Every so often some organization or other puts out a list of standard movie quotes that they say are "THE" top list. We can pretty much predict what will be in the top 10, they are the standard usually day in and out. It got me thinking though -- what do you the average person on the street think? Would your top lines me the same? I've put together my own list of my top 10...no...12 lines and although I am sure I've forgotten some I like and I will bat myself over the head for doing so I am curious to see how much agreement we have with the usual lists.
At # 12 for me is
"Release the Kraken!" from Clash of the Titans (I link to the original -- the only one I've seen.
At # 11 for me is
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" from Airplane!
At # 10 is
"Look at that! Look how she moves! That's just like Jell-O on springs." from Some like it hot
At # 9
"Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape." from Planet of the Apes
At # 8
"Soylent Green is people!" from Soylent Green
At # 7
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." from The Princess Bride
At # 6
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." from
Animal Crackers
At # 5
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses" from The Blues Brothers
At # 4
"There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand." from Pee Wee's Big Adventure
At # 3
"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia. I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them." from
Full Metal Jacket
At # 2
"We accept her! We accept her! One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble!" from Freaks
And my # 1 is
"They call me Mister Tibbs!" from In the Heat of the Night