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 [1] 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.

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

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

Rhett Butler

Clark Gable

Gone with the Wind

1939

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

Marlon Brando

The Godfather 1972

"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I Terry Malloy could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is [2] what I am."

Marlon Brando

On the Waterfront

1954

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

Dorothy Gale

Judy Garland

The Wizard of Oz

1939

"Here's looking at you, kid."

Rick Blaine

Humphrey Bogart

Casablanca

1942

"Go ahead, make my day."

Harry Callahan

Clint Eastwood

Sudden Impact 1983

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

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

Gloria Swanson

Sunset Boulevard

1950

"May the Force be with you."

Han Solo

Harrison Ford

Star Wars

1977

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy [3] 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 [4] Captain failure to communicate."

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."

Jennifer Ali MacGraw Cavilleri Barrett

Love Story

1970

14

"The stuff that dreams are Sam Spade [5] made of."

Humphrey Bogart

The Maltese Falcon

1941

15

"E.T. phone home."

E.T.

Pat Welsh

E.T. the Extra1982 Terrestrial

16

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

Virgil Tibbs

Sidney Poitier

In the Heat of the Night

1967

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

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."

Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

22

"Bond. James Bond."

James Bond

Sean Connery

[6]

Dr. No

[7]

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 Norma that got small." 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 [8] Lady Lou sometime and see me?"

Mae West

She Done Him 1933 Wrong

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

27

"I'm walking here! I'm [9] walking here!"

"Ratso" Rizzo

Dustin Hoffman

Midnight Cowboy

1969

28

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As [10] 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 Marie "Slim" put your lips together and Browning blow."

Lauren Bacall

To Have and Have Not

1944

35

"You're gonna need a [11] bigger boat."

Martin Brody

Roy Scheider

Jaws

1975

36

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need "Gold Hat" no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking

Alfonso Bedoya

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

badges!"

[12]

37

"I'll be back."

The Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Terminator 1984

38

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the Lou Gehrig [13] face of the earth."

Gary Cooper

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

39

"If you build it, he will [14] come."

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Ray Liotta (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

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

Charlotte Vale

Bette Davis

Now, Voyager

1942

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

the stars."

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 [15] problem."

Jim Lovell

Tom Hanks

Apollo 13

1995

51

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do Harry Callahan I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, [16] punk?"

Clint Eastwood

Dirty Harry

1971

52

"You had me at 'hello.'"

Dorothy Boyd

Rene 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

Norman Bates

Anthony Perkins

Psycho

1960

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

mother."

57

"Greed, for lack of a [17] better word, is good."

Gordon Gekko

Michael Douglas

Wall Street

1987

58

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies [18] closer."

Michael Corleone

Al Pacino

The Godfather 1974 Part II

59

"As God is my witness, I'll Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh never be hungry again."

Gone with the Wind

1939

60

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me Oliver [19] into!"

Oliver Hardy

Sons of the Desert

1933

61

"Say 'hello' to my little friend!"

Tony Montana

Al Pacino

Scarface

1983

62

"What a dump."

[20]

Rosa Moline

Bette Davis

Beyond the Forest

1949

63

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. [21] 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 1964 to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

65

"Elementary, my dear [22] Watson."

Sherlock Holmes

Basil Rathbone

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1939

66

"Get 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, Rick Blaine she walks into mine."

Humphrey Bogart

Casablanca

1942

68

"Here's Johnny!"

[23]

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 [24] nothin' yet!"

Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Al Jolson Robin

The Jazz Singer

1927

72

"No wire hangers, [25] ever!"

Joan Crawford

Faye Dunaway

Mommie Dearest

1981

73

"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

Cesare Enrico Edward G. "Rico" Bandello Robinson

Little Caesar

1930

74

"Forget it, Jake, it's

Lawrence

Joe Mantell

Chinatown

1974

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

Chinatown."

[26]

Walsh

75

"I have always depended on the kindness of Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh strangers."

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

76

"Hasta la vista, baby."

The Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Terminator 2: 1991 Judgment Day

77

"Soylent Green is people!"

Det. Robert Thorn

Charlton Heston

Soylent Green

1973

78

"Open the pod bay doors please, HAL."

Dave Bowman

Keir Dullea

2001: A Space 1968 Odyssey

79

Striker: "Surely you can't Robert be serious." Rumack: "I Ted Striker and Hays and Leslie am serious...and don't call Dr. Rumack Nielsen me Shirley."

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

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

84

"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty [27] killed the Beast."

Carl Denham

Robert Armstrong

King Kong

1933

85

"My precious."

Gollum

Andy Serkis

The Lord of the Rings: The 2002 Two Towers

86

"Attica! Attica!"

