The Movie Quote That Most Americans Would Use To Sum Up Their Lives Is From “Forrest Gump”

26% of Americans said they can best sum up their lives with the quote, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."

A quote from "The Wizard of Oz" came in second, with 21%.  That quote, of course, is, "There's no place like home."

8% of people went for the quote "Carpe diem," which means "Seize the day," from "Dead Poets Society".

Two different quotes got 7% of the vote: "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" from "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" from "All About Eve".

Two quotes got 6% of the vote: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" from "Gone With the Wind", and "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" from "The Pride of the Yankees".

Two quotes got 4% of the vote: "May the Force be with you" from "Star Wars", and "What we have here is a failure to communicate" from "Cool Hand Luke".

"Show me the money" from "Jerry Maguire" got 3%.  And finally, 2% of the vote went to both "There's no crying in baseball" from "A League of Their Own" and "Houston, we have a problem" from "Apollo 13".

(PR Newswire)