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Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Movie Quotes
What topped the list? THR asked its entertainment industry readers to vote on the most memorable quote from every movie ever made. Ranked in descending order are the lines that made the cut.

1. Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Movie Quotes
What topped the list? THR asked its entertainment industry readers to vote on the most memorable quote
from every movie ever made. Ranked in descending order are the lines that made the cut.
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Everybody has a favorite movie line, even movie moguls. Disney's Alan Horn likes, "I'll have
what she's having," fromWhen Harry Met Sally…. Fox'sStacey Snider picks "You complete
me," fromJerry Maguire. Tellingly, several top executives— Viacom's Philippe Dauman,

2. Netflix's Ted Sarandos — choose "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," fromThe
Godfather.
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
LOVE STORY, 1970
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One of the most parodied movie lines in cinema — even Ryan O’Neal himself poked fun at it in
Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedyWhat's Up, Doc?.When Barbra Streisand quotes it, he
retorts, "That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard."
99
"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"

3. BRAVEHEART, 1995
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The only way Paramount pictures would fund Mel Gibson's passion project about the 13th
century Scottish noble was if he agreed to star in it as well as direct.
98
"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

4. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, 1967
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Poitier did not want to shoot the film in Mississippi because he had been harassed by the Ku
Klux Klan when he had visited there with Harry Belafonte at the height of the civil rights
movement in 1964, so most of it was filmed in Sparta, Illinois. Filmmakers even changed the
name of the fictional Mississippi town in the movie to Sparta so they wouldn’t have to pay to
have the town’s water tower repainted.
97
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with
somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as
possible."

5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, 1989
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Writer Nora Ephron’s first draft didn’t have Sally and Harry ending up together because she
considered a breakup to be a more realistic ending. So when it came time to film the revised
happy ending, Billy Crystal ad-libbed much of his dialogue with Meg Ryan, including this most
remembered line of the picture.
96
"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."

6. TAKEN, 2008
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True to his word, Liam Neeson kills 35 men in 93 minutes in the first film, scores more in the
second and third, and who knows how many in the planned TV prequel.
95
"You complete me."

7. JERRY MAGUIRE, 1996
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"It was one of those lines that came so easily, it felt almost too easy," remembers writer-director
Cameron Crowe. "When I first gave the script to Tom Cruise, and we were reading through it, I
said, 'I'm going to change that line.' He said, 'Uh, I love that line. Why don't you give me a crack
at it.' I left it in, and on the night of filming — it was 4 a.m., on a Friday, and everybody was
dropping from exhaustion — Tom says the line. By the end of his speech, everybody was in tears.
Across the room, Renee was a wreck. Tom had delivered the line so powerfully, and so directly to
her, she was still getting over it. Later he told me, 'I had always wanted to say 'I love you' like
that in a movie.'"
94
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the
Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal
servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a
murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have
my vengeance, in this li

8. GLADIATOR, 2000
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Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott didn’t quite see eye to eye on the screenplay, and on this
line in particular. He routinely strayed from the script — by John Logan and William Nicholson
— trying to improvise a bunch of alternatives, until Scott forced him to read the line as written.
It went over like gangbusters, even though Crowe still hated it: "It was shit. But I'm the greatest
actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good." The "shit" script would get nominated
for best original screenplay at the 2001 Oscars and Crowe would win best actor.
93
"I drink your milkshake!"

9. THERE WILL BE BLOOD, 2007
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A variation of the line was uttered by Sen. Albert Fall of New Mexico during congressional
hearings in 1924 on the Teapot Dome scandal, which also involved oil tycoon Edward Doheny,
who was the basis for Daniel Day-Lewis’ character: "Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a
milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room, I’ll end up drinking your milkshake."
92
"Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

10. PLANET OF THE APES, 1968
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The secret behind Charlton Heston’s hoarse, gravelly delivery? Great acting, sure, but also
Heston had the flu through much of the production.
91
"You make me want to be a better man."

11. AS GOOD AS IT GETS, 1997
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Though Jack Nicholson worried that his character was so unlikeable people would flee theaters,
he ended up winning an Oscar for it, along with co-star Helen Hunt.
90
"As if!"

