READERS' FAVORITE MOVIE QUOTES; ``GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY.'' FOR DAILY NEWS READERS, LIST MAKERS `MISINFORMED'.

Byline: Rob Lowman Daily News Entertainment Editor

You must remember this: Humphrey Bogart did not say, ``Play it again, Sam'' in ``Casablanca.''

Still, enough people thought so that it landed at No. 8 on our Daily News Readers Poll of the Top-10 Best Movie Quotes of All Time.

As a newspaper editor told Jimmy Stewart in ``The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,'' ``This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, we print the legend.''

So in a time-honored Hollywood tradition, we will include ``Play it again, Sam'' on our list with this caveat: Bogey simply said, ``Play it.'' Apparently, as time has gone by, people have been confused by what was said to Sam the piano player (Dooley Wilson). So let's clear it up.

At one point, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) says, ``Play it, Sam. Play `As Time Goes By.' ''

Later, Rick (Bogart) says, ``You played it for her. You can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it.''

Got it?

``Play It Again, Sam'' was a Woody Allen movie, however, in which a fantasy Bogart (Jerry Lacy) gives Allen advice on his love life. ``The world is full of dames,'' the fictional Bogey tells Woody. ``All you gotta do is whistle.''

Which brings us to another Daily News reader favorite, which was said by Bogey's future wife Lauren Bacall in ``To Have and Have Not'': ``You do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.''

Whew 

Hot enough for you?

But it's in ``Some Like It Hot,'' where critic Bob Strauss finds one of his top-10 favorite lines: ``Well, nobody's perfect.'' It's said by millionaire Joe E. Browne after being informed by Jack Lemmon, who was posing as a woman, that he couldn't marry him because he was a man.

Along with Bob's list, we've included favorite lines from some people around Hollywood. For ``The X-Files'' creator Chris Carter it was ``we need a bigger boat,'' which was uttered by land-loving Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) in ``Jaws'' when he got a close-up view of the great white shark while at sea.

We know the feeling. We could have used a bigger paper to get in all the great movie quotes since the first talkie, ``The Jazz Singer,'' in 1927.

This whole thing started when a so-called panel of experts picked their list of the best movie lines to mark the publication of ``The Guinness Book of Film.''

No. 1 for them was Agent 007's signature line, ``Bond. James Bond,'' spoken by debonair Sean Connery in ``Dr. No.''

We were a bit suspicious, though, about that being the top line. As it turned out, it didn't even make Daily News readers' top 10. Was there a bias? Could it be that the Guinness experts, like the redoubtable supersleuth, hail from the British Isles?

On the other hand, the Daily News readers' No. 1 line is as American as apple pie, baseball and .44 Magnums. In fact, it is from Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in ``Sudden Impact'': ``Go ahead, make my day.''

It's a line that everybody has probably used once or twice in their lives - probably to their kids. President Reagan even used it: ``I have only one thing to say to tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.''

The Great Communicator, in fact, was probably America's No. 1 chief executive when it came to citing the Hollywood classics. At Normandy, for the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the former actor sampled a quote from ``The Bridges at Toko-Ri'': ``I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!'' Another time, defending his Strategic Defense Initiative, he echoed Luke Skywalker and friends in declaring, ``The Force is with us.''

Yet another time he announced in a State of the Union address, ``Where we're going, there are no roads'' - a catch-phrase borrowed from ``Back to the Future.''

Anyway, along with our readers' choices, Bob Strauss' picks and those from Hollywood, we've even included some from those silly twits at Guinness.

And, hey, don't sweat it if some other wise guy informs you no one ever actually said, ``Play it again, Sam.'' Just repeat another of Bogey's lines from ``Casablanca'': ``I was misinformed.''

Top 10 movie picks from the ``The Guinness Book of Film'' panel:

1. ``Bond - James Bond.'' - Sean Connery, ``Dr. No.''

2. ``Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.'' - Humphrey Bogart, ``Casablanca.''

3. ``It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.'' - Mae West, ``I'm No Angel.''

4. ``I'll be back.'' - Arnold Schwarzenegger, ``The Terminator.''

5. ``Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?'' - Jean Harlow, ``Hell's Angels.''

6. ``Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.'' - Tom Hanks, ``Forrest Gump.''

7. ``I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows until you came home.'' - Groucho Marx, ``Duck Soup.''

8. ``Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'' - Clark Gable, ``Gone With the Wind.''

9. ``You talkin' to me?'' - Robert De Niro, ``Taxi Driver.''

10. ``Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.'' - Greta Garbo, ``Anna Christie.''

Bob Strauss' top 10 movie lines.

1. ``Rosebud.'' - The word that launched the most admired film of all time, ``Citizen Kane.''

2. (Tie) ``I'm shocked . . . shocked'' and ``Round up the usual suspects.'' - Masterpieces of straightfaced prevarication from ``Casablanca's'' Capt. Renaud (Claude Rains), the inspiration to future generations of lawyers and presidents.

3. ``I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.'' - Marlon Brando, businessman extraordinaire, ``The Godfather.''

4. ``Nobody's Perfect.'' - Love conquers all, sort of, at the end of ``Some Like It Hot.''

5. ``You talkin' to me?'' - Robert De Niro's all-purpose conversation stopper, ``Taxi Driver.''

6. ``I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin'. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.'' - Samuel L. Jackson's hitman seeks the truth, ``Pulp Fiction.''

7. ``Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up now.'' - Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond, demonstrating just how bad movies can be for you, ``Sunset Boulevard.''

8. (tie) ``Plastics!'' - ``The Graduate''; and ``Fluids!'' - ``Dr. Strangelove'' - What the '60s were really all about.

