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Dateline: 16th March, 2003

The Top Ten Film One-Liners

We all have our favourite lines from play and films. A recent suvey in the UK, carried out for the Orange Word Screenwriters season at the British Library, revealed that Britain's ten favourites were:

  1. "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" - The Italian Job;
  2. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind;
  3. "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now" Withnail and I;
  4. "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver;
  5. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" - Apocalypse Now;
  6. "I'll have what she's having ..." - When Harry met Sally;
  7. "All my life I wanted to be a gangster" - Goodfellas;
  8. "I do wish we could chat longer. But I'm having an old friend for dinner" - Silence of the Lambs;
  9. "Infamy, Infamy, they've all got it in for me" - Carry on Cleo;
  10. "He's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy" - Life of Brian.

Not a lot of people know that!

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