AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

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AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/18/04 at 5:48pm

Here are the 400 nominees:

http://www.afi.com/Docs/tvevents/pdf/quotes400.pdf

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/18/04 at 7:09pm

yes, ive been waiting for them to announce their next show. I love them

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need to defrag my brain.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/18/04 at 7:38pm

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/18/04 at 7:51pm

I can't read it, my favorite movie, Clue, probably isn't on the list but my favorite line is...

"Are you a cop?"

"No. I'm a plant."

"A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit."

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:54am

ShbrtAlley44......Back to the Future ROCKS MY SOCKS!!! That is all.

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"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:58am

Hell, yeah. They have a qoute from my favorite movie of all time (even though it is not my favorite qoute from the movie)

"Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!"

--Breakfast Club

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"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 6:06am

(sigh)
yes, clue continues to be snubbed despite it's huge popularity.
i mean, i like "bill and ted" too, but if you're not going to put clue on the list, don't put bill and ted. geez.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:17am

Prediction- "Here's looking at looking at you, kid." is going to be number 1, followed by "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" and...I don't know. "Fasten your seatbelts- it's gonna be a bumpy night," probably.

However, they did put in some of my fave Mel Brooks quotes which is good.

And can we already place "My precious(ssss)" as a great film line?

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:20am

That list should just be 400 lines from 'Glengarry Glen Ross.'

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Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:53am

NO John Waters quotes??? Morons.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:27pm

Borstal -- I was hoping for "I wanted Cha Cha Heels"

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"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:24pm

"Edie: The Egg Man didn't do it, Babs! I KNOW the Egg Man didn't do it!
Babs Johnson: Oh, I don't think he did it either, mother, now shut up and let me think, WILL YOU?"

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:26pm

Well, they included my favorite quote (check out my signature), but I'm pissed they didn't include "Your girl is lovely, Hubble." from THE WAY WE WERE. It's an iconic line!

Any of the Casablanca quotes can easily be number one- it's insane! But, I think "Well, nobody's perfect" also has a good shot at the top- at least the top five.

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Updated On: 11/19/04 at 01:26 PM

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:11pm

My favorite...

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night..."

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Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:14pm

From Hairspray:

"Those times, they are-a changin'. Somethin's blowin' in the wind. (beat) Fetch me my diet pills, would you dear?"

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:14pm

'Be the ball?' THAT's their quote from 'Caddyshack?'

Where's 'you will get nothing and like it?' Where's 'hey, honey, wanna make fourteen dollars ... the hard way?'

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Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:58pm

"There are only two words in this whole wide world worth hearing... ****."
Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman.

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Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:38pm

I know that classic quote ( unprintable here ) from Andy Warhol's Frankenstein will not be on the list of 400

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:19pm

ah, Beaver, that's my favorite.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:47pm

My favorite:
Mortimer Brewster:
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
-Arsenic and Old Lace

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Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:52pm

Why isn't Jennifer Lopez's monologue from GIGLI on there?

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/20/04 at 7:28pm

It tickles me that "What hump?" from Young Frankenstien made the cut... I love that movie, so much.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/20/04 at 7:33pm

"im the king of the world" and "ill be back" will be up in the top 10

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need to defrag my brain.

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re: AFI: 100 Best Movie Quotes of All Time - Coming Soon, See the Nominees

Posted: 11/20/04 at 8:35pm

"What hump?" better damn well be up there. And yes, Spider, BTTF is the sh*t. (Did I really just use that phrase?) I have to say that "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son" is also up there.