100 Greatest Movie Quotes

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

Last night on CBS, AFI (American Film Institue) came out with there list of the 100 greatest quotes of all time. Not surprised what's #1, but here is the list.

#

Quote

Movie

Year

1

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

GONE WITH THE WIND

1939

2

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

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.

ON THE WATERFRONT

1954

4

Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

1939

5

Here's looking at you, kid.

CASABLANCA

1942

6

Go ahead, make my day.

SUDDEN IMPACT

1983

7

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

SUNSET BLVD.

1950

8

May the Force be with you.

STAR WARS

1977

9

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

ALL ABOUT EVE

1950

10

You talking to me?

TAXI DRIVER

1976

11

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

COOL HAND LUKE

1967

12

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

APOCALYPSE NOW

1979

13

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

LOVE STORY

1970

14

The stuff that dreams are made of.

THE MALTESE FALCON

1941

15

E.T. phone home.

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

1982

16

They call me Mister Tibbs!

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

1967

17

Rosebud.

CITIZEN KANE

1941

18

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

WHITE HEAT

1949

19

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

NETWORK

1976

20

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

CASABLANCA

1942

21

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

1991

22

Bond. James Bond.

DR. NO

1962

23

There's no place like home.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

1939

24

I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

SUNSET BLVD.

1950

25

Show me the money!

JERRY MAGUIRE

1996

26

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

SHE DONE HIM WRONG

1933

27

I'm walking here! I'm walking here!

MIDNIGHT COWBOY

1969

28

Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'

CASABLANCA

1942

29

You can't handle the truth!

A FEW GOOD MEN

1992

30

I want to be alone.

GRAND HOTEL

1932

31

After all, tomorrow is another day!

GONE WITH THE WIND

1939

32

Round up the usual suspects.

CASABLANCA

1942

33

I'll have what she's having.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

1989

34

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

1944

35

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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!

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

1948

37

I'll be back.

THE TERMINATOR

1984

38

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES

1942

39

If you build it, he will come.

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

1994

41

We rob banks.

BONNIE AND CLYDE

1967

42

Plastics.

THE GRADUATE

1967

43

We'll always have Paris.

CASABLANCA

1942

44

I see dead people.

THE SIXTH SENSE

1999

45

Stella! Hey, Stella!

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

1951

46

Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

NOW, VOYAGER

1942

47

Shane. Shane. Come back!

SHANE

1953

48

Well, nobody's perfect.

SOME LIKE IT HOT

1959

49

It's alive! It's alive!

FRANKENSTEIN

1931

50

Houston, we have a problem.

APOLLO 13

1995

51

You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?

DIRTY HARRY

1971

52

You had me at "hello."

JERRY MAGUIRE

1996

53

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

ANIMAL CRACKERS

1930

54

There's no crying in baseball!

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

1992

55

La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

ANNIE HALL

1977

56

A boy's best friend is his mother.

PSYCHO

1960

57

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

WALL STREET

1987

58

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

THE GODFATHER II

1974

59

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

GONE WITH THE WIND

1939

60

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

SONS OF THE DESERT

1933

61

Say "hello" to my little friend!

SCARFACE

1983

62

What a dump.

BEYOND THE FOREST

1949

63

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?

THE GRADUATE

1967

64

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

DR. STRANGELOVE

1964

65

Elementary, my dear Watson.

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

1929

66

Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.

PLANET OF THE APES

1968

67

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

CASABLANCA

1942

68

Here's Johnny!

THE SHINING

1980

69

They're here!

POLTERGEIST

1982

70

Is it safe?

MARATHON MAN

1976

71

Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!

THE JAZZ SINGER

1927

72

No wire hangers, ever!

MOMMIE DEAREST

1981

73

Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?

LITTLE CAESAR

1930

74

Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.

CHINATOWN

1974

75

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

1951

76

Hasta la vista, baby.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

1991

77

Soylent Green is people!

SOYLENT GREEN

1973

78

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

1968

79

Striker: Surely you can't be serious.

Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.

AIRPLANE!

1980

80

Yo, Adrian!

ROCKY

1976

81

Hello, gorgeous.

FUNNY GIRL

1968

82

Toga! Toga!

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE

1978

83

Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

DRACULA

1931

84

Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

KING KONG

1933

85

My precious.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS

2002

86

Attica! Attica!

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

1975

87

Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!

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!

ON GOLDEN POND

1981

89

Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN

1940

90

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

GOLDFINGER

1964

91

Who's on first.

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!

CADDYSHACK

1980

93

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

AUNTIE MAME

1958

94

I feel the need - the need for speed!

TOP GUN

1986

95

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

1989

96

Snap out of it!

MOONSTRUCK

1987

97

My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

1942

98

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

DIRTY DANCING

1987

99

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

WIZARD OF OZ, THE

1939

100

I'm king of the world!

TITANIC

1997

So folks, what is the greatest quote in the history of movies?

[Troy Maskell]

Drago: If he dies, he dies.

Greatest. Quote. Ever.

[Guest ryan_the_canuck]

Crappy list. #3 was ranked way too high, and many quotes way too low.

[Tarheels.]

I think that " No Luke, I am your father" should have been up there. Even people who have never seen Starwars know that!

