Hollywood films have had sound since 1927 — that is over eighty years of amazing film scripts and great movie moments. Here are some of the most famous movie quotes of all time.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” –Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” –“Gold Hat”, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
“Nobody puts ‘Baby’ in a corner.” –Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” –Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz
“I’m king of the world!” –Jack Dawson, Titanic
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” –Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” –Rick Blaine, Casablanca
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” –Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
“I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” –Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” –Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” –Rick Blaine, Humphrey Bogart
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” –Captain Strother Martin, Cool Hand Luke
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” –Norman Bates, Psycho
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” –Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” –Rick Blaine, Casablanca
“Here’s Johnny!” –Jack Torrance, The Shining
“They’re here!” –Carol Anne Freeling, Poltergeist
“No wire hangers, ever!” –Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest
“Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!” –Tony Montana, Scarface
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” –Martin Brody, Jaws
“May the Force be with you.” –Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
“Go ahead, make my day” –Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact
“E.T. phone home.” –E.T., E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
“You talkin’ to me?” –Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
“Rosebud.” –Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” –Howard Beale, Network
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” –Marie “Slim” Browning, To Have and Have Not
“I see dead people.” –Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
“It’s alive! It’s alive!” –Henry Frankenstein, Frankenstein
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” –Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
“You had me at ‘hello’.” –Dorothy Boyd, Jerry Maguire
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” –Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
“Bond. James Bond.” –James Bond, Dr. No
“Attica! Attica!” –Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon
“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!” –Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond
“Tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.” –Knute Rockne, All American
“Shaken, not stirred.” –James Bond
“There’s no place like home.” –Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz
“Show me the money!” –Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire
“Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’” –Ilsa Lund, Casablanca
“You can’t handle the truth!” –Col. Nathan Jessup, A Few Good Men
“Round up the usual suspects.” –Capt. Louis Renault, Casablanca
“I’ll have what she’s having.” –Customer, When Harry Met Sally…
“I’ll be back.” –The Terminator
“If you build it, he will come.” –Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field of Dreams
“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” –Forrest Gump
“Plastics.” –Mr. Maguire, The Graduate
“There’s no crying in baseball!” –Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
“What a dump.” –Rosa Moline, Beyond the Forest
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me… Aren’t you?” –Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” –President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” –George Taylor, Planet of the Apes
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” –Lawrence Walsh, Chinatown
“Hasta la vista, baby.” –The Terminator
“Soylent Green is people!” –Det. Robert Thorn, Soylent Green
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” –Dave Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey
“Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious!” Rumack: “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.” –Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack, Airplane!
“Yo, Adrian!” –Rocky Balboa, Rocky
“Toga! Toga!” –John “Bluto” Blutarsky, National Lampoon’s Animal House
“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.” –Count Dracula, Dracula
“Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” –Carl Denham, King Kong
“My precious.” –Gollum, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
“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!” –Carl Spackler, Caddyshack
“I feel the need — the need for speed!” –Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Lt. Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Top Gun
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” –John Keating, Dead Poets Society