AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes: "What hump?"

Next nomination: "Where's the rest of me?" Drake McHugh (Ronald Reagan in "King's Row" (1942)

Held to be Reagan's best movie. This is what his character says when he wakes up after an accident to discover that a sadistic doctor has amputated both his legs.

I just hate it when that happens.

(Actually, it's a pretty good movie, but who's seen it? So no.)

 

Next nomination:

Christina: "Get me to the bus station and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make the bus station..."

Mike Hammer: "We will."

Christina: "If we don't, remember me."

And this is from one of the greatest noirs ever made, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)

Yes.

 

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"And for an hour, for an hour...I'm the best actress in the world."

Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in "Klute" (1971)

Bree Daniels is a call girl, by the way.

I vote no, in this case.

 

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"Tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

from "Knute Rockne, All-American" (1940)

You hear this one on sports broadcasts, and usually where a player is injured and the rest of the team is supposed to pull together and "win one for the Gipper." The Gipper is George Gipp, a football player at Notre Dame who died young. Rockne is a famous coach at Notre Dame. Gip was played by Ronald Reagan in the film.

It is iconic, though most people no longer connect it with its source.

Maybe.

 

Uh, yeah.

 

Any line which has been spoofed by Leslie Nielson gets on the list by a technicality.

Seriously, it's in the original movie, spoofed in Airplane and used to great effect in Rudy. Three great movies it's a centerpiece in. That means yes.

 

Yes,it was a big part of Ronald Reagan`s campagin and his un offical nickname

 

Next nomination: "Hey, lady!" Herbert H. Herbert (Jerry Lewis) in "The Ladies' Man"

Jerry Lewis was the Adam Sandler of his day. His day is done. Thank gawd.

That's a no, Joe.

 

It was funny in high school.

Also no.

 

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"I need him like the ax needs the turkey."

Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) in "The Lady Eve"

Love this movie, but there are better quotes in it.

 

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"[You're my] Lassie come home." Joe Carrclough (Roddy McDowell) in "Lassie Come Home." (1943)

Old kid's film sliding into well-deserved oblivion.

(Try "The Yearling" instead.)

No.

 

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"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never encountered a subject more worthy of my attention."

Waldo Lywecker (Clifton Webb) in "Laura"

Funny line from a famous thriller/romance, and illustrates the character's personality (bitchy) perfectly. But not well known.

I vote not.

 

Lot of great lines in this movie, many of them very funny.

The most famous is Andrews' assertion that he suspects 'everyone and no one.' Most people have no idea where that one started. If a quote from this movie would make the list, it should be that.

 

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"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, as greedy, barbarous and cruel as you are."

T. E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)

Hmmm...the scriptwriter was Robert Bolt. His crystal ball wasn't cloudy all day.

 

Yeah . . . ouch.

Great movie with a great script. But I have other favorites:

"Your mother mated with a scorpion." is my favorite.

 

"I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted."
"I have the same problem, sir."


"He will come . . . because it is his pleasure."

"Certainly it hurts. The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."

"With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable."

"It's my manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really."

 

The 'good manners' one is really a classic.

 

"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, as greedy, barbarous and cruel as you are."



The prophetic nature of this line is what makes it so powerful. From an historical standpoint there was nothing new being said here but thats the beauty of cinema. We actually SEE it and how true and relevant those words are, then and now.

 

Next: "No prisoners! No prisoners!" T. E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia."

It's catching.

Striking in the context of the movie, but I'm not sure most people would recognize the source, despite the fame of the movie.

No.

 

Speaking of which, anybody hear the rumor that Arabs are calling for the assassination of Omar Sharif for being a traitor to Islam?

 

That is even stupider than the Rushdie fatwa.

 

Next nomination:

"There's no crying in baseball!" Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own" (1992)

I kind of like this one...

Maybe.

 

I like this one. Yes.

Although the "there's no crying in shipping!" commercial turns the stomach.

 

My friends and I, who are sports fanatics, still quote this one all the time.

The delivery of the line is classic.

 

Yeah, I like this one. It's a maybe at the very least.