9. ``I don't know where I'm going, but I'm not coming back till I know what trouble is.'' - Joel McCrea's Hollywood filmmaker seeks the truth, ``Sullivan's Travels.''

10. ``Was I a good man?'' - What they worried about the most, ``Saving Private Ryan.''

Picks from Hollywood professionals and noted critics.

Gary Ross, writer of ``Big,'' ``Dave'' and writer-director of ``Pleasantville'':

``Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room.'' - President Muffley (Peter Sellers) to Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and the Russian ambassador (Peter Bull) in ``Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.''

Ed Zwick, director, ``The Siege,'' ``Glory,'' ``Courage Under Fire,'' ``Legends of the Fall'':

``If you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you.'' - Bogart's Sam Spade to Mary Astor's Brigid O'Shaughnessy, after turning her in to the police in ``The Maltese Falcon.''

Lynda Obst, producer, ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' ``Hope Floats'':

``Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.'' - Bogart's Rick to Rains' Renaud, ``Casablanca.''

Gillian Anderson, star of ``The X-Files'':

``Maybe the emotion is so intense, your body just can't contain it. Your mind, your feelings become too powerful. Your body bows beneath it. Your body weeps.'' - Nicolas Cage's ethereal Seth in ``City of Angels.''

Richard Sylbert, Oscar-winning production designer (``Dick Tracy,'' ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''):

``I'm shocked . . . shocked to find that gambling is going on in here'' - Capt. Renaud to skeptical bettors, ``Casablanca.''

Carl Gottlieb, screenwriter (``Jaws'') and vice president, Writers Guild of America:

``Help me be the queen I was born to be.'' - Ronald Colman, as confused as everybody else, in ``The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1937).

Chris Carter, creator and executive producer of ``The X-Files'':

``We need a bigger boat.'' - Roy Scheider's concerned sheriff, ``Jaws.''

Leonard Maltin, ``Entertainment Tonight'' film critic and editor of the annual ``Movie & Video Guide'':

``I was misinformed'' - Rick to Renauld again, on the Sahara's famous, nonexistent healing waters, ``Casablanca.''

Cameron Crowe, writer-director of ``Jerry Maguire'':

``Gently baby, it's Mother's Day'' - John Lund's Capt. John Pringle to his shifty Berlin girlfriend, Marlene Dietrich's Erika von Schlueten, in ``A Foreign Affair.''

Roger Ebert, ``Siskel & Ebert'':

``This is my happening, and it freaks me out!'' - ``Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.'' Screenplay by Roger Ebert.

Ron Bass, screenwriter (``Rain Man,'' ``What Dreams May Come''):

``Then I really overshot here, 'cause I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.'' - Jack Nicholson's Melvin to Helen Hunt's Carol after she's told him he's just given her the best compliment of her life in ``As Good As It Gets.''

Jane Seymour, actress:

``Is it you?'' - ``Somewhere in Time,'' starring Jane Seymour.

Marilu Henner, actress:

``Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'' - ``Gone With the Wind.''

Readers' favorite movie quotes

1. ``Go ahead, make my day.'' - Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) as he points a gun at an armed robber in ``Sudden Impact.''

2. ``You do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.'' - Lauren Bacall (``Slim Marie) to Humphrey Bogart (Steve) in ``To Have and Have Not.''

3. ``Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!'' - A Mexican bandit (Alfonso Bedoya) becoming increasingly angry at Humphrey Bogart in ``The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.''

4. ``Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'' - Dorothy (Judy Garland) to her dog in ``The Wizard of Oz.''

5.``Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'' - Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh) at the end of ``Gone With the Wind.''

6. ``I coulda been a contender.'' - Ex-boxer and longshoreman Marlon Brando, who blames his brother, Rod Steiger, for his failure in the fight game in ``On the Waterfront.''

7. ``Fasten your seat belts, kids. It's going to be a bumpy night.'' - Grumpy aging actress Bette Davis in ``All About Eve.''

8.``Rosebud.'' - The final word of tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) in ``Citizen Kane.''

9.``What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'' - Chain-gang boss Strother Martin to a broken Paul Newman in ``Cool Hand Luke.''

10.``May the force be with you.'' - Obi Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in ``Star Wars.''

11.``Hasta la vista, baby.'' - Good terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger from ``Terminator 2: Judgment Day.''

12. (tie) ``E.T. phone home.'' - the alien from ``E.T.''

13.``There's no place like home.'' - Dorothy (Judy Garland) in ``The Wizard of Oz.''

14. (tie) ``Here's looking at you, kid'' - Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman in ``Casablanca.''

15.The misquoted ``Play it again, Sam'' - Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to piano player Sam in ``Casablanca.''

16. (tie) ``I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.'' - Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), referring to a producer who won't give his godson (Vic Damone) a part in a movie. Later, after being asked how he will arrange to buy a Las Vegas hotel Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) uses the same line.

17.``Yo, Adrienne!'' - pugilist Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) to his future girlfriend (Talia Shire) in ``Rocky.''

18. ``Heeeeere's Johnny!'' - a crazed Jack Torrance, who's trying to chop up his wife (Shelley Duvall) in ``The Shining.''

CAPTION(S):

4 boxes, 6 photos

Boxes: (1) Readers' favorite movie quotes (see text)

(2) Bob Strauss' top 10 movie lines (see text)

(3) Picks from Hollywood professionals and noted critics (see text)

(4) Top 10 poicks from the `The Guinness Book of Film' panel (see test)

Photo: (1 -- color) Clint Eastwood in `Sudden Impact'

(2 -- color) no caption (Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz)

(3) no caption (Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler in `Gone with the Wind')

(4) ``Casablanca''

(5) ``Citizen Kane''

(6) James Bond