What Are The 100 Most Famous Movie Quotes Of All Time?

As a writer, I have these wild dreams of someday putting something on paper that people quote forever (or misquote forever). Creating one of those lines that makes an impact on the world seems like an impossibility, but the way to do it is just to keep writing specs and to be inspired.

That's why today, I made a list of what I think are the top 100 movie quotes of all time. They cover almost every decade and are here to help you revel in Hollywood and to inspire what you put on the page.

Let's dive in.

The Most Famous Movie Quotes Of All Time

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather (1972)
3. "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. "Here's looking at you, kid." - Casablanca (1942)
5. "Go ahead, make my day." - Sudden Impact (1983)
6. "May the Force be with you." - Star Wars (1977)
7. "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver (1976)
8. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - All About Eve (1950)
10. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
11. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Apocalypse Now (1979)
12. "E.T. phone home." - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
13. "Rosebud." - Citizen Kane (1941)
14. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" - White Heat (1949)
15. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Network (1976)
16. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca (1942)
17. "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)
18. "Bond. James Bond." - Dr. No (1962)
19. "There's no place like home." - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
20. "Show me the money!" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
21. "You can't handle the truth!" - A Few Good Men (1992)
22. "After all, tomorrow is another day!" - Gone with the Wind (1939)
23. "Round up the usual suspects." - Casablanca (1942)
24. "I'll have what she's having." - When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
25. "You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Jaws (1975)
26. "I'll be back." - The Terminator (1984)
27. "My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump (1994)
28. "We'll always have Paris." - Casablanca (1942)
29. "I see dead people." - The Sixth Sense (1999)
30. "Stella! Hey, Stella!" - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
31. "Houston, we have a problem." - Apollo 13 (1995)
32. "Well, nobody's perfect." - Some Like It Hot (1959)
33. "It's alive! It's alive!" - Frankenstein (1931)
34. "Shane. Shane. Come back!" - Shane (1953)
35. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Love Story (1970)
36. "The stuff that dreams are made of." - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
37. "They call me Mister Tibbs!" - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
38. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
39. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" - She Done Him Wrong (1933)
40. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
41. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" - Casablanca (1942) (Often misquoted as "Play it again, Sam.")
42. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." - To Have and Have Not (1944)
43. "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)
44. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." - The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
45. "If you build it, he will come." - Field of Dreams (1989)
46. "Plastics." - The Graduate (1967)
47. "Here's Johnny!" - The Shining (1980)
48. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!" - Scarface (1983)
49. "I'm the king of the world!" - Titanic (1997)
50. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - The Godfather Part II (1974)
51. "You had me at 'hello.'" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
52. "Hasta la vista, baby." - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
53. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society (1989)
54. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." - Dirty Dancing (1987)
55. "I feel the need—the need for speed!" - Top Gun (1986)
56. "Elementary, my dear Watson." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) (Though more famously associated with the character in general, it was popularized in film).
57. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" - Planet of the Apes (1968)
58. "It was beauty killed the beast." - King Kong (1933)
59. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." - Now, Voyager (1942)
60. "What a dump." - Beyond the Forest (1949)
61. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" - The Graduate (1967)
62. "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight." - The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
63. "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" - Braveheart (1995)
64. "Yo, Adrian!" - Rocky (1976)
65. "That'll do, pig. That'll do." - Babe (1995)
66. "A boy's best friend is his mother." - Psycho (1960)
67. "Attica! Attica!" - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
68. "You're killin' me, Smalls!" - The Sandlot (1993)
69. "To infinity... and beyond!" - Toy Story (1995)
70. "Why so serious?" - The Dark Knight (2008)
71. "I drink your milkshake!" - There Will Be Blood (2007)
72. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - The Usual Suspects (1995)
73. "I'm having an old friend for dinner." - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
74. "Just keep swimming." - Finding Nemo (2003)
75. "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - The Godfather (1972)
76. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
77. "My precious." - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
78. "With great power comes great responsibility." - Spider-Man (2002)
79. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
80. "They're here!" - Poltergeist (1982)
81. "Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
82. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
83. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
84. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Animal Crackers (1930)
85. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Wall Street (1987)
86. "Snap out of it!" - Moonstruck (1987)
87. "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
88. "If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." - Taken (2008)
89. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." - Back to the Future (1985)
90. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." - Dracula (1931)
91. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." - Chinatown (1974)
92. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
93. "Surely you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." - Airplane! (1980)
94. "This is Sparta!" - 300 (2006)
95. "You make me want to be a better man." - As Good as It Gets (1997)
96. "Is it safe?" - Marathon Man (1976)
97. "No wire hangers, ever!" - Mommie Dearest (1981)
98. "We rob banks." - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
99. "I wish I knew how to quit you." - Brokeback Mountain (2005)
100. "As if!" - Clueless (1995)

Let me know your favorite in the comments.