“Hello, Gorgeous” and the Top 100 Movie Quotes

On the occasion of their 100 Year Anniversary, the American Film Institute revealed the top 100 movie quotes of all time in a three-hour special event. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians voted to select the top 100 from 400 quotes shortlisted. Clark Gable in celebrated civil war epic Gone With the Wind spoke the words “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn...” that became the most memorable movie quote of all time.

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 closeup.
   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 Extraterrestrial – 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!
    The Wizard of Oz – 1939
    

100. I’m king of the world!
     Titanic – 1997

© 2008 American Film Institute