Favourite movie quote.

The American Film Insitute just came out with its Top 100 movie quotes. Some of them are so embedded in North American culture that it's hard to find someone who doesn't know at least a variation of it, even if they don't know where its from.

The top ten are:

10: You talkin' to me. Taxi Driver
9: Fasten your seatbelts. It's gonna be a bumpy night. All About Eve
8: May the Force be with you. Star Wars
7: All right, Mr Demille, I'm ready for my close-up.
6: Go ahead, make my day. Sudden Impact.
5: Here's looking at you, Kid. Casablanca
4: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. The Wizard of OZ.
3: I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody. On the Waterfront.
2: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. The Godfather
1: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Gone with the Wind.

Check out afi.com for the full list. Which ones do you like that are on the list, or didn't quite make it. What lines do you like that aren't there?

I like:

"You're gonna need a bigger boat" from Jaws and "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." Animal crackers.

As for the ones that didn't quite make it, I like:

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." from Arsenic and old lace and "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Others I love are:
"I can let you drown, but I can't bring the boat into Tortuga all by me onesies, savy."
"May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, sir." from a Robin Hood movie in the 1930s, when King Richard give him Maid Marian's hand in marriage

I'm a sucker for quotes esp movie ones since I'm quite the movie buff, there are a ton I like so here's a few, I might post some more later...once I get it up I'll post the site where I've uploaded all my favorite quotes.

1.
Frank: Any ideas little brother?
[Jesse smiles before running off]
Frank: Oh, Lord.
[Jesse grabs a stick of dynamites and runs off]
Cole and Frank: Oh, Lord.
- American Outlaws

2.
Alan Pinkerton: Looks like you messed with the wrong bunch of farm boys this time.
- American Outlaws

3.
Alan Pinkerton: If he lays a finger on one of your guns, you are all - and I mean ALL - dead men.
Man: He's chained up!
Alan Pinkerton: I'll put that on your tombstone.
- American Outlaws

4.
[Marion is being kidnapped]
Marion: You can't do this to me, I'm an AMERICAN.
- Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

5.
Indiana: There's a big snake in the plane, Jock.
Jock: Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie.
Indiana: I hate snakes, Jock. I hate 'em.
Jock: C'mon, show a little backbone, will ya?
- Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

6.
Indiana: Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.
Sallah: How?
Indiana: I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.
- Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

7.
Belloq: Please, sit down before you fall down.
- Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

8.
Indiana: The Ark of the Covenant, the chest that the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.
Major Eaton: What, you mean THE Ten Commandments?
Indiana: Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Ararat and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing...
[the officers stare at him blankly]
Indiana: Didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?
- Indiana Jones: The Raiders of the Lost Ark

9.
Indiana Jones: Are you trying to develop a sense of humor or am I going deaf?
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

10.
Guest at dinner: Ah! Dessert... .Chilled Monkey-Brains!
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

11.
Willie: I hate the water... and I hate being wet... and I hate you!
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

12.
Professor Henry Jones: They're trying to kill us.
Indiana Jones: I know, Dad.
Professor Henry Jones: This is a new experience for me.
Indiana Jones: It happens to me all the time.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

13.
[after commandeering a plane]
Professor Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly a plane.
Indiana Jones: Fly, yes. Land, no.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

14.
Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"?
Professor Henry Jones: That's his name.
[points to himself]
Professor Henry Jones: Henry Jones...
[points to Indy]
Professor Henry Jones: ... Junior.
Indiana Jones: I like "Indiana."
Professor Henry Jones: We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog? You are named after the dog?
Indiana Jones: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

15.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega!
- Mallrats

16.
[a grenade lands at his feet]
Dwight: And everything seemed to be going so well.
- Sin City

17.
John Hartigan: And after I pull off that miracle, maybe I'll go punch out God.
- Sin City

18.
Marv: [at his own execution] Would you hurry it up? I haven't got all night.
- Sin City

19.
Marv: I know it's pretty damn weird to eat people.
- Sin City

20.
Dwight: She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.
- Sin City

21.
Dwight: Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're Mother Teresa. You're Elvis. You're God. And if you'd gotten here about ten minutes sooner, we'd still have Jackie-Boy's head.
- Sin City

