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AFI 100 Years... series

1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10

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. 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.

Rank	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 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."	Oliver Barrett IV	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."	Dr. 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 walking here! I'm walking 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 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."	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 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	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?"	Cesare Enrico "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!"	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."	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	Pat O'Brien	Knute Rockne, All American	1940
90	"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."	James Bond	Sean Connery	Goldfinger	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.jg 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

The 400 Nominations

The table below reproduces the nominated quotes as the AFI published them.

Rank	Quotation	Character	Actor/Actress	Film	Year
1	"All-righty then!"	Ace Ventura	Jim Carrey	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	1994
2	"Elementary, my dear Watson."	Sherlock Holmes	Basil Rathbone	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	1939
3	"Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there."	Terry McKay	Deborah Kerr	An Affair to Remember	1957
4	Allnut: "A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature." Sayer: ""Nature,” Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above."	Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer	Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn	The African Queen	1951
5	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
6	"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."	Steve McCroskey	Lloyd Bridges
7	Oveur: "You ever been in a cockpit before?" Joey: "No sir, I've never been up in a plane before." Oveur: "You ever seen a grown man naked?"	Captain Oveur and Joey	Peter Graves and Rossie Harris
8	"Get away from her, you bitch!"	Ellen Ripley	Sigourney Weaver	Aliens	1986
9	"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."	Margo Channing	Bette Davis	All About Eve	1950
10	"And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."	Paul Bäumer	Lew Ayres	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930
11	"It's showtime!"	Joe Gideon	Roy Scheider	All That Jazz	1979
12	"Follow the money."	Deep Throat	Hal Holbrook	All the President's Men	1976
13	"There are simply too many notes."	Emperor Joseph II	Jeffery Jones	Amadeus	1984
14	"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."	Ricky Fitts	Wes Bentley	American Beauty	1999
15	"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
16	"Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby."	Anna Christie	Greta Garbo	Anna Christie	1930
17	"La-dee-da, la-dee-da."	Annie Hall	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall	1977
18	"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."	Alvy Singer	Woody Allen
19	"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
20	"Shut up and deal."	Fran Kubelik	Shirley MacLaine	The Apartment	1960
21	"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."	Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore	Robert Duvall	Apocalypse Now	1979
22	"Houston, we have a problem."	Jim Lovell	Tom Hanks	Apollo 13	1995
23	"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."	Mortimer Brewster	Cary Grant	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944
24	Bach: "I'm going to take a bath." Hobson: "I'll alert the media."	Arthur Bach and Hobson	Dudley Moore and John Gielgud	Arthur	1981
25	"You make me want to be a better man."	Melvin Udall	Jack Nicholson	As Good as It Gets	1997
26	"Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns."	Lou Pascal	Burt Lancaster	Atlantic City	1980
27	"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"	Mame Dennis	Rosalind Russell	Auntie Mame	1958
28	"Yeah, baby!"	Austin Powers	Mike Myers	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	1997
29	"One million dollars!"	Dr. Evil
30	"That'll do, pig. That'll do."	Farmer Hoggett	James Cromwell	Babe	1995
31	"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."	Dr. Emmett Brown	Christopher Lloyd	Back to the Future	1985
