AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939  American Civil War epic "Gone with the Wind", as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time. Criteria. Jurors were asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections: The list. The table below reproduces the quotes as the AFI published them. By the numbers. With six quotes, "Casablanca" is the most represented film. "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" are tied for second, with three each. "Sunset Boulevard", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Graduate", and "Jerry Maguire" each have two quotes. Rick Blaine ("Casablanca") is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale  ("The Wizard of Oz"), Harry Callahan ("Dirty Harry" and "Sudden Impact"), James Bond ("Dr. No" and "Goldfinger"), Norma Desmond ("Sunset Boulevard"), Scarlett O'Hara ("Gone with the Wind"), and The Terminator ("The Terminator" and "") have two quotes each. With five, Humphrey Bogart is the actor with the most quotes (four from "Casablanca" and one from "The Maltese Falcon"). Al Pacino, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Tom Hanks, and Vivien Leigh have three apiece, while Jack Nicholson, Judy Garland, Gloria Swanson, Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, James Cagney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger have two each. Sean Connery also has two entries, but his  two quotes are shared with five other actors. As well as the five quotes spoken by Bogart, two other quotes on the list (from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "To Have and Have Not") were spoken "to" him, by Alfonso Bedoya and Lauren Bacall, respectively. Further, "Round up the usual suspects." was spoken in his presence and for his character's benefit by Claude Rains, and "Play it, Sam." is often mistakenly attributed to him; he actually said, "You played it for her, you can play it for me. ... If she can stand it, I can! Play it !" The line "My precious", from "", is the only quote from a movie released in the 21st century and the only one by a CGI character. Quotations by decade: Top years: Misquotes. A number of the entries are frequently misquoted, as: Real-life sources. A number of the quotes are drawn from real-world events and sources: Opening and closing lines. Only one of the quotes – "Rosebud", from "Citizen Kane" – is the opening line of a film. 12 quotes are closing lines: