Top 100 Movie Quotes?

Frankly_my_dearThe American Film Institute has released a list of what it considers the top 100 movie quotes of all time.

As you may guess from the image on the left, the #1 line was Gone With The Wind‘s "Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn."

To compile the list the AFI asked 1500 "leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors,
screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and
historians." The "leaders" voted their favorites of a list of 400 nominated quotes.

The film with the most quotes was Casablanca, with 7 quotes, followed by The Wizard Of Oz, which had six.

I agree with most of the entries on the list (not necessarily the order they’re in, but their presence). Some, I don’t. For example, I don’t agree with Moonstruck‘s "Snap out of it!" It seems to me that for something to qualify as a movie quote, it needs to be something that people weren’t saying to each other All The Time before the movie came out. Folks have been saying "Snap out of it!" for far too long (and even in movies before Moonstruck).

GET THE LIST.

I definitely agree with Patrick over at Southern Appeal, though:

My reaction: What no quotes from The Princess Bride, the most quotable movie of all time?

No quotes from The Princess Bride????

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Author: Jimmy Akin

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38 thoughts on “Top 100 Movie Quotes?”

  1. Ok, but Nobody said it like Cher. One of our very favorite movies. If you want to take on AFI about Princess Bride, all I can say is, “Have fun storming the castle.”

  2. I vote for this quote, it was unfortunately overlooked:
    “Mister, you’ve got a lotta hard bark on you, walking down here like that.”
    Richard Boone in “Hombre”

  3. How could they not include Napoleon Dynamite?
    “Your mom goes to college.”
    “Tina you fat lard come get some dinner.”
    “Make yourself some dang quay-suh-dilluhs.”
    “Nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills…”

  5. My family watched and quoted “Arthur” religiously:
    “He’s taking the knife out of the cheese…do you thing he wants some cheese?”
    Susan:”A real woman could stop you from drinking?”
    Arthur:”She’d have to be a real BIG woman.”
    “Perry you’re a dead man.”
    “You must have hated this moose.”
    It is a classic.

  6. “That’s my family Kate, it’s not me.”
    –Michael Corleone at the beginning of the Godfather I.

  9. NEVER go in against a Sicilian, when DEATHHHHH is on the line! Ha ha ha ha!………….Thud.

  10. One of my favorites is from “The Fellowship of the Ring” when Frodo tells Gandalf that he wishes the ring hadn’t come to him and he didn’t live in these times. Gandalf says, “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

  12. I second Tim’s suggestion, but would expand the quote to the full statement:
    “You’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders. The first of which is never fight a land war in Asia. But only SLIGHTLY less well known than this is never go in against a SICILIAN when DEATH is on the line! Ha! Ha! Ha!….”

  13. Yeah, the “never fight a land war in Asia” part alone sends me into laughing fits. Always has.
    What?! No “Luke, I am your father!”?
    Looks as if the big winner is Casablanca. No complaint here!
    My one beef – Jim Lovell said “Houston, we have had a problem.” I saw him speak after the movie came out & he wanted to let us all know about that. Interesting man. At least they didn’t change Gehrig’s speech.

  14. How about.
    KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!
    Luke I’m your father.
    What a wonderful smell you’ve discovered.
    I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.
    I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
    Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes.
    I’m not gonna hit ya, I’m not gonna hit ya, the hell I’m not

  15. “Houston, we have a problem”
    How about a list of the worst movie phrases? I would nominate:
    3) “Hold me, Anakin. Like you did on Naboo”
    2) “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
    1) “Ex-queeze me”

  17. “I’m on the brute squad.”
    “You ARE the brute squad.”
    ————————–
    “It’s a trick, get an ax.”
    ————————–
    “Freeeeeeeeedoooooom!”
    ————————–
    “E’lo-i, E’lo-i, la’ma sabach-tha’ni?”
    ————————–
    “You . . . Shall Not . . . Pass!”
    ————————–
    “It’s just a flesh wound.”
    “What. Behind that rabbit?”
    “You don’t frighten us, English pig-dog! Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you, so-called Arthur-king, you and your silly English kiniggets.”
    ————————–
    “I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them.”
    “I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill.”
    ————————–

  18. Mawidge…mawidge is what bwings us togewer today…
    Mawidge, the bwessed awwangement, that dweam wiffim a dweam…

  19. Princess Bride? Bah. Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! PEUUUUTRESSENCE! BOOO! BOOO! BOOO!

  20. “YOU – ARE – A – TO-O-O-O-Y!!!! You’re not a Space Ranger, you’re an action figure! YOU are a child’s PLAYTHING!!!” – Woody in Toy Story

  21. “If you can’t say nothing nice, better not say nothing at all.” (Bambi)
    “Who is the President of the United States in 1985?”
    “Ronald Reagan”
    “Ronald Reagan? The actor? And who is the vice-president, Jerry Lewis?” (Back to the Future)

  22. Correction on my Bambi quote above…
    “If you can’t say something nice, better not say nothing at all.”

  23. Here’s a few more: “Goodbye! Have fun storming the castle”!
    “You think they’ll make it?”
    “It’ll never work”.
    Bye, bye!
    “Get in there, Chewie! I don’t care what you smell”.(Star Wars)
    “Let your Hate flow through you”! (Return of the Jedi)
    “You must unlearn what you have learned”!
    (Empire Strikes Back).
    “Is that a gun, or are you just happy to see me?” (Sorry, don’t know the name of this one. Incidentally, how did this not make the list? Are they blind, or just stupid)?
    “Great Scott”!(Back to the Future)
    “I… have-had-enough…of…you!(Star Trek, The Search for Spock)
    Oh, and one more, actually two more that I forgot to mention:
    Woo-Hoo! You’re all clear, kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!(Star Wars)
    “The Force Will be with you…always”.
    And my personal favorite: “Strike me down, and I will become more powerful that you can possibly imagine.” (Star Wars)
    I think that just about covers it, don’t you? 😉

  24. “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
    —
    “Apology accepted, Captain Needa.”
    —
    “Mos Eisley spaceport. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
    —
    “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
    —
    “I love you.”
    “I know.”
    —
    “You cheated.”
    “Pirate.”
    —
    “He chose…poorly.”
    —
    “‘Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind…or forgotten.”

  25. From the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” with Gene Wilder in the title role.
    (A little girl, as she digitally excavates one of her nostrils): “Spitting’s a bad habit.”
    (Willy in response): “I know a worse one.”
    ====
    A backwards variation on trying to remove a speck from another’s eye while your own has a log in it?

  26. Yes, Spaceballs and The Princess Bride are full of memorable quotes. And some of the things on this list could easily be bumped off to make room for better quotes. And I’m surprised that of all the James Bond quotes, they chose “Shaken, not Stirred”, instead of this:
    “James Bond: Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?”
    “Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.”
    Also, sadly, the AFI list is limited only to American Films. Some of my favourite quotes come from non-American films:
    “Blondie: In this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend; Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.” – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (an Italian Movie, for those who don’t know)
    “Tuco: God is on our side because he hates the Yanks!”
    “Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.” – “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
    And who could forget the immortal line:
    “GODZILLAAAAAAAA!”

  27. “Mostly dead is slightly alive. Now with all dead, there’s really only one thing you can do.”
    “What’s that?”
    “Go through his clothes; look for loose change.”

  29. From Ben-Hur (1959):
    Messala to Ben-Hur at the beginning of the movie:
    M: …”The emperor is particularly fond of Judea.”
    B-H: “Well, Judea’s not fond of the Emperor.”
    M: “Oh, is there anything so sad as unrequited love?”
    Messala then tries to warn Ben-Hur that Rome will prevail if there is rebellion:
    “Judah, persuade your people that resistance is futile.”
    And you thought that phrase started with the Borg, didn’t you??

  30. “Please, sir, I want some more.”
    —
    “These sausages are moldy!”
    “Shut up and drink your gin!”
    —
    “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
    —
    “Be good.”

  32. From Mel Brooks “History of the World Part 1/Men in Tights”
    “It’s good to be the king.”
    And of course Monty Python
    “I’m not dead yet!”

  33. Oh, I almost forgot. Here’s two more:
    “You live to serve this ship. Row well, and live.(Ben Hur).
    “What are you going to do, bleed on me”?(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
    And finally, one more- okay, I lied:
    “Asteroids do not concern me, admiral. I want that ship”!
    “He’s all yours, bounty hunter”!
    “Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold”.(Empire Strikes Back).

  34. ‘wewease wodewick’
    ‘YES we are all individuals’
    ‘he’s not the messiah he’s just a very naughty boy’
    who could forget all these classic python quotes????

  36. I didn’t look at the whole list, but I wonder if they included Tony Curtis’ line in “The Black Shield of Falworth”: “Yondah lies da castle of my faddah.”

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