My Favorite Performances of 2001 (Male)

Muhammad Ali - Ali
"I ain't draft dodging. I ain't burning no flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people."

Alonzo Harris - Training Day
"I'm winning anyway, I'm winning... I'm winning any motherfucking way. I can't lose. Yeah, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me."

Elling - Elling
"I'll just walk the streets for a few hours. Be a walking target for random violence."

Royal Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
"I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."

Nino Quincampoix - Amélie

Seymour - Ghost World
"I can't relate to 99% of humanity."

Derek Zoolander - Zoolander
"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."

Honorable Mentions:
Chas Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums

Kjell Bjarne - Elling
"I'm 40 years old and i have NEVER FUCKED!"

Ed Crane - The Man Who Wasn't There
"Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right, I don't know."

Honorable Mentions:
Hank Grotowski - Monster's Ball
Terry Collins - Bandits

Gandalf - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You shall not pass!"

Gigolo Joe - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
"When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when you grow up."

Richie Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
"Of course it's dark, it's a suicide note."

Jake Hoyt - Training Day
"It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?"

Adam Kesher - Mulholland Drive
"I got the pool, she got the pool-man."

Drew 'Bundini' Brown - Ali
"I'm the only normal one left around here. I'm a black Jew, I'm half drunk and I cant read."

Andy - Wet Hot American Summer
"You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."

Wyatt Frame - Josie and the Pussycats
"Lisa, it's me. Wally. White-Ass Wally!"

Big Dave Brewster - The Man Who Wasn't There
"What kind of a man are you?"

Jean-Francois de Morangias - Brotherhood of the Wolf
"Ghost or not, I'll split you in two."

Sonny Grotowski - Monster's Ball
"You hate me. You hate me, don't you? Answer me! You hate me don't you!"

Honorable Mentions:
William Thatcher - A Knight's Tale

Garrison - Black Hawk Down
"300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war Mr. Atto. That's genocide."

Frodo Baggins - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

David Aames - Vanilla Sky
"I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer."

Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko
"I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."

Ted Brautigan - Hearts in Atlantis
"You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."