AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years... 100

Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The

American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television

program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and had commentary

from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists,

critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark

Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind as the

most memorable American movie quotation of all time.

Criteria

Jurors were asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:

Movie Quotation: A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film.[1] Lyrics from songs are not eligible.

Cultural Impact: Movie quotations that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon.

Legacy: Movie quotations that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

The list

The table below reproduces the quotes as the AFI published them.[2] The following have

since been identified as being misquoted by the AFI[citation needed]:

#2: Marlon Brando says "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse", not "...going to...".

#4: Judy Garland says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." (AFI misquotes the line as "I've got a feeling...")

#40: Tom Hanks says "My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'" (AFI omitted "my.")

#66: Charlton Heston says "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape", not "Get..."

#78: Keir Dullea says "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." (AFI added "please.") #98: Patrick Swayze says "Nobody puts Baby in the corner", not "...a corner."

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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." Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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."[3]

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."

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."[4]

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."[5]

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."[6] Sam Spade

Humphrey

Bogart

The Maltese

Falcon 1941

15 "E.T. phone home." E.T. Pat Welsh

E.T. the Extra-

Terrestrial

1982

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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[7] Dr. No[8]

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?"[9]

Lady Lou Mae West

She Done Him

Wrong

1933

27 "I'm walking here! I'm

walking here!"[10] "Ratso" Rizzo Dustin Hoffman

Midnight

Cowboy

1969

28 "Play it, Sam. Play 'As

Time Goes By.'"[11] Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942

29 "You can't handle the

truth!"

Col. Nathan R.

Jessup Jack Nicholson

A Few Good

Men

1992

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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."[12] 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!"[13]

"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."[14]

Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper

The Pride of the

Yankees 1942

39 "If you build it, he will

come."[15]

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

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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."[16] Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995

51

"You've got to ask

yourself one question:

'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do

ya, punk?"[17]

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

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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."[27]

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

please, 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

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

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."[28]

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[29] Pat O'Brien

Knute Rockne,

All American

1940

90 "A martini. Shaken, not

stirred."[30] James Bond Sean Connery[7]

Goldfinger[31] 1964

91 "Who's on first?"[32] 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

Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980

Quotation

number Quotation Character Actor/Actress Film Year

the hole! It's in the hole!

It's in the hole!"

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 the king of the

world!" Jack Dawson

Leonardo

DiCaprio

Titanic 1997

Trivia

With six movie quotes featured, Casablanca is by far the most represented film on this list. The next two most represented films are Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, with three featured quotes each. Sunset Boulevard, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Graduate and Jerry Maguire each have two featured quotes.

Footnotes

1. Jump up ^ AFI defines an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. Additionally, only quotations from feature-length American films released before January 1, 2004, were

considered. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length.

2. Jump up ^ "AFI's List of Nominated Quotes" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

3. Jump up ^ Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta repeats Brando's speech in Raging Bull. 4. Jump up ^ Often paraphrased as "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride" 5. Jump up ^ Paul Newman repeats the line later in the film, mocking the prison warden, though

he says "a failure", rather than simply "failure." Also heard quoted in this form. 6. Jump up ^ This paraphrases a line from The Tempest by William Shakespeare: "We are such stuff

as dreams are made on" (often misquoted as "made of") 7. ^ Jump up to: a b Also George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel

Craig. 8. Jump up ^ Appears in some form in a total of 23 films; Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger,

Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall.

9. Jump up ^ Mae West paraphrased the line in her next film I'm No Angel as "Come up and see me sometime". Henceforth the line in She Done Him Wrong is often misquoted as "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"

10. Jump up ^ Sometimes claimed to be an ad lib. 11. Jump up ^ Usually misquoted as "Play it again, Sam." 12. Jump up ^ Baer 2008, pp. 201–202 Reportedly an ad lib. Commonly misheard as "We're gonna

need a bigger boat," as for example at the Urban Dictionary. 13. Jump up ^ Popularly misquoted as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", most likely

from Blazing Saddles in which the line was so worded. 14. Jump up ^ An actual quotation from Lou Gehrig's retirement speech. 15. Jump up ^ Often misquoted as "If you build it, they will come." 16. Jump up ^ The line is based on an actual message from Apollo 13. Astronaut Swigert said

"Houston, we've had a problem here," then Lovell repeated "Houston, we've had a problem". 17. Jump up ^ Often misquoted as "...'Do you feel lucky?', Well, do ya, punk?" or "...'Are you feeling

lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" 18. Jump up ^ The scene from the film in which this line appears is also excerpted in the movie's

trailer, but in the trailer the sequence is edited so that Gekko's line occurs as simply "Greed is good." This shorter version of the line has become more popular – and more widely quoted – than the version in the film.

19. Jump up ^ This maxim is attributed to several military strategists, notably Sun-tzu, Chinese general.

20. Jump up ^ Often misquoted as "Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!" 21. Jump up ^ Although occurring in the 1949 film, this line did not become a widespread

catchphrase until after the 1961 premiere of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In the opening scene of that play, Martha quotes this line and then (since she has apparently forgotten) she asks George which of Bette Davis's films it is from.

22. Jump up ^ Often misquoted as "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" 23. Jump up ^ This line, which does not appear in any of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, was first said

onscreen in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The line's first occurrence is in the stage play Sherlock Holmes, written entirely by William Gillette with Doyle's approval, for which Gilette listed Doyle as co-author.

24. Jump up ^ An ad-lib. The line is Ed McMahon's signature introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.

25. Jump up ^ Ad-libbed after a particularly good take 26. Jump up ^ Usually misquoted as: "No more wire hangers, ever!" 27. Jump up ^ Parodied in the film Hot Fuzz when Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) tells Nicholas Angel

(Simon Pegg), "Forget it, Nicholas, it's Sandford." 28. Jump up ^ Frequently heard as "...Twas beauty killed the beast"

29. Jump up ^ This quotation is sometimes attributed to Ronald Reagan portraying George Gipp. Reagan's line—from earlier in the film—is "Ask 'em to go in there with all they've got, win just one for the Gipper."

30. Jump up ̂ Later, "Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred." In the film You Only Live Twice, accidentally "Stirred, not shaken."

31. Jump up ^ Appeared in multiple other films. 32. Jump up ^ Although "Who's on first?" appeared in numerous other Abbott and Costello films

prior to 1945, the one featured in The Naughty Nineties is considered the best rendition of the sketch.

External links

AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes (Musical Montage) on YouTube