AFI Announces Top 100 Movie Quotes of All-Time:
Marlon Brando was a contender in the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies. But No. 1 was Rhett Butler's parting shot to Scarlett O'Hara: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Clark Gable's line to Vivien Leigh in 1939's "Gone With the Wind" led the AFI's list, announced in the organization's annual top-100 special. Brando had the No. 2 and 3 quotes "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," from "The Godfather" and his "I coulda been a contender" speech from "On the Waterfront."
Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale came in fourth with "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," from The Wizard of Oz." At No. 5 was "Here's looking at you, kid," spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in "Casablanca."
Rounding out the Top 100:
1. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- GONE WITH THE WIND
2. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
- THE GODFATHER
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
4. Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
- THE WIZARD OF OZ
5. Here's looking at you, kid.
- CASABLANCA
6. Go ahead, make my day.
- SUDDEN IMPACT
7. All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
- SUNSET BLVD.
8. May the Force be with you.
- STAR WARS
9. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
- ALL ABOUT EVE
10. You talking to me?
- TAXI DRIVER
11. What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- COOL HAND LUKE
12. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
- APOCALYPSE NOW
13. Love means never having to say you're sorry.
- LOVE STORY
14. The stuff that dreams are made of.
- THE MALTESE FALCON
15. E.T. phone home.
- E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
16. They call me Mister Tibbs!
- IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
17. Rosebud.
- CITIZEN KANE
18. Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
- WHITE HEAT
19. I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
- NETWORK
20. Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- CASABLANCA
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
22. Bond. James Bond.
- DR. NO
23. There's no place like home.
- THE WIZARD OF OZ
24. I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
- SUNSET BLVD.
25. Show me the money!
- JERRY MAGUIRE
26. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
- SHE DONE HIM WRONG
27. I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY
28. Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
- CASABLANCA
29. You can't handle the truth!
- A FEW GOOD MEN
30. I want to be alone.
- GRAND HOTEL
31. After all, tomorrow is another day!
- GONE WITH THE WIND
32. Round up the usual suspects.
- CASABLANCA
33. I'll have what she's having.
- WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
34. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
- TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
35. You're gonna need a bigger boat.
- JAWS
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
37. I'll be back.
- THE TERMINATOR
38. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
- THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
39. If you build it, he will come.
- FIELD OF DREAMS
40. Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
- FORREST GUMP
41. We rob banks.
- BONNIE AND CLYDE
42. Plastics.
- THE GRADUATE
43. We'll always have Paris.
- CASABLANCA
44. I see dead people.
- THE SIXTH SENSE
45. Stella! Hey, Stella!
- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
46. Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
- NOW, VOYAGER
47. Shane. Shane. Come back!
- SHANE
48. Well, nobody's perfect.
- SOME LIKE IT HOT
49. It's alive! It's alive!
- FRANKENSTEIN
50. Houston, we have a problem.
- APOLLO 13
51. You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
- DIRTY HARRY
52. You had me at "hello."
- JERRY MAGUIRE
53. One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
- ANIMAL CRACKERS
54. There's no crying in baseball!
- A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
55. La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
- ANNIE HALL
56. A boy's best friend is his mother.
- PSYCHO
57. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
- WALL STREET
58. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- THE GODFATHER II
59. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
- GONE WITH THE WIND
60. Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
- SONS OF THE DESERT
61. Say "hello" to my little friend!
- SCARFACE
62. What a dump.
- BEYOND THE FOREST
63. Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
- THE GRADUATE
64. Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
- DR. STRANGELOVE
65. Elementary, my dear Watson.
- THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
66. Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
- PLANET OF THE APES
67. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
- CASABLANCA
68. Here's Johnny!
- THE SHINING
69. They're here!
- POLTERGEIST
70. Is it safe?
- MARATHON MAN
71. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
- THE JAZZ SINGER
72. No wire hangers, ever!
- MOMMIE DEAREST
73. Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
- LITTLE CAESAR
74. Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
- CHINATOWN
75. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
76. Hasta la vista, baby.
- TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
77. Soylent Green is people!
- SOYLENT GREEN
78. Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
79. Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious and don't call me Shirley.
- AIRPLANE!
80. Yo, Adrian!
- ROCKY
81. Hello, gorgeous.
- FUNNY GIRL
82. Toga! Toga!
- NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
83. Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
- DRACULA
84. Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
- KING KONG
85. My precious.
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS
86. Attica! Attica!
- DOG DAY AFTERNOON
87. Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
- 42ND STREET
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
89. Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
- KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN
90. A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
- GOLDFINGER
91. Who's on first.
- THE NAUGHTY NINETIES
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
93. Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
- AUNTIE MAME
94 - I feel the need. the need for speed!
- TOP GUN
95. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
- DEAD POETS SOCIETY
96. Snap out of it!
- MOONSTRUCK
97. My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
- YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
98. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
- DIRTY DANCING
99. I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
- WIZARD OF OZ, THE
100. I'm king of the world!
- TITANIC
So...do you think they missed any?
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