"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"

[Alfred]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Neither the Godfather nor 007 can top Rhett Butler when it comes to being the most quotable character in the movies.

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," the rakish Butler's famous line from the 1939 classic "Gone With the Wind," as spoken by Clark Gable, was named the most memorable movie quote in a poll by the American Film Institute.

Results were released on Tuesday in a television show that aired on the CBS network.

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" from 1972's "The Godfather" was No. 2, and Marlon Brando, who spoke those words, also claimed No. 3 with his line from 1954's "On the Waterfront:" "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am."

The American Film Institute, a top U.S. film education group, annually conducts a poll of favorite movie moments, genres and characters. This year, AFI asked some 1,500 creative industry professionals for their favorite quote.

"They get into our (everyday language)," said AFI director Jean Picker Firstenberg. "They become a common language that we all can relate to and empathize with."

Judy Garland as Dorothy in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" telling her little dog, "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," came in at No. 4. Completing the top five was Humphrey Bogart as nightclub owner Rick Blaine from 1942's "Casablanca" with: "Here's looking at you kid."

The top 100 quotes were dominated by classic movies, with the most recent from 1983's "Sudden Impact," in which Clint Eastwood, playing tough cop "Dirty" Harry Callahan, tells a crook, "Go ahead, make my day." That quote came in at No. 6.

Super spy 007's "Bond, James Bond" from 1962's "Dr. No," which starred Sean Connery, landed at No. 22.

Firstenberg said quotes from classic films most likely topped the list because it took a long time for the sayings to work their way into popular culture, but once they do, the words tend to stick around for decades.

[JSngry]

Not....going...to...say it....

Too...easy...

AAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alfred]

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." (Woody Allen)

Better, ... much better!

[Soulstation1]

this shoulda been # 1

[catesta]

Or, maybe this one.

[bertrand]

My favorite is from Chinatown:

'She's my sister' (slap)

'She's my daughter' (slap)

'She's my sister and my daughter' (slap, slap).

Bertrand.

[brownie]

'Rosebud'

short but what a great film it made!

[porcy62]

I presume you already knew it, but here you could find all the quote you need.

http://us.imdb.com/

And about memorable quotes nobody can beat Sergio Leone's western movies, a part 'Well, nobody's perfect' in 'Some like it hot'

[Rooster_Ties]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The American Film Institute's list of top 100 quotes from U.S. movies, with film title and year of release:

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," "Gone With the Wind," 1939.

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," "The Godfather," 1972.

3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am," "On the Waterfront," 1954.

4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.

5. "Here's looking at you, kid," "Casablanca," 1942.

6. "Go ahead, make my day," "Sudden Impact," 1983.

7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," "Sunset Blvd.," 1950.

8. "May the Force be with you," "Star Wars," 1977.

9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," "All About Eve," 1950.

10. "You talking to me?" "Taxi Driver," 1976.

11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate," "Cool Hand Luke," 1967.

12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," "Apocalypse Now," 1979.

13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry," "Love Story," 1970.

14. "The stuff that dreams are made of," "The Maltese Falcon," 1941.

15. "E.T. phone home," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982.

16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!", "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.

17. "Rosebud," "Citizen Kane," 1941.

18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", "White Heat," 1949.

19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!", "Network," 1976.

20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," "Casablanca," 1942.

21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.

22. "Bond. James Bond," "Dr. No," 1962.

23. "There's no place like home," "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.

24. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small," "Sunset Blvd.," 1950.

25. "Show me the money!", "Jerry Maguire," 1996.

26. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", "She Done Him Wrong," 1933.

27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!", "Midnight Cowboy," 1969.

28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By,"' "Casablanca," 1942.

29. "You can't handle the truth!", "A Few Good Men," 1992.

30. "I want to be alone," "Grand Hotel," 1932.

31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!", "Gone With the Wind," 1939.

32. "Round up the usual suspects," "Casablanca," 1942.

33. "I'll have what she's having," "When Harry Met Sally...," 1989.

34. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow," "To Have and Have Not," 1944.

35. "You're gonna need a bigger boat," "Jaws," 1975.

36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.

37. "I'll be back," "The Terminator," 1984.

38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," "The Pride of the Yankees," 1942.

39. "If you build it, he will come," "Field of Dreams," 1989.

40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get," "Forrest Gump," 1994.

41. "We rob banks," "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967.

42. "Plastics," "The Graduate," 1967.

43. "We'll always have Paris," "Casablanca," 1942.

44. "I see dead people," "The Sixth Sense," 1999.

45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!", "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.

46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," "Now, Voyager," 1942.

47. "Shane. Shane. Come back!", "Shane," 1953.

48. "Well, nobody's perfect," "Some Like It Hot," 1959.

49. "It's alive! It's alive!", "Frankenstein," 1931.

50. "Houston, we have a problem," "Apollo 13," 1995.

51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", "Dirty Harry," 1971.

52. "You had me at 'hello,"' "Jerry Maguire," 1996.

53. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know," "Animal Crackers," 1930.

54. "There's no crying in baseball!", "A League of Their Own," 1992.

55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da," "Annie Hall," 1977.

56. "A boy's best friend is his mother," "Psycho," 1960.

57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," "Wall Street," 1987.

58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," "The Godfather Part II," 1974.

59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again," "Gone With the Wind," 1939.

60. "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", "Sons of the Desert," 1933.

61. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!", "Scarface," 1983.

62. "What a dump," "Beyond the Forest," 1949.

63. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?", "The Graduate," 1967.

64. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", "Dr. Strangelove," 1964.

65. "Elementary, my dear Watson," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," 1929.

66. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape," "Planet of the Apes," 1968.

67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," "Casablanca," 1942.

68. "Here's Johnny!", "The Shining," 1980.

69. "They're here!", "Poltergeist," 1982.

70. "Is it safe?", "Marathon Man," 1976.

71. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!", "The Jazz Singer," 1927.

72. "No wire hangers, ever!", "Mommie Dearest," 1981.

73. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?", "Little Caesar," 1930.

74. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," "Chinatown," 1974.

75. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.

76. "Hasta la vista, baby," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," 1991.

77. "Soylent Green is people!", "Soylent Green," 1973.

78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968.

79. Striker: "Surely you can't be serious." Rumack: "I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley," "Airplane!", 1980.

80. "Yo, Adrian!", "Rocky," 1976.

81. "Hello, gorgeous," "Funny Girl," 1968.

82. "Toga! Toga!", "National Lampoon's Animal House," 1978.

83. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make," "Dracula," 1931.

84. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast," "King Kong," 1933.

85. "My precious," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," 2002.

86. "Attica! Attica!", "Dog Day Afternoon," 1975.

87. "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", "42nd Street," 1933.

88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!", "On Golden Pond," 1981.

89. "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper," "Knute Rockne, All American," 1940.

90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred," "Goldfinger," 1964.

91. "Who's on first," "The Naughty Nineties," 1945.

92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac ... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", "Caddyshack," 1980.

93. "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!", "Auntie Mame," 1958.

94. "I feel the need -- the need for speed!", "Top Gun," 1986.

95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary," "Dead Poets Society," 1989.

96. "Snap out of it!", "Moonstruck," 1987.

97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.

98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," "Dirty Dancing," 1987.

99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!", "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.

100. "I'm king of the world!", "Titanic," 1997.

[maren]

97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.

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Hey -- I thought that was only on my own totally obscure list!

Along with:

"Every little dollar has a special meaning all its own" -- as said by Thelma Ritter in Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street)

"Every game I play, I lose" -- Jimmy Cliff's girlfriend in The Harder They Come (and honorable mention for his line "You know hero can't dead until the last reel")

and

"C'est si simple, l'amour" -- from Children of Paradise

And for some of the nominated movies, I have different favorite lines:

Wizard of Oz -- "Oh no, my dear, I'm a very GOOD man. I'm just a very bad WIZARD."

Dog Day Afternoon -- "Kiss me. Kiss me. Right here on the cheek. I like to be kissed when I'm being f***ed."

(and a million others, but I'd better get back to work)

[porcy62]

Nice, but what about the followin quotes from Leone's movies?

From 'A fistful of dollars'

Joe: When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace.

Joe: The heart, Ramone. Don't forget the heart. Aim for the heart, or you'll never stop me.

From 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

Morton: Not bad. Congratulations. Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.

Frank: People scare better when they're dying.

Frank: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?

Cheyenne: Judas was content for 4970 dollars less.

Harmonica: There were no dollars in them days.

Cheyenne: But sons of bitches... yeah.

Harmonica: Did you bring a horse for me?

Snaky: Well... looks like we're...

[snickers]

Snaky: ...looks like we're shy one horse.

Harmonica: You brought two too many.

Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short time ago, they were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters, there were three men.

Cheyenne: So?

Harmonica: Inside the men, there were three bullets.

Cheyenne: You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man.

Harmonica: So, you found out you're not a businessman after all.

Frank: Just a man.

Harmonica: An ancient race. Other Mortons will be along, and they'll kill it off.

From 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly':

Tuco: I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise.

Man With No Name: You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

Man With No Name: Take off your gun and put on your pants.

[catesta]

Nice, but what about the followin quotes from Leone's movies?

From 'A fistful of dollars'

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One of my all time favorites.

ClickHere

[catesta]

Tuco says.....

[Brownian Motion]

A few they appear to have left out:

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Why don't you come up and see me sometime?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Why a duck?

[Matthew]

Repo Man

Bud: Ordinary f****** people I hate 'em.

[Noj]

Caddyshack:

"So we finish 18, and he's gonna stiff me. So I say, 'Hey, Llama! How 'bout a little something, you know, for the effort?' And he says, 'There won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that going for me, which is nice."

"Now I know why tigers eat their young."

Airplane:

"Listen Betty, don't start with your 'white zone' shit again."

"I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley."

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

"This is a goddamned waste of time! No way he can land that plane, never in a million years!"

"7000 feet down to 4000 feet and back to 5... what an asshole!"

[Joe G]

Return of the Jedi:

"Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the DARK side!!"

[Dan Gould]

If that italics thing at the bottom indicates that people are in the middle of posting, we got a whole bunch of posts coming up ... 8 members posting, and little old me. Did I beat anyone to the punch?

BTW, the Mae West line WAS included, as it was actually spoken in the film.

[Epithet]

'What? What do you say to a man who's crying in your bathroom?'

Oh, and the pancakes and taking-her-to-bed bit in Zelig. I can't remember this one verbatim, unfortunately.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

nothing from this either!?

[bertrand]

From Back To School (Rodney Dangerfield):

'My wife, she gives good headache'.

Bertrand.

[catesta]

nothing from this either!?

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No shit.

What kind of list is this?

[couw]

Iceman: "bu-cough-sh*t!", "Top Gun," 1986.

Rambo and another dude in part the IIIth or so:

- What's this?

- It's a blue stick

- what does it do?

- it turns blue

[couw]

Mia: "Don't be such a ", Pulp Fiction

[Randy Twizzle]

"The Negroes stole our dates" from Animal House