32	"Georgia, love is for the very young."	Jonathan Shields	Kirk Douglas	The Bad and the Beautiful	1952
33	"I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!"	Sugarpuss O'Shea	Barbara Stanwyck	Ball of Fire	1941
34	"You ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"	The Joker	Jack Nicholson	Batman	1989
35	"I'm the ghost with the most, babe."	Beetlegeuse	Michael Keaton	Beetlejuice	1988
36	"I like to watch."	Chance	Peter Sellers	Being There	1979
37	"What a dump."	Rosa Moline	Bette Davis	Beyond the Forest	1950
38	"Okay, but I get to be on top."	Josh Baskin	Tom Hanks	Big	1988
39	"We're sisters under the same mink."	Debby Marsh	Gloria Grahame	The Big Heat	1953
40	Rutledge: "I don't like your manners." Marlowe: "I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings."	Vivian Ruthledge and Phillip Marlowe	Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart	The Big Sleep	1946
41	"Excellent!"	Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan	Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	1989
42	"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."	Roy Batty	Rutger Hauer	Blade Runner	1982
43	"Excuse me while I whip this out."	Sheriff Bart	Cleavon Little	Blazing Saddles	1974
44	"That dirty, double-crossin' rat!"	Bert Harris	James Cagney	Blonde Crazy	1931
45	"We're on a mission from God."	Elwood Blues	Dan Aykroyd	The Blues Brothers	1980
46	"You aren't too bright. I like that in a man."	Matty Walker	Kathleen Turner	Body Heat	1981
47	"We rob banks."	Clyde Barrow	Warren Beatty	Bonnie and Clyde	1967
48	"Wouldja do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead!"	Billie Dawn	Judy Holliday	Born Yesterday	1950
49	"There is no bad boy."	Father Edward J. Flanagan	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	1938
50	"They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"	William Wallace	Mel Gibson	Braveheart	1995
51	"How do I look?"	Holly Golightly	Audrey Hepburn	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961
52	"Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!"	Principal Richard Vernon	Paul Gleason	The Breakfast Club	1985
53	"We belong dead."	The Monster	Boris Karloff	Bride of Frankenstein	1935
54	"Madness. Madness."	Major Clipton	James Donald	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957
55	"It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!"	Dr. David Huxley	Cary Grant	Bringing Up Baby	1938
56	"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time."	Aaron Altman	Albert Brooks	Broadcast News	1987
57	"Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda?"	Virginia Hill	Annette Bening	Bugsy	1991
58	"...I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."	Crash Davis	Kevin Costner	Bull Durham	1988
59	"Kid, the next time I say, “Let's go someplace like Bolivia,” let's go someplace like Bolivia."	Butch Cassidy	Paul Newman	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969
60	"Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time."	Gloria Wandrous	Elizabeth Taylor	BUtterfield 8	1960
61	"I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair."	Madge Norwood	Bette Davis	The Cabin in the Cotton	1932
62	"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
63	"Be the ball."	Ty Webb	Chevy Chase
64	"Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them."	Captain Queeg	Humphrey Bogart	The Caine Mutiny	1954
65	"His eyes have made love to me all evening."	Marguerite Gautier	Greta Garbo	Camille	1936
66	"Come out, come out, wherever you are!"	Max Cady	Robert De Niro	Cape Fear	1991
67	"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"	Ilsa Lund	Ingrid Bergman	Casablanca	1942
68	"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."	Rick Blaine	Humphrey Bogart
69	"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
70	"We'll always have Paris."
71	"Here's looking at you, kid."
72	"Round up the usual suspects."	Capt. Louis Renault	Claude Rains
73	"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."	Rick Blaine	Humphrey Bogart
74	"For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding."	Michael Kelly	Kirk Douglas	Champion	1949
75	"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."	Lawrence Walsh	Joe Mantell	Chinatown	1974
76	"She's my sister! She's my daughter!"	Evelyn Mulwray	Faye Dunaway
77	"You'll shoot your eye out."	Mrs. Parker	Melinda Dillon	A Christmas Story	1983
78	"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. "	Dr. Wilbur Larch	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	1999
79	"Rosebud."	Charles Foster Kane	Orson Welles	Citizen Kane	1941
80	Robbins: "Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?" Curly: "Day ain't over yet."	Mitch Robbins and Curly Washburn	Billy Crystal and Jack Palance	City Slickers	1991