12. CLUELESS, 1995
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"I am always compiling slang words," saysCluelesswriter-director Amy Heckerling about the
line’s origins. “In the early to mid-'90s 'as if' was floating around in the gay community, and I
heard it and thought it was a multipurpose phrase. Some of the people I knew were already
beyond 'as if' and they were just going, 'zif!'"
89
"Chewie, we're home."

13. STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS, 2015
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Harrison Ford considers director J.J. Abrams a "communications genius" for his decision to use
the line in the movie's trailer. "'Chewie, we're home' was kind of the key in the door. Familiarity
was unlocked at that moment," said Ford.
88
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

14. CHINATOWN, 1974
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Even though Nicholson and director Roman Polanski fought endlessly during the making of the
movie, when the actor saw the rough cut he told producer Robert Evans, "We got a hot one. Get
those checks ready — we’re on our way!"
87
"These go to eleven."

15. THIS IS SPINAL TAP, 1984
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Amp maker Marshall liked the publicity surrounding this line so much, they made Christopher
Guest a special set of speakers whose highest setting is infinity.
86
"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"

16. MIDNIGHT COWBOY, 1969
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Dustin Hoffman’s line was ad-libbed, and the scene was shot guerilla style because they didn’t
have enough money to shut down a New York street. The cab "almost hit us," Hoffman once
recalled. "I guess the brain works so quickly, I said, in a split of a second, 'Don’t go out of
character …' So I said, 'I'm walking here.' Director John Schlesinger started laughing. He
clapped his hands and said, 'We must have that, we must have that,' and redid it two or three
times, because he loved it."
85
"It was Beauty killed the Beast."

17. KING KONG, 1933
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When producer Merian C. Cooper pitched the role to Fay Wray, he told her, "You’ll have the
tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood." Wray was sure she’d be acting with Cary Grant.
84
"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I
don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

18. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, 1948
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The misquote of the line — "We don’t need no stinking badges!" — started with Micky Dolenz in
a 1967 episode ofThe MonkeesTV series, but Mel Brooksgot it wrong, too, in 1974'sBlazing
Saddles.
83
"I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight."

19. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, 2006
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The National Science Teachers Association encourages biology and life sciences teachers to use
this line to start a conversation about body image, nutrition and digestion among teenagers.
82
"They call it a Royale with cheese."

20. PULP FICTION, 1994
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If John Travolta’s character had been hiding out in Italy rather than France, the line would have
been "They call it a McRoyal DeLuxe." If he’d been in Japan, he might have skipped the beef and
tried the "Filet-O-Shrimp Burger."
81
"They're here!"

21. POLTERGEIST, 1982
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Actress Heather O’Rourke, who was just 6 when she madePoltergeist, tragically died at age 12,
in 1988, from complications of a bowel obstruction.
80
"Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"

22. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES, 1937
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Snow White was the only major character then-18-year-old Adriana Caselotti ever voiced. "Walt
Disney thought it would spoil the illusion if you knew who the people were who provided the
voices in the film," she revealed in a 1987 interview, about the strict contract that kept her from
other parts. (She died in 1997 at age 80.)
79
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

23. THE GODFATHER: PART III, 1990
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Mario Puzo’s literary estate, which contained 20 different versions of theGodfather IIIscript
written between 1978 and 1989, recently sold at auction to a private collector for $625,000.
78
"Nobody's perfect."

24. SOME LIKE IT HOT, 1959
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The film’s closing line was never supposed to make it into the final cut. The writers — I.A.L
Diamond and director Billy Wilder — put it into the script as a placeholder, until they came up
with something better.
77
"Yo, Adrian!"

25. ROCKY, 1976
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Sylvester Stallone utters this line too many times to count in the first fiveRockyfilms (six in the
original alone) but the only time anyone ever remembers is at the end ofRocky II, when he
holds the championship belt he has just won from Apollo Creed.
76
"Wax on, wax off."

