Wednesday, August 31, 2005

AFI #058 Al Pacino as Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part II (1974)

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part II (1974)

The bolded line is ranked #58 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

AFI #059 Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)

Scarlett O'Hara: As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

- Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #59 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, August 29, 2005

AFI #060 Oliver Hardy as Oliver from Sons of the Desert (1933)

Oliver: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

- Oliver Hardy as Oliver from Sons of the Desert (1933)

The bolded line is ranked #60 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Rome (TV series)

Rome (TV series)

Alternative Names (異名):
Rome, 로마


Rome is an American-British-Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald. The show's first season originally aired on HBO in the United States between August 28 and November 20, 2005, subsequently being broadcast on the United Kingdom's BBC Two between November 2, 2005, and January 4, 2006, and on Rai Due in Italy between March 17, 2006, and April 28, 2006. The second season aired on HBO in the U.S. from January 14, 2007, to March 25, 2007.

Rome is set during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic to Empire, from Caesar's invasion of Gaul to the death of Mark Antony and the rise of the first Emperor Augustus. The series follows the two main characters, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, who find their lives intertwined with the key events.

The series was a ratings success for HBO and the BBC. The show received much media attention from the start, and Rome was honored with numerous awards and nominations in its two-season run. Co-creator Heller stated in December 2008 that a Rome movie is in development. The series was filmed in various locations, but most notably in the Cinecittà studios in Italy.


Rome in fiction |

AFI #061 Al Pacino as Tony Montana from Scarface (1983)

Tony Montana: You little cockroaches... come on. You wanna play games? Okay, I'll play with you. You wanna play rough? Okay! Say 'hello' to my little friend!

- Al Pacino as Tony Montana from Scarface (1983)

The bolded line is ranked #61 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

AFI #062 Rosa Moline by Bette Davis from Beyond the Forest (1949)

Rosa Moline: What a dump!

- Rosa Moline by Bette Davis from Beyond the Forest (1949)

The bolded line is ranked #62 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, August 26, 2005

AFI #063 Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate (1967)

Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson, here we are, you've got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music, now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
Mrs. Robinson: So?
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... Aren't you?
Mrs. Robinson: Well, no. I hadn't thought of it. I feel very flattered.
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson. Will you forgive me for what I just said?

- Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #63 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

AFI #064 Peter Sellers as Merkin Muffley from Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

- Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The bolded line is ranked #64 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

AFI #065 Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson.

- Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #65 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

AFI #066 Charlton Heston as George Taylor, Planet of the Apes (1968)

[the first words ever spoken by a human to the apes]
George Taylor: Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!

- Charlton Heston as George Taylor, Planet of the Apes (1968)

The bolded line is ranked #66 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, August 22, 2005

AFI #067 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)


Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #67 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Casablanca_%28film%29

Sunday, August 21, 2005

AFI #068 Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance from The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance: Here's Johnny!

- Jack Torrance by Jack Nicholson from The Shining (1980)

The bolded line is ranked #68 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

AFI #069 Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne Freeling from Poltergeist (1982)

Carol Anne: They're here!

- Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne Freeling from Poltergeist (1982)

The bolded line is ranked #69 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Diane: Sweetheart, last night, when you said "They're here."
Carol Anne: Can I take my goldfish to school?
Diane: Sweetheart, do you remember last night when you woke up, and you said "They're here.'?
Carol Anne: Uh huh.
Diane: Well, who did you mean, who's here?
Carol Anne: The TV People.

Friday, August 19, 2005

AFI #070 Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell from Marathon Man (1976)

Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: You're talking to me?
Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: Is what safe?
Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: I don't know what you mean. I can't tell you something's safe or not, unless I know specifically what you're talking about.
Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: Tell me what the "it" refers to.
Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.
Szell: Is it safe?
Babe: No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.

- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell from Marathon Man (1976)

The line, "Is it safe?" is ranked #70 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

AFI #071 Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin) from The Jazz Singer (1927)

[first lines]
[first words in the first widely-seen talking picture]
Jack Robin: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'! You wanna hear "Toot, Toot, Tootsie"? All right, hold on, hold on...
[walks back to one of the band members]
Jack Robin: Lou, listen. Play "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", three chorus, you understand. In the third chorus, I whistle. Now give it to 'em hard and heavy, go right ahead.
[band starts playing]

- Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin) from The Jazz Singer (1927)

The bolded line is ranked #71 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

AFI #072 Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford from Mommie Dearest (1981)

No wire hangers! What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you no wire hangers, ever?! I work and I slave until I'm half dead, and all I hear people say is she's getting old. And what do I get? A daughter who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her as she cares about me! What's wire hangers doing in this closet?!

- Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford from Mommie Dearest (1981)

The bolded line is ranked #72 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

AFI #073 Edward G. Robinson as Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello from Little Caesar (1930)

Caesar Enrico Bandello: Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?

- Edward G. Robinson as Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello from Little Caesar (1930)

The bolded line is ranked #73 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, August 15, 2005

AFI #074 Joe Mantell as Lawrence Walsh from Chinatown (1974)

Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

- Joe Mantell as Lawrence Walsh from Chinatown (1974)

The bolded line is ranked #74 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, August 14, 2005

AFI #075 Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Blanche DuBois: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

The bolded line is ranked #75 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

AFI #076 Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Hasta la vista, baby became a world-famous catchphrase when it was used in the 1991 film Terminator 2, which was written by James Cameron and William Wisher Jr. The phrase features in an exchange between the film's characters John Connor (Edward Furlong) and the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger):

John Connor: No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations.
The Terminator: Chill out, dickwad.
John Connor: Great! See, you're getting it!
The Terminator: No problemo.

The Terminator says the phrase again prior to shattering the frozen T-1000 with a gunshot:

The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The bolded line is ranked #76 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, August 12, 2005

AFI #077 Charlton Heston as Det. Robert Thorn from Soylent Green (1973)

Det. Thorn: Hatcher, get to the Exchange. You gotta tell them they're right.
Hatcher: But let's take care of you first.
Det. Thorn: You don't understand. I've got proof. They need proof, I've seen it. I've seen it happening. They've gotta tell people.
Hatcher: Tell them what?
Det. Thorn: The ocean's dying. Plankton's dying. It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing, they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Hatcher: I promise. Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the Exchange.
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me. Hatcher. You've gotta tell 'em! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! We gotta stop them! Somehow! Listen! Listen to me… PLEASE!!!

- Charlton Heston as Det. Robert Thorn from Soylent Green (1973)

The bolded line is ranked #77 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

AFI #078 Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave: All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave: HAL, I won't argue with you any more! Open the doors!
HAL: [almost sadly] Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.

- Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The bolded line is ranked #78 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

AFI #079 Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack from Airplane! (1980)

Striker: The stewardess told me that the pilot needed help...[Notices that only the autopilot is flying the plane] BOTH pilots?!
Rumack: Can you fly this plane and land it?
Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious...and don't call me Shirley.

- Robert Hays as Ted Striker and Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack from Airplane! (1980)

This next exchange is ranked #79 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

AFI #080 Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa from Rocky (1976)

Rocky Balboa: I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa from Rocky (1976)

Bolded portion is ranked #80 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, August 8, 2005

AFI #081 Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice from Funny Girl (1968)


Fanny Brice: [looking in the mirror] Hello, gorgeous.

- Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice from Funny Girl (1968)

Bold portion is ranked #81 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Sunday, August 7, 2005

AFI #082 John Belushi as Bluto from National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)


Otter: You guys up for a toga party?
Bluto: Toga! Toga!
Otter: Ah, I think they like the idea, Hoov.