22.
John Hartigan: When it comes to consoling 19-year-old girls, I'm about as expert as a palsy patient performing brain surgery with a pipe wrench.
- Sin City

23.
[Marv's last line]
Marv: Is that the best you can do, you pansies?
- Sin City

24.
Klump: I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
- Sin City

25.
Dwight: It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying, sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.
- Sin City

26.
Bartleby: We're going home.
[Loki stares at him]
Bartleby: Quit leering at me man, people are gonna think I just broke up with you.
- Dogma

27.
Metatron: [Describing why God doesn't talk to people directly] Were you to hear God's true voice, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode inside your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.
- Dogma

28.
Azrael: Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. You know once Hell was nothing more than the absence of God. And if you had ever been in his presence, you would know that's punishment enough. But then, your kind came along, and made it SO MUCH WORSE.
Bethany: Human beings aren't capable of 1/100 the evil a shitbag demon like you is.
[spits on him]
Azrael: Evil is an ABSTRACT! It's a HUMAN construct! But true to his irresponsible nature, Man won't own up to being it's engineer. So he chooses to blame his dark deeds on my ilk. But his selfishness is limitless. It wasn't enough just to shadow his own existence, he turned Hell into a SUFFERING PIT! Fire, wailing, darnkess! The kind of place ANYONE would do ANYTHING to get out of! And why? Because he lacks the ability to forgive himself! It is beyond your comprehension to do simple recompense for the sins you commit. No, you choose instead to invent a psycho-drama and dwell in foundless belief that God could never forgive your grievous offenses. So you bring your guilt and your inner decay with you to Hell where the hoards of thousands of gluttons for punishment infect the abyss since the first one of your kind arrived generations ago, begging to be punished. In doing so, he transformed Hell from cold and solitude to PAIN and MISERY! I've spent eons, privy to the flames, inhaling the decay, hearing the wail of the damned. I KNOW WHAT AFFECT such horrors have on the delicate psyche of an angelic being!
- Dogma

29.
Nun: You don't believe in God because of Alice in Wonderland?
Loki: No, "Through the Looking Glass". That poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that's an indictment of organized religion. The walrus, with his girth and his good nature, he obviously represents either Buddha, or... or with his tusk, the Hindu elephant god, Lord Ganesha. That takes care of your Eastern religions. Now the carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was raised a carpenter's son, he represents the Western religions. Now in the poem, what do they do... what do they do? They... They dupe all these oysters into following them and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensure the destruction of one's inner-being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions... by inhibiting our decisions, out of... out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who... who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says... and says, "Do it - Do it and I'll f**kin' spank you. "
- Dogma

30.
Jay: I feel like I'm Han Solo, and you're Chewie, and she's Ben Kenobi, and we're in that f**ked-up bar.
- Dogma

31.
Loki: The last four days on Earth. If I had a dick, I'd go get laid. But we can do that next best thing.
Bartleby: What's that?
Loki: Let's kill people.
[Lady next to Loki spits out her coffee]
Loki: [to lady] Oh, not you.
- Dogma

32.
Jay: The whole fucking world's against us, dude, I swear to God.
- Dogma

33.
Serendipity: When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up.
- Dogma

34.
[about Christ]
Rufus: What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism.
- Dogma

35.
Bartleby: You know, here's what I don't get about you. You know for a fact that there is a God. You have been in his presence. He's spoken to you personally, and yet I just heard you claim to be an atheist.
Loki: I just like to f**k with the clergy, man. I just love it. I just love to keep those guys on their toes.
- Dogma

36.
Bartleby: You know, here's what I don't get about you. You know for a fact that there is a God. You have been in his presence. He's spoken to you personally, and yet I just heard you claim to be an atheist.
Loki: I just like to fuck with the clergy, man. I just love it. I just love to keep those guys on their toes.
- Dogma

