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Frankly, Rhett has top film quote:
AFI names 100 greatest movies lines

Reel Classics, June 22, 2005

The immortal line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from 1939's Gone With The Wind has topped the American Film Institute's poll to find the most memorable movie quote ever.

Clark Gable's quote forced Marlon Brando's line from 1972's The Godfather - "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" - into second place.

Brando also came in third on the list with his "I coulda been a contender" quote from 1954's On The Waterfront.

The AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie quotes to 1,500 jurors, including film industry professionals, critics and historians. The jury was also permitted to write in votes for up to five quotes that were not already on the ballot.

They were instructed to base their selections on both legacy (how a quote has helped immortalize the film) and cultural impact. Only English language films were considered, and song lyrics were not eligible.

Casablanca (1942) has the most quotes in the top 100, with "Here's looking at you kid", uttered by Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine, the highest of the six at number five. The most quotable film's success also made 1942 the most represented year on the list with nine quotes from four films.

Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz both have three quotes on the list (making 1939 the second most represented year), with Dorothy's line "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" highest for Oz at number four.

The earliest line in the top 100 was "Wait a minute, wait a minute - you ain't heard nothin' yet", from 1927's The Jazz Singer.

The most recent inclusion was "My precious", said by Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002.

Of the actors included, Humphrey Bogart has the most mentions on the list, with five quotes from various films included in the top 100.

Of the actresses included, Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh both delivered three of the top 100 lines.

Screenwriting brothers Phillip and Julius Epstein wrote the most lines included on the list, including six from Casablanca and one from Yankee Doodle Dandy - "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." (No. 97) - delivered by James Cagney.

AFI director Jean Picker Firstenberg said of the quotes: "They get into our everyday language. They become a common language that we can all relate to and empathize with."

#	Quote	Movie	Year
1	Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.	GONE WITH THE WIND	1939
2	I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.	THE GODFATHER	1972
3	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
4	Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.	THE WIZARD OF OZ	1939
5	Here's looking at you, kid.	CASABLANCA	1942
6	Go ahead, make my day.	SUDDEN IMPACT	1983
7	All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.	SUNSET BLVD.	1950
8	May the Force be with you.	STAR WARS	1977
9	Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.	ALL ABOUT EVE	1950
10	You talking to me?	TAXI DRIVER	1976
11	What we've got here is failure to communicate.	COOL HAND LUKE	1967
12	I love the smell of napalm in the morning.	APOCALYPSE NOW	1979
13	Love means never having to say you're sorry.	LOVE STORY	1970
14	The stuff that dreams are made of.	THE MALTESE FALCON	1941
15	E.T. phone home.	E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL	1982
16	They call me Mister Tibbs!	IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT	1967
17	Rosebud.	CITIZEN KANE	1941
18	Made it, Ma! Top of the world!	WHITE HEAT	1949
19	I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!	NETWORK	1976
20	Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.	CASABLANCA	1942
21	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
22	Bond. James Bond.	DR. NO	1962
23	There's no place like home.	THE WIZARD OF OZ	1939
24	I am big! It's the pictures that got small.	SUNSET BLVD.	1950
25	Show me the money!	JERRY MAGUIRE	1996
26	Why don't you come up sometime and see me?	SHE DONE HIM WRONG	1933
27	I'm walking here! I'm walking here!	MIDNIGHT COWBOY	1969
28	Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'	CASABLANCA	1942
29	You can't handle the truth!	A FEW GOOD MEN	1992
30	I want to be alone.	GRAND HOTEL	1932
31	After all, tomorrow is another day!	GONE WITH THE WIND	1939
32	Round up the usual suspects.	CASABLANCA	1942
33	I'll have what she's having.	WHEN HARRY MET SALLY	1989
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	You're gonna need a bigger boat.	JAWS	1975
36	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
37	I'll be back.	THE TERMINATOR	1984
38	Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.	THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES	1942
39	If you build it, he will come.	FIELD OF DREAMS	1989
40	Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.	FORREST GUMP	1994
41	We rob banks.	BONNIE AND CLYDE	1967
42	Plastics.	THE GRADUATE	1967
43	We'll always have Paris.	CASABLANCA	1942
44	I see dead people.	THE SIXTH SENSE	1999
45	Stella! Hey, Stella!	A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	1951
46	Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.	NOW, VOYAGER	1942
47	Shane. Shane. Come back!	SHANE	1953
48	Well, nobody's perfect.	SOME LIKE IT HOT	1959
49	It's alive! It's alive!	FRANKENSTEIN	1931
50	Houston, we have a problem.	APOLLO 13	1995
51	You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?	DIRTY HARRY	1971
52	You had me at "hello."	JERRY MAGUIRE	1996
53	One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.	ANIMAL CRACKERS	1930
54	There's no crying in baseball!	A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN	1992
55	La-dee-da, la-dee-da.	ANNIE HALL	1977
56	A boy's best friend is his mother.	PSYCHO	1960
57	Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.	WALL STREET	1987
58	Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.	THE GODFATHER II	1974
59	As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.	GONE WITH THE WIND	1939
60	Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!	SONS OF THE DESERT	1933
61	Say "hello" to my little friend!	SCARFACE	1983
62	What a dump.	BEYOND THE FOREST	1949
63	Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?	THE GRADUATE	1967
64	Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!	DR. STRANGELOVE	1964
65	Elementary, my dear Watson.	THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES	1929
66	Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.	PLANET OF THE APES	1968
67	Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.	CASABLANCA	1942
68	Here's Johnny!	THE SHINING	1980
69	They're here!	POLTERGEIST	1982
70	Is it safe?	MARATHON MAN	1976
71	Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!	THE JAZZ SINGER	1927
72	No wire hangers, ever!	MOMMIE DEAREST	1981
73	Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?	LITTLE CAESAR	1930
74	Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.	CHINATOWN	1974
75	I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.	A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	1951
76	Hasta la vista, baby.	TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY	1991
77	Soylent Green is people!	SOYLENT GREEN	1973
78	Open the pod bay doors, HAL.	2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY	1968
79	Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.	AIRPLANE!	1980
80	Yo, Adrian!	ROCKY	1976
81	Hello, gorgeous.	FUNNY GIRL	1968
82	Toga! Toga!	NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE	1978
83	Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.	DRACULA	1931
84	Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.	KING KONG	1933
85	My precious.	THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS	2002
86	Attica! Attica!	DOG DAY AFTERNOON	1975
87	Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!	42ND STREET	1933
88	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
89	Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.	KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN	1940
90	A martini. Shaken, not stirred.	GOLDFINGER	1964
91	Who's on first.	THE NAUGHTY NINETIES	1945
92	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
93	Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!	AUNTIE MAME	1958
94	I feel the need - the need for speed!	TOP GUN	1986
95	Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.	DEAD POETS SOCIETY	1989
96	Snap out of it!	MOONSTRUCK	1987
97	My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.	YANKEE DOODLE DANDY	1942
98	Nobody puts Baby in a corner.	DIRTY DANCING	1987
99	I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!	THE WIZARD OF OZ	1939
100	I'm king of the world!	TITANIC	1997

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Frankly, Rhett has top film quote:
AFI names 100 greatest movies lines