AFI #001 Clark Gable as Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind (1939)

Rhett: It seems we've been at cross-purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett: I'm going to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett: That's your misfortune. [turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! [watches Rhett walk to the door] Rhett! [runs down the stairs after him] Rhett, Rhett! Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable as Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #1 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #002 Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather (1972)

Johnny Fontane: A month ago, he bought the movie rights to this book. A best seller – and the main character, it's a guy just like me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. [choking up] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
[Don Corleone stands up and shakes Johnny]
Don Corleone: [shouting] You can act like a man!
[Don Corleone slaps Johnny]
Don Corleone: What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? [mockingly] "What can I do? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend time with your family?
Johnny Fontane: Sure I do.
Don Corleone: Good. A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Come here … you look terrible. I want you to eat. I want you to rest a while. And in a month from now, this Hollywood bigshot's gonna give you what you want.
Johnny Fontane: It's too late, they start shooting in a week.

Don Corleone: I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. Now, you just go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you – I want you to leave it all to me.

- Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone from The Godfather (1972)

The bolded line is ranked #2 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #003 Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront (1954)

Charlie: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie: Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.

Terry: 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. Let's face it. It was you, Charley.

- Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront (1954)

The bolded line is ranked #3 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #004 Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Dorothy: [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy: [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow!
[a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer. It finally lands, then turns into Glinda the Good Witch wearing a spectacular white dress and crown, holding a wand]
Dorothy: [to Toto] Now I... I know we're not in Kansas!

- Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
[Ilsa lowers her head and begins to cry]
Rick: Now, now...
[Rick gently places his hand under her chin and raises it so their eyes meet]

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Rick: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?
Ilsa: We said no questions.

Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Ilsa: I can't fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can't do it again. Oh, I don't know what's right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us.

Rick: All right, I will. Here's looking at you, kid.
Ilsa: [smiles] I wish I didn't love you so much.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

In Japan and Korea, the line "Here's looking at you" is translated as "Cheers to your eyes".

This phrase is actually a toast that originated around the fights that occurred in the pubs of old. It was commonplace for a patron to wait until his adversary was drinking from their stein of ale (and their vision was therefore blocked by the stein) to attack ... it bettered their odds of success. It is led to the development of the glass-bottomed stein in which the drinker could keep the other patrons in their vision even when drinking.

Thus came the toast "Here's looking at you"

AFI #007 Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard (1950)

And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

- Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The bolded line is ranked #7 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #008 Harrison Ford as Han Solo from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

Luke: So. You got your reward and you're just leaving, then?
Han Solo: That's right, yeah. Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff. Even if I didn't, you don't think I'd be fool enough to stick around here, do you? Why don't you come with us? You're pretty good in a fight. We could use you.
[Luke and Han are about to go their separate ways; Luke is upset that Han still plans to leave after receiving his reward]
Luke: Come on. Why don't you take a look around? You know what's about to happen, what they're up against. They could use a good pilot like you. You're turning your back on them.
Han Solo: What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station ain't my idea of courage. It's more like... suicide.
Luke: All right. Well, take care of yourself, Han. I guess that's what you're best at, isn't it?
[starts to storm off]
Han Solo: Hey, Luke!
[Luke stops and turns to face him]
Han Solo: [begrudgingly] May the Force be with you.
[Luke exits. Chewbacca growls]
Han Solo: [to Chewbacca] What're you lookin' at? I know what I'm doin'.

- Harrison Ford as Han Solo from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

The bolded line is ranked #8 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #009 Bette Davis as Margo Channing from All About Eve (1950)

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

- Bette Davis as Margo Channing from All About Eve (1950)

The bolded line is ranked #9 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #010 Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver (1976)

Yeah. Huh? Huh? Huh? (I'm) faster than you, you fuckin' son of a...I saw you comin', you fuck, shit-heel. I'm standin' here. You make the move. You make the move. It's your move. [He draws his gun from his concealed forearm holster] Don't try it, you fucker. You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? [He turns around to look behind him] Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talkin' to? Oh yeah? Huh? OK. [He whips out his gun again] Huh?

- Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver (1976)

The bolded line is ranked #10 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #011 Strother Martin as Captain from Cool Hand Luke (1967)

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it anymore than you men.

- Strother Martin as Captain from Cool Hand Luke (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #11 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #012 Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (1979)

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like … victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

- Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (1979)

The bolded line is ranked #12 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #013 Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV from Love Story (1970)

[last lines]
Oliver Barrett III: Oliver, I want to help.
Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny's dead.
Oliver Barrett III: Oh Oliver, I'm so sorry.
Oliver Barrett IV: Love means never having to say you're sorry.

- Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV from Love Story (1970)

The bolded line is ranked #13 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #014 Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Polhaus: [lifting the fake falcon] It's heavy. What is it?
Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
Polhaus: Huh?

- Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The bolded line is ranked #14 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #015 Pat Welsh as E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. phone home.

- Pat Welsh as E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The bolded line is ranked #15 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #016 Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

They call me Mister Tibbs!

- Sidney Poitier as ht.html">Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

The bolded line is ranked #16 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Life, William Alland as Jerry Thompson from Citizen Kane (1941)

Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.

- William Alland as Jerry Thompson from Citizen Kane (1941)

AFI #017 Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane (1941)

Rosebud.

- Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane (1941)

Opening line; his last word as he dies. The bolded line is ranked #17 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Movie, Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo from White Heat (1949)

[last lines]
Philip Evans: Cody Jarrett...

Hank Fallon: He finally got to the top of the world... and it blew right up in his face.

- Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo from White Heat (1949)

AFI #018 James Cagney as Arthur "Cody" Jarrett from White Heat (1949)

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

- James Cagney as Arthur "Cody" Jarrett from White Heat (1949)

The bolded line is ranked #18 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #020 Peter Finch as Howard Beale from Network (1976)

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad - worse than bad, They're crazy! It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone! I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad! You've got to say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

- Peter Finch as Howard Beale from Network (1976)

The bolded line is ranked #19 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #020 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #20 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #021 Hannibal Lecter by Anthony Hopkins from The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

- Hannibal Lecter by Anthony Hopkins from The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The bolded line is ranked #21 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #022 James Bond by Sean Connery from Dr. No (1962)

Bond. James Bond.

- James Bond by Sean Connery from Dr. No (1962)

The bolded line is ranked #22 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #023 Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

There's no place like home; there's no place like home; there's no place like home...

- Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The bolded line is ranked #23 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #025 Rod Tidwell by Cuba Gooding, Jr. from Jerry Maguire (1996)

Show me the money!

- Rod Tidwell by Cuba Gooding, Jr. from Jerry Maguire (1996)

The bolded line is ranked #25 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #026 Mae West as Lady Lou from She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Lady Lou: I always did like a man in a uniform. That one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening.

- Mae West as Lady Lou from She Done Him Wrong (1933)

The bolded line is ranked #26 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #027 Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy (1969)

I'm walking here! I'm walking here! [bangs hand on car] Actually, that ain't a bad way to pick up insurance, you know.

- Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The bolded line is ranked #27 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.