AFI's
100 Years...
100 Movie Quotes

100 Greatest Quotes
in American Movies

Nominees - Part 1


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.

The following is a list of 400 nominated quotes that were on a ballot that was distributed in 2004 to a jury of 1,500 leaders from the film community, including filmmakers, actors, historians, scholars, journalists and industry types. Voters could submit up to five write-in choices not included among the 400 nominees.

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 400 Greatest Movie Quotes -
Nominees
(alphabetical by film title)
Winners are also noted by and ranking #

  1. ACE VENTURA (Jim Carrey): "All-righty then!"
    ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE, Warner Bros., 1994

  2. SHERLOCK HOLMES (Basil Rathbone): "Elementary, my dear Watson." # 65
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Twentieth Century Fox, 1939

  3. TERRY McKAY (Deborah Kerr): "Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there."
    AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, Twentieth Century Fox, 1957

  4. CHARLIE ALLNUT (Humphrey Bogart): "A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature."
    ROSE SAYER (Katharine Hepburn): "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above."
    THE AFRICAN QUEEN, United Artists, 1951

  5. TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): "Surely you can't be serious."
    DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen): "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." # 79
    AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

  6. STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
    AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

  7. CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever been in a cockpit before?"
    JOEY (Rossie Harris): "No sir, I've never been up in a plane before."
    CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever seen a grown man naked?"
    AIRPLANE! Paramount, 1980

  8. RIPLEY (Sigourney Weaver): "Get away from her, you bitch!"
    ALIENS, Twentieth Century Fox, 1986

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

  10. PAUL (Lew Ayres): "And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Universal, 1930

  11. JOE GIDEON (Roy Scheider): "It's showtime!"
    ALL THAT JAZZ, Twentieth Century Fox/Columbia, 1979

  12. DEEP THROAT (Hal Holbrook): "Follow the money."
    ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, Warner Bros., 1976

  13. EMPEROR JOSEPH II (Jeffrey Jones): "There are simply too many notes."
    AMADEUS, Orion, 1984

  14. RICKY FITTS (Wes Bentley): "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
    AMERICAN BEAUTY, DreamWorks, 1999

  15. CAPT. JEFFREY T. SPAULDING (Groucho Marx): "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." # 53
    ANIMAL CRACKERS, Paramount, 1930

  16. ANNA CHRISTIE (Greta Garbo): "Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby."
    ANNA CHRISTIE, MGM, 1930

  17. ANNIE HALL (Diane Keaton): "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." # 55
    ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

  18. ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen): "I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."
    ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

  19. ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen): "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
    ANNIE HALL, United Artists, 1977

  20. FRAN KUBELIK (Shirley MacLaine): "Shut up and deal."
    THE APARTMENT, United Artists, 1960

  21. LT. COL. BILL KILGORE (Robert Duvall): "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." # 12
    APOCALYPSE NOW, United Artists, 1979

  22. JIM LOVELL (Tom Hanks): "Houston, we have a problem." # 50
    APOLLO 13, Universal, 1995

  23. MORTIMER BREWSTER (Cary Grant): "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
    ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, Warner Bros., 1944

  24. ARTHUR BACH (Dudley Moore): "I'm going to take a bath."
    HOBSON (John Gielgud): "I'll alert the media."
    ARTHUR, Warner Bros., 1981

  25. MELVIN UDALL (Jack Nicholson): "You make me want to be a better man."
    AS GOOD AS IT GETS, TriStar, 1997

  26. LOU PASCAL (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns."
    ATLANTIC CITY, Paramount, 1980

  27. MAME DENNIS (Rosalind Russell): "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" # 93
    AUNTIE MAME, Warner Bros., 1958

  28. AUSTIN POWERS (Mike Myers): "Yeah, baby!"
    AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, New Line Cinema, 1997

  29. DR. EVIL (Mike Myers): "One million dollars!"
    AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, New Line Cinema, 1997

  30. FARMER HOGGETT (James Cromwell): "That'll do, pig. That'll do."
    BABE, Universal, 1995

  31. DR. EMMETT BROWN (Christopher Lloyd): "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."
    BACK TO THE FUTURE, Universal, 1985

