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America's Greatest Quotes in the Movies 100 Greatest Movie Quotes |
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A ballot was distributed in 2004 with 400 Nominated Quotes from Films to a jury of 1,500 leaders from the film community, including filmmakers, actors, historians, scholars, journalists and industry types. Voters could submit up to five write-in choices not included among the 400 nominees.
Top 10 Film Quotes Sections |
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(Ranked Winners) |
1. RHETT BUTLER (Clark Gable): "Frankly,
my dear, I don't give a damn." 2. VITO CORLEONE (Marlon Brando): "I'm
going to make him an offer he can't refuse." 3. TERRY MALLOY (Marlon Brando):
"You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've
been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which
is what I am." 4. DOROTHY GALE (Judy Garland): "Toto, I've
(got) a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." 5. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Here's
looking at you, kid." 6. HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood): "Go ahead,
make my day." 7. NORMA DESMOND (Gloria Swanson): "All right,
Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." 8. HAN SOLO (Harrison Ford): "May the Force
be with you." 9. MARGO CHANNING (Bette Davis): "Fasten
your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." 10. TRAVIS BICKLE (Robert DeNiro): "You talkin'
to me?" 11. CAPTAIN (Strother Martin): "What we've
got here is failure to communicate." 12. LT. COL. BILL KILGORE (Robert Duvall): "I
love the smell of napalm in the morning." 13. OLIVER BARRETT IV (Ryan O'Neal): "Love
means never having to say you're sorry." 14. SAM SPADE (Humphrey Bogart):
"(What is it?)" "The stuff that dreams are made
of." 15. E.T. (voice of Joe Welsh): "E.T. phone
home." 16. VIRGIL TIBBS (Sidney Poitier): "They
call me Mister Tibbs!" 17. CHARLES FOSTER KANE (Orson Welles): "Rosebud." 18. ARTHUR 'CODY' JARRETT (James Cagney): "Made
it, Ma! Top of the world!" 19. HOWARD BEALE (Peter Finch): "I'm as mad
as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! 20. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Louis,
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." 21. DR. HANNIBAL LECTER (Anthony Hopkins): "A
census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava
beans and a nice chianti." 22. JAMES BOND (Sean Connery): "Bond. James
Bond." 23. DOROTHY GALE (Judy Garland): "There's
no place like home." 24. NORMA DESMOND (Gloria Swanson): "I am
big! It's the pictures that got small." 25. ROD TIDWELL (Cuba Gooding, Jr.): "Show me
the money!" (also said by character Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire)) 26. LADY LOU (Mae West): "Why
don't you come up sometime and see me?" 27. 'RATSO' RIZZO (Dustin Hoffman): "(Hey!)
I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" 28. ILSA LASZLO (Ingrid Bergman): "Play it,
Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" 29. COL. NATHAN JESSEP (Jack Nicholson): "You
can't handle the truth!" 30. GRUSINSKAYA (Greta Garbo): "I want to
be alone." 31. SCARLETT O'HARA (Vivien
Leigh):
"After all, tomorrow is another day!" 32. CAPT. RENAULT (Claude Rains): "Round
up the usual suspects." 33. CUSTOMER (Estelle Reiner): "I'll have
what she's having." 34. MARIE 'SLIM' BROWNING (Lauren Bacall): "You
know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together
and blow." 35. MARTIN BRODY (Roy Scheider): "You're
gonna need a bigger boat." 36. GOLD HAT (Alfonso Bedoya): "Badges? We
ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to
show you any stinking badges!" 37. THE TERMINATOR (Arnold Schwarzenegger): "I'll
be back." 38. LOU GEHRIG (Gary Cooper): "Today,
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." 39. SHOELESS JOE JACKSON (voice of Ray Liotta): "If
you build it, he will come." 40. FORREST GUMP (Tom Hanks): "My mama always
said, 'Life is (was) like a box of chocolates. You never know what
you're gonna get.'" 41. CLYDE BARROW (Warren Beatty): "We rob
banks." 42. MR. MAGUIRE (Walter Brooke): "Plastics." 43. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "We'll
always have Paris." 44. COLE SEAR (Haley Joel Osment): "I see
dead people." 45. STANLEY KOWALSKI (Marlon Brando): "Stella!
Hey, Stella!" 46. CHARLOTTE VALE (Bette Davis): "Oh, Jerry,
don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." 47. JOEY STARRETT (Brandon DeWilde): "Shane!
