AFI's Top 100 Quotes

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By ScottN on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 12:08 am:

Here they are, hot off the presses. Bravo ran it tonite.

1Frankly, my dear, I don't give a ••••.GONE WITH THE WIND
2I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.THE GODFATHER
3You 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.ON THE WATERFRONT
4Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.THE WIZARD OF OZ
5Here's looking at you, kid.CASABLANCA
6Go ahead, make my day.SUDDEN IMPACT
7All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.SUNSET BLVD.
8May the Force be with you.STAR WARS
9Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.ALL ABOUT EVE
10You talking to me?TAXI DRIVER
11What we've got here is failure to communicate.COOL HAND LUKE
12I love the smell of napalm in the morning. APOCALYPSE NOW
13Love means never having to say you're sorry.LOVE STORY
14The stuff that dreams are made of.THE MALTESE FALCON
15E.T. phone home.E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
16They call me Mister Tibbs!IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
17Rosebud.CITIZEN KANE
18Made it, Ma! Top of the world!WHITE HEAT
19I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!NETWORK
20Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.CASABLANCA
21A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
22Bond. James Bond.DR. NO
23There's no place like home. THE WIZARD OF OZ
24I am big!  It's the pictures that got small.SUNSET BLVD.
25Show me the money!JERRY MAGUIRE
26Why don't you come up sometime and see me?SHE DONE HIM WRONG
27I'm walking here!  I'm walking here!MIDNIGHT COWBOY
28Play it, Sam.  Play 'As Time Goes By.'CASABLANCA
29You can't handle the truth!A FEW GOOD MEN
30I want to be alone.GRAND HOTEL
31After all, tomorrow is another day!GONE WITH THE WIND
32Round up the usual suspects.CASABLANCA
33I'll have what she's having.WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
34You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
35You're gonna need a bigger boat.JAWS
36Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
37I'll be back.THE TERMINATOR
38Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
39If you build it, he will come.FIELD OF DREAMS
40Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.FORREST GUMP
41We rob banks.BONNIE AND CLYDE
42Plastics.THE GRADUATE
43We'll always have Paris.CASABLANCA
44I see dead people.THE SIXTH SENSE
45Stella!  Hey, Stella!A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
46Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.NOW, VOYAGER
47Shane.  Shane.  Come back!SHANE
48Well, nobody's perfect.SOME LIKE IT HOT
49It's alive!  It's alive!FRANKENSTEIN
50Houston, we have a problem.APOLLO 13
51You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?DIRTY HARRY
52You had me at "hello."JERRY MAGUIRE
53One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.ANIMAL CRACKERS
54There's no crying in baseball!A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
55La-dee-da, la-dee-da.ANNIE HALL
56A boy's best friend is his mother.PSYCHO
57Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.WALL STREET
58Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.THE GODFATHER II
59As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.GONE WITH THE WIND
60Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!SONS OF THE DESERT
61Say "hello" to my little friend!SCARFACE
62What a dump.BEYOND THE FOREST
63Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.  Aren't you?THE GRADUATE
64Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!DR. STRANGELOVE
65Elementary, my dear Watson.THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
66Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.PLANET OF THE APES
67Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.CASABLANCA
68Here's Johnny!THE SHINING
69They're here!POLTERGEIST
70Is it safe?MARATHON MAN
71Wait a minute, wait a minute.  You ain't heard nothin' yet!THE JAZZ SINGER
72No wire hangers, ever!MOMMIE DEAREST
73Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?LITTLE CAESAR
74Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.CHINATOWN
75I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
76Hasta la vista, baby.TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
77Soylent Green is people!SOYLENT GREEN
78Open the pod bay doors, HAL.2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
79Striker: Surely you can't be serious. 
Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.AIRPLANE!
80Yo, Adrian!ROCKY
81Hello, gorgeous.FUNNY GIRL
82Toga!  Toga!NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
83Listen to them.  Children of the night.  What music they make.DRACULA
84Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.KING KONG
85My precious.THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS
86Attica! Attica!DOG DAY AFTERNOON
87Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!42ND STREET
88Listen 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
89Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN
90A martini.  Shaken, not stirred.GOLDFINGER
91Who's on first.THE NAUGHTY NINETIES
92Cinderella 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
93Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!AUNTIE MAME
94I feel the need - the need for speed!TOP GUN
95Carpe diem.  Seize the day, boys.  Make your lives extraordinary.DEAD POETS SOCIETY
96Snap out of it!MOONSTRUCK
97My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
98Nobody puts Baby in a corner.DIRTY DANCING
99I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!WIZARD OF OZ, THE0
100I'm king of the world!TITANIC


By Gordon Lawyer on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 6:00 am:

Is it just me, or did Casablanca get the most quotes?

One of the signs of a great quote is if it was used on MST3K. Just glancing through, I can see plenty that were.


By ScottN on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 9:24 am:

No, it's not just you. Casablanca had 7, I think.


By Sparrow47 on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 8:49 pm:

Kind of counter-intuitive just to read them in list form, isn't it? You lose so much of what makes the lines great...

How Airplane! only got one entry is beyond me.


By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 12:10 am:

Here's a video compilation of the scenes in which the quotes were uttered.

The one thing I didn't like about it is that they tried to portray #22 as being represented by five different movies, one for each of the first five actors to have played Bond, which I think is bogus. Dr. No originated that quote as iconic, not any film in which Pierce Brosnan, for example, appeared in.


By ScottN, with the obvious... two years later on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 7:38 am:

Sparrow47:

Airplane! got only 1???? Surely you can't be serious!


By Over on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 8:31 am:

Don't Call me Shirley!


By Adam Bomb on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 8:51 am:

100 - I'm king of the world!

Isn't it actually "I'm the king of the world?" Go back and watch your Titanic DVDs, and see if I'm right (or not).


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