According to a new poll, the greatest line in movie history is Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase: 'To infinity…and beyond!'

 

The public vote saw the line said by a toy astronaut in Disney's 1995 film Toy Story come out top by just one vote.

 

This narrow margin¹ gave it victory over Michael Caine's line, 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody² doors off' from 1969's The Italian Job.

 

Third place went to 'Say hello to my little friend', screamed by Al Pacino in 1983's Scarface.

 

The Radio Times vote is sure to split opinion, with only ten quotes chosen from an original shortlist of 50 and many favourites not included in the process at all.

 

Quotes that were chosen by the magazine to go to the public vote, but failed to attract enough support to make it into the final ten, include: 'May the Force be with you' from Star Wars and 'Here's looking at you, kid' from Casablanca.

 

'I love the smell of napalm in the morning' from Apocalypse Now, 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' from Love Story and 'The stuff that dreams are made of' from The Maltese Falcon³, were not even up for consideration.

 

Last out of the 50 was the famous line from Hitchcock's thriller⁴ Psycho: 'A boy's best friend is his mother', which picked up just one vote from the 2,500 cast in total.

 

The other famous lines in the top ten were 'He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy' from Monty Python's The Life of Brian which came in fourth. It was spoken by Brian's mother, played by Terry Jones, and is one of a series of jokes in which Brian is mistaken for Jesus.

 

Next came 'You're going to need a bigger boat' from Steven Spielberg's Jaws⁵ and Gone with the Wind's 'Frankly⁶, my dear, I don't give a damn'.

 

Carry On Cleo's: 'Infamy⁷, infamy, they've all got it in for me' came in seventh, beating Blade Runner's 'All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain'.

 

'Nobody's perfect' from Some Like It Hot and 'We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now' from Withnail & I came ninth and tenth respectively. Just missing out was 'Bond. James Bond', first uttered in 1962's Dr No by Sean Connery.

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