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Meridian 100 Movie Quotes

100 of the all-time, most famous movie quotes in American cinema

To celebrate their hundredth anniversary, the American Flick Institute ran a series of programs starting in 2005, discussing and honoring 100 years of American cinema. As part of the commemoration, the members they surveyed produced an all-star listing of famous quotes from westerns, to offense thrillers, war movies, and more. We've reproduced the list below, also as adding some trivia and fun facts virtually the selections.

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The Acme 100 Best Movie Quotes

Gone With the Wind, 1939

1. "Bluntly, my love, I don't give a damn." - Gone With the Air current, 1939
   At the terminate of the moving picture, Clark Gable'south grapheme Rhett Butler is leaving his wife, Scarlett. Scarlett asks what she'll do with herself subsequently he leaves--his response is this famously harsh adieu equally he walks off into the night.

2. "I'grand going to make him an offer he can't pass up." - The Godfather, 1972
   Don Vito Corleone, played past Marlon Brando, is assuring his godson Johnny that he'll get him the motion-picture show part he's after. When Johnny asks how he'll persuade the director, Vito offers this as an explanation.
   Fun fact: According to IMDB, this scene has been referenced upward to 150 times in other media. Fittingly, Brando won an Oscar for this performance (although he declined it).
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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
   Marlon Brando plays a dockworker who lost out on a career equally a prize fighter afterwards his brother convinced him to throw a fight. This little sorrowful snippet describes the spiral his life has been in since.

4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - The Wizard of Oz, 1939
   This movie quote is delivered past heroine Dorothy after she finds herself whisked away to the fantastical land of Oz.
   Fun fact: This pic quote is peradventure misquoted more than often than information technology is quoted correctly. Most people drop the "I've got a feeling" from the line.

5. "Hither'south looking at you, child." - Casablanca, 1942
   Humphrey Bogart says this famous quote four times over the course of the pic.
   Fun fact: this line wasn't in the original screenplay, just was added due to a chat between Bogart and co-star Ingrid Bergman.

6. "Go alee, make my mean solar day." - Sudden Impact, 1983
   This line, delivered by Clint Eastwood at the start of the film, encapsulates the machismo of Dirty Harry. Harry is taunting a robber with a hostage, hoping the robber volition give him a justification for Harry to shoot him.

7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-upward." - Dusk Boulevard, 1950
   This line is delivered by Gloria Swanson at the stop of the moving-picture show, every bit her character hallucinates and mistakes law-breaking scene reporters for the picture show coiffure of a movie.

8. "May the Forcefulness be with you." - Star Wars, 1977
   This catchphrase has become a pop civilisation staple, after many different characters say it to wish 1 another practiced fortune.

9. "Spike your seatbelts. It'south going to be a bumpy night." - All Near Eve, 1950
   Bette Davis offers this promise of an eventful evening in a party scene that features a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe.

   

   Taxi Commuter, 1976

10. "You talking to me?" - Taxi Driver, 1976
    In this scene Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle imagines an altercation that would requite him an alibi to draw his gun, delivered with trademark panache.
    Fun fact: De Niro improvised this line. The script only said "Travis speaks to himself in the mirror" so De Niro took some liberties and was ultimately successful.

11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke, 1967
    This line is spoken twice in the moving-picture show, the outset time by Strother Martin as a barbarous warden, and the second as a mocking echo past lead Paul Newman.

12. "I beloved the scent of napalm in the morn." - Apocalypse Now, 1979
    This line is delivered past Robert Duvall as Colonel Kilgore, before long later on he has a beach bombed to clear out the Viet Cong (in part so he tin can go surfing).
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13. "Dearest means never having to say you lot're sorry." - Love Story, 1970
    Jennifer Cavalleri's character delivers this line after an altercation between her and the male atomic number 82.
    Fun fact: Two years later Ryan O'Neal will hear this line over again in the flick What's Upwards Doc when Barbara Streisand says it to his character and respond, "That's the dumbest matter I've ever heard."

14. "The stuff that dreams are made of." - The Maltese Falcon, 1941
    Humphrey Bogart delivers this memorable line drawn from Shakespeare, describing the eponymous treasure they chase through the moving picture.

15. "E.T. telephone home." - Due east.T. The Actress-Terrestrial, 1982
    The context on this one is pretty clear. The character E.T. is attempting to contact his abode planet for a rescue.
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16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!" - In the Heat of the Nighttime, 1967
    Sidney Poitier's grapheme, skilled detective Virgil Tibbs, delivers this line in rebuke to a racist question about what they call Virgil in his home in Philadelphia.

17. "Rosebud." - Citizen Kane, 1941
    This mysterious line by Orson Welles is the final word of the title character, and the motion-picture show is dedicated to finding out what it means.

18. "Made information technology, Ma! Top of the globe!" - White Oestrus, 1949
    James Cagney delivers this line a bit more literally than you might recall; it'due south said atop a large globe-shaped gas tank.

19. "I'chiliad as mad every bit hell, and I'm not going to have this anymore!" - Network, 1976
    Peter Finch delivers this line as Howard Beale, a deranged and raving network news anchor railing about the state of the world.

20. "Louis, I call back this is the start of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca, 1942
    Humphrey Bogart once more, delivering this equally Rick Blaine every bit he wanders off to join the French Resistance.

    

    Silence of the Lambs, 1991

21. "A census taker once tried to exam me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." - The Silence of the Lambs, 1991
    Anthony Hopkins delivers this line as the carnivorous Hannibal Lecter, a psychologist and series killer intimidating a police detective.

22. "Bond. James Bond." - Dr. No, 1962
    Sean Connery delivers this famous line to innovate himself during a high stakes game at a London order.

23. "There's no identify like abode." - The Wizard of Oz, 1939
    In the picture, these are the magic words supposed to render Dorothy to Kansas.

24. "I am large! It's the pictures that got modest." - Dusk Blvd., 1950
    Gloria Swanson'south Norma offers this explanation for her faded glory equally an actress.

25. "Testify me the money!" - Jerry Maguire, 1996
    This line, exclaimed back and forth by Republic of cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise, punctuates their relationship as an athlete and his amanuensis.

26. "Why don't yous come up up erstwhile and run across me?" - She Done Him Wrong, 1933
    Mae West offers this suggestive line as Lady Lou, a saloon vocalist, trying to fob Cary Grant's grapheme into her room to grab a criminal.

27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Midnight Cowboy, 1969
    Dustin Hoffman'due south Ratso says this when telling of a cab driver.
    Fun fact: This scene was improvised. Midnight Cowboy filmed in New York City and so the taxi in the shot is an bodily New York taxi. Remaining in character Hoffman yells at the commuter and the scene made the cut in the film.

28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes Past.'" - Casablanca, 1942
    Ingrid Bergman'due south Ilsa urges the pianist to play this vocal at a social club endemic by her sometime flame Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart.

29. "Yous tin't handle the truth!" - A Few Practiced Men, 1992
    Jack Nicholson bellows this line to kick off a self aggrandizing courtroom rant as Colonel Nathan Jessup.
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30. "I desire to be lone." - Thousand Hotel, 1932

31. "After all, tomorrow is some other day!" - Gone With the Wind, 1939
    

    

    Casablanca, 1942

32. "Round up the usual suspects." - Casablanca, 1942

33. "I'll accept what she'south 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. "Yous're gonna need a bigger boat." - Jaws, 1975

36. "Badges? We own't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you whatever stinking badges!" - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
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37. "I'll be back." - The Terminator, 1984

38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face up of the earth." - The Pride of the Yankees, 1942

39. "If y'all build it, he will come." - Field of Dreams, 1989

40. "Mama e'er 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. "Nosotros'll always have Paris." - Casablanca, 1942

44. "I see expressionless people." - The Sixth Sense, 1999
    Fun fact: When Haley Joel Osmet says this line the camera goes to Bruce Willis'due south face. This is a cinematic inkling that Bruce Willis's character is dead.

45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!" - A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951

46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. Nosotros accept the stars." - Now, Voyager, 1942

47. "Shane. Shane. Come dorsum!" - Shane, 1953

48. "Well, nobody's perfect." - Some Like It Hot, 1959
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    Frankenstein, 1931

49. "Information technology'southward alive! It'southward alive!" - Frankenstein, 1931
    Fun fact: The original line was "It'south alive! It's alive! In the name of God! Now I know what it's like to exist God!" Censors cutting Dr. Frankenstein's full line because it was considered sacrilege.

50. "Houston, nosotros have a problem." - Apollo xiii, 1995

51. "Yous've got to ask yourself ane 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
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55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." - Annie Hall, 1977

56. "A male child's best friend is his female parent." - Psycho, 1960

57. "Greed, for lack of a ameliorate discussion, is skilful." - Wall Street, 1987

58. "Continue your friends shut, but your enemies closer." - The Godfather Function II, 1974

59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." - Gone With the Wind, 1939

60. "Well, here's some other prissy mess you've gotten me into!" - Sons of the Desert, 1933

    

    Scarface, 1983

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 dearest Watson." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1929
    Fun fact: Sherlock Holmes never says this iconic quote in any of the books the character is based off of.
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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. "Hither's Johnny!" - The Shining, 1980
    Fun fact: This line was completely improvised. Jack Nicholson was only prompted to break downwards the door, but he decided to improvise this line and it made the terminal cut of the movie.

69. "They're here!" - Poltergeist, 1982

    

    Marathon Human being, 1976

70. "Is it safe?" - Marathon Man, 1976

71. "Look a minute, wait a minute. You own't heard nothin' still!" - The Jazz Singer, 1927

72. "No wire hangers, e'er!" - Mommie Dear, 1981

73. "Mother of mercy, is this the finish of Rico?" - Petty Caesar, 1930

74. "Forget it, Jake, information technology's Chinatown." - Chinatown, 1974

75. "I have e'er depended on the kindness of strangers." - A Streetcar Named Want, 1951

76. "Hasta la vista, infant." - Terminator ii: Judgment Mean solar day, 1991?????

77. "Soylent Green is people!" - Soylent Green, 1973

78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." - 2001: A Infinite Odyssey, 1968

79. Striker: Surely you tin't be serious.

    Rumack: I am serious?and don't call me Shirley. - Aeroplane!, 1980

    

    Rocky II, 1979

80. "Yo, Adrian!" - Rocky II, 1979

81. "Hello, gorgeous." - Funny Girl, 1968

82. "Toga! Toga!" - National Lampoon's Animal Business firm, 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
    Fun Fact: The Male monarch Kong roar was a combination of a king of beasts and tiger's roar combined and played astern very slowly.

85. "My precious." - The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, 2002
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86. "Attica! Attica!" - Canis familiaris Day Afternoon, 1975

87. "Sawyer, y'all're going out a youngster, but you've got to come up back a star!" - 42nd Street, 1933

88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't y'all forget it. You're going to go back on that horse, and I'thou going to exist right backside y'all, holding on tight, and abroad we're gonna go, go, go!" - On Golden Pond, 1981

89. "Tell 'em to get out there with all they got and win simply 1 for the Gipper." - Knute Rockne All American, 1940

    

    Goldfinger, 1964

90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred." - Goldfinger, 1964
    ?Fun fact: This iconic scene has been parodied over and over once more. In Casino Royale, 42 years subsequently, Daniel Craig's James Bond will be asked, "Shaken or stirred" and Bond responds "Practice I look like I give a damn?"

91. "Who's on outset." - The Naughty Nineties, 1945

92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A one-time greenskeeper, at present, well-nigh to get the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the pigsty! It'south in the hole! Information technology's in the pigsty!" - Caddyshack, 1980

93. "Life is a banquet, and virtually 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. Brand your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Club, 1989.

96. "Snap out of it!" - Moonstruck, 1987

97. "My female parent thanks you. My father thanks y'all. My sister thanks you. And I thank you lot." - Yankee Putter Dandy, 1942

98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." - Muddy Dancing, 1987

99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little canis familiaris, too!" - The Wizard of Oz, 1939

    

    Titanic, 1997

100. "I'm male monarch of the world!" - Titanic, 1997

Source: American Film Constitute, 2005, IMDb, and Hollywood Reporter.

Meridian Film Quotes of the 21st Century

The original listing doesn't include any quotes from after 2002. Patently, in that location accept been plenty of great quotes since. Hither are some of the contenders that come up up in lists fabricated since:

• "Are you not entertained?" - Gladiator, 2000
  Russell Crowe, as the gladiator Maximus, challenges the oversupply for their response to his deportment in the loonshit.
• "Just proceed pond" - Finding Nemo, 2003
  Voiced past Ellen DeGeneres, the fish Dory chants this plucky refrain throughout this Disney-Pixar classic.
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• "I wish I knew how to quit you" - Brokeback Mountain, 2005
  This line encapsulates the undeniable magnetism between Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's characters, who are pressured by order to carelessness their relationship.
• "What's the virtually you e'er lost on a coin toss?" - No Country for Old Men, 2007
  Javier Bardem delivers this menacing line to a gas station possessor, with the unspoken threat that the human'south life may be decided on a coin toss
• "I drink your milkshake" - At that place Will Be Claret, 2007
  Daniel Day Lewis, playing a crazed and relentless oil tycoon, is taunting one of his longtime enemies. He explains how he has extracted all of the oil nether their land with this pithy metaphor.
• "Why then serious?" - The Dark Knight, 2008
  Heath Ledger, in his role as the Batman villain the Joker, ironically questions the gravity with which others treat his violent crimes.

• "A million dollars isn't absurd. You know what'due south cool? A billion dollars." - The Social Network, 2010
  Justin Timberlake delivers this quote equally Napster founder Sean Parker, encapsulating the rampant ambition of Silicon Valley in a few neat sentences.

• "Wouldst thousand like to live deliciously?" - The VVitch, 2015
  In this climactic moment of the film, a satanic goat delivers this line to tempt the film'southward heroine into witchcraft. The caprine animal was a real goat, dubbed over by Daniel Malik.

Some of Our Favorites

The staff at the Infoplease office felt we had to requite a nod to a couple more of our favorite picture quotes. In no particular society:

• "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the night almost the Tannhuser Gate. All those moments volition be lost in time, like tears in rain. Fourth dimension to dice." - Blade Runner, 1982
  This monologue, delivered by Rutger Hauer at the climax of the pic, is the final soliloquy of the motion picture's robotic villain.
• "Why should I kill myself worrying when I'll terminate up just equally dead?" - The Bicycle Thieves, 1948
  Lamberto Maggiorani delivers this sardonic line every bit Antonio Ricci, a poor jobless man in postal service-state of war Rome.
• " You lot know what kind of plan never fails? No programme. No plan at all. Yous know why? Considering life cannot be planned." - Parasite, 2019
  Kang-ho Song, in the function of begetter Ki-taek, delivers this fatalistic line afterward his family'south home is ruined in a disastrous flood.

The Stars

There are 100 quotes, but not nearly every bit many actors on the list. A few quotable superstars hold a big share of the acme quotes. Here are the pinnacle contenders:

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