According to AFI (American Film Institute): chosen through ballots sent to 1,500 filmmakers, actors, critics and others in Hollywood.


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
1939

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

Some from:


Fletch
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Pretty in Pink
Breakfast Club
Bachelor Party

would've been sweet to add to it as well. Some of those i don't even know and have never heard of.

I recognize some of those! Nice list! :thumb:

I have heard almost every single line on that list!
I would have liked to have seen some or at least ONE from Ferris, but was happy to see that one of my other fav movies of all time "A League of their Own" got a mention :thumb:

I'm not sure if I agree with Forrest Gump being at No. 40 though!!!!

I watched the AFI special a few weeks back, and could quote every line on the list! There are some unforgettable quotes on this list, from some of the most important movies of all time!!! :clap:

Casablanca had a few on there. That's a great film!

Casablanca had a few on there. That's a great film!I have yet to see that. I need to make an effort to watch it. :)

Cool list! When you read the quotes back in your mind, you can picture the scene.

It's a good list, but it's the clean list. Now we need a list that includes ALL the quotes from movies. How many quotes cracked you up and were priceless, but included swear words?

"Sometimes you just gotta say 'what the f*ck?" comes to mind.

Or pretty much ANYTHING R. Lee Ermy said in Full Metal Jacket. :laugh:

Definitely a lot of good ones there :)

I have yet to see that. I need to make an effort to watch it. :)


Go rent it now TC...nobody should have to go through life without seeing Casablanca at least 20 times. Still a few moments in it that make me weepy.

Like Pagan said....there's lots that shoulda made it if swearing was included.

Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in Blue Velvet is a walking quote machine.

39
If you build it, he will come.
FIELD OF DREAMS
1989


I still get mysty eyed everytime I watch that movie

Go rent it now TC...nobody should have to go through life without seeing Casablanca at least 20 times.

I can't agree with you more!! I love love that movie :yesnod:


I don't usually agree with the "lists" that people post on this board, but this one is pretty good. A few movies that have some GREAT lines in them are Before Sunrise, Fletch & Repo Man :thumb:

Awesome list. I love great movie quotes! Thanks for posting this. :)

SUNSET BLVD.
1950

ALL ABOUT EVE
1950

TAXI DRIVER
1976

THE MALTESE FALCON
1941

CITIZEN KANE
1941

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
1944

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1951

DR. STRANGELOVE
1964

CHINATOWN
1974

FUNNY GIRL
1968


These are some of my favorite classic movies, especially Sunset Blvd, All About Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown and Streetcar Named Desire :thumb: Masterpieces in cinema... I'd have to add Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf-- amazing, powerful screenplays.

It's a good list, but it's the clean list. Now we need a list that includes ALL the quotes from movies. How many quotes cracked you up and were priceless, but included swear words?

"Sometimes you just gotta say 'what the f*ck?" comes to mind.

Or pretty much ANYTHING R. Lee Ermy said in Full Metal Jacket. :laugh:


or every word that come out of Joe Pesci's mouth in Casino

Casablanca had a few on there. That's a great film!

I loved Casablanca! What a classic! :thumb:

i wanted to see Joe Pesci's funny like a clown bit from Goodfellas.

and echo everything said about Casablanca... saw it a few years ago on late-night cable when i had a broken heart. now i know why it's always at the top of every list.

Theres no Tarantino movie quotes :irked:

All About Eve is a great classic film. All the newer movies are built on ideas founded back when this was a new gig, yanno? ;)

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
The only part I've ever heard anyone quote is "I coulda been a contender."
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933
Why do I hear it in my head as, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Of course, they play that line when they advertise the movie, I've never actually seen the whole thing.
Plastics. THE GRADUATE 1967
Say what? Was this the punchline or something? How can the word plastics be a great movie line? There are a couple pretty ordinary headscratchers in there....

Joe Pesci as Tommy Devito- Goodfellas
But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to ****in' amuse you? ..How am I funny, like a clown? What is so funny about me? What the **** is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny. ...
Joe Pesci -as Nicky Santoro- Casino
I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your ****in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your ****in' head open again. 'Cause I'm ****in' stupid. I don't give a **** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do.