26. THE KARATE KID, 1984
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"I never imagined the 'wax on, wax off' would amount to anything," says screenwriter Robert
Mark Kamen. "The crane at the end was the one. I wanted that to be the big moment. If I
thought anyone remembered anything they'd remember that."
75
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"

27. THE JAZZ SINGER, 1927
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Al Jolson was so excited about his rendition of "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" that he spontaneously
uttered the line before segueing into "Toot, Toot, Tootsie." The line was going to be cut but Sam
Warner insisted it stay.
74
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

28. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB,
1964
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When Stanley Kubrick sat down with Peter George to adapt George’s novelRed Alert, the
director struggled with treating the material as a straight drama, as he initially intended. "My
idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay,"
Kubrick said after the film’s release. "I found that in trying to put meat on the bones and to
imagine the scenes fully, one had to keep leaving out of it things which were either absurd or
paradoxical, in order to keep it from being funny; and these things seemed to be close to the
heart of the scenes in question."
73
"I don't want to survive. I want to live."

29. 12 YEARS A SLAVE, 2013
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This line comes right from Solomon Northup’s 1853 book. Writer John Ridley has said he tried
to remain true to the original. "To modify the man, no matter how sincere the desire, would have
ultimately been dishonest. Solomon's story begs for honesty. As the voice of his own history,
what he wrote deserved fidelity."
72
"Elementary, my dear Watson."

30. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1939
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Sherlock Holmes never utters this line in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. It was
invented entirely for the movies.
71
"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

31. BABE, 1995
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Although James Cromwell would get more screen time in George Miller's talking pig tale than in
any of his previous films, he had only 171 words of dialogue. These are his best five.
70
"I wish I knew how to quit you."

32. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, 2005
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Screenwriter Diana Ossana got this gem directly from theNew Yorkershort story that inspired
the film, co-written by Larry McMurtry. "The film has become a part of the popular culture,"
says Ossana. "We have a Google Alert for the film, and in the 10 years since it came out there
hasn't been a day that there wasn't something, somewhere in the news aboutBrokeback
Mountain."
69
"Good morning, Vietnam!"

33. GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, 1987
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The real-life Adrian Cronauer says he came up with the drawn out "goooood moooorning"
sign-on because he was often shuffling papers to start the show and needed to stall for time.
68
"My precious."

34. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, 2002
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Want your own? You don't have to battle orcs and dragons — you just have to shop online. A
platinum version, complete with Elvish script, retails for $3,100.
67
"Argo f— yourself."

35. ARGO, 2012
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Screenwriter Chris Terrio actually found this memorable piece of dialogue in the real,
declassified CIA report that agent Tony Melendez (played by Ben Affleck) wrote about the Iran
Hostage Crisis rescue mission.
66
"It's alive! It's alive!"

36. FRANKENSTEIN, 1931
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Censors cut Dr. Frankenstein’s original line — "It's alive! It's alive! In the name of God! Now I
know what it's like to be God!"
65
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

37. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, 1951
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This line was originally delivered onstage by Jessica Tandy, who played Blanche on Broadway,
and was almost delivered in the movie by Olivia de Havilland (she was offered the role but
wanted too much money). Vivian Leigh took it for $100,000, making her the highest-paid
English actress of the time, but there may have been moments she regretted it; she and co-star
Marlon Brando initially hated each other.
64
"Go ahead, make my day."

38. SUDDEN IMPACT, 1983
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In Kenya the mispronunciation of "make my day" is "makmende," which is slang for someone
who tries to be a hero and was the name creators chose for the country’s first locally created
superhero, described by CNN as "one part Shaft, one part Superman."
63
"I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?"

39. GOODFELLAS, 1990
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The "funny how" bit was heavily based on an incident Joe Pesci experienced as a young waiter
when he complimented a mobster on his sense of humor. Needless to say, the man didn’t take it
too well. Martin Scorsese heard the story during rehearsal and liked it so much that he let Pesci
and Ray Liotta incorporate it by improvising their dialogue. The other actors in the scene
weren’t given advanced notice because Scorsese wanted their genuine, unrehearsed reactions,
and he shot it with only medium takes and no close-ups in order to capture their surprise.
62
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

40. STAR WARS, 1977
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Soon after the film came out in 1977, Sir Alec Guinness told the BBC that fans sought him out for
Obi-Wan-like wisdom. "I’ve been getting some pretty strange letters: 'My wife and I have got
problems, could you come over and live with us.'"
61
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your
lips together and blow."

41. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, 1944
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The racy double entendre wasn’t penned by the credited screenwriters — that’d be Jules
Furthman and William Faulkner — but by producer Howard Hawks, who came up with the line
at Lauren Bacall’s test screening. She was so good at it, Hawks asked Faulkner to pencil it into
the shooting script.
60
"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."

42. THE HELP, 2011
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"One of the weirdest places I've seen the line pop up," says writer-director Tate Taylor, "was in a
gift shop in Mississippi. It was crocheted toilet-seat cover that said, 'You is kind, you is smart,
you is important.' I guess they thought it would be a beautiful place to those words every day."
59
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

43. GONE WITH THE WIND, 1939
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Though the screenplay, which went through numerous revisions, has four credited writers, this
line is lifted directly from the book, where it is the closing line of the novel.
58
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"

44. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, 1951
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Since 1997, the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival has held a Stanley
and Stella shouting contest.
57
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

45. THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
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L. Frank Baum, the author of the novel on which the film is based, reportedly thought up the
name "Oz" when looking at his filing cabinets, which were organized from A to N and O to Z.
56
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to
love her."

46. NOTTING HILL, 1999
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No surprise that one of the ultimate rom-com lines of all time also had the biggest disparity
between male and female voters. Women had it at No. 28. Men just No. 100.
55
"The Dude abides."

47. THE BIG LEBOWSKI, 1998
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The inspiration for Jeff Bridges' character was Jeff Dowd, legendary publicist and former head
of the Seattle Film Festival. At Sundance in 2009, the real Dude famously got into a fistfight
withVarietyfilm critic John Anderson over a disagreementover a documentary titledDirt! The
Movie.
54
"Hasta la vista, baby."

48. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, 1991
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"Sayonara, baby" was used in the Spanish-language version of the film sincehasta la vista
wouldn’t have been funny to Spanish-speaking audiences.
53
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"

49. THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
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Judy Garland became so attached to the little black Cairn Terrier who played Toto that she tried
to adopt the pooch after filming ended. (His owner said no.) The dog, whose real name was
Terry, was compensated well for his work: He got more than twice what the Munchkins
received.
52
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"

50. CASABLANCA, 1942
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Blame Woody Allen and his 1972 comedy,Play it Again,Sam, for making this the all-time most
misquoted movie line in film history.
51
"I'm having an old friend for dinner."

51. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991
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With lines as good as this one, Anthony Hopkins only needed about 16 minutes of screen time to
win a best actor Oscar, among the shortest performances ever to earn someone an Academy
Award in the category.
50
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

52. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, 1988
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The line was voiced before any part ofRoger Rabbithad been illustrated, so to get Bob Hoskins
in the mood, director Robert Zemeckis told the late actor to simply imagine his ideal sexual
fantasy.
49
"If you build it, he will come."

53. FIELD OF DREAMS, 1989
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Another misquote! Nobody inField of Dreamsever says,"If you build it, they will come."
48
"Just keep swimming."

54. FINDING NEMO, 2003
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This line — voiced by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres — was so popular, it’s earned her sidekick
fish character, Dory, her ownNemosequel,FindingDory, coming this summer.
47
"Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'"

55. FORREST GUMP, 1994
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Forrest Gump may have popularized the phrase, but it’s actually a variant of the old adage,
"Handsome is as handsome does,” which appears in, among other places, J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe
Lord of the Ringsand Herman Melville'sBilly Budd.
46
"I'm the king of the world!"

56. TITANIC, 1997
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Director James Cameron admitted "making a fool of" himself by repeating the line as he
accepted the movie's best picture Oscar.
45
"Shaken, not stirred."

57. GOLDFINGER, 1964
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The line is uttered onscreen for the first time by Dr. No, the villain in the first Bond movie. Bond
himself doesn’t say it untilGoldfinger, the thirdmovie.
44
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

58. COOL HAND LUKE, 1967
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Screenwriter Frank Pierson thought the line seemed too refined to be uttered by Strother
Martin’s prison warden, so he wrote an elaborate backstory for the character that involved
criminology courses that improved his vocabulary.
43
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."

59. SUNSET BOULEVARD, 1950
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Numerous retired silent film stars were considered for the role of Norma Desmond — Mary
Pickford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Pola Negri — but, of course, the part ultimately went to
Gloria Swanson, who stayed in character throughout the entire shoot.
42
"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

60. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, 1946
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There are 42 rings heard during the movie, meaning, if Clarence (Henry Travers) is right, 42
new angels.
41
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

61. THE GODFATHER, PART II, 1974
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Although this line is variously attributed to Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and an Arabian proverb, this
specific phrasing came straight from the pens of screenwriters Mario Puzo and Francis Ford
Coppola.
40
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn't exist."

62. THE USUAL SUSPECTS, 1995
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The line actually comes from 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection
Paris Spleen. In French it is, “La plus belle desruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il
n'existe pas."
39
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

63. NETWORK, 1976
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Network screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky originally envisioned Paul Newman in the the role that
won Peter Finch an Oscar — the first to be given posthumously (the second went to Heath
Ledger). Two months before the Academy Awards, Finch suffered a heart attack in the lobby of
the Beverly Hills Hotel while waiting for a meeting with director Sidney Lumet.
38
"You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a
contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which
is what I am."

64. ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954
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Rod Steiger's reaction to this line was filmed without Brando present. Brando’s deal with the
studio allowed him to leave at 4:00 every day to attend therapy to deal with the recent death of
his mother.
37
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

65. BACK TO THE FUTURE, 1985
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One of two lines on this list that have been quoted in State of the Union addresses (see also: No.
32). "There is just no greater tribute you can get than have the president of the United States
quote your movie, no matter what your politics are," says writer Bob Gale.
36
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."

66. ALL ABOUT EVE, 1950
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Despite holding the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a single film (14, tied
with Titanic) and making nearly every list of the top 100 movies of all time, this is one of the
most misquoted lines in movie history. Most say, “…It’s going to be a bumpy RIDE.
35
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

67. APOCALYPSE NOW, 1979
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In the 37 years since the movie was released, this line has been parodied more than 50 times in
other TV shows and movies, includingLizzie Maguire("I love the smell of pop quizzes in the
morning!") andMighty Morphin' Power Rangers: TheMovie("I love the smell of destruction in
the evening!").
34
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?'
Well, do ya punk?"

68. DIRTY HARRY, 1971
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Another misquote. Contrary to popular belief, Clint Eastwood never says, "Do you feel lucky,
punk?"
33
"Say hello to my little friend!"

69. SCARFACE, 1983
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Al Pacino's M203 grenade launcher — which was custom-made for the film and later appeared
inPredator— sold at an auction in November for $54,400.
32
"Show me the money!"

70. JERRY MAGUIRE, 1996
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"The most surreal part of hearing the line reappear in the culture," writer-director Cameron
Crowe tellsTHRabout Cuba Gooding Jr.'s signaturephrase, "was when George W. Bush and
then Barack Obama both quoted it in their State of the Union speeches. When Obama said it, my
mom called immediately: 'OK, you did it,' she said, 'you got Bush and Obama to agree about
something.'"
31
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

71. THE GODFATHER, 1972
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Richard Castellano, who played Clemenza, ad-libbed "take the cannoli," riffing on an earlier
scene where his character's wife asks him to pick up the dessert on his way home.
30
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys."

72. DEAD POETS SOCIETY, 1989
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"I have a pair of pants from a company called Carpe Denim," screenwriter Tom Schulman tells
THR. "I didn't realize when I bought them, but whenthey were folded in a certain way I saw it
on the inside of the waistband. The 'Denim' is pretty much the funniest thing I've seen with that
line."
29
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?"

73. THE GRADUATE, 1967
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In Mike Nichols' movie, Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be 25 years older than recent college grad
Ben Braddock. But in reality, 35-year-old Anne Bancroft was only six years older than
29-year-old Dustin Hoffman.
28
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

74. AIRPLANE, 1980
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"I think people remember the line because of Leslie Nielsen’s delivery," Jeff Zucker (who
co-wrote the script with his brother David and Jim Abrahamson) tellsTHR. "The way he said it
was exactly what we were going for. We told the actors to pretend they didn’t know they were in
a comedy."
27
"Here's Johnny!"

