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AFI TOP 100
Quotes of all time
AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes (2005): the 100 most memorable lines in American cinema, as chosen by filmmakers, critics, and historians.
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“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
Vito Corleone · Marlon Brando
The Godfather · 1972
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“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.”
Terry Malloy · Marlon Brando
On the Waterfront · 1954
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“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
Dorothy Gale · Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz · 1939
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“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”
Norma Desmond · Gloria Swanson
Sunset Boulevard · 1950
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“Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.”
Margo Channing · Bette Davis
All About Eve · 1950
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“What we've got here is failure to communicate.”
Captain · Strother Martin
Cool Hand Luke · 1967
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“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore · Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now · 1979
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“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!”
Howard Beale · Peter Finch
Network · 1976
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“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Rick Blaine · Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca · 1942
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“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
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“Bond. James Bond.”
James Bond · Sean Connery
Dr. No · 1962
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“You can't handle the truth!”
Col. Nathan R. Jessup · Jack Nicholson
A Few Good Men · 1992
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“You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
Marie Browning · Lauren Bacall
To Have and Have Not · 1944
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“Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!”
Gold Hat · Alfonso Bedoya
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“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”
Lou Gehrig · Gary Cooper
The Pride of the Yankees · 1942
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“If you build it, he will come.”
Shoeless Joe Jackson · Ray Liotta
Field of Dreams · 1989
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“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
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“We rob banks.”
Clyde Barrow · Warren Beatty
Bonnie and Clyde · 1967
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“Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.”
Charlotte Vale · Bette Davis
Now, Voyager · 1942
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“It's alive! It's alive!”
Henry Frankenstein · Colin Clive
Frankenstein · 1931
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“Houston, we have a problem.”
Jim Lovell · Tom Hanks
Apollo 13 · 1995
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“You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?”
Harry Callahan · Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry · 1971
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“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.”
Capt. Geoffrey Spaulding · Groucho Marx
Animal Crackers · 1930
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“There's no crying in baseball!”
Jimmy Dugan · Tom Hanks
A League of Their Own · 1992
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“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
Michael Corleone · Al Pacino
The Godfather Part II · 1974
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“As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.”
Scarlett O'Hara · Vivien Leigh
Gone with the Wind · 1939
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“Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!”
Oliver · Oliver Hardy
Sons of the Desert · 1933
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“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?”
Benjamin Braddock · Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate · 1967
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“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!”
President Merkin Muffley · Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove · 1964
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“Elementary, my dear Watson.”
Sherlock Holmes · Basil Rathbone
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“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.”
George Taylor · Charlton Heston
Planet of the Apes · 1968
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“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Rick Blaine · Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca · 1942
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“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!”
Jakie Rabinowitz · Al Jolson
The Jazz Singer · 1927
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Blanche DuBois · Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire · 1951
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“Surely you can't be serious. I am serious … and don't call me Shirley.”
Ted Striker · Robert Hays
Airplane! · 1980
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“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
Count Dracula · Bela Lugosi
Dracula · 1931
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“Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”
Carl Denham · Robert Armstrong
King Kong · 1933
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“Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”
Julian Marsh · Warner Baxter
42nd Street · 1933
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“Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it.”
Ethel Thayer · Katharine Hepburn
On Golden Pond · 1981
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“Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.”
George Gipp · Ronald Reagan
Knute Rockne, All American · 1940
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“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
Mame Dennis · Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame · 1958
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“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
John Keating · Robin Williams
Dead Poets Society · 1989
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“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
George M. Cohan · James Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy · 1942
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“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
Johnny Castle · Patrick Swayze
Dirty Dancing · 1987
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“I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
Wicked Witch · Margaret Hamilton
The Wizard of Oz · 1939
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