The American Film Institute's Top 100 Movie Quotes of All Time

[Robert]

In "Monte Carlo Or Bust" there's a scene where Dudley Moore is driving the car, with Peter Cook in the front passenger seat, when the car goes off the edge of an icy precipice and starts falling to the snowy ground far below. Cook points his finger and says "Land there."

[Red Zeppelin]

Not an American film but I love Michael Caine's addition to Stanley Baker's assertion in Zulu that the British army doesn't like more than one disaster on the same day:

"Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfasts".

Always cracks me up that does.

[kensei]

My very favorite movie line of all time- Anthony Hopkins in "Legends of the Fall"- "Indians! Indians were the issue in those days. I can assure you gentlemen there is nothing quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child with a bullet."

From that same movie, perhaps the best ever closing line of a movie- "It was a good death."

And as the ultimate opening line there has ever been in the history of cinema- Brad Pitt in the opening scene of "Interview with the Vampire"- "So you want me to tell you the story of my life."

And as a guilty pleasure because I am a comic book geek, the closing lines of "Batman Begins"-

Gordon (Gary Oldman)- "I never said thank you."
Batman (Christian Bale)- "And you'll never have to."

[Zodiac]

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!"
Peter Finch. "Network" 1976.

A classic from the 1970's and yet, somehow, it still feels as topical today as it did way back then!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE&feature=related

Best wishes,
Zodiac.

[Robert]

Yes, their poor wives had to put up with a lot.

The background music was great too.

[Red Zeppelin]

Ah I love James Finlayson. The original "doh!" man.

Also supporting players like Walter Long (always played a bad guy, captain etc), Charlie Hall (the short guy) and Arthur Housman (the drunk). Many more. They all make the films what they were.

The female supporting actors were great too, particularly Mae Busch. Mae Busch was in lots of them.

[Robert]

Hi Red Zep

Yes, the films used to be shown a lot and I have many of them on video...somewhere. Of course, L and H had some good supporting players too, notably James Finlayson.

[Red Zeppelin]

Hi Zodiac,

Ah the line is from A Haunting We Will Go. Thanks for that. I was stumped. It's not one of the Hal Roach flicks from their heydays then. I haven't seen A Haunting We Will Go for many many years. I used to have it on video (taped it off the t.v back in the late 1980s or early 90s) but I don't know what happened to my old VHS tape and now I only recall parts of it. I do remember them transporting a coffin to Dayton Ohio.

I absolutely love Laurel and Hardy and I think they just age so well, in ways that the likes of Chaplin and the Marx Brothers don't (in my personal opinion and also the opinion of people I know).

Hi Robert,

I caught my love of Laurel and Hardy from way back in the early 1980s when BBC2 used to show their shorts during school holidays. As I remember, many of us kids used to watch L and H during the school holiday mornings. I've loved them ever since. I remember when I was about 11 years old and I had a big bust up with a pal of mine. He walked away and I went after him and all he kept coming out with was "I have nothing to say". Hilarious now that I think about it. He sounded just like Ollie as well.

[Robert]

Thanks Zodiac. These guys were genuinely nice guys. Some years ago the ventriloquist Ray Allen told a story about how when they were over here one time, Ollie heaved his painful legs up two or three flights of stairs to get to Allen's dressing room (Allen then being near the bottom of the bill) to get his autograph! Ollie explained that they liked to get autographs of the people they worked with.

[Zodiac]

Hi Red Zep

Yes, my dad was a fan and I caught it from him. I think they're absolutely fantastic - especially Ollie.

Hi Robert, hi Red Zep,

At last... I found it!!! I'm afraid to say that it is not quite as I remembered it, just goes to show what 20 years of debauchery can do to the memory!!! It does however involve stereotype Hollywood gansters etc, but the job is not a hit, but rather to escort a coffin and the "deceased" The film is "A Haunting We Will Go" and the actual line is.

Bad Guy: "We didn't advertise for two!"

Stan: "Oh but we can do the work of one!"

Best wishes,
Zodiac.

[Robert]

Hi Red Zep

Yes, my dad was a fan and I caught it from him. I think they're absolutely fantastic - especially Ollie.

[Red Zeppelin]

Hi Zodiac

I can't seem to place that one, but there are lots and lots, e.g. (and might not be 100% verbatim) :

Excuse me please, my ear is full of milk
We'll take the high road - and let him take the low road
If we put our heads together, we'd be twice as dumb as we are now
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead
plus all the catchphrases like "Do something to help me," "I have nothing to say" etc.

I can't place it either and I have the box set of all their Hal Roach works. Well, almost all of them. Been a huge fan of L and H since I was a kid.

[Limehouse]

"Ah - Juicy Fruit!" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"Daddy! My Daddy!" The Railway Children"

"Love means never having to say you're sorry" Love Story

[Zodiac]

"He may even be an ipsissimus." (The Devil Rides Out)

"Use your bladder man!" (The Wicker Man)

[Robert]

"He may even be an ipsissimus." (The Devil Rides Out)