MOVIES
Critical Response - AFI
100 Years... 100 Quotes
This list features movie quotes that have been rated as most memorable by the American Film Institute.
RANK | QUOTE | CHARACTER | ACTOR | FILM | YEAR |
1 | "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." | Rhett Butler | Clark Gable | Gone with the Wind | 1939 |
2 | "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." | 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." | Terry Malloy | Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront | 1954 |
4 | "Toto, I've 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." | 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 failure to communicate." | 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 Cavalleri, Oliver Barrett IV | Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal | Love Story | 1970 |
14 | "The stuff that dreams are made of." | 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 | Dr. No | 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?" | Lady Lou | Mae West | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 |
27 | "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!" | "Ratso" Rizzo | Dustin Hoffman | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 |
28 | "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" | Ilsa Lund | Ingrid Bergman | Casablanca | 1942 |
29 | "You can't handle the truth!" | Col. Nathan R. Jessup | 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." | 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!" | 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." | Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 |
39 | "If you build it, he will come." | Shoeless Joe Jackson | Ray Liotta (voice) | Field of Dreams | 1989 |
40 | "My 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 deWilde | 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." | Jim Lovell | Tom Hanks | Apollo 13 | 1995 |
51 | "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" | 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." | 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." | Gordon Gekko | Michael Douglas | Wall Street | 1987 |
58 | "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." | 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!" | 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." | Rosa Moline | Bette Davis | Beyond the Forest | 1949 |
63 | "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" | 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 | 1964 |
65 | "Elementary, my dear Watson." | Sherlock Holmes | Basil Rathbone | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1939 |
66 | "Take 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!" | 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!" | Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin | Al Jolson | The Jazz Singer | 1927 |
72 | "No wire hangers, ever!" | Joan Crawford | Faye Dunaway | Mommie Dearest | 1981 |
73 | "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" | Rico Bandello | Edward G. Robinson | Little Caesar | 1931 |
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!" | Detective Thorn | Charlton Heston | Soylent Green | 1973 |
78 | "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." | Dave Bowman | Keir Dullea | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 |
79 | "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" | Evil Queen | Lucille La Verne | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 |
80 | "I'm king of the world!" | Jack Dawson | Leonardo DiCaprio | Titanic | 1997 |
81 | "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys." | John Keating | Robin Williams | Dead Poets Society | 1989 |
82 | "Snap out of it!" | Loretta Castorini | Cher | Moonstruck | 1987 |
83 | "My precious." | Gollum | Andy Serkis | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 |
84 | "I feel the need—the need for speed!" | Maverick | Tom Cruise | Top Gun | 1986 |
85 | "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." | Michael Corleone | Al Pacino | The Godfather Part III | 1990 |
86 | "I drink your milkshake!" | Daniel Plainview | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | 2007 |
87 | "Inconceivable!" | Vizzini | Wallace Shawn | The Princess Bride | 1987 |
88 | "Keep the change, ya filthy animal." | Gangster Johnny | Ralph Foody | Home Alone | 1990 |
89 | "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." | Dr. Emmett Brown | Christopher Lloyd | Back to the Future | 1985 |
90 | "I am your father." | Darth Vader | James Earl Jones | Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 |
91 | "Houston, we have a problem." | Jim Lovell | Tom Hanks | Apollo 13 | 1995 |
92 | "I see you." | Neytiri | Zoe Saldana | Avatar | 2009 |
93 | "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*****!" | John McClane | Bruce Willis | Die Hard | 1988 |
94 | "I volunteer as tribute!" | Katniss Everdeen | Jennifer Lawrence | The Hunger Games | 2012 |
95 | "To infinity and beyond!" | Buzz Lightyear | Tim Allen | Toy Story | 1995 |
96 | "I am Groot." | Groot | Vin Diesel | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 |
97 | "Wakanda forever!" | T'Challa | Chadwick Boseman | Black Panther | 2018 |
98 | "Why so serious?" | The Joker | Heath Ledger | The Dark Knight | 2008 |
99 | "I wish I knew how to quit you." | Jack Twist | Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 |
100 | "Here's looking at you, kid." | Rick Blaine | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca | 1942 |
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