75. THE SHINING, 1980
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All the script called for was for Jack Nicholson’s deranged writer, Jack Torrance, to break down
the door to get to his cowering wife. But Nicholson added a little something to cut the tension —
the production went through dozens of doors before director Stanley Kubrick was satisfied —
and his improvised "Here’s Johnny!" made the cut.
26
"There's no crying in baseball!"

76. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, 1992
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"If somebody put a gun to my head and said 'What would be sort of the defining line fromA
League of Their Own, I would pick a line much laterin the movie," says screenwriter Babaloo
Mandel. "Geena Davis is quitting and she's trying to tell him, 'It just got too hard,' and Tom
Hanks says to her, 'It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The "hard" is
what makes it great.' I would pick that."
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"You had me at hello."

77. JERRY MAGUIRE, 1996
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"It was a straight-up tip of the hat to Billy Wilder and the last line ofThe Apartment," says
writer-director Cameron Crowe. "I always loved it when Shirley MacLaine said to Jack Lemmon,
'Shut up and deal.' It was the favorite last line to any movie in my family growing up. We loved
it. So forJerry Maguire, I wanted Renee to just cuthim off and say it. The actual full line is,
'Shut up — you had me at hello.' It's pretty much a rule of thumb for every screenwriter: Billy
Wilder will never steer you wrong."
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"Houston, we have a problem."

78. APOLLO 13, 1995
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Hollywood doing a little historical revisionism: In real life, astronaut Jim Lovell said, "Houston,
we've had a problem."
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"To infinity and beyond!"

79. TOY STORY, 1995
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Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase is actually a variation of the line "Beyond the infinite," which
appears as a title card in Stanley Kubrick's2001:A Space Odyssey. The phrase later served as
the title of Karen Paik's book recounting the history of Pixar — and as a lyric in Beyonce's 2008
hit, "Single Ladies."
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"Yippie-ki-yay, motherf—er!"

80. DIE HARD, 1988
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"I wrote 'Yippe-ki-yay, asshole,'" says screenwriter Steven E. de Souza. "But Bruce, on his final
take, ad-libbed the 'motherf—er,' much to the amusement of the crew. The studio nervously left
it in for the first test screening and the reaction made it permanent. But you don't always know.”
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"E.T. phone home."

81. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, 1982
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Director Steven Spielberg voiced E.T. during shooting — standing just to the side of the camera
and interacting with the child actors. Then sound designer Ben Burtt recorded actress Pat
Welsh, whose raspy smoker’s voice he overheard one day at a camera store, and mixed it with
animal sounds to get the friendly alien’s voice just right.
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"You can't handle the truth!"

82. A FEW GOOD MEN, 1992
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It took an entire day to shoot the climatic courtroom scene where Nicholson utters this line.
When it came time to shoot coverage — filming reaction shots from others in the scene —
director Rob Reiner told Nicholson he would get someone else to read his lines off-camera, but
Nicholson insisted on reading them himself, doing the speech about 50 times. Why? "I just love
to act," he told Reiner.
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"I'll be back."

83. THE TERMINATOR, 1984
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Schwarzenegger wanted to change the line to "I will be back" because it sounded more
machine-like and he had trouble pronouncing "I'll." He said director James Cameron "looked at
me like I'd lost my mind."
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"I see dead people."

84. THE SIXTH SENSE, 1999
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As Haley Joel Osment says this line, the camera pans over Bruce Willis' face. That worried
producer Frank Marshall, who thought it might give away the movie's twist. Test audience,
though, didn't have a clue.
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"Bond. James Bond."

85. DR. NO, 1962
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Ian Fleming named his superspy by looking for the most boring moniker he could find on his
bookshelves — it turned out to be the author of a bird-watching guide. "By God, [that] is the
dullest name I've ever heard," Fleming recalled of his eureka moment.
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"We'll always have Paris."

