AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes
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Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list in June of 2005 in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor 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 in the Civil War epic Gone with the Wind as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.
Casablanca has the most quotes of any movie on the list, with six. Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are next, with three each. Fourteen different actors, ten men and four women, each have two or more quotations attributed to them. Leading this select ensemble is Humphrey Bogart, who has five, four of them from Casablanca. Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh are tied for the most quotations by an actress, with three. Marlon Brando, Tom Hanks, and Al Pacino also have three apiece. James Cagney, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, Judy Garland, Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dustin Hoffman and Gloria Swanson each have two.
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One actor has four quotes playing the same character in the same movie: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (#5, #20, #43 and #67). Three actresses have two quotes playing the same character in the same movie: Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (#31 and #59), Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (#7 and #24) and Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" (#4 and #23).
Three actors have quotes playing the same character in different movies: Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact (#6) and Dirty Harry (#51); Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (#22) and Goldfinger (#90); and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator (#37 and #76) in The Terminator and T2.
One of the quotations - #22, "Bond. James Bond." - was spoken by a single character, played by six different actors across 22 different movies.[1]
Four of the quotations on the list consist of one word, or a single word repeated: "Rosebud", from Citizen Kane, "Plastics", from The Graduate, "Attica! Attica!" from Dog Day Afternoon, and "Toga! Toga!" from National Lampoon's Animal House. The longest is Katharine Hepburn's quote from On Golden Pond ("Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor...") at 40 words.
Three of the quotations were taken from actual events:
- Lou Gehrig's farewell speech ("The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth") from The Pride of the Yankees (#38)
- Apollo 13's distress call ("Houston, we have a problem"; the official NASA transcript is "Houston, we've had a problem") (#50)
- George Cohan's signature line ("My mother thanks you,...") from Yankee Doodle Dandy (#97)
In addition, Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" line from The Shining (#68) was Johnny Carson's introduction on The Tonight Show.
[edit] 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.[2] 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.
[edit] The list
| # | Quote | Movie | Year |
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| 1 | "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" | Gone with the Wind | 1939 |
| 2 | "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."[3] | 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."[4] | 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."[5] | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 |
| 8 | "May the Force be with you." | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | 1977 |
| 9 | "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." | All About Eve | 1950 |
| 10 | "You talkin' to me?" | Taxi Driver | 1976 |
| 11 | "What we've got here is failure to communicate."[6] | 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."[7] | 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[1] | 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 Boulevard | 1950 |
| 25 | "Show me the money!" | Jerry Maguire | 1996 |
| 26 | "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"[8] | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 |
| 27 | "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"[9] | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 |
| 28 | "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"[10] | 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!"[11] | 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."[12] | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 |
| 39 | "If you build it, he will come."[13] | 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."[14] | Apollo 13 | 1995 |
| 51 | "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"[15] | 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."[16] | 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."[17] | Wall Street | 1987 |
| 58 | "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."[18] | The Godfather Part 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!"[19][20] | Sons of the Desert | 1933 |
| 61 | "Say hello to my little friend!" | Scarface | 1983 |
| 62 | "What a dump."[21] | Beyond the Forest | 1949 |
| 63 | "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"[22] | The Graduate | 1967 |
| 64 | "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR Room!" | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 |
| 65 | "Elementary, my dear Watson."[23] | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1939 |
| 66 | "Take 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!"[24] | 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!"[25] | The Jazz Singer | 1927 |
| 72 | "No wire hangers, ever!"[26] | 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."[27] | King Kong | 1933 |
| 85 | "My precious." | The Lord of the Rings: The 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 | "Shaken, not stirred."[28] | Goldfinger[29] | 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!" | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
| 100 | "I'm the king of the world!" | Titanic | 1997 |
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b Appears in some form in a total of 18 films; Dr. No, Goldfinger, 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, and Casino Royale.
- ^ 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 feature-length 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.
- ^ Later in the film, as he is taking over the Family business, Michael repeats the line. In The Godfather Part II, young Vito says, in more accented English, "I make him an offer he don't refuse."
- ^ Jake LaMotta’s character repeats Brando's speech in Raging Bull.
- ^ Usually misquoted as "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille."
- ^ Paul Newman repeats the line later in the film, mocking the prison warden, though he says "a failure", rather than simply "failure."
- ^ This paraphrases a line from The Tempest by William Shakespeare: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (often misquoted as "..made of")
- ^ Usually misquoted as "Why don't you come up and see me sometime."
- ^ Sometimes claimed to be an ad lib.
- ^ Usually misquoted as "Play it again, Sam," which is a Groucho line from the Marx Brothers movie A Night in Casablanca
- ^ Popularly misquoted as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", most likely from Blazing Saddles in which the line was so worded.
- ^ An actual quote from Lou Gehrig's retirement speech.
- ^ Often misquoted as "If you build it, they will come."
- ^ 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".
- ^ Often misquoted as "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
- ^ Often misquoted as "... How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
- ^ 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.
- ^ This maxim is attributed to several military strategists, notably Sun-tzu, Chinese general.
- ^ Often misquoted as "Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!"
- ^ This paraphrases a line from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan
- ^ 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.
- ^ Often misquoted as "Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs Robinson?"
- ^ 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 play Sherlock Holmes, written entirely by William Gillette with Doyle's approval, for which Gilette listed Doyle as co-author.
- ^ An ad-lib. The line, of course, is Ed McMahon's introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
- ^ Ad-libbed after a particularly good take
- ^ Usually misquoted as: "No more wire hangers, ever!"
- ^ Frequently heard as "... Twas beauty killed the beast"
- ^ Later, "Vodka Martini, Shaken, not Stirred." In the film You Only Live Twice, accidentally "Stirred, not Shaken."
- ^ appeared in multiple other films.
