Motion pictures can be a departure from the real world or a motivation. We frequently connect with the characters, circumstances they're given, or words they express. Also, numerous adages have begun from films.
Let’s have an eye on these famous 100 movie quotes :-
1. "I'm king of the world!" - Titanic, 1997
2. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." - Dirty Dancing, 1987
3. "Snap out of it!" - Moonstruck, 1987
4. "I feel the need - the need for speed!" - Top Gun, 1986
5. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" - Caddyshack, 1980
6."A martini. Shaken, not stirred." - Goldfinger, 1964
Fun fact: This iconic scene has been parodied over and over again. In Casino Royale, 42 years later, Daniel Craig's James Bond will be asked, "Shaken or stirred" and Bond responds "Do I look like I give a damn?"
7."Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!" - On Golden Pond, 1981
8."Attica! Attica!" - Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
9. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." - King Kong, 1933
Fun Fact: The King Kong roar was a combination of a lion and tiger's roar combined and played backward very slowly.
10. "Toga! Toga!" - National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978
11."Yo, Adrian!" - Rocky II, 1979
12. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." - 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
13. "Hasta la vista, baby." - Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991
14."Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." - Chinatown, 1974
15."No wire hangers, ever!" - Mommie Dearest, 1981
16."Is it safe?" - Marathon Man, 1976
17."Here's Johnny!" - The Shining, 1980
Fun fact: This line was completely improvised. Jack Nicholson was only prompted to break down the door, but he decided to improvise this line and it made the final cut of the movie.
18."Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape." - Planet of the Apes, 1968
19."Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - Dr. Strangelove, 1964
20."What a dump." - Beyond the Forest, 1949
21."Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Sons of the Desert, 1933
22."Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - The Godfather Part II, 1974
23."A boy's best friend is his mother." - Psycho, 1960
24."There's no crying in baseball!" - A League of Their Own, 1992
25."You had me at ?hello.?" - Jerry Maguire, 1996
26."Houston, we have a problem." - Apollo 13, 1995
27."Well, nobody's perfect." - Some Like It Hot, 1959
28."Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." - Now, Voyager, 1942
29."I see dead people." - The Sixth Sense, 1999
Fun fact: When Haley Joel Osmet says this line the camera goes to Bruce Willis's face. This is a cinematic clue that Bruce Willis's character is dead.
30."Plastics." - The Graduate, 1967
31."Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump, 1994
32."Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." - The Pride of the Yankees, 1942
33."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
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."Round up the usual suspects." - Casablanca, 1942
36."I want to be alone." - Grand Hotel, 1932
37."Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" - Casablanca, 1942
Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa urges the pianist to play this song at a club owned by her old flame Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart.
38."Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" - She Done Him Wrong, 1933
Mae West offers this suggestive line as Lady Lou, a saloon singer, trying to trick Cary Grant's character into her room to catch a criminal.
39. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." - Sunset Blvd., 1950
Gloria Swanson's Norma offers this explanation for her faded glory as an actress.
40."Bond. James Bond." - Dr. No, 1962
Sean Connery delivers this famous line to introduce himself during a high stakes game at a London club.
41."Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca, 1942
Humphrey Bogart again, delivering this as Rick Blaine as he wanders off to join the French Resistance.
42."Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" - White Heat, 1949
James Cagney delivers this line a bit more literally than you might think; it's said atop a large globe-shaped gas tank.
43."They call me Mister Tibbs!" - In the Heat of the Night, 1967
Sidney Poitier's character, skilled detective Virgil Tibbs, delivers this line in rebuke to a racist question about what they call Virgil in his home in Philadelphia.
44."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 film
45."I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Apocalypse Now, 1979
This line is delivered by Robert Duvall as Colonel Kilgore, shortly after he has a beach bombed to clear out the Viet Cong.
46."You talking to me?" - Taxi Driver, 1976
In this scene Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle imagines an altercation that would give him an excuse 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.
47."May the Force be with you." - Star Wars, 1977
This catch phrase has become a pop culture staple, after many different characters say it to wish one another good fortune.
48."Go ahead, make my 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 will give him a justification for Harry to shoot him.
49."Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - The Wizard of Oz, 1939
This movie quote is delivered by heroine Dorothy after she finds herself whisked away to the fantastical land of Oz.
Fun fact: This movie quote is maybe misquoted more often than it is quoted correctly. Most people drop the "I've got a feeling" from the line.
50."I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather, 1972
51."Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Gone With the Wind, 1939
At the end of the film, Clark Gable's character Rhett Butler is leaving his wife, Scarlett. Scarlett asks what she'll do with herself after he leaves--his response is this famously harsh goodbye as he walks off into the night.
52."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 dock worker who lost out on a career as a prize fighter after his brother convinced him to throw a fight. This little sorrowful snippet describes the spiral his life has been in since.
53."Here's looking at you, kid." - Casablanca, 1942
54."All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Sunset Boulevard, 1950
This line is delivered by Gloria Swanson at the end of the movie, as her character hallucinates and mistakes crime scene reporters for the film crew of a movie.
55."Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - All About Eve, 1950
56."What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke, 1967
57."Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Love Story, 1970
Jennifer Cavalleri's character delivers this line after an altercation between her and the male lead.
Fun fact: Two years later Ryan O'Neal will hear this line again in the film What's Up Doc when Barbara Streisand says it to his character and responds, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
58."E.T. phone home." - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982
59."Rosebud." - Citizen Kane, 1941
60."I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Network, 1976
61."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
62. "There's no place like home." - The Wizard of Oz, 1939
63."Show me the money!" - Jerry Maguire, 1996
64."I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Midnight Cowboy, 1969
65."You can't handle the truth!" - A Few Good Men, 1992
66."After all, tomorrow is another day!" - Gone With the Wind, 1939
67."I'll have what she's having." - When Harry Met Sally, 1989
68."You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Jaws, 1975
69."I'll be back." - The Terminator, 1984
70."If you build it, he will come." - Field of Dreams, 1989
71."We rob banks." - Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
72."We'll always have Paris." - Casablanca, 1942
73."Stella! Hey, Stella!" - A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
74."Shane. Shane. Come back!" - Shane, 1953
75."It's alive! It's alive!" - Frankenstein, 1931
Fun fact: The original line was "It's alive! It's alive! In the name of God! Now I know what it's like to be God!" Censors cut Dr. Frankenstein's full line because it was considered sacrilege.
76."You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" - Dirty Harry, 1971
77."One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Animal Crackers, 1930
78."La-dee-da, la-dee-da." - Annie Hall, 1977
79."Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Wall Street, 1987
80."As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." - Gone With the Wind, 1939
81."Say "hello" to my little friend!" - Scarface, 1983
82."Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" - The Graduate, 1967
83."Elementary, my dear 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.
84."Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." - Casablanca, 1942
85."They're here!" - Poltergeist, 19"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" - The Jazz Singer, 1927
86."Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" - Little Caesar, 1930
87."I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
88."Soylent Green is people!" - Soylent Green, 1973
89.Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious?and don't call me Shirley. - Airplane!, 1980
90."Hello, gorgeous." - Funny Girl, 1968
91."Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." - Dracula, 1931
92."My precious." - The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, 2002
93."Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" - 42nd Street, 1933
94."Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." - Knute Rockne All American, 1940
95."Who's on first." - The Naughty Nineties, 1945
96."Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Auntie Mame, 1958
97."Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society, 1989.
98."My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." - Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942
99."I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" - The Wizard of Oz, 1939
100.“Just keep swimming.” -Finding Nemo, 2003
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