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Poll: AFI's Most Quotable Actors of the Last Century...

This list features all the actors with at least 4 quotes nominated to the American Film Institute Top 100 Most Classic Quotes. To give you an idea, these 16 actors and actresses put together, represent more than 20% of all the nominated quotes that impacted American movies' memories since the talkies and more than 30% of the Top 100 list. This called for a poll!

They're ranked in order of number of nominated quotes, but since quality matters more than quantity, which of these actors or actresses, in your opinion, deserves the title of most quotable American Cinema's actor of the last century?

Discuss here

In green, the quotes delivered by an another actor (in the case of a dialogue) and in bold, the quotes that made the AFI's Top 100 list.

Results of 1,349 votes:

  1. 1.

    Humphrey Bogart

     
    11 QUOTES : THE AFRICAN QUEEN : "A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature"""Nature,” Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above." …
  2. 2.

    Al Pacino

     
    6 QUOTES : DOG DAY AFTERNOON : "Attica! Attica!" THE GODFATHER PART II : "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart." "Keep your friends close, but your…
  3. 3.

    Tom Hanks

     
    5 QUOTES : APOLLO 13 : "Houston, we have a problem." BIG : "Okay, but I get to be on top." FORREST GUMP : "My mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never kn…

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