Top 100 Best Movie Quotes
These are the best and most-popular movie quotes of all-time.
Terry Malloy: 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.[2]
Movie: On the Waterfront
Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Movie: The Silence of the Lambs
Marie Slim Browning: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
Movie: To Have and Have Not
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
Movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lou Gehrig: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.[13]
Movie: The Pride of the Yankees
Forrest Gump: Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Movie: Forrest Gump
Harry Callahan: You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
Movie: Dirty Harry
Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
Movie: Animal Crackers
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
Movie: Dr. Strangelove
Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Movie: Casablanca
Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
Movie: The Jazz Singer
Blanche DuBois: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire
Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack: Striker: Surely you can't be serious?! Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
Movie: Airplane!
Julian Marsh: Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Movie: 42nd Street
Ethel Thayer: 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!
Movie: On Golden Pond
Knute Rockne[28]: Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for The Gipper.
Movie: Knute Rockne, All American
Carl Spackler: 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!
Movie: Caddyshack
Lt. Pete Maverick Mitchell and Lt. Nick Goose Bradshaw: I feel the need—the need for speed!
Movie: Top Gun
John Keating: Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Movie: Dead Poets Society
George M. Cohan: My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy