# The greatest movie quotes of all time (AFI top 50)

The first 50 lines of the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, chosen in 2005 by a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians. In AFI's order; vote to reorder them.

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## Top 25

1. **Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), Gone with the Wind (1939). AFI \#1.
2. **Here's looking at you, kid.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942). AFI \#5.
3. **Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Margo Channing (Bette Davis), All About Eve (1950). AFI \#9.
4. **Made it, Ma! Top of the world!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cody Jarrett (James Cagney), White Heat (1949). AFI \#18.
5. **After all, tomorrow is another day!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind (1939). AFI \#31.
6. **Round up the usual suspects.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Captain Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca (1942). AFI \#32.
7. **They call me Mister Tibbs!** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), In the Heat of the Night (1967). AFI \#16.
8. **I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), On the Waterfront (1954). AFI \#3.
9. **Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz (1939). AFI \#4.
10. **May the Force be with you.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Star Wars (1977). AFI \#8.
11. **What we've got here is failure to communicate.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Captain (Strother Martin), Cool Hand Luke (1967). AFI \#11.
12. **The stuff that dreams are made of.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), The Maltese Falcon (1941), echoing Shakespeare's The Tempest. AFI \#14.
13. **I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Howard Beale (Peter Finch), Network (1976). AFI \#19.
14. **Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942). AFI \#20.
15. **A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), The Silence of the Lambs (1991). AFI \#21.
16. **Bond. James Bond.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — James Bond (Sean Connery), Dr. No (1962). AFI \#22.
17. **There's no place like home.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz (1939). AFI \#23.
18. **I am big! It's the pictures that got small.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Boulevard (1950). AFI \#24.
19. **Why don't you come up sometime and see me?** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lady Lou (Mae West), She Done Him Wrong (1933). AFI \#26.
20. **You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Slim (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not (1944). AFI \#34.
21. **My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump (1994). AFI \#40.
22. **Plastics.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke), The Graduate (1967). AFI \#42.
23. **Shane. Shane. Come back!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Joey Starrett (Brandon deWilde), Shane (1953). AFI \#47.
24. **I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), The Godfather (1972). AFI \#2.
25. **Go ahead, make my day.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), Sudden Impact (1983). AFI \#6.
26. **All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Boulevard (1950). AFI \#7.
27. **You talkin' to me?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), Taxi Driver (1976). AFI \#10.
28. **Love means never having to say you're sorry.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), Love Story (1970). AFI \#13.
29. **E.T. phone home.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — E.T., E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). AFI \#15.
30. **Show me the money!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry Maguire (1996). AFI \#25.
31. **Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), Casablanca (1942); often misquoted as 'Play it again, Sam'. AFI \#28.
32. **You can't handle the truth!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men (1992). AFI \#29.
33. **I want to be alone.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), Grand Hotel (1932). AFI \#30.
34. **I'll have what she's having.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Customer (Estelle Reiner), When Harry Met Sally... (1989). AFI \#33.
35. **You're gonna need a bigger boat.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chief Brody (Roy Scheider), Jaws (1975). AFI \#35.
36. **Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). AFI \#36.
37. **I'll be back.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Terminator (1984). AFI \#37.
38. **Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper), The Pride of the Yankees (1942). AFI \#38.
39. **If you build it, he will come.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shoeless Joe Jackson (voice of Ray Liotta), Field of Dreams (1989). AFI \#39.
40. **We rob banks.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), Bonnie and Clyde (1967). AFI \#41.
41. **We'll always have Paris.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942). AFI \#43.
42. **I see dead people.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), The Sixth Sense (1999). AFI \#44.
43. **Stella! Hey, Stella!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). AFI \#45.
44. **Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis), Now, Voyager (1942). AFI \#46.
45. **Well, nobody's perfect.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown), Some Like It Hot (1959). AFI \#48.
46. **It's alive! It's alive!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), Frankenstein (1931). AFI \#49.
47. **Houston, we have a problem.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Apollo 13 (1995). AFI \#50.
48. **I love the smell of napalm in the morning.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Lt. Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), Apocalypse Now (1979). AFI \#12.
49. **Rosebud.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), Citizen Kane (1941). AFI \#17.
50. **I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), Midnight Cowboy (1969). AFI \#27.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.