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Latter-day Saint (LDS) Movies
on the AFI's
"100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes" List

Below are listed quotes from Latter-day Saint (Mormon) movies from the American Film Institute's list of of 400 nominated quotes for its "100 Years ... 100 Quotes" list. We have only noted films here for which the writer, director or producer was a Latter-day Saint, or a Latter-day Saint actor or character said the quote (or the quote was said directly to a Latter-day Saint charater or actor). A number of movies among these 400 nominees had a Latter-day Saint in other key roles, such as composer, cinematographer or special effects chief, but these have not been specifically noted:

MELVIN UDALL: You make me want to be a better man.

As Good As It Gets (1997)
ACTOR: Jack Nicholson
SCREENWRITERS: Mark Andrus (LDS), James L. Brooks
DIRECTOR: James L. Brooks
PRODUCER: James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea

BUTCH CASSIDY: Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
ACTOR: Paul Newman
SCREENWRITERS: William Goldman
DIRECTOR: George Roy Hill
PRODUCER: John Foreman

Butch Cassidy (whose birth name was Robert LeRoy Parker) was born and raised in an active Latter-day Saint family in Beaver, Utah. As an adult, he was not an active churchgoer.

AUSTIN POWERS: Yeah, baby!

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
ACTOR: Mike Myers
SCREENWRITERS: Mike Myers
DIRECTOR: Jay Roach
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER: Eric McLeod (from Moab, Utah)

DR. EVIL: One million dollars!

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
ACTOR: Mike Myers
SCREENWRITERS: Mike Myers
DIRECTOR: Jay Roach
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER: Eric McLeod (from Moab, Utah)

FARMER HOGGETT: That'll do, pig. That'll do.

[Farmer Hoggett is speaking to the film's title character, "Babe" the pig, played by voice actress Christine Cavanaugh, who was born and raised in Utah.]

Babe (1995)
ACTOR: James Cromwell
SCREENWRITERS: George Miller, Chris Noonan
DIRECTOR: Chris Noonan
PRODUCER: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller

CHANCE: I like to watch.

Being There (1979)
ACTOR: Peter Sellers
SCREENWRITER: Jerzy Kosinki
DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby (LDS, though not an active churchgoer)
PRODUCER: Andrew Braunsberg

ILSA LASZLO: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Ingrid Bergman
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RICK BLAINE: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RICK BLAINE: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RICK BLAINE: We'll always have Paris.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RICK BLAINE: Here's looking at you, kid.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

CAPT. RENAULT: Round up the usual suspects.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: clause Rains
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RICK BLAINE: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Casablanca (1942)
ACTOR: Humphrey Bogart
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (a native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

MAUDE: L-I-V-E! Live! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Harold and Maude (1971)
ACTOR: Ruth Gordon
SCREENWRITER: Colin Higgins
DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby (LDS)
PRODUCERS: Charles B. Mulvehill, Colin HIggins

DR. IAN MALCOLM: Life will find a way.

Jurassic Park (1993)
ACTOR: Jeff Goldblum
SCREENWRITERS: Michael Crichton, David Koepp
DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg
PRODUCERS: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen (LDS)

CARL DENHAM: Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

King Kong (1933)
ACTOR: Robert Armstrong
SCREENWRITERS: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose
DIRECTORS: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
PRODUCERS: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

The "Beauty" referred to in this movie quote was the beautiful (and strong-lunged) woman named "Ann Darrow," who was played by Mormon actress Fay Wray.

DRAKE McHUGH: Where's the rest of me?

Kings Row (1942)
ACTOR: Ronald Reagan
SCREENWRITER: Casey Robinson (native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Sam Wood
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

PROF. EUSTACE P. McGARGLE: Never give a sucker an even break.

Poppy (1936)
ACTOR: W. C. Fields
SCREENWRITER: Waldemar Young (LDS, grandson of Pres. Brigham Young), Virginia Van Upp
DIRECTOR: A. Edward Sutherland
PRODUCER: William LeBaron

CHARLOTTE VALE: Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Now, Voyager (1942)
ACTOR: Bette Davis
SCREENWRITER: Casey Robinson (native of Logan, Utah)
DIRECTOR: Irving Rapper
PRODUCER: Hal B. Wallis

RAYMOND BABBITT: I'm an excellent driver.

Rain Man (1988)
ACTOR: Dustin Hoffman
SCREENWRITER: Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson
PRODUCER: Mark Johnson
CO-PRODUCER: Gerald R. Molen (LDS)

Dustin Hoffman's character "Raymond Babbitt" is based on real-life Latter-day Saint autistic savant Kim Peek. Gerald R. Molen (i.e., Jerry Molen), the Latter-day Saint who was the co-producer of the film, also has the 4th-billed onscreen role as Raymond Babbitt's psychiatrist.

ITZAK STERN: The list is an absolute good. The list is life.

Schindler's List (1996)
ACTOR: Ben Kingsley
SCREENWRITER: Steven Zailian
DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg
PRODUCERS: Gerald R. Molen (LDS), Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig

QUEEN: Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
ACTOR: Lucille La Verne (voice)
SCREENWRITERS: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
DIRECTOR: David Hand
PRODUCER: Walt Disney

The part of "Magic Mirror" in this movie was voiced by Latter-day Saint actor Moroni Olsen.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR: To infinity and beyond!

Toy Story (1995)
ACTOR: Tim Allen (voice)
SCREENWRITERS: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
DIRECTOR: John Lasseter
PRODUCERS: Bonnie Arnold, Ralph Guggenheim
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/CREATOR OF "RENDERMAN" CGI TECHNOLOGY: Ed Catmull (LDS)

SHERLOCK HOLMES: Elementary, my dear Watson.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
ACTOR: Basil Rathbone
DIRECTOR: Alfred L. Werker
PRODUCER: Darryl F. Zanuck

This Sherlock Holmes movie does not actually feature Latter-day Saint characters. Rather, its featured villain is Professor Moriarty. But this movie is based on litarary sequels to Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes story, which did indeed feature Latter-day Saint missionaries as Sherlock Holmes' nemesis.

Web page created 31 May 2005. Last modified 23 April 2007.