86. CASABLANCA, 1942
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In an oral history for the Writers Guild, screenwriter Julius Epstein recalled, "I wrote a note to
[producer] Hal Wallis telling him how terrible [the script forCasablanca] was. He put it in a
drawer. Thereafter, any time we had an argument about anything, he would open the drawer,
pull out that note and hand it to [me] to read."
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"This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

87. CASABLANCA, 1942
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The original draft of the screenplay ended with Claude Rains, not Bogart, saying "This is the
beginning of a beautiful friendship," and Bogart replying, "Yes, but don't forget you still owe me
10,000 francs."
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"I'll have what she's having."

88. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, 1989
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According to Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan was so self-conscious about faking an orgasm, director Rob
Reiner faked "an orgasm that King Kong would be jealous of" to make her relax.
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"Why so serious?"

89. THE DARK KNIGHT, 2008
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Heath Ledger's brilliantly twisted delivery may account for why this line finished No. 1 among
20- to 29-year-old voters.
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.
Prepare to die."

90. THE PRINCESS BRIDE, 1987
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Mandy Patinkin has said that this line — by far the most famous he's ever uttered — gets
repeated back to him by fans at least two or three times a day.
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"I am your father."

91. STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, 1980
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One of the most misquoted lines in movie history, right up there with "Play it again, Sam." The
real line has no "Luke" in it.
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"The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight
Club."

92. FIGHT CLUB, 1999
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Edward Norton and Brad Pitt took their preparation forFight Clubseriously. Both took lessons
in boxing, tae kwon do, grappling and studied hours of UFC programming. Pitt even visited a
dentist to have his front tooth chipped. They also almost didn’t get the roles: Matt Damon and
Sean Penn were considered for The Narrator, but David Fincher wanted Norton, as he was
impressed with his performance inThe People vs. LarryFlynt. One producer has his eye on
Russell Crowe for Tyler Durden, but another producer overruled him.
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"There's no place like home."

93. THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
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The film adaption took a lot of liberties with L. Frank Baum's 1900 fantasy novel. The
filmmakers did, however, take this jewel straight from the book.
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"You talkin' to me?"

94. TAXI DRIVER, 1976
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Robert De Niro improvised the line. The script simply said, "Travis speaks to himself in the
mirror." Writer Paul Schrader told the actor his character was just "a little kid playing with guns
and acting tough."
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks
into mine."

95. CASABLANCA, 1942
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Casablancahas the most quotes in the top 100. Inaddition to this one there areCasablanca
lines at Nos. 2, 15, 16 and 52.
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"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."

96. THE GODFATHER, 1972
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Some variation of this line appears in all threeGodfathermovies. Screenwriter Mario Puzo and
director Francis Ford Coppola were on opposite coasts when they were co-writing the script for
the first film — Puzo in New York City, Coppola in San Francisco — and they literally mailed
drafts back and forth to each other.
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"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

97. THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
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Since Dorothy first uttered it 77 years ago, this line has popped up in countless TV shows and
movies, fromHoney, I Shrunk the KidstoAvatar, fromGrey’s AnatomytoGilmore Girls. Not
to mention Jo Dee Messina’s 1996 hit “You’re Not in Kansas Anymore.”
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"May the Force be with you."

98. STAR WARS, 1977
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Several characters say this line in the original movie, but surprisingly not Obi-Wan Kenobi, who
doesn't utter it until 2002'sEpisode II: Attack ofthe Clones.
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

99. JAWS, 1975
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"[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers and everyone kept telling
them 'You're gonna need a bigger boat,'" recallsJawsscreenwriter Carl Gottlieb (who moved in
with director Steven Spielberg for four months to work on the shooting script). "It became a
catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong — whether lunch was late or if the swells were
rocking the camera."
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"Here's looking at you, kid."

100. CASABLANCA, 1942
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The Japanese version of the line — "Kimi no hitomi ni kanpai'' — literally translates as, "Cheers
to your eyes." Manako Ihaya of the American Translators Association calls it "a classic example
of a good movie script translation" for its ability to capture the nuance of the English for the
Japanese audience.
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"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

101. GONE WITH THE WIND, 1939
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Two months before the movie’s release, censors demanded that "damn" be dropped. The
producers came up with 22 variations of the line, including "Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
whoop," before the censors relented and allowed the "damn" to stay.Readmore here.