The 100 Greatest Movie Quotes

The American Film Institute, AFI, has voted the 100 greatest movie quotes of film history. These 100 quotes are unforgettable: amusing, surprising, consoling, touching, funny, and always very emotional and full of memories.

Read, remember and enjoy!
BTW: What's your favorite quote?

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 1939

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!
WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939

100
I'm king of the world!
TITANIC 1997

Source: www.afi.com

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The Da Vinci Code

Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon:

Why is it divine or human? Can't human be divine?

Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu:

We are what we protect, what we stand up for.

Robert Langdon:

What really matters is what you believe.

THE DA VINCI CODE
USA 2006
Directed by RON HOWARD
Screenplay by AKIVA GOLDSMAN
Starring: TOM HANKS, AUDREY TAUTOU
Image copyright (c) Columbia Pictures
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X-Men: The Last Stand

Patrick Stewart as Prof. Charles Xavier: (to his pupils)

When an individual acquires great power, the use or misuse of that power is everything, will it be used for the greater good or will it be used for personal or destructive ends? Now this is a question we must all ask ourselves.

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
USA 2006 Directed by BRETT RATNER Screenplay by SIMON KINBERG and ZAK PENN
Starring: PATRICK STEWART, HUGH JACKMAN, IAN MCKELLEN
Image copyright (c) 20th Century Fox
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Proof

On the movie posters:

The biggest risk in life is not taking one.

If you don't believe in yourself,
who will believe in you?

PROOF
USA 2005
Directed by JOHN MADDEN
Screenplay by DAVID AUBURN
Starring: GWYNETH PALTROW, ANTHONY HOPKINS, JAKE GYLLENHAAL
Image copyright (c) Miramax Films
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Steel Magnolias

On the movie poster:

The funniest movie to make you cry.

Sometimes laughter is a matter of life and death.

Dolly Parton as Truvy:

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

Julia Roberts as Shelby:

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.

Olympia Dukakis as Clairee Belcher:

That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

Sally Field as M'Lynn after the death of her daughter:

I find it amusing. Men are supposed to be made out of steel or something. I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS
USA 1989 Directed by HERBERT ROSS
Screenplay by ROBERT HARLING
Starring: SALLY FIELD, DOLLY PARTON, SHIRLEY MACLAINE, DARYL HANNAH, OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, JULIA ROBERTS, TOM SKERRITT
Image copyright (c) TriStar Pictures
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Dead Poets Society

On the movie poster:

He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.

I don't know another movie which has taught me so much about what to strive for in live. I wish I had had a teacher at school like John Keating. Robin Williams performs him perfectly. In my view Robin Williams doesn't play John Keating. Robin Williams IS John Keating.

Robin Williams as teacher John Keating to his pupils:

Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating:

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

John Keating [He's is standing on his desk. To his class]:
Why do I stand up here?

Pupil Dalton:
To feel taller!

John Keating:
No! I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, [imitating a goat] "that's baaaaad."

Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robert Sean Leonard as Neil (Quoting Henry David Thoreau):

I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

DEAD POETS SOCIETY
USA 1989
Screenplay by Tom Schulman
Directed by Peter Weir
Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Images (c) Touchstone Pictures

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Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump:

Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

Mama always said, dying was a part of life.

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both.

Forrest Gump:

What's my destiny, Mama?

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump:

You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.

You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

FORREST GUMP
USA 1994
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Eric Roth
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Image (c) Paramount Pictures
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Out of Africa

Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen:

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"

Karen Blixen about her lover Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford):

"Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."

USA 1985
Screenplay by Kurt Luedtke
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Image (c) Universal Pictures
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Spider-Man

In May 2007 he'll be back. Then Spider-Man 3 will show us the dark side of the hero (the new, incredible trailer here). I can't imagine a better actor than Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Peter is aware of the fact that being a superheroe has some consequences, which are not comfortable at all. There's one special sentence of Peter's uncle in part 1, which expresses all that in only a few words, and which is not only true for the world of superheroes.

Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker:

"Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words:
"With great power comes great responsibility."
This is my gift, my curse."

SPIDER-MAN
USA 2002
Directed by SAM RAIMI
Screenplay by DAVID KOEPP
Starring: TOBEY MAGUIRE, WILLIAM DAFOE, JAMES FRANCO, KIRSTEN DUNST
Image (c) Columbia Pictures

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A River Runs Through It

Line on the movie poster:

"Nothing perfect lasts forever.
Except in our memories."

Arnold Richardson as Older Norman:

"And I knew just as surely, just as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and that the moment could not last."

Emily Lloyd as Jesse:

"Why is it the people who need the most help...

won't take it?"

Arnold Richardson as Older Norman:

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

Tom Skerritt as Rev. Maclean:

"Each one of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding."

Arnold Richardson as Older Norman:

"Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
USA 1992
Sceenplay by Richard Friedenberg
Directed by Robert Redford
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt
Images (c) Columbia Pictures

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Patch Adams (4)

Robin Williams as Hunter Patch Adams standing in front of the grave of his great love Carin (Monica Potter) and reading from a piece of paper:

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride. I love you because I know no other way then this. So close that your hand, on my chest, is my hand. So close, that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.

PATCH ADAMS
USA 1998
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Image (c) Universal Pictures


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Patch Adams (3)

Laughing in the face of death:
Medicine student Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) visits the embittered patient Bill Davis (Peter Coyote) who knows that he is going to die. Patch is dressed like an angel, holds a book in his hands and begins to read many synonyms for "death" and "to die".

Patch Adams:
"Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down." "

Bill looks extremely angry and shows Patch his fist, but suddenly he begins to smile and continues the enumeration.

Bill Davis:

"To check out."

Patch Adams is grinning:
"To shuffle off this mortal coil."

Bill Davis:
"To head for the happy hunting ground."

Patch Adams:
"To blink for an exceptionally long period of time."

Bill Davis:
"To find oneself without breath."

Patch Adams:
"To be the incredible decaying man."

Bill Davis:
"Worm buffet."

Patch Adams:
"Kick the bucket."

Bill Davis:
"Buy the farm."

Patch Adams:
"Take the cab."

Bill Davis:
"Cash in your chips."

Both are laughing friendly.

PATCH ADAMS
USA 1998
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Image (c) Universal Pictures


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Patch Adams (2)

The conservative university professors want to forbid Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) to study and practise medicine in his own, very special way. He tries to convince the board of his attitude towards medicine and man:

"What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."

"You treat a disease, you win, you lose.
You treat a person I'll guarantee you'll win."

"Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death."

PATCH ADAMS
USA 1998
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Image (c) Universal Pictures


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Patch Adams

Robin Williams as Hunter "Patch" Adams:

"All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. It's hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; you don't even know you're walking in circles. The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel, and how far away home can be."

"Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or as the poet Dante put it: In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually I would find the right path."

PATCH ADAMS
USA 1998
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Image (c) Universal Pictures


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What Dreams May Come

After life there is more.
The end is just the beginning.

The line on the movie poster of What Dreams May Come. A movie about life, love and death. We need not accept all its messages, if we don't want to. But they're wonderful anyway.

Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams):
A whole human life is just a heartbeat here in Heaven. Then we'll all be together forever.
______________________________

Annie Nielsen (Annabella Sciorra):
Sometimes, when you lose, you win.
______________________________

Chris Nielsen:
Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one...
______________________________

Chris Nielsen:
Where is God in all of this?

Albert:
Oh, He's up there. Somewhere... shouting down that He loves us. Wondering why we can't hear Him.
______________________________

Chris Nielsen:
What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.
______________________________

Chris Nielsen:
What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven't seen before.
______________________________

Chris Nielsen (to his dog, in heaven):
A place where we all go can't be bad, can it girl?

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
USA 1998
Directed by Vincent Ward
Screenplay by Ronald Bass
Starring; Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr., Max von Sydow
Image (c) Polygram Filmed Entertainment

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