Sonny Wortzik

Al Pacino

Dog Day Afternoon

1975

87

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

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 [28] Rockne

Pat O'Brien

Knute Rockne, 1940 All American

90

"A martini. Shaken, not [29] stirred."

James Bond

Sean Connery

[6]

Goldfinger

[30]

1964

91

"Who's on first?"

[31]

Dexter

Bud Abbott

The Naughty Nineties

1945

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

92

"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters Carl Spackler champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"

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

Lt. Pete "Maverick" Tom "I feel the needthe need Mitchell and Lt. Cruise and Anthony Top Gun for speed!" Nick "Goose" Edwards Bradshaw

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 George M. sister thanks you. And I Cohan thank you."

James Cagney

Yankee Doodle 1942 Dandy

98

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

Johnny Castle

Patrick Swayze

Dirty Dancing

1987

Quotation number

Quotation

Character

Actor/Actress

Film

Year

99

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

Wicked Witch of Margaret Hamilton the West

The Wizard of Oz

1939

100

"I'm the king of the world!" Jack Dawson

Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic

1997

Houston, we've had a problem.

MENU 0:00 On the real Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell reporting, "Houston, we've had a problem".

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Footnotes[edit]
1. Jump up^ AFI defines an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. Additionally, only quotations from featurelength American films released before January 1, 2004, were considered. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length. 2. 3. 4. Jump up^ Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta repeats Brando's speech in Raging Bull. Jump up^ Often paraphrased as "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride" Jump up^ Paul Newman repeats the line later in the film, mocking the prison warden, though he says "a failure", rather than simply "failure." Also heard quoted in this form. 5. Jump up^ This paraphrases a line from The Tempest by William Shakespeare: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (often misquoted as "made of") 6. ^ Jump up to: Craig.
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Also George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel

7.

Jump up^ Appears in some form in a total of 23 films; Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace , and Skyfall.

8.

Jump up^ Mae West paraphrased the line in her next film I'm No Angel as "Come up and see me sometime". Henceforth the line in She Done Him Wrong is often misquoted as "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"

9.

Jump up^ Sometimes claimed to be an ad lib.

10. Jump up^ Usually misquoted as "Play it again, Sam." 11. Jump up^ Reportedly
[where?]

an ad lib. Commonly misheard as "We're gonna need a bigger boat," as for

example at the Urban Dictionary. 12. Jump up^ Popularly misquoted as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", most likely fromBlazing Saddles in which the line was so worded. 13. Jump up^ An actual quotation from Lou Gehrig's retirement speech. 14. Jump up^ Often misquoted as "If you build it, they will come." 15. Jump up^ The line is based on an actual message from Apollo 13. Astronaut Swigert said "Houston, we've had a problem here," then Lovell repeated "Houston, we've had a problem". 16. Jump up^ Often misquoted as "...'Do you feel lucky?', Well, do ya, punk?" or "...'Are you feeling lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" 17. Jump up^ The scene from the film in which this line appears is also excerpted in the movie's trailer, but in the trailer the sequence is edited so that Gekko's line occurs as simply "Greed is good." This shorter version of the line has become more popular and more widely quoted than the version in the film. 18. Jump up^ This maxim is attributed to several military strategists, notably Sun-tzu, Chinese general. 19. Jump up^ Often misquoted as "Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!" 20. Jump up^ Although occurring in the 1949 film, this line did not become a widespread catchphrase until after the 1961 premiere of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In the opening scene of that play, Martha quotes this line and then (since she has apparently forgotten) she asks George which of Bette Davis's films it is from. 21. Jump up^ Often misquoted as "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" 22. Jump up^ This line, which does not appear in any of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, was first said onscreen in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The line's first occurrence is in the stage playSherlock Holmes, written entirely by William Gillette with Doyle's approval, for which Gilette listed Doyle as coauthor. 23. Jump up^ An ad-lib. The line is Ed McMahon's signature introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. 24. Jump up^ Ad-libbed after a particularly good take

25. Jump up^ Usually misquoted as: "No more wire hangers, ever!" 26. Jump up^ Parodied in the film Hot Fuzz when Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) tells Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), "Forget it, Nicholas, it's Sandford." 27. Jump up^ Frequently heard as "...Twas beauty killed the beast" 28. Jump up^ This quotation is sometimes attributed to Ronald Reagan portraying George Gipp. Reagan's linefrom earlier in the filmis "Ask 'em to go in there with all they've got, win just one for the Gipper." 29. Jump up^ Later, "Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred." In the film You Only Live Twice, accidentally "Stirred, not shaken." 30. Jump up^ Appeared in multiple other films. 31. Jump up^ Although "Who's on first?" appeared in numerous other Abbott and Costello films prior to 1945, the one featured in The Naughty Nineties is considered the best rendition of the sketch.