Frankly, Rhett has top film quote:
AFI names 100 greatest movies lines
Reel Classics, June 22, 2005
The immortal line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from 1939's
Gone With
The Wind has topped the American Film Institute's poll to find the most memorable movie quote ever.
Clark Gable's quote
forced Marlon Brando's line from 1972's
The Godfather - "I'm
going to make him an offer he can't refuse" - into second place.
Brando also came
in third on the list with his "I coulda
been a contender" quote from 1954's On The Waterfront.
The AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie
quotes to 1,500 jurors, including film industry professionals, critics and
historians. The jury was also permitted to write in votes for up to
five quotes that were not already on the ballot.
They were instructed to base their selections on both legacy
(how a quote has helped immortalize the film) and cultural impact. Only
English language films were considered, and song lyrics were not eligible.
Casablanca
(1942) has the most quotes in the top 100, with
"Here's looking at you kid", uttered by
Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine, the
highest of the six at number five. The most quotable film's success
also made 1942 the most represented year on the list with nine quotes from
four films.
Gone With
The Wind and The Wizard of Oz
both have three quotes on the list (making 1939 the second most
represented year), with
Dorothy's line "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
highest for Oz at number four.
The earliest line in the top 100 was "Wait a minute,
wait a minute - you ain't heard nothin' yet", from 1927's The Jazz Singer.
The most recent inclusion was "My precious", said by
Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002.
Of the actors included,
Humphrey Bogart has the most
mentions on the list, with five quotes from various films included in the
top 100.
Of the actresses included,
Bette Davis and
Vivien Leigh both delivered
three of the top 100 lines.
Screenwriting brothers Phillip and Julius Epstein wrote the
most lines included on the list, including six from
Casablanca and one
from Yankee Doodle Dandy - "My
mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank
you." (No. 97) - delivered by James
Cagney.
AFI director Jean Picker Firstenberg said of the quotes:
"They get into our everyday language. They become a common language that
we can all relate to and empathize with."
© 2005 Reel Classics
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Quote |
Movie
|
Year
|
1
|
Frankly,
my dear, I don't give a damn.
|
GONE WITH THE WIND
|
1939
|
2
|
I'm
going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
|
THE
GODFATHER
|
1972
|
3
|
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.
|
ON
THE WATERFRONT
|
1954
|
4
|
Toto,
I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
|
THE
WIZARD OF OZ
|
1939
|
5
|
Here's
looking at you, kid.
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
6
|
Go
ahead, make my day.
|
SUDDEN
IMPACT
|
1983
|
7
|
All
right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
|
SUNSET
BLVD.
|
1950
|
8
|
May
the Force be with you.
|
STAR
WARS
|
1977
|
9
|
Fasten
your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
|
ALL
ABOUT EVE
|
1950
|
10
|
You
talking to me?
|
TAXI
DRIVER
|
1976
|
11
|
What
we've got here is failure to communicate.
|
COOL
HAND LUKE
|
1967
|
12
|
I
love the smell of napalm in the morning.
|
APOCALYPSE
NOW
|
1979
|
13
|
Love
means never having to say you're sorry.
|
LOVE
STORY
|
1970
|
14
|
The
stuff that dreams are made of.
|
THE
MALTESE FALCON
|
1941
|
15
|
E.T.
phone home.
|
E.T.
THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
|
1982
|
16
|
They
call me Mister Tibbs!
|
IN
THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
|
1967
|
17
|
Rosebud.
|
CITIZEN
KANE
|
1941
|
18
|
Made
it, Ma! Top of the world!
|
WHITE
HEAT
|
1949
|
19
|
I'm
as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
|
NETWORK
|
1976
|
20
|
Louis,
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
21
|
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
|
1991
|
22
|
Bond.
James Bond.
|
DR.
NO
|
1962
|
23
|
There's
no place like home.
|
THE
WIZARD OF OZ
|
1939
|
24
|
I
am big! It's the pictures that
got small.
|
SUNSET
BLVD.
|
1950
|
25
|
Show
me the money!
|
JERRY
MAGUIRE
|
1996
|
26
|
Why
don't you come up sometime and see me?
|
SHE
DONE HIM WRONG
|
1933
|
27
|
I'm
walking here! I'm walking here!
|
MIDNIGHT
COWBOY
|
1969
|
28
|
Play
it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
29
|
You
can't handle the truth!
|
A
FEW GOOD MEN
|
1992
|
30
|
I
want to be alone.
|
GRAND
HOTEL
|
1932
|
31
|
After
all, tomorrow is another day!
|
GONE WITH THE WIND
|
1939
|
32
|
Round
up the usual suspects.
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
33
|
I'll
have what she's having.
|
WHEN
HARRY MET SALLY
|
1989
|
34
|
You
know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and
blow.
|
TO
HAVE AND HAVE NOT
|
1944
|
35
|
You're
gonna need a bigger boat.
|
JAWS
|
1975
|
36
|
Badges?
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
|
1948
|
37
|
I'll
be back.
|
THE
TERMINATOR
|
1984
|
38
|
Today,
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
|
THE
PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
|
1942
|
39
|
If
you build it, he will come.
|
FIELD
OF DREAMS
|
1989
|
40
|
Mama
always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're
gonna get.
|
FORREST
GUMP
|
1994
|
41
|
We
rob banks.
|
BONNIE
AND CLYDE
|
1967
|
42
|
Plastics.
|
THE
GRADUATE
|
1967
|
43
|
We'll
always have Paris.
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
44
|
I
see dead people.
|
THE
SIXTH SENSE
|
1999
|
45
|
Stella! Hey, Stella!
|
A
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
|
1951
|
46
|
Oh,
Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
|
NOW,
VOYAGER
|
1942
|
47
|
Shane. Shane. Come back!
|
SHANE
|
1953
|
48
|
Well,
nobody's perfect.
|
SOME
LIKE IT HOT
|
1959
|
49
|
It's
alive! It's alive!
|
FRANKENSTEIN
|
1931
|
50
|
Houston,
we have a problem.
|
APOLLO
13
|
1995
|
51
|
You've
got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
|
DIRTY
HARRY
|
1971
|
52
|
You
had me at "hello."
|
JERRY
MAGUIRE
|
1996
|
53
|
One
morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't
know.
|
ANIMAL
CRACKERS
|
1930
|
54
|
There's
no crying in baseball!
|
A
LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
|
1992
|
55
|
La-dee-da,
la-dee-da.
|
ANNIE
HALL
|
1977
|
56
|
A
boy's best friend is his mother.
|
PSYCHO
|
1960
|
57
|
Greed,
for lack of a better word, is good.
|
WALL
STREET
|
1987
|
58
|
Keep
your friends close, but your enemies closer.
|
THE
GODFATHER II
|
1974
|
59
|
As
God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
|
GONE WITH THE WIND
|
1939
|
60
|
Well,
here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
|
SONS
OF THE DESERT
|
1933
|
61
|
Say
"hello" to my little friend!
|
SCARFACE
|
1983
|
62
|
What
a dump.
|
BEYOND
THE FOREST
|
1949
|
63
|
Mrs.
Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
Aren't you?
|
THE
GRADUATE
|
1967
|
64
|
Gentlemen,
you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
|
DR.
STRANGELOVE
|
1964
|
65
|
Elementary,
my dear Watson.
|
THE
ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
|
1929
|
66
|
Get
your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
|
PLANET
OF THE APES
|
1968
|
67
|
Of
all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
|
CASABLANCA
|
1942
|
68
|
Here's
Johnny!
|
THE
SHINING
|
1980
|
69
|
They're
here!
|
POLTERGEIST
|
1982
|
70
|
Is
it safe?
|
MARATHON
MAN
|
1976
|
71
|
Wait
a minute, wait a minute. You
ain't heard nothin' yet!
|
THE
JAZZ SINGER
|
1927
|
72
|
No
wire hangers, ever!
|
MOMMIE
DEAREST
|
1981
|
73
|
Mother
of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
|
LITTLE
CAESAR
|
1930
|
74
|
Forget
it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
|
CHINATOWN
|
1974
|
75
|
I
have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
|
A
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
|
1951
|
76
|
Hasta
la vista, baby.
|
TERMINATOR
2: JUDGMENT DAY
|
1991
|
77
|
Soylent
Green is people!
|
SOYLENT
GREEN
|
1973
|
78
|
Open
the pod bay doors, HAL.
|
2001:
A SPACE ODYSSEY
|
1968
|
79
|
Striker:
Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack:
I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.
|
AIRPLANE!
|
1980
|
80
|
Yo,
Adrian!
|
ROCKY
|
1976
|
81
|
Hello,
gorgeous.
|
FUNNY
GIRL
|
1968
|
82
|
Toga! Toga!
|
NATIONAL
LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
|
1978
|
83
|
Listen
to them. Children of the
night. What music they make.
|
DRACULA
|
1931
|
84
|
Oh,
no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
|
KING
KONG
|
1933
|
85
|
My
precious.
|
THE
LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS
|
2002
|
86
|
Attica!
Attica!
|
DOG
DAY AFTERNOON
|
1975
|
87
|
Sawyer,
you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
|
42ND
STREET
|
1933
|
88
|
Listen
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
|
1981
|
89
|
Tell
'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
|
KNUTE
ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN
|
1940
|
90
|
A
martini. Shaken, not stirred.
|
GOLDFINGER
|
1964
|
91
|
Who's
on first.
|
THE
NAUGHTY NINETIES
|
1945
|
92
|
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!
|
CADDYSHACK
|
1980
|
93
|
Life
is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
|
AUNTIE
MAME
|
1958
|
94
|
I
feel the need - the need for speed!
|
TOP
GUN
|
1986
|
95
|
Carpe
diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
|
DEAD
POETS SOCIETY
|
1989
|
96
|
Snap
out of it!
|
MOONSTRUCK
|
1987
|
97
|
My
mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank
you.
|
YANKEE
DOODLE DANDY
|
1942
|
98
|
Nobody
puts Baby in a corner.
|
DIRTY
DANCING
|
1987
|
99
|
I'll
get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
|
THE
WIZARD OF OZ
|
1939
|
100
|
I'm
king of the world!
|
TITANIC
|
1997
|
|