The AFI's 100 years 100 Quotes

1) "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Rhett Buttler, Gone With The Wind (1939)

2) "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." - Vito Corleone, 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, On the Waterfront (1954)

4) "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5) "Here's looking at you, kid." - Rick Blain, Casablanca (1942)

6) "Go ahead, make my day." - "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact (1983)

7) "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd. (1950)

8) "May the Force be with you." - Various, Star Wars (1977)

9) "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - Margo Channing, All About Eve (1950)

10) "You talking to me?" - Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)

11) "What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Luke, Cool Hand Luke (1967)

12) "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apacalypse Now (1979)

13) "Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Jennifer Cavalleri, Love Story (1970)

14) "The stuff that dreams are made of." - Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon (1941)

15) "E.T. phone home." - E.T., E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)

16) "They call me Mister Tibbs!" - Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night (1967)

17) "Rosebud." Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941)

18) "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" - Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett, , (1949)

19) "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Howard Beale, Network (1976)

20) "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Rick Blain, Casablanca (1942)

21) "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." - Hannibal Lechter, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

22) "Bond. James Bond." - James Bond, Any James Bond film (1962-present)

23) "There's no place like home." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1939)

24) "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." - Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd. (1950)

25) "Show me the money!" - Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire (1996)

26) "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" - Lady Lou, She Done Him Wrong (1933)

27) "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Ratso Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy (1969)

28) "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" - Ilsa, Casablanca (1942)

29) "You can't handle the truth!" - Col. Nathan R. Jessep, A few Good Men (1992)

30) "I want to be alone." - Grusinskaya, Grand Hotel (1932)

31) "After all, tomorrow is another day!" - Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939)

32) "Round up the usual suspects." - Claude Rains, Casablanca (1942)

33) "I'll have what she's having." - Older Woman Customer, 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, To have and Have Not (1944)

35) "You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody, 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, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

37) "I'll be back." - The Terminator, The Terminator (1984)

38) "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." - Lou Gherig, The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

39) "If you build it, he will come." - Mysterious 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, Forrest Gump (1994)

41) "We rob banks." - Various, Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

42) "Plastics." - Mr. Braddock, The Graduate (1967)

43) "We'll always have Paris." - Ilsa, Casablanca (1942)

44) "I see dead people." - Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense (1999)

45) "Stella! Hey, Stella!" - Stanley Kowalski, 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!" - Joey, Shane (1953)

48) "Well, nobody's perfect." - Osgood Fielding III, Some Like it Hot (1959)

49) "It's alive! It's alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein, Frankenstein (1931)

50) "Houston, we have a problem." - Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (1995)

51) "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?" - "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)

52) "You had me at 'hello.'" - Dorothy Boyd Jerry Maguire (1996)

53) "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Animal Crackers (1930)

54) "There's no crying in baseball!" - Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own (1992)

55) "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." - Annie Hall, Annie Hall (1977)

56) "A boy's best friend is his mother." - Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

57) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)

58) "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II (1974)

59) "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" - Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939)

60) "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" Oliver, Sons of the Desert (1933)

61) "You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!" - Tony Montana, Scarface (1983)

62) "What a dump!" - Rosa Moline, Beyond the Desert (1949)

63) "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" - Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate (1967)

64) "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove (1964)

65) "Elementary, my dear Watson." - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1929)

66) "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" - George Taylor, Planet of the Apes (1968)

67) "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." - Rick Blain, Casablanca (1942)

68) "Here's Johnny!" - Jack Torrance, The Shining (1980)

69) "They're here!" Carol Anne, Poltergeist (1982)

70) "Is it safe?" - Christian Szell, Marathon Man (1976)

71) "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" - Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin), The Jazz Singer (1927)

72) "No wire hangers, ever!" - Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest (1981)

73) "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" - Rico, Little Caesar (1930)

74) "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." - Jake Gittes, Chinatown (1974)

75) "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

76) "Hasta la vista, baby." - The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

77) "Soylent Green is people!" - Det. Thorn, Soylent Green (1973)

78) "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm affraid I can't do that." - Dave & HAL, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

79) "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious…and don't call me Shirley." - Striker & Rumack, Airpalne (1980)

80) "Yo, Adrian!!!" - Rocky Balboa, Rocky (1976)

81) "Hello, gorgeous." - Fanny Brice, Funny Girl (1968)

82) "Toga! Toga!" - John 'Bluto' Blutarsky, National LAmpoon's Animal House (1978)

83) "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." - Count Dracula, Dracula (1931)

84) "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." - Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)

85) "My preciousss!" - Golum, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

86) "Attica! Attica!" - Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

87) "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" - Julian Marsh, 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, On Golden Pond (1981)

89) "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." - George Gipp, Knute Rockne, All American (1940)

90) "A martini. Shaken, not stirred." - James Bond, Any James Bond film (1962-present)

91) "Who's on first." - Dexter Broadhurst, The Naughty Ninties (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, Caddyshack (1980)

93) "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Mame Dennis, Auntie Mame (1958)

94) I feel the need - the need for speed!" - Maverick and Goose, Top Gun (1986)

95) "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)

96) "Snap out of it!" - Loretta Castorini, Moonstruck (1987)

97) "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." - George M. Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

98) "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." - Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing (1987)

99) "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" - Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz (1939)

100) "I'm king of the world!" - Jack, Titanic (1997)

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