- John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky from National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Bluto's "Toga! Toga!" is ranked #82 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Saturday, August 6, 2005

AFI #083 Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula from Dracula (1931)


Count Dracula: I am Dracula.
Renfield: Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage,and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula: I bid you welcome.
[Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling.]
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
[Dracula goes up the steps, and waits for Renfield, who without difficulty, cuts open a huge spider's web using his walking stick.]
Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield: Why, er... yes.

- Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula from Dracula (1931)

Bolded portion is ranked #83 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Friday, August 5, 2005

AFI #084 Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham from King Kong (1933)


Denham: Let me through, officer, my name's Denham...Lieutenant, I'm Carl Denham.
Passerby: Denham? He's the one that captured the monster!
Police Lieutenant: Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.
Denham: Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes.It was beauty killed the beast.

- Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham from King Kong (1933)

Bolded portion is ranked #84 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Thursday, August 4, 2005

AFI #085 Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)


Gollum: They're thieves, they're thieves! They're filthy little thieves! Where is it? Where is it? They ssstole it from us... my precioussss. Curse them! We hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!

- Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Bolded portion is ranked #85 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #085 Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)


Gollum: So bright... so beautiful... my precious.
Frodo: What did you say?
Gollum: Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength.
Frodo: Who are you?
Gollum: Mustn't ask us, not it's business. Gollum, gollum!
Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk.
Gollum: [ignoring him] Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travelers far from home.
Frodo: He said your life was a sad story.
Gollum: They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead.
Frodo: You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you... Sméagol?.
Gollum: [startled] What... what did you call me?
Frodo: That was your name once, wasn't it?
Gollum: My name? My name... [smiles] Sméagol.

- Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Bolded portion is ranked #85 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #085 Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)


[Frodo has allowed Faramir to take Gollum prisoner]
Gollum: Sméagol... Why does he cry, Sméagol?
Sméagol: [sobbing] Cruel men hurts us. Master tricksed us.
Gollum: Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.
Sméagol: Master is our friend... our friend.
Gollum: Master betrayed us.
Sméagol: No, not it's business. Leave us alone.
Gollum: Filthy little hobbitses! They stole it from us!
Sméagol: No... No.
Faramir: What did they steal?
Gollum: [screams] My PRECIOUSSS!

- Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Bolded portion is ranked #85 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

AFI #086 Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik from Dog Day Afternoon (1975)


Sonny: I don't wanna talk to some flunky pig trying to calm me man.
Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: Now you don't have to be calling me pig for...
Sonny: [Notices other officers moving toward him] What is he doing?
Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: [shouts at officers] Will you get back there!
Sonny: What are you moving in there for?
Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: [Runs toward closing officers] Will you get the fuck back there! Get back there will you!
Sonny: [Addresses other officers moving toward him] What's he doing? Go back there man! He wants to kill me so bad he can taste it! Huh? ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
[Yells it too cheering crowd]
Sonny: ATTICA! ATTICA! REMEMBER ATTICA.

- Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik from Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Bolded portion is ranked #86 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

AFI #087 Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh from 42nd Street (1933)


Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!

- Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh from 42nd Street (1933)

Bolded portion ranked #87 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, August 1, 2005

AFI #088 Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer from On Golden Pond

Norman: You want to know why I came back so fast? I got to the end of our lane. I couldn't remember where the old town road was. I went a little ways in the woods. There was nothing familiar. Not one damn tree. Scared me half to death. That's why I came running back here to you. So I could see your pretty face and I could feel safe and that I was still me.
Ethel: You're safe, you old poop and you're definitely still you picking on poor old Charlie. After lunch, after we've gobbled up all those silly strawberries we'll take ourselves to the old town road. We've been there a thousand times. A thousand. And you'll remember it all. Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're gonna get back up on that horse and I'm gonna be right behind you holding on tight and away we're gonna go, go, go.
Norman: I don't like horses. You are a pretty old dame aren't you? What are you doing with a dotty old son of a bitch like me?
Ethel: Well, I haven't the vaguest idea.

- Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer from On Golden Pond (1981)

The bolded quote is ranked #88 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.