# AFI Top 100 Quotes from US movies - what should be in/out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398 "2005-06-22T17:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/41 "2005-06-22T22:39:20Z")
I was kind of surprised that the best line from major League didn’t make it > [@](#): > > Just a little outside 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/42 "2005-06-22T23:12:17Z")
Understand your point, but that’s kind of unfair, because then why are any movies, say, post-1980 even on the list? ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/43 "2005-06-22T23:14:43Z")
> [@rexnervous](#): > > Understand your point, but that’s kind of unfair, because then why are any movies, say, post-1980 even on the list? oops, that was supposed to be in reply to **Wile E** ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/44 "2005-06-22T23:41:23Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > 1. “Is it safe?”, “Marathon Man,” 1976. > _I’ve never heard this one either._ And that’s a damned shame. One of the most chilling lines around, to my way of thinking. O’course, I got a thing for Britishers playing Nazis. And I agree that Inigo Montoya’s line should have been included, as well. Waste ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/45 "2005-06-22T23:47:08Z")
> [@sneezy5660](#): > > What?! Nothing from The Princess Bride? **The** most quotable movie evah? “The Princess Bride” has a rabid following among nerds and Internet users; among the general public it’s not a hugely popular film. I mean, it’s not “Gigli” by any means, but… I know in the online community it’s a quote-tastic film but most people either haven’t seen it, don’t remember it, or don’t give a crap about it, and it didn’t age well. It’s worth noting that “Ghostbusters” has no quotes in the Top 100 despite being a more popular movie from about the same time and having a LOT of good lines (Ray, the next time someone asks if you’re a god, YOU SAY YES!!!) There’s also no quotes from “The Blues Brothers” despite being a great movie with several great quotes (We’re on a mission… from God.) You could make a case for “My name is Inigo Montoya…” being in the top 100, but certainly towards the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/46 "2005-06-23T01:57:36Z")
Klaatu Barada Nikto ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/47 "2005-06-23T02:10:36Z")
> [@rexnervous](#): > > Understand your point, but that’s kind of unfair, because then why are any movies, say, post-1980 even on the list? No, it’s not unfair, most of the other quotes are quite well-known despite being in movies from pre-1980, many even from the 30’s and 40’s. I don’t really think a line that sort of lost it’s popularity a few years after the film really fits with that bunch. GLWasteful - I got a thing for not watching crazed dentists torture people. I have enough phobias as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/48 "2005-06-23T02:27:03Z")
Seriously, no “I am your father”? What a waste. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/49 "2005-06-23T02:59:56Z")
I am stunned that nothing from _Pulp Fiction_, perhaps the most quoted film in the past decade, made the list. Perhaps they’re all too vulgar. 😉 I would nominate Bogart’s retort to Bacall in _The Big Sleep_: Bacall: You go too far, Marlowe Bogart: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he’s walking out of your bedroom. That line just _kills_ me. However, I will concede that it’s nowhere near as well known as the others on that list (or the many that were mentioned here.) ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/50 "2005-06-23T03:10:04Z")
These might not be that famous, but I like them. _Ghostbusters_ “Mother pus bucket” “Back off man, I’m a scientist” “He slimed me” _Repo Man_ “No way man, there’s alot of room to move up as a fry clerk. You know in 2 years, I could be manager, king, god” “You could be thinking about a plate of shrimp and someone will say plate or shrimp or plate of shrimp. Ain’t no reason for it, no sense in looking for one” “John Wayne, was a fag” “Radiation, yes indeed. You hear so many outragous lies about it. Half baked goggle boxed do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you” “Ever hear of the neutron bomb. Kills people but leaves building standing. So small it fits inside a suitcase, nobody knows it’s there until one day Blam! Skin melts, eyes explode, everybody dead. Working on something so amoral can drive a man mad. That’s what happened to this friend of mine, so eh had a labotomy. And now he’s well again.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/51 "2005-06-23T03:25:03Z")
I understand why ‘May the Force be with you.’ made it for Star Wars but I would have gone with the true defining quote of the series… “I’ve got a **bad** feeling about this.” TWO from Jerry McGuire? Maybe we should pair these people with those idiots who made the ‘greatest American’ list. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/52 "2005-06-23T03:25:58Z")
Mein Fuhrer! I can WALK! Dr. Strangelove ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/53 "2005-06-23T03:27:04Z")
I object to the oversight of Marlene Dietrich’s line from the end of Orson Welles’ _Touch of Evil_: “He was some kind of a man – what does it matter what you say about people?” I guess it just lacks something that “Toga! Toga!” (_Animal House_) has. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/54 "2005-06-23T03:52:26Z")
“son, you’ve got a panty on your head” from raising arizona ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/55 "2005-06-23T04:13:43Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Well, that one-word line became a major catch-phrase _at the time the movie came out_ and for a few years afterwards. But it has died out since, and if you’re younger than 45 I’m not surprised you wouldn’t remember it. It’s not entirely forgotten. When I graduated high school, I insisted that we leave trite things like “Congratulations” off the cake and have it say only “Plastics.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/56 "2005-06-23T04:55:46Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I’d like to see versions with the ‘Top 100 funniest lines’ and ‘Top 50 lines since 1970.’ A lot of those older films are lost on me and my MTV generation. Really, 6(!) from Casablanca? _Casablanca_ and probably two-thirds of the movies on the Top 100 list were released before I was born, but I recognized them. You can watch old movies, you know. Not just MTV. Turn the channel and start. ---
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/57 "2005-06-23T05:48:46Z")
A line I just used the other day: > [@](#): > > Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? > Captain Renault: **I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!** > [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] > Croupier: Your winnings, sir. > Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. > [aloud] > Captain Renault: Everybody out at once! And, maybe too long for the list, but definitely an all time classic: > [@](#): > > Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/58 "2005-06-23T05:55:38Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > TWO from Jerry McGuire? Maybe we should pair these people with those idiots who made the ‘greatest American’ list. To be fair those two lines are quoted (and definetly were quoted at the time) ad infinitum. There may not be a person alive who doesn’t know “Show Me the Money”, even those who never saw the movie. And the “You complete me” line is played over and over. Those quotes have had a LOT of power behind them since that movie came out. I’ve never seen Jerry McGuire, yet I know those quotes (and have heard them constantly), while I’ve seen Pulp Fiction 2 or 3 times and I can’t remember a single quote outside of the “Royale with cheese” line. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/59 "2005-06-23T14:19:46Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > GLWasteful - I got a thing for not watching crazed dentists torture people. I have enough phobias as it is. Shame, that. He does it with _such_ finesse. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398/60 "2005-06-23T14:56:40Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > 1. “… It’s in the hole!” (Caddyshack) I can’t believe that was the one chosen for Caddyshack, when this one: > [@](#): > > And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice. Is so much funnier and much more famous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afi-top-100-quotes-from-us-movies-what-should-be-in-out/309398.md?page=4)