”
-Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
16. “Earn this.”
-Capt. John Miller, Saving Private Ryan 1998
17. “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum.”
-Nada, They Live 1988
18. “Shut up, Mr. Burton. You are not brought upon this world to ‘get it’.”
-Lo Pan, Big Trouble in Little China 1986
19. “Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking! Keep watching the skies!”
-Ned Scott, The Thing from Another World 1951
20. “The fate of billions depends upon you. Heh heh heh!…Sorry.”
-Lord Raiden, Mortal Kombat 1995
21. “You’ll be here too?”
“I guess so, I usually am.”
“Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?”
“I wonder if I know what you mean.”
“I wonder if you wonder.”
-Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson, Double Indemnity 1944
22. “Look down there. Tell me; would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand dollars for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?”
-Harry Lime, The Third Man 1949
23. “When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands, like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.”
-Sir Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons 1966
24. “Well, what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”
-Eleanor of Acquitaine, The Lion in Winter 1968
25. “Waiter will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts.”
-Nora Charles, The Thin Man 1934
26. “And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday. But as the day when the wold declared in one voice ‘We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!’ We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
-President Whitmore, Independence Day 1996
27. “Broke into the wrong goddamn rec-room didn’t you, you bastard!”
-Burt Gummer, Tremors 1990
28. “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”
-Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
29. “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
-Doc Brown, Back to the Future 1985
30. “Welcome to Jurassic Park.”
-John Hammond, Jurassic Park 1993
Yeah, I wonder how some of these got left off (and some of the others were chosen.)
re: number 24, I’m also partial to, “Of course he has a knife. We all have knives. It is 1183 and we are barbarians!”
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To be fair, some of them were among the nominees. Though that kind of makes it worse in some ways: that between “no wire hangers” and “like tears in rain” they went with the former.
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