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
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