AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes

1 “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Rhett Butler Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
2 “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Don Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972
3 “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”[2] Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
4 “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
5 “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
6 “Go ahead, make my day” Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact 1983
7 “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”[3] Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
8 “May the Force be with you.” Han Solo Harrison Ford Star Wars 1977
9 “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
10 “You talkin’ to me?” Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver 1976
11 “What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate.”[4] Captain Strother Martin Cool Hand Luke 1967
12 “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
13 “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett Ali MacGraw Love Story 1970
14 “The stuff that dreams are made of.”[5] Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
15 “E.T. phone home.” E.T. Pat Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
16 “They call me Mister Tibbs!” Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night 1967
17 “Rosebud.” Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
18 “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” Arthur “Cody” Jarrett James Cagney White Heat 1949
19 “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Howard Beale Peter Finch Network 1976
20 “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
21 “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 1991
22 “Bond. James Bond.” James Bond Sean Connery[6] Dr. No[7] 1962
23 “There’s no place like home.” Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
24 “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
25 “Show me the money!” Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding, Jr. Jerry Maguire 1996
26 “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”[8] Lady Lou Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
27 “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!”[9] “Ratso” Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy 1969
28 “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.'”[10] Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
29 “You can’t handle the truth!” Col. Nathan R. Jessep Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men 1992
30 “I want to be alone.” Grusinskaya Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932
31 “After all, tomorrow is another day!” Scarlett O’Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
32 “Round up the usual suspects.” Capt. Louis Renault Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
33 “I’ll have what she’s having.” Customer Estelle Reiner When Harry Met Sally… 1989
34 “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” Marie “Slim” Browning Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
35 “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”[11] Martin Brody Roy Scheider Jaws 1975
36 “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”[12] “Gold Hat” Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
37 “I’ll be back.” The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator 1984
38 “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”[13] Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
39 “If you build it, he will come.”[14] Shoeless Joe Jackson Ray Liotta (voice) Field of Dreams 1989
40 “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994
41 “We rob banks.” Clyde Barrow Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde 1967
42 “Plastics.” Mr. Maguire Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
43 “We’ll always have Paris.” Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
44 “I see dead people.” Cole Sear Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense 1999
45 “Stella! Hey, Stella!” Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
46 “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” Charlotte Vale Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
47 “Shane. Shane. Come back!” Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Shane 1953
48 “Well, nobody’s perfect.” Osgood Fielding III Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
49 “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Henry Frankenstein Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
50 “Houston, we have a problem.”[15] Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995
51 “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”[16] Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry 1971
52 “You had me at ‘hello.'” Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Jerry Maguire 1996
53 “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.”[17] Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
54 “There’s no crying in baseball!” Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks A League of Their Own 1992
55 “La-dee-da, la-dee-da.” Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall 1977
56 “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
57 “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”[18] Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street 1987
58 “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”[19] Michael Corleone Al Pacino The Godfather Part II 1974
59 “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” Scarlett O’Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
60 “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”[20] Oliver Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933
61 “Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!” Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface 1983
62 “What a dump.”[21] Rosa Moline Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
63 “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me… Aren’t you?”[22] Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman The Graduate 1967
64 “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” President Merkin Muffley Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
65 “Elementary, my dear Watson.”[23] Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
66 “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” George Taylor Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes 1968
67 “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
68 “Here’s Johnny!”[24] Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining 1980
69 “They’re here!” Carol Anne Freeling Heather O’Rourke Poltergeist 1982
70 “Is it safe?” Dr. Christian Szell Laurence Olivier Marathon Man 1976
71 “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”[25] Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
72 “No wire hangers, ever!”[26] Joan Crawford Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest 1981
73 “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” Cesare Enrico “Rico” Bandello Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1930
74 “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” Lawrence Walsh Joe Mantell Chinatown 1974
75 “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
76 “Hasta la vista, baby.” The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
77 “Soylent Green is people!” Det. Robert Thorn Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
78 “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Dave Bowman Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
79 Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious?!” Rumack: “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.” Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen Airplane! 1980
80 “Yo, Adrian!” Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky 1976
81 “Hello gorgeous.” Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 1968
82 “Toga! Toga!” John “Bluto” Blutarsky John Belushi National Lampoon’s Animal House 1978
83 “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.” Count Dracula Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
84 “Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”[27] Carl Denham Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
85 “My precious.” Gollum Andy Serkis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
86 “Attica! Attica!” Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon 1975
87 “Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
88 “Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go, go!” Ethel Thayer Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 1981
89 “Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for The Gipper.” Knute Rockne[28] Pat O’Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
90 “A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”[29] James Bond Sean Connery[6] Goldfinger[30] 1964
91 “Who’s on First?” Dexter Bud Abbott The Naughty Nineties 1945
92 “Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980
93 “Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” Mame Dennis Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
94 “I feel the need—the need for speed!” Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Lt. Nick “Goose” Bradshaw Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards Top Gun 1986
95 “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” John Keating Robin Williams Dead Poets Society 1989
96 “Snap out of it!” Loretta Castorini Cher Moonstruck 1987
97 “My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” George M. Cohan James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
98 “Nobody puts ‘Baby’ in a corner.” Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing 1987
99 “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939
100 “I’m king of the world!” Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997

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