37.
Loki: Never let it be said that your anal-retentive attention to detail never yielded positive results.
Bartleby: You can't be anal-retentive if you don't have an anus.
Loki: Outstanding work.
- Dogma

38.
Liz: He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.
- Dogma

39.
Metatron: Metatron acts as the voice of God. Any documented occasion when some yahoo claims God has spoken to them, they're speaking to me. Or they're talking to themselves.
- Dogma

40.
Metatron: So once he's done with the firstborn, Loki takes his friend Bartleby out for a post-slaughter drink. And over many rounds, they get into this discussion about whether or not murder in the name of God is okay. Now, Bartleby can run circles around Loki intellectually, not to mention that Loki's already half in the bag. And in the end, Bartleby convinces Loki to quit his position and take a lesser one that doesn't involve slaughter. So - very inebriated - Loki tells God he quits, throws down his fiery sword, and gives Him the finger. Which ruins it for the rest of us, because from that day forward, God decreed that all angels could no longer imbibe alcohol. Hence all the spitting.
- Dogma

41.
Rufus: White folks only want to hear the good shit: life eternal, a place in God's Heaven. But as soon as they hear they're getting this good shit from a black Jesus, they freak. And that, my friends, is called hypocrisy. A black man can steal your stereo, but he can't be your Savior.
- Dogma

42.
Serendipity: Read the Bible again sometime. Women are painted as bigger antagonists than the Egyptians and Romans combined. It stinks.
- Dogma

43.
Bethany: You're saying that having beliefs is a bad thing?
Rufus: I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier.
- Dogma

44.
Bethany: Jesus didn't have any brothers or sisters. Mary was a virgin.
Rufus: Mary gave birth to CHRIST without having known a man's touch, that's true. But she did have a husband. And do you really think he'd have stayed married to her all those years if he wasn't getting laid? The nature of God and the Virgin Mary, those are leaps of faith. But to believe a married couple never got down? Well, that's just plain gullibility.
- Dogma

45.
Rufus: So what do we do now?
Metatron: Well, I say we get drunk, because I'm all out of ideas.
- Dogma

46.
Metatron: Good Lord, the little stoner's got a point.
- Dogma

47.
Azrael: Oh no, I've seen way too many Bond movies to know that you never reveal all the details of your plan, no matter how close you may think you are to winning.
- Dogma

48.
Gun Salesman: We call this piece the Fecalator. One look at it and the target shits him or herself. Try it on.
Loki: Well, it's a lot more compact than the flaming sword, but it's not nearly as impressive. Just doesn't have that Wrath-of-the-Almighty edge to it. I mean, come on, how am I supposed to strike fear into the hearts of the wicked with this thing? Look at this...
Bartleby: Well, then, you know, don't use a gun. Just lay the place to waste, like.
Loki: Easy for you to say. You get off light in razing. You got to stand there and read at Sodom and Gomorrah, I had to do all the work.
Bartleby: What work did you do? You lit a few fires.
Loki: I rained down sulphur, man, there's a subtle difference.
Bartleby: Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
Loki: Hey, you know, fuck you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
- Dogma

49.
Azrael: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
- Dogma

50.
Bethany: What are you?
Metatron: I'm pissed off is what I am! Do you go around drenching everyone who comes into your room with flame-retardant chemicals? No wonder you're single.
- Dogma

51.
[about the protesters outside the Abortion Clinic]
Liz: You're Catholic, can't you talk to them?
Bethany: They hate me more than you. At least you have an excuse, you're Jewish, you don't know any better.
Liz: I don't think they'd accept that one, we used that one already when we killed Christ.
- Dogma

52.
Hospital P. A.: I repeat, this is not a drill. This is the apocalypse. Please exit the hospital in an orderly fashion. Thank you.
- Dogma

and one of my all time favorites...

53.
All life's riddles are answered in the movies.
- Grand Canyon

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