Shane! Come back!" 48. OSGOOD FIELDING III (Joe E. Brown): "Well,
nobody's perfect." 49. HENRY FRANKENSTEIN (Colin Clive): "It's
alive! It's alive!" 50. JIM LOVELL (Tom Hanks): "Houston, we
have a problem." 51. HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood): "You've
got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya,
punk?" 52. DOROTHY BOYD (Renee Zellweger): "You
had me at 'hello.'" 53. CAPT. JEFFREY T. SPAULDING (Groucho Marx): "One
morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas,
I don't know." 54. JIMMY DUGAN (Tom Hanks): "There's
no crying in baseball!" 55. ANNIE HALL (Diane Keaton): "La-dee-da,
la-dee-da." 56. NORMAN BATES (Anthony Perkins): "(Well),
A boy's best friend is his mother." 57. GORDON GEKKO (Michael Douglas): "Greed,
for lack of a better word, is good." 58. MICHAEL CORLEONE (Al Pacino):
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." 59. SCARLETT O'HARA (Vivien
Leigh):
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." 60. OLIVER (Oliver Hardy): "Well, here's
another nice mess you've gotten me into!" 61. TONY MONTANA (Al Pacino): "Say 'hello'
to my little friend!" 62. ROSA MOLINE (Bette Davis): "What a dump." 63. BENJAMIN BRADDOCK (Dustin Hoffman): "Mrs.
Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" 64. PRESIDENT MERKIN MUFFLEY (Peter Sellers): "Gentlemen,
you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" 65. SHERLOCK HOLMES (Basil Rathbone): "Elementary,
my dear Watson." 66. GEORGE TAYLOR (Charlton Heston): "Get
your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" 67. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Of all
the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into
mine." 68. JACK TORRANCE (Jack Nicholson): "Here's
Johnny!" 69. CAROL ANNE FREELING (Heather
O'Rourke): "They're here!" 70. DR. CHRISTIAN SZELL (Laurence Olivier): "Is
it safe?" 71. JAKIE RABINOWITZ/JACK ROBIN (Al Jolson): "Wait
a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" 72. JOAN CRAWFORD (Faye Dunaway):
"No wire hangers, ever!" 73. CESARE ENRICO 'RICO' BANDELLO (Edward G. Robinson):
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" 74. WALSH (Joe Mantell): "Forget it, Jake.
It's Chinatown." 75. BLANCHE DUBOIS (Vivien Leigh): "I have
always depended on the kindness of strangers." 76. THE TERMINATOR (Arnold Schwarzenegger): "Hasta
la vista, baby." 77. DET. ROBERT THORN (Charlton Heston): "Soylent
Green is people!" 78. DAVE BOWMAN (Keir Dullea): "Open the
pod bay doors, (please) HAL." 79. TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): "Surely
you can't be serious." 80. ROCKY BALBOA (Sylvester Stallone): "Yo,
Adrian!" 81. FANNY BRICE (Barbra Streisand): "Hello,
gorgeous." 82. JOHN 'BLUTO' BLUTARSKY (John Belushi): "Toga!
Toga!" 83. COUNT DRACULA (Bela Lugosi): "Listen
to them. Children of the night. What music they make." 84. CARL DENHAM (Robert Armstrong): "Oh,
no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." 85. GOLLUM (Andy Serkis): "My
precious." 86. SONNY WORTZIK (Al Pacino): "Attica! Attica!" 87. JULIAN MARSH (Warner Baxter): "Sawyer,
you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" 88. ETHEL THAYER (Katharine Hepburn): "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!" 89. KNUTE ROCKNE (Pat O'Brien): "Tell 'em
to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." 90. JAMES BOND (Sean Connery): "A martini.
Shaken, not stirred." 91. DEXTER (Bud Abbott): "Who's on first." 92. CARL SPACKLER (Bill Murray): "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!" 93. MAME DENNIS (Rosalind Russell): "Life
is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" 94. LT. PETE 'MAVERICK' MITCHELL
(Tom Cruise): "I feel the need..." 95. JOHN KEATING (Robin Williams): "Carpe
diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." 96. LORETTA CASTORINI (Cher): "Snap out of
it!" 97. GEORGE M. COHAN (James
Cagney):
"(Ladies and Gentlemen), My mother thanks you. My father
thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." 98. JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze): "Nobody
puts Baby in a corner." 99. THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST (Margaret Hamilton):
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" 100. JACK DAWSON (Leonardo DiCaprio): "I'm
(the) king of the world!" |
Casablanca (1942) had the most quotes (6) in the top 100:
The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone With the Wind (1939) were the second most quoted films, with 3 on the top 100 list:
The earliest film quote in the top 100 was from The Jazz Singer (1927):
The most recent quote in the top 100 was from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002):
The most recent quote in the top 10 was from Sudden Impact (1983):
Many actors have spoken the familiar introductory line in numerous official James Bond films:
Only one of the 100 quotes was actually a two-line conversation between two different actors:
The four briefest quotes (of only one word, or a repeated single word) were the following:
Eleven quotes from ten films released since 1990 made the top 100 list:
Humphrey Bogart had the most quotes (5) on the top 100 list, four from Casablanca (1942):
Three actors had 3 quotes in the top 100 list: Marlon Brando:
Tom Hanks:
Al Pacino:
Two actresses had 3 quotes in the top 100 list: Bette Davis:
Vivien Leigh:
One of the most popular quotes of all-time only made # 33:
Three quotes were incorrectly cited by AFI:
Many critics commented that four real-life quotes shouldn't have been counted:
Silent films were ignored, although there could be
some inter-titles that were worthy of choice. |
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