  32. JONATHAN SHIELDS (Kirk Douglas): "Georgia, love is for the very young."
    THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, MGM, 1952

  33. SUGARPUSS O'SHEA (Barbara Stanwyck): "I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!"
    BALL OF FIRE, RKO, 1941

  34. THE JOKER (Jack Nicholson): "Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"
    BATMAN, Warner Bros., 1989

  35. BETELGEUSE (Michael Keaton): "I'm the ghost with the most, babe."
    BEETLEJUICE, Warner Bros., 1988

  36. CHANCE (Peter Sellers): "I like to watch."
    BEING THERE, United Artists, 1979

  37. ROSA MOLINE (Bette Davis): "What a dump." # 62
    BEYOND THE FOREST, Warner Bros., 1949

  38. JOSH (Tom Hanks): "Okay, but I get to be on top."
    BIG, Twentieth Century Fox, 1988

  39. DEBBY MARSH (Gloria Grahame): "We're sisters under the mink."
    THE BIG HEAT, Columbia, 1953

  40. VIVIAN RUTLEDGE (Lauren Bacall): "I don't like your manners."
    PHILIP MARLOWE (Humphrey Bogart): "I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings."
    THE BIG SLEEP, Warner Bros., 1946

  41. BILL/TED (Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves): "Excellent!"
    BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, Orion, 1989

  42. ROY BATTY (Rutger Hauer): "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
    BLADE RUNNER, Warner Bros., 1982

  43. BART (Cleavon Little): "Excuse me while I whip this out."
    BLAZING SADDLES, Warner Bros., 1974

  44. BERT HARRIS (James Cagney): "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!
    BLONDE CRAZY, Warner Bros., 1931

  45. ELWOOD BLUES (Dan Aykroyd): "We're on a mission from God."
    THE BLUES BROTHERS, Universal, 1980

  46. MATTY WALKER (Kathleen Turner): "You aren't too bright. I like that in a man."
    BODY HEAT, Warner Bros., 1981

  47. CLYDE BARROW (Warren Beatty): "We rob banks." # 41
    BONNIE AND CLYDE, Warner Bros., 1967

  48. BILLIE DAWN (Judy Holliday): "Wouldja do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead!"
    BORN YESTERDAY, Columbia, 1950

  49. FATHER EDWARD J. FLANAGAN (Spencer Tracy): "There is no bad boy."
    BOYS TOWN, MGM, 1938

  50. WILLIAM WALLACE (Mel Gibson): "They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
    BRAVEHEART, Paramount, 1995

  51. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (Audrey Hepburn): "How do I look?"
    BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, Paramount, 1961

  52. PRINCIPAL RICHARD VERNON (Paul Gleason): "Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!"
    THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Universal, 1985

  53. THE MONSTER (Boris Karloff): "We belong dead."
    BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Universal, 1935

  54. MAJ. CLIPTON (James Donald): "Madness. Madness."
    THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Columbia, 1957

  55. DR. DAVID HUXLEY (Cary Grant): "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!
    BRINGING UP BABY, RKO, 1938

  56. AARON ALTMAN (Albert Brooks): "I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
    BROADCAST NEWS, Twentieth Century Fox, 1987

  57. VIRGINIA HILL (Annette Bening): "Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda?"
    BUGSY, TriStar, 1991

  58. CRASH DAVIS (Kevin Costner): "...I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."
    BULL DURHAM, Orion, 1988

  59. BUTCH CASSIDY (Paul Newman): "Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia."
    BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, Twentieth Century Fox, 1969

  60. GLORIA WANDROUS (Elizabeth Taylor): "Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time."
    BUTTERFIELD 8, MGM, 1960

  61. MADGE NORWOOD (Bette Davis): "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair."
    CABIN IN THE COTTON, Warner Bros., 1932

  62. CARL SPACKLER (Bill Murray): "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!" # 92
    CADDYSHACK, Orion, 1980

  63. TY WEBB (Chevy Chase): "Be the ball."
    CADDYSHACK, Orion, 1980

  64. CAPT. QUEEG (Humphrey Bogart): "Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them."
    THE CAINE MUTINY, Columbia, 1954

  65. MARGUERITE GAUTIER (Greta Garbo): "His eyes have made love to me all evening."
    CAMILLE, MGM, 1936

  66. MAX CADY (Robert DeNiro): "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
    CAPE FEAR, Universal, 1991

  67. ILSA LASZLO (Ingrid Bergman): "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" # 28
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

  68. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." # 67
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

  69. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

  70. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "We'll always have Paris." # 43
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

  71. RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart): "Here's looking at you, kid." # 5
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

  72. CAPT. RENAULT (Claude Rains): "Round up the usual suspects." # 32
    CASABLANCA, Warner Bros., 1942

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

  74. MICHAEL KELLY (Kirk Douglas): "For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding."
    CHAMPION, Universal, 1949

  75. WALSH (Joe Mantell): "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." # 74
    CHINATOWN, Paramount, 1974

  76. EVELYN MULWRAY (Faye Dunaway): "She's my sister! She's my daughter!"
    CHINATOWN, Paramount, 1974

  77. MRS. PARKER (Melinda Dillon): "You'll shoot your eye out."
    A CHRISTMAS STORY, MGM, 1983

  78. DR. WILBUR LARCH (Michael Caine): "Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."
    THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, Miramax, 1999

  79. CHARLES FOSTER KANE (Orson Welles): "Rosebud." # 17
    CITIZEN KANE, RKO, 1941

  80. MITCH ROBBINS (Billy Crystal): "Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?"
    CURLY (Jack Palance): "Day ain't over yet."
    CITY SLICKERS, Columbia, 1991

  81. CHER HORWITZ (Alicia Silverstone): "As if!"
    CLUELESS, Paramount, 1995

  82. SHUG (Margaret Avery): "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."
    THE COLOR PURPLE, Warner Bros., 1985

  83. CAPTAIN (Strother Martin): "What we've got here is failure to communicate." # 11
    COOL HAND LUKE, Warner Bros., 1967

  84. HUBERT HAWKINS (Danny Kaye): "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true."
    THE COURT JESTER, Paramount, 1956

  85. LINDY CHAMBERLAIN (Meryl Streep): "The dingo took my baby!"
    A CRY IN THE DARK, Warner Bros., 1988

  86. FLO MARLOWE (Esther Muir): "Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!"
    DR. HUGO Z. HACKENBUSH (Groucho Marx): "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you."
    A DAY AT THE RACES, MGM, 1937

  87. HELEN BENSON (Patricia Neal): "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"
    THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, Twentieth Century Fox, 1951

  88. DAVID WOODERSON (Matthew McConaughey): "That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."
    DAZED AND CONFUSED, Universal, 1993

  89. JOHN KEATING (Robin Williams): "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." # 95
    DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Touchstone, 1989

  90. MICHAEL VRONSKY (Robert DeNiro): "This is this."
    THE DEER HUNTER, Universal, 1978

  91. MOUNTAIN MAN (Bill McKinney): "I bet you can squeal like a pig."
    DELIVERANCE, Warner Bros., 1972

  92. VERA (Ann Savage): "Stop makin' noises like a husband."
    DETOUR, Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945

  93. ANNE FRANK (V.0.) (Millie Perkins): "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
    THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, Twentieth Century Fox, 1959

  94. JOHN McCLANE (Bruce Willis): "Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!"
    DIE HARD,Twentieth Century Fox, 1988

  95. KITTY (Jean Harlow): "I was reading a book the other day."
    CARLOTTA (Marie Dressler): "Reading a book?"
    KITTY: "Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?"
    CARLOTTA: "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."
    DINNER AT EIGHT, MGM, 1933

  96. JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze): "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." # 98
    DIRTY DANCING, Artisan, 1987

  97. HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood): "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" # 51
    DIRTY HARRY, Warner Bros., 1971

  98. DA MAYOR (Ossie Davis): "Always do the right thing."
    MOOKIE (Spike Lee): "That's it?"
    DA MAYOR: "That's it."
    MOOKIE: "I got it, I'm gone."
    DO THE RIGHT THING, Universal, 1989

  99. SONNY WORTZIK (Al Pacino): "Attica! Attica!" # 86
    DOG DAY AFTERNOON, Warner Bros., 1975

  100. DONNIE BRASCO (Johnny Depp): "Forget about it."
    DONNIE BRASCO, TriStar, 1997

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