AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Gone with the Wind (1939)

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.

On the Waterfront (1954)

“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.” —Marlon Brando as Terry.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” —Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale.

Casablanca (1942)

“Here’s looking at you, kid.” —Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine to Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa.

Sudden Impact (1983)

“Go ahead, make my day.” —Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan.

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.” —Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond.

Star Wars (1977)

“May the force be with you.” —Harrison Ford as Han Solo to Mark Hamill as Luke.

All About Eve (1950)

“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” —Bette Davis as Margo Channing.

Taxi Driver (1976)

“You talkin’ to me?” —Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle.

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” —Paul Newman as Luke.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” —Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore.

Love Story (1970)

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” —Ryan O’Neal as Oliver Barrett IV.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

“The stuff that dreams are made of.” —Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

“E.T. phone home.” —Pat Welsh (uncredited) as the voice of E.T.

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

“They call me Mister Tibbs!” —Sidney Poitier as Mister Tibbs.

Citizen Kane (1941)

“Rosebud.” —Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane.

White Heat (1949)

“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” —James Cagney as Arthur ‘Cody’ Jarrett.

Network (1976)

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” —Peter Finch as Howard Beale.

Casablanca (1942)

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” —Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine to Claude Rains as Captain Renault.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” —Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

Dr. No (1962)

“Bond. James Bond.” —Sean Connery as Bond, James Bond.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

“There’s no place like home.” —Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale.

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

“I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” —Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond (seen here with Cecil B. DeMille).

Jerry Maguire (1996)

“Show me the money.” — Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire.

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” —Mae West as Lady Lou.

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

“I’m walking here! I’m walking here!” —Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo.

Casablanca (1942)

“Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’” —Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund.

A Few Good Men (1992)

“You can’t handle the truth!” —Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep.

Grand Hotel (1932)

“I want to be alone.” —Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” —Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

Casablanca (1942)

“Round up the usual suspects.” —Claude Rains as Captain Renault.

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

“I’ll have what she’s having.” —Estelle Reiner (rear, left) as a deli patron.

To Have and Have Not (1944)

“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” —Lauren Bacall as Marie ‘Slim’ Browning.

Jaws (1975)

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” —Roy Scheider as Brody.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” —Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat.

The Terminator (1984)

“I’ll be back.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” —Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig.

Field of Dreams (1989)

“If you build it, he will come”. —The Voice

Forrest Gump (1994)

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” —Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

“We rob banks.”—Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker.

The Graduate (1967)

“Plastics.” —Party guest to Dustin Hoffman.

Casablanca (1942)

“We’ll always have Paris.” —Humphrey Bogart as Rick to Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa.

The Sixth Sense (1999)

“I see dead people.” —Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

“Stella! Hey, Stella!” Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski.

Now, Voyager (1942)

“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” —Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale.

Shane (1953)

“Shane. Shane. Come back!” —Brandon De Wilde as Joey Starrett to Alan Ladd as Shane.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

“Well, nobody’s perfect.” —Joe E. Brown as Osgood to Jack Lemmon as Jerry.

Frankenstein (1931)

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” —Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein.

Apollo 13 (1995)

“Houston, we have a problem.” —Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell.

Dirty Harry (1971)

“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” —Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan.

Jerry Maguire (1996)

“You had me at hello.” —Renee Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd to Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire.

Animal Crackers (1930)

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” —Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding.

A League of Their Own (1992)

“There’s no crying in baseball!” —Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan.

Annie Hall (1977)

“La-dee-da, la-dee-da.” —Diane Keaton as Annie Hall.

Psycho (1960)

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” —Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.

Wall Street (1987)

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” —Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” —Al Pacino as Michael Corleone.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” —Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

Sons of the Desert (1933)

“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” —Oliver Hardy as Ollie.

Scarface (1983)

“Say “hello” to my little friend!" —Al Pacino as Tony Montana.

Beyond the Forest (1949)

“What a dump.” —Bette Davis as Rosa Moline.

The Graduate (1967)

“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” —Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock to Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson.

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” —Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” —Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.” —Charlton Heston as George Taylor.

Casablanca (1942)

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” —Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine (seen here with Peter Lorre as Ugarte).

The Shining (1980)

“Here’s Johnny!” —Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance.

Poltergeist (1982)

“They’re here!” —Heather O’Rourke as Carol Anne Freeling.

Marathon Man (1976)

“Is it safe?” —Laurence Olivier as Christian Szell.

The Jazz Singer (1927)

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t hear nothin’ yet!” —Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin).

Mommie Dearest (1981)

“No wire hangers, ever!” —Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.

Little Caesar (1931)

“Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?” —Edward G. Robinson as Caesar Enrico Bandello.

Chinatown (1974)

“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” —Joe Mantell as Walsh.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” —Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

“Hasta la vista, baby.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.

Soylent Green (1973)

“Soylent Green is people!” —Charlton Heston as Det. Thorn.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” —Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman.

Airplane! (1980)

Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.”
Rumack: “I am serious... and don’t call me Shirley.”

—Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays as Dr. Rumack and Ted Striker.

Rocky (1976)

“Yo, Adrian!” —Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. (Seen here with Dolph Lundgren.)

Funny Girl (1968)

“Hello, gorgeous.” —Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice.

Animal House (1978)

“Toga! Toga!” —John Belushi as Bluto.

Dracula (1931)

“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.” —Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.

King Kong (1933)

“Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” —Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

“My precious.” —Andy Serkis as Gollum.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

“Attica! Attica!” —Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik.

42nd Street (1933)

“Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star!” —Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh to Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer.

On Golden Pond (1981)

“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!” —Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer.

Knute Rockne All American (1940)

“Tell ’em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.” —Pat O’Brien as Knute Rockne.

Goldfinger (1964)

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” —Sean Connery as James Bond.

The Naughty Nineties (1945)

“Who’s on first.” —Bud Abbott as Dexter Broadhurst to Lou Costello as Sebastian Dinwiddle.

Caddyshack (1980)

“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!” —Bill Murray as Carl Spackler.

Auntie Mame (1958)

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” —Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame.

Top Gun (1986)

I feel the need -- the need for speed! —Tom Cruise as Maverick.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” —Robin Williams as John Keating.

Moonstruck (1987)

“Snap out of it!” —Cher as Loretta Castorini.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” —James Cagney as George M. Cohan.

Dirty Dancing (1987)

“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” —Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!” —Margaret Hamilton as Wicked Witch of the West.

Titanic (1997)

“I’m king of the world!” —Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson.