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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

AFI #038 Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)


[his farewell speech]
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #38 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Dream, Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)


[Shoeless Joe Jackson has asked Terence Mann to come with them to the cornfield, but Ray is upset because he wasn't invited]
Ray Kinsella: I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what's in it for me!
Shoeless Joe Jackson: What are you saying, Ray?
Ray Kinsella: I'm saying... what's in it for me?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is that why you did this? For you? I think you better stay here, Ray.
...
Ray Kinsella: What are you grinning at, you ghost?
Shoeless Joe: "If you build it -" [gestures toward catcher, who is Ray's father, John Kinsella] "- he will come."
Ray : "Ease his pain. Go the distance." It was him!
Shoeless Joe: No, Ray. It was you.

- Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

AFI #039 Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)


If you build it, he will come.

- Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

The bolded line is ranked #39 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Field of Dreams is a 1989 film about an Iowa corn farmer who hears a voice telling him: "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this as an instruction to build a baseball diamond in his fields; after he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other dead baseball players emerge from the cornfields to play ball.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

AFI #054 Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own (1992)

[Evelyn starts to cry.]
Jimmy: Are you crying? Are you crying? Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball!
Doris Murphy: Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Oh, zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager and he called me a talking pile of pig shit - and that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game! And did I cry?
Evelyn: (inbetween sobs) No, no, no ...
Jimmy: Yeah, no! And do you know why?
Evelyn: No ...
Jimmy: Because there's no crying in baseball. There's no crying in baseball--no crying!

- Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own (1992)

The bolded line is ranked #54 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.