AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War
We Don't Give a Damn "We Don't Give a Damn" is set to the melody of the American folk song "The Old Gray Mare". The song dates back at least to the 1890s and was used in multiple variations and contexts. In 1896, a group of Cornell alumni gathered in Chicago and sang a song with the following lyrics: "We don't give a ---- For the whole State of Michigan; We're from Illinois." During the 1907 World Series, fans of the Chicago Cubs celebrated their team's victory by running onto the field and singing: "We don't give a rap for the whole State of Mich-i-gan,