81	"As if!"	Cher Horwitz	Alicia Silverstone	Clueless	1995
82	"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."	Shug	Margaret Avery	The Color Purple	1985
83	"What we've got here is failure to communicate."	Captain	Strother Martin	Cool Hand Luke	1967
84	"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true."	Hubert Hawkins	Danny Kaye	The Court Jester	1956
85	"The dingo took my baby!"	Lindy Chamberlain	Meryl Streep	A Cry in the Dark	1988
86	Marlowe: "Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!" Hackenbush: "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you."	Flo Marlowe and Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush	Esther Muir and Groucho Marx	A Day at the Races	1937
87	"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"	Helen Benson	Patricia Neal	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951
88	"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."	David Wooderson	Matthew McConaughey	Dazed and Confused	1993
89	"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."	John Keating	Robin Williams	Dead Poets Society	1989
90	"This is this."	Michael Vronsky	Robert De Niro	The Deer Hunter	1978
91	"I bet you can squeal like a pig."	Mountain Man	Bill McKinney	Deliverance	1972
92	"Stop makin’ noises like a husband."	Vera	Ann Savage	Detour	1945
93	"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."	Anne Frank	Millie Perkins	The Diary of Anne Frank	1959
94	"Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!"	John McClane	Bruce Willis	Die Hard	1988
95	Kitty: "I was reading a book the other day." Carotta: "Reading a book?" Kitty: "Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?" Carotta: "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."	Kitty and Carlotta	Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler	Dinner at Eight	1933
96	"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."	Johnny Castle	Patrick Swayze	Dirty Dancing	1987
97	"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"	Harry Callahan	Clint Eastwood	Dirty Harry	1971
98	Da Mayor: "Always do the right thing." Mookie: "That's it?" Da Mayor: "That's it." Mookie: "I got it, I'm gone."	Da Mayor and Mookie	Ossie Davis and Spike Lee	Do the Right Thing	1989
99	"Attica! Attica!"	Sonny Wortzik	Al Pacino	Dog Day Afternoon	1975
100	"Forget about it."	Donnie Brasco	Johnny Depp	Donnie Brasco	1997
101	Phyllis:"There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. 45 miles an hour." Walter: "How fast was I going, officer?" Phyllis: "I'd say around 90." Walter: "Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket." Phyllis: "Suppose I let you off with a warning this time." Walter: "Suppose it doesn't take." Phyllis: "Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles." Walter: "Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder." Phyllis: "Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder." Walter: "That tears it..."	Phyllis and Walter	Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray	Double Indemnity	1944
102	"Bond. James Bond."	James Bond	Sean Connery	Dr. No	1962
103	"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
104	"Mein Führer! I can walk! "	Dr. Strangelove
105	"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."	Count Dracula	Bela Lugosi	Dracula	1931
106	"Hoke, you're my best friend."	Daisy Werthan	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	1989
107	"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."	Rufus T. Firefly	Groucho Marx	Duck Soup	1933
108	"I could dance with you ‘til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows ‘til you came home. "
109	Rufus: "I suggest that we give him ten years in Levenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth." Chicolini: "I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll take five and ten in Woolworth."	Rufus T. Firefly and Chicolini	Groucho Marx and Chico Marx
110	"E.T. phone home."	E.T.	Pat Welsh	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
111	"You know, Billy. We blew it."	Wyatt	Peter Fonda	Easy Rider	1969
112	"I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"	Joseph Merrick	John Hurt	The Elephant Man	1980
113	"They’re called boobs, Ed."	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich	2000
114	"What an excellent day for an exorcism."	Regan/Pazuzu	Linda Blair and Mercedes McCambridge (voice)	The Exorcist	1973
115	"You betcha!"	Marge Gunderson	Frances McDormand	Fargo	1996
116	"Hey, Bud, let’s party!"	Jeff Spicoli	Sean Penn	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982
117	"I won't be ignored, Dan!"	Alex Forrest	Glenn Close	Fatal Attraction	1987
