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Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes
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Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes
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![]() ![]() ![]() JAKIE RABINOWITZ/JAKE ROBIN (Al Jolson) to AUDIENCE The Jazz Singer (1927) |
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![]() ![]() HELEN (Jean Harlow) to MONTE RUTLEDGE (Ben Lyon) Hell's Angels (1930) |
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![]() ![]() DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Colin Clive) Frankenstein (1931) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() JULIAN MARSH (Warner Baxter) to PEGGY SAWYER (Ruby Keeler) 42nd Street (1933) |
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![]() - "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." ![]() CARL DENHAM (Robert Armstrong) to POLICE CAPTAIN (George MacQuarrie) King Kong (1933) |
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![]() - "Yeah, but I'm busy every evening." - "Busy? So whaddya tryin' to do? Insult me?" - "Why no, no, not at all. I'm just busy, that's all. You see, we're holding meetings in Jacobson's Hall every evening. Any time you have a moment to spare, I'd be glad to have you drop in. You're more than welcome." - "I heard ya, but you ain't kiddin' me any. You know, I met your kind before. Why don't you come up sometime, huh?" - "Well, I..." - "Don't be afraid. I won't tell." - "But uh..." - "Come up. I'll tell your fortune. Aw, you can be had." ![]() ![]() LADY LOU (Mae West) to CAPTAIN CUMMINGS (Cary Grant) She Done Him Wrong (1933) |
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![]() ![]() OLLIE (Oliver Hardy) to STAN (Stan Laurel) Sons of the Desert (1933) |
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![]() - "Oh, that? Oh, that's the usual clause. That's in every contract. That just says uh, it says uh, 'If any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified.'" - "Well, I dunno." - "It's all right, that's, that's in every contract. That's, that's what they call a 'sanity clause.'" - "Ha, Ha, Ha. Ha. Ha. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!" ![]() ![]() FIORELLO (Chico Marx) and OTIS B. DRIFTWOOD (Groucho Marx) A Night at the Opera (1935) |
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"And how did you know about them?" AND | ![]() "Elementary, my dear Watson. Purely elementary." ![]() "Elementary, my dear Watson." ![]() "Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary." |
![]() - "Frankly, my dear. I don't give a damn." ![]() RHETT BUTLER (Clark Gable) to SCARLETT O'HARA (Vivien Leigh) Gone With the Wind (1939) |
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![]() - "Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'. 'There's no place like home'." - "There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home..." ![]() ![]() DOROTHY GALE (Judy Garland) and GLINDA (Billie Burke) The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
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![]() ![]() CHARLES FOSTER KANE (Orson Welles) Citizen Kane (1941) |
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![]() - "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of." - "Huh?" ![]() ![]() SAM SPADE (Humphrey Bogart) to DETECTIVE TOM POLHAUS (Ward Bond) The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
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![]() ![]() RICK BLAINE (Humphrey Bogart) to ILSA LUND (Ingrid Bergman) Casablanca (1942) |
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![]() ![]() CHARLOTTE VALE (Bette Davis) to JERRY DURRANCE (Paul Henreid) Now, Voyager (1942) |
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![]() ![]() GEORGE COHAN (James Cagney) to AUDIENCE Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
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![]() ![]() MARIE 'SLIM' BROWNING (Lauren Bacall) to HARRY MORGAN ('Steve') (Humphrey Bogart) To Have and Have Not (1944) |
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![]() - "That's what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellas on the St. Louis team." - "I'm telling ya: Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third..." ![]() DEXTER BROADHURST (Bud Abbott) and SEBASTIAN DINWIDDLE (Lou Costello) The Naughty Nineties (1945) |
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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 stinkin' badges!" ![]() ![]() GOLD HAT (Alfonso Bedoya) to DOBBS (Humphrey Bogart) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
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![]() ![]() HARRY LIME (Orson Welles) to HOLLY MARTINS (Joseph Cotten) The Third Man (1949) |
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![]() ![]() CODY JARRETT (James Cagney) to dead MA JARRETT (Margaret Wycherly) White Heat (1949) |
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![]() ![]() MARGO CHANNING (Bette Davis) to GUESTS All About Eve (1950) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() NORMA DESMOND (Gloria Swanson) to CECIL B. DEMILLE (Himself) Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
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![]() ![]() BLANCHE DUBOIS (Vivien Leigh) to DOCTOR (Richard Garrick) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
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![]() - "I had some bets down for ya, you saw some money." - "...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. Let's face it. It was you, Charley." ![]() ![]() TERRY MALLOY (Marlon Brando) to CHARLEY MALLOY (Rod Steiger) On the Waterfront (1954) |
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