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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
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| 1998 | 100 Movies |
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| 1999 | 100 Stars |
| 2000 | 100 Laughs |
| 2001 | 100 Thrills |
| 2002 | 100 Passions |
| 2003 | 100 Heroes & Villains |
| 2004 | 100 Songs |
| 2005 | 100 Movie Quotes |
| 2005 | 25 Scores |
| 2006 | 100 Cheers |
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| 2007 | 100 Movies (Updated) |
| 2008 | AFI's 10 Top 10 |
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema.[1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.
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 film.[a] 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.
The list
The table below reproduces the quotes as the AFI published them.[2]
| Rank | Quotation | Character | Actor/Actress | Film | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." | Rhett Butler | Clark Gable | Gone with the Wind | 1939 |
| 2 | "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." | Vito Corleone | Marlon Brando | 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."[b] | Terry Malloy | On the Waterfront | 1954 | |
| 4 | "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."[c] | Dorothy Gale | Judy Garland | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
| 5 | "Here's looking at you, kid." | Rick Blaine | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca | 1942 |
| 6 | "Go ahead, make my day." | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Sudden Impact[d] | 1983 |
| 7 | "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." | Norma Desmond | Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 |
| 8 | "May the Force be with you." | Han Solo | Harrison Ford | Star Wars | 1977 |
| 9 | "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy 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 failure to communicate."[e] | Captain | 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 Cavalleri, Oliver Barrett IV |
Ali MacGraw Ryan O'Neal |
Love Story | 1970 |
| 14 | "The stuff that dreams are made of."[f] | Sam Spade | Humphrey Bogart | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 |
| 15 | "E.T. phone home." | E.T. | Pat Welsh | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 |
| 16 | "They call me Mister Tibbs!" | Virgil Tibbs | Sidney Poitier | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 |
| 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[g] | Dr. No[h] | 1962 |
| 23 | "There's no place like home."[i] | Dorothy Gale | Judy Garland | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
| 24 | "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." | Norma 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 sometime and see me?"[j] | Lady Lou | Mae West | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 |
| 27 | "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"[k] | "Ratso" Rizzo | Dustin Hoffman | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 |
| 28 | "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"[l] | 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 put your lips together and blow." | Marie "Slim" Browning | Lauren Bacall | To Have and Have Not | 1944 |
| 35 | "You're gonna need a bigger boat."[3] | Martin Brody | Roy Scheider | 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!"[m] | Gold Hat | Alfonso Bedoya | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 |
| 37 | "I'll be back." | The Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | The Terminator | 1984 |
| 38 | "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."[n] | Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 |
| 39 | "If you build it, he will come." | Shoeless Joe Jackson | Ray Liotta (voice) | Field of Dreams | 1989 |
| 40 | "My 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 the stars." | Charlotte Vale | Bette Davis | Now, Voyager | 1942 |
| 47 | "Shane. Shane. Come back!" | Joey Starrett | Brandon deWilde | 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 problem."[o] | Jim Lovell | Tom Hanks | Apollo 13 | 1995 |
| 51 | "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Dirty Harry | 1971 |
| 52 | "You had me at 'hello.'" | Dorothy Boyd | Renée Zellweger | Jerry Maguire | 1996 |
| 53 | "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."[p] | 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 mother." | Norman Bates | Anthony Perkins | Psycho | 1960 |