118	"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."	Ferris Bueller	Matthew Broderick	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	1986
119	"You can't handle the truth!"	Col. Nathan R. Jessup	Jack Nicholson	A Few Good Men	1992
120	"If you build it, he will come."	Shoeless Joe Jackson	Ray Liotta (voice)	Field of Dreams	1989
121	"First rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of fight club is: You do not talk about Fight Club!"	Tyler Durden	Brad Pitt	Fight Club	1999
122	Dupea: "Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules." Waitress: "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" Dupea: "I want you to hold it between your knees."	Bobby Dupea and Waitress	Jack Nicholson and Lorna Thayer	Five Easy Pieces	1970
123	"Help me! Help me!"	Andre Delambre	David Hedison	The Fly	1958
124	"Be afraid. Be very afraid."	Veronica Quaife	Geena Davis	The Fly	1986
125	"I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?"	Maria	Ingrid Bergman	For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943
126	"Mama says, "Stupid as stupid does.""	Young Forrest Gump	Michael Conner Humphreys	Forrest Gump	1994
127	"My Mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."	Forrest Gump	Tom Hanks
128	"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"	Julian Marsh	Warner Baxter	42nd Street	1933
129	"I'm your worst fucking nightmare, man! A nigger with a badge."	Reggie Hammond	Eddie Murphy	48 Hrs.	1982
130	"It's alive! It's alive!"	Henry Frankenstein	Colin Clive	Frankenstein	1931
131	"Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! We accept her! One of us, one of us!"	Freaks	Ensemble	Freaks	1932
132	"When's the last time you picked your feet, Willy? Who's your connection, Willy? What's his name? I've got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you. You ever been to Poughkeepsie?"	Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	1971
133	"DAAAMN!!!"	Craig and Smokey	Chris Tucker and Ice Cube	Friday	1995
134	"Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance."	Evelyn Couch	Kathy Bates	Fried Green Tomatoes	1991
135	"What is your major malfunction?"	Gunnery Sergeant Hartman	R. Lee Ermey	Full Metal Jacket	1987
136	"Hello, gorgeous."	Fanny Brice	Barbra Streisand	Funny Girl	1968
137	"If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."	Mahatma Gandhi	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	1982
138	"But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart! "	Paula	Ingrid Bergman	Gaslight	1940
139	"Chance is the fool's name for fate."	Guy Holden	Fred Astaire	The Gay Divorce	1934
140	"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."	Lorelei	Marilyn Monroe	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1953
141	"It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you."	Sam Wheat	Patrick Swayze	Ghost	1990
142	"We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!"	Peter Venkman	Bill Murray	Ghostbusters	1984
143	"He slimed me."
144	"If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing. "	Gilda	Rita Hayworth	Gilda	1946
145	"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."	Maximus Decimus Meridius	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	2000
146	"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."	Vito Corleone	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	1972
147	"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."	Peter Clemenza	Richard S. Castellano
148	"It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."
149	"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"	Michael Corleone	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II	1974
150	"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
151	"Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel."	Hyman Roth	Lee Strasberg
152	"Just when I though I was out, they pull me back in!"	Michael Corleone	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part III	1990
153	"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."	James Bond	Sean Connery	Goldfinger	1964
154	"Fiddle-dee-dee."	Scarlett O'Hara	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind	1939
155	"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!"	Prissy	Butterfly McQueen
156	"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."	Scarlett O'Hara	Vivien Leigh
157	"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
158	"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."	Rhett Butler	Clark Gable
159	"Good morning, Vietnam!"	Adrian Cronauer	Robin Williams	Good Morning, Vietnam	1987
160	"I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?"	Tommy De Vito	Joe Pesci	Goodfellas	1990