[EWFan2004]

These quotes have to be mentioned:

Ash:You see this this is my boom stick! - Army of Darkness

Freddy Krueger: This is it, Jennifer your big break in TV. Welcome to prime time, bitch. - NOES: Dream Warrors

Crazy Ralph: Doomed... You're all doomed. - FT13

Mrs. Voorhees: You never paid any attention. Look what you did to him. Look what you did to him. - FT13

The Joker: Where does he get those wonderful toys? - Batman

The Joker: Jack is dead, my friend. You can call me... Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier! - Batman

The Joker: My balloons. Those are my balloons. He stole my balloons! Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things? Bob, gun. - Batman

The Joker: Wait'll they get a load of me!

[TMM]

I think that " No Luke, I am your father" should have been up there.  Even people who have never seen Starwars know that!

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Agreed. Non-Star Wars fans know it, and at the time it was a MASSIVE shock. I'm surprised it's not in there personally.

EDIT: Does this count?

Wash: This is gonna get pretty interesting.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".

Wash: Oh, God, oh, god, we're all gonna die.

Edited June 22, 2005 by The Monkey Molester

[Liam]

Drago: If he dies, he dies.

Greatest. Quote. Ever.

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It's the one I always pimp, the man knows his shizzle!

[apsham]

I think the list was more about quotes that MEANT something, and not just lines the people liked:

19

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

NETWORK

1976

oward Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,

[shouting]

Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

And also:

86

Attica! Attica!

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

1975

[TMM]

I think the list was more about quotes that MEANT something, and not just lines the people liked:

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Well, the Star Wars one we mentioned means a lot, so that should be in there. The Serenity one was a joke.

[Laice07]

I was very surprised the "I am Your Father" quote wasn't included, but the good far outweighs the bad.

[WS1]

Couple I thought would have been in there:

"Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" Reservoir Dogs

"No I don't hate Balboa, but I pity the fool" Rocky III

"Hold up lads, I've got an idea" The Italian Job

[fineintent]

Too many old movies, not enough modern beauties like:

From Snatch:

Guy (forget his name): Should I call you Bullet? Tooth?

Bullet Tooth Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.

From Chopper:

Chopper: Jimmy, if you keep stabbing me, you're going to kill me.

[Big Red Fury]

ApSham was right I think. This list wasn't quotes that people necessarily liked, but instead quotes that have significance beyond the movies they actually occured in that even people who have not seen them know of most of them. That being said I do agree with the missing Star Wars quotes and I also feel that some quotes were over/underrated. #33, 51, 61, and 80 were among my underrated list with #3, 9, 17 were overrated. #3 should have been high but not that high, 9 was way way too high, and well I've never really been a Citizen Kane fan, despite most pegging it as the greatest of all time. My personal favorites are #68(Jack was great in that role), #40(Gump is one of my favorite movies of all time), and #54(Can't go wrong with more Tom Hanks)

[Malenko]

While we're at it, the quotes i believe were underrated in this list, and obviously this is just an opinion as anyone else's, were 29,33, 51 and 95. I don't even agree with the pick for #1, but from the top 12, i'm a fan of quotes 2, 6, 10 and 12. As for the Star Wars issue, most people who don't give a crap about Star Wars won't know any quotes from it apart from "may the force be with you" so i agree with the list in what concernes to that.

EDIT: added a couple more personal favourites.

Edited June 22, 2005 by Malenko

[Pander Opiate]

I think that's a pretty good list. Just based on the fact that I knew like the first 20 quotes even though I didn't know what films some of them are from. That's impressive.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Brando at 2 and 3...A surprisingly good list but the AFI is normally pretty decent, although they have a big hard on for Hitchcock and films like Casablanca...

[Johnny Drama]

i expected the scarface quote to be higher than it was.

[R.W.]

Surprised there was no "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off", but it seems a sound enough list I guess.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The problem with the AFI is that there's never any English films in the lists. Hence no Italian Job.

On second look at the list I see that the following should be higher:

51

You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?

DIRTY HARRY

1971

61

Say "hello" to my little friend!

SCARFACE

1983

64

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

DR. STRANGELOVE

1964

68

Here's Johnny!

THE SHINING

1980

79

Striker: Surely you can't be serious.

Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.

AIRPLANE!

1980

My own favourite quotes include

"Agghhh he's got an arm off" - Shaun Of The Dead

"Even with my eyes open I can't see a thing" - Zatoichi (translated)

"I'm Jack's Colon" *sniggers* "Yeah I get cancer, I kill Jack" - Fight Club

"I saw a snail crawling along the blade of a straight razor" - Apocalypse Now

"If I say it's safe to surf this beach soldier it's safe to surf this beach!" - Apocalypse Now (basically everything on that beach is quote gold - Napalm In The Morning, Pretty Hairy Out There, Either You Surf Or You Fight etc etc....

"Hold on tightly, let go lightly" - Croupier

[efwa4life]

They did a thing like this in Entertainment Weekly a while back and had readers send in their favorite quoes and the top three were all from the same movie. They were from The Princess Bride.

Westley: As you wish.

Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable!

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

They also included the line from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Pee Wee: I'm a rebel, Dottie, a loner.

And the line from Roddy Piper in They Live

Piper: I came here to chew bubblegum and kick some ass. I'm all out of bubblegum.