AFI's
100 Years...
100 Movie Quotes

Part 1

100 Greatest Quotes
in American Movies


The American Film Institute's (AFI) eighth polling, 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes highlighted "America's Greatest Quotes in the Movies."

AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes revealed the 100 greatest movie quotes in American films, as chosen by leaders of the entertainment community, in a three-hour television event, that aired on the CBS Television Network in June 2005.

See also this site's informative sections listed at Greatest Film Quotes, including Top 10 Most Famous Movie Quotes, Top 10 Best Movie Lines Ever, 100 Great Movie Lines We Can't Live Without, Great Film Quotes From Great Films (in five parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Most Popular Movie Lines, Great Brief Film Quotes, Best Film Speeches and Monologues, Greatest Film Misquotes, Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes, Greatest Last Words and Film Lines, and Great Film Tag Lines.

The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films.



AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes -
Winners
(by ranking)
Part 1

1. RHETT BUTLER (Clark Gable): "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
GONE WITH THE WIND, MGM, 1939
Play clip (excerpt): Gone With the Wind

2. VITO CORLEONE (Marlon Brando): "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
THE GODFATHER, Paramount, 1972
Play clip (excerpt): The Godfather

3. TERRY MALLOY (Marlon Brando): "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
ON THE WATERFRONT, Columbia, 1954
Play clip (excerpt): On the Waterfront

4. DOROTHY GALE (Judy Garland): "Toto, I've (got) a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
THE WIZARD OF OZ, MGM, 1939
Play clip (excerpt): The Wizard of Oz

5. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Here's looking at you, kid."
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

6. HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood): "Go ahead, make my day."
SUDDEN IMPACT, Warner Bros., 1983
Play clip (excerpt): Sudden Impact

7. NORMA DESMOND (Gloria Swanson): "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
SUNSET BOULEVARD, Paramount, 1950
Play clip (excerpt): Sunset Boulevard

8. HAN SOLO (Harrison Ford): "May the Force be with you."
(Variation spoken by Obi Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness): "The Force will be with you always.")
STAR WARS, Twentieth Century Fox, 1977
Play clip (excerpt): Star Wars

9. MARGO CHANNING (Bette Davis): "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
ALL ABOUT EVE, Twentieth Century Fox, 1950
Play clip (excerpt): All About Eve

10. TRAVIS BICKLE (Robert DeNiro): "You talkin' to me?"
TAXI DRIVER, Columbia, 1976
Play clip (excerpt): Taxi Driver

11. CAPTAIN (Strother Martin): "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
COOL HAND LUKE, Warner Bros., 1967
Play clip (excerpt): Cool Hand Luke

12. LT. COL. BILL KILGORE (Robert Duvall): "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
APOCALYPSE NOW, United Artists, 1979
Play clip (excerpt): Apocalypse Now

13. OLIVER BARRETT IV (Ryan O'Neal): "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
LOVE STORY, Paramount, 1970
Play clip (excerpt): Love Story

14. SAM SPADE (Humphrey Bogart): "(What is it?)" "The stuff that dreams are made of."
THE MALTESE FALCON, Warner Bros., 1941
Play clip (excerpt): The Maltese Falcon

15. E.T. (voice of Joe Welsh): "E.T. phone home."
E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, Universal, 1982
Play clip (excerpt): E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

16. VIRGIL TIBBS (Sidney Poitier): "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, United Artists, 1967
Play clip (excerpt): In the Heat of the Night

17. CHARLES FOSTER KANE (Orson Welles): "Rosebud."
CITIZEN KANE, RKO, 1941
Play clip (excerpt): Citizen Kane

18. ARTHUR 'CODY' JARRETT (James Cagney): "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
WHITE HEAT, Warner Bros., 1949
Play clip (excerpt): White Heat

19. HOWARD BEALE (Peter Finch): "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
NETWORK, United Artists, 1976
Play clip (excerpt): Network

20. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

21. DR. HANNIBAL LECTER (Anthony Hopkins): "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, Orion, 1991
Play clip (excerpt): The Silence of the Lambs

22. JAMES BOND (Sean Connery): "Bond. James Bond."
DR. NO, United Artists, 1962
Play clip (excerpt): Dr. No

23. DOROTHY GALE (Judy Garland): "There's no place like home."
THE WIZARD OF OZ, MGM, 1939
Play clip (excerpt): The Wizard of Oz

24. NORMA DESMOND (Gloria Swanson): "I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
SUNSET BOULEVARD, Paramount, 1950
Play clip (excerpt): Sunset Boulevard

25. ROD TIDWELL (Cuba Gooding, Jr.): "Show me the money!" (also said by character Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire))
JERRY MAGUIRE, TriStar, 1996
Play clip (excerpt): Jerry Maguire




AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes
(ranked winners)

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AFI 400 Greatest Movie Quotes
(nominated quotes)

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