More famous quotes that didn't get nominated or came out later on

Rank	Quotation	Character	Actor/Actress	Film	Year
1	"Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast!"	Ron Burgundy	Will Ferell	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	2004
2	"You stay classy, San Diego."
3	"I love lamp."
4	"I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!"
5	"I’m in a glass case of emotion!"	Ron Burgundy	Will Ferell
6	"Don’t act like you’re not impressed."
7	"I immediately regret this decision!"
8	"Groovy."	Ash Williams	Bruce Campbell	Evil Dead 2
9	"What?! No!"	Elliot Moore	Mark Wahlberg	The Happening
10	"Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!"	King Leonidas I	Gerald Butler	300	2007
11	"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty… for tonight! We dine! IN HELL!!"
12	"Spartans! Prepare for glory!"
13	Leia: "I love you." Solo: "I know."	Princess Leia and Han Solo	Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford	The Empire Strikes Back	1980
14	"I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere."	Anakin Skywalker	Hayden Christenson	Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones	2002
15	"It's a Trap!"	Admiral Akbar		Return of the Jedi	1983
16	"Power! Unlimited Power!!"	Emperor Palpatine		Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	2005
17	"Do it!"
18	"Nooooooooooo!!!"	Darth Vader	James Earl Jones
19	"Execute Order 66."	Emperor Palpatine
22	Kenobi: "It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground!" Vader: "You underestimate my power!"	Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader	Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen
21	Kenobi: "You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!" Vader: "I HATE YOU!!!" Kenobi: "You were my brother Anakin. I loved you."
20	"I will finish what you started."	Kylo Ren	Adam Driver	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2015
21	"TRAITOR!"	Stormtrooper
23	"Chewie, we're home."	Han Solo	Harrison Ford
24	"That's not how the Force works!"
25	"The greatest teacher failure is."	Yoda	Frank Oz	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	2017
26	"Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong."	Luke Skywalker	Mark Hamil
27	"Aww, Hell no!"		Will Smith	I, Robot	2004
28	"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!"	Batman	Adam West	Batman: The Movie	1966
29	Nic: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man! Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man!!" Batman: "I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor: I want you to tell all your friends about me." Nic: "WHAT ARE YOU?!" Batman: "...I'm Batman."	Batman and Nic	Michael Keaton and Christopher Fairbank	Batman	1989
30	"Wait till they get a load of ME!"	The Joker	Jack Nicholson
31	"The pen... is truly mightier than the sword!"
32	"Sometimes I just kill myself!"
33	"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
34	"This town needs an enema!"
35	"Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black bat?"	The Riddler	Jim Carrey	Batman Forever	1995
36	"Why do we fall?"	Alfred Pennyworth	Michael Caine	Batman Begins	2005
37	"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."	Batman	Christian Bale
38	"Why so serious?"	The Joker	Heath Ledger	The Dark Knight	2008
39	"How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil disappear."
40	"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
41	"You wanna know how I got these scars?"
42	"Some men just want to watch the world burn."	Alfred Pennyworth	Michael Caine
43	"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."	Harvey Dent	Aaron Eckhart
44	"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
45	"When Gotham is... ashes, then you will have my permission to die."	Bane	Tom Hardy	The Dark Knight Rises	2012
46	"Let the games begin!"
47	"Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it."
48	"Let's not stand on ceremony here, Mr. Wayne."
49	"Crashing this plane... With no survivors!"
50	"With great power comes great responsibility."	Ben Parker	Cliff Robertson	Spider-Man	2002
51	"Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!"	Peter Parker/Spider-Man	Tobey Maguire
52	"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE!!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!"	Obadiah Stane	Jeff Bridges	Iron Man	2008
53	"The truth is...I am Iron Man."	Tony Stark/Iron Man	Robert Downey Jr.
54	"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
55	"You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."	Nick Fury	Samuel L. Jackson
56	"I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative."
57	"Hulk...SMASH!!"	Bruce Banner/The Hulk	Edward Norton	The Incredible Hulk	2008
58	"Sir? We found it."	Paul Colson	Clark Gregg	Iron Man 2	2010
59	"I need a horse!"	Thor	Chris Hemsworth	Thor	2011
60	"This drink, I like it. ANOTHER!"
61	"I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."	Steve Rogers/Captain America	Chris Pine	Captain America: The First Avenger	2011
62	"Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. You will stay who you are, not a perfect soldier, but a good man."	Dr. Abraham Erskine	Stanley Tucci
63	"You've been asleep, Cap. For almost 70 years. You gonna be okay?"	Nick Fury	Samuel L. Jackson
64	"There was an idea... called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people. See if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could."			The Avengers	2012
65	"Puny God."	Bruce Banner/The Hulk	Mark Ruffalo
66	"I understood that reference."	Steve Rogers/Captain America	Chris Evens
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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.

Rick Blaine (Casablanca) is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact), James Bond (Dr. No and Goldfinger), Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind) and The Terminator (The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day) have two quotes each.

With five, Humphrey Bogart is the actor with the most quotes; Al Pacino, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Tom Hanks, and Vivien Leigh all have three; while Jack Nicholson, Judy Garland, Gloria Swanson, Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, James Cagney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger have two each. Sixty-three of the other sixty-four actors appear once each. Sean Connery also has two entries, but his two quotes were spoken by five other actors as well as him.

The line, "My precious." from the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, is the only quote that comes from a movie released in the 21st century (and 3rd millennium) and the only quote by a CGI character.

Quotation distribution by decade

• 1910s: 0
• 1920s: 1
• 1930s: 16
• 1940s: 17
• WWII years (1939–1945): 21
• 1950s: 9
• 1960s: 13
• 1970s: 16
• 1980s: 17
• 1990s: 10
• 2000s: 1

Top years:

• 1942: 9
• 1939: 7
• 1967: 5
• 1933: 4
• 1976: 4

External links

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