Top 100 Movie Quotes -
Compiled by American
Film Institute
(AFI)
Okay people this is the big list, the top 100 movie quotes as created and compiled by AFI in 2004. This list of great movie quotes was revealed in June of 2005 in a three-hour television program on CBS. They were chosen by leaders from the entertainment world, such as film makers, actors, journalists, historians, scholars and movie industry types.
As with any of these types of lists it's likely missing a few of your favorite movie quotes. However, despite that, why not set some time aside and compare this list to your own list of top famous movie quotes, they are sure to start a good debate if nothing else and to make this a bit more entertaining for you, you can either view clips of the quotes so you can see them in all their glory, or just read through the list.
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Launching the
climb up the long
list of AFI's top 100 movie
quotes starts from the bottom with
Titanic's "I'm
the King
of the World!":
100. Titanic (1997)
Jack Dawson: I'm king of the world!
99. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
98. Dirty Dancing (1987)
Johnny Castle: Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
97. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
George M. Cohan: My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
96. Moonstruck (1987)
Loretta Castorini: Snap out of it!
95. Dead Poets Society (1989)
John Keating: Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
94. Top Gun (1986)
Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell: I feel the need...
Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw: ...the need for speed!
93. Auntie Mame (1958)
Mame Dennis: Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
92. Caddyshack (1980)
Carl Spackler: 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!
91. The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Dexter: Who's on first.
90. Goldfinger (1964)
James Bond: A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
89. Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Knute Rockne: Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
88. On Golden Pond (1981)
Ethel Thayer: 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!
87. 42nd Street (1933)
Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
86. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sonny Wortzik: Attica! Attica!
85. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Gollum: My precious.
84. King Kong (1933)
Carl Denham: Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
83. Dracula (1931)
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
82. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
John "Bluto" Blutarsky: Toga! Toga!
81. Funny Girl (1968)
Fanny Brice: Hello, gorgeous.
80. Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa: Yo, Adrian!
79. Airplane! (1980)
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Dr. Rumack Striker: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.
78. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
77. Soylent Green (1973)
Det. Robert Thorn: Soylent Green is people!
76. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
75. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Blanche DuBois: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
74. Chinatown (1974)
Duffy: Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
73. Little Caesar (1930)
Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello: Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
72. Mommie Dearest (1981)
Joan Crawford: No wire hangers, ever!
71. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
70. Marathon Man (1976)
Dr. Christian Szell: Is it safe?
69. Poltergeist (1982)
Carol Anne Freeling: They're here!
68. The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance: Here's Johnny!
67. Casablanca (1942)
Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
66. Planet of the Apes (1968)
George Taylor: Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
65. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson.
64. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
63. The Graduate (1967)
Benjamin Braddock: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
62. Beyond the Forest (1949)
Rosa Moline: What a dump.
61. Scarface (1983)
Tony Montana: Say "hello" to my little friend!
60. Sons of the Desert (1933)
Oliver: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
59. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Scarlett O'Hara: As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
58. The Godfather Part II (1974)
Michael Corleone: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
57. Wall Street (1987)
Gordon Gekko: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
56. Psycho (1960)
Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
55. Annie Hall (1977)
Annie Hall: La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
54. A League of Their Own (1992)
Jimmy Dugan: There's no crying in baseball!
53. Animal Crackers (1930)
Groucho Marx: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
52. Jerry Maguire (1996)
Dorothy Boyd: You had me at "hello."
51. Dirty Harry (1971)
Harry Callahan: You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
50. Apollo 13 (1995)
Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem.
49. Frankenstein (1931)
Henry Frankenstein: It's alive! It's alive!
48. Some Like it Hot (1959)
Osgood Fielding III: Well, nobody's perfect.
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The top
50 movie
quotes is
now
in full force. You've made it this far so don't give up now, get back
on that ladder and let's make it to the top:
47. Shane (1953)
Joey Starrett: Shane. Shane. Come back!
46. Now, Voyager (1942)
Charlotte Vale: Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Stanley Kowalski: Stella! Hey, Stella!
44. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Cole Sear: I see dead people.
43. Casablanca (1942)
Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris.
42. The Graduate (1967)
Mr. Maguire: Plastics.
41. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Clyde Barrow: We rob banks.
40. Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump: Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
39. Field of Dreams (1989)
Shoeless Joe Jackson: If you build it, he will come.
38. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Lou Gehrig: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
37. The Terminator (1984)
The Terminator: I'll be back.
36. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
"Gold Hat": Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
35. Jaws (1975)
Martin Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
34. To Have and Have Not (1944)
Marie "Slim" Browning: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
33. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Female Customer: I'll have what she's having.
32. Casablanca (1942)
Capt. Louis Renault: Round up the usual suspects.
31. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Scarlett O'Hara: After all, tomorrow is another day!
30. Grand Hotel (1932)
Grusinskaya: I want to be alone.
29. A Few Good Men (1992)
Col. Nathan Jessup: You can't handle the truth!
28. Casablanca (1942)
Ilsa Lund: Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
27. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
"Ratso" Rizzo: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
26. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Lady Lou: Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
25. Jerry Maguire (1996)
Rod Tidwell: Show me the money!
24. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Norma Desmond: I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
23. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home.
22. Dr. No (1962)
James Bond: Bond. James Bond.
21. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
20. Casablanca (1942)
Rick Blaine: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
19. Network (1976)
Howard Beale: I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
18. White Heat (1949)
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett: Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
17. Citizen Kane (1941)
Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud.
16. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Virgil Tibbs: They call me Mister Tibbs!
15. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
E.T.: E.T. phone home.
14. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Sam Spade: The stuff that dreams are made of.
13. Love Story (1970)
Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett: Love means never having to say you're sorry.
12. Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
11. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Captain: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
10. Taxi Driver (1976)
Travis Bickle: You talking to me?
9. All About Eve (1950)
Margo Channing: Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
8. Star Wars (1977)
Han Solo: May the Force be with you.
7. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Norma Desmond: All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup.
6. Sudden Impact (1983)
Harry Callahan: Go ahead, make my day.
5. Casablanca (1942)
Rick Blaine: Here's looking at you, kid.
4. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy Gale: Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
3. On the Waterfront (1954)
Terry Malloy: 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. The Godfather (1972)
Don Vito Corleone: I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Finally we made it to the coveted no. 1 position! I don't personally agree with all AFI's choices, they may be some of the most famous movie quotes, but that doesn't make them the best. Anyway, I do hope you enjoyed the climb.
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