FILM LINES

Criteria

Jurors were asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:

• Movie Quotation: A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film. Lyrics from songs are not eligible.
• Cultural Impact: Movie quotations that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon.
• Legacy: Movie quotations that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

FILM LINES

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. (On the waterfront, 1954)

Love means never having to / not ever having to say you're sorry. (Love story, 70)

We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live. Ben-Hur (1959)

You mean, all this time we could've been friends? (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) 

You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this [wheel] chair.

- But ya are, Blanche! Ya are in that chair!.  (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962)

Afer all, tomorrow is another day. (Emphasis on "all": remember ...). Gone with the wind, 1939.

Do you expect me to talk?. - No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. Goldginger, 1964).

Go ahead, make my day. (Sudden impact, 1983)

I am big! It's the pictures that got small. (Sunset Boulevard, 1950)

Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?.- Security. Some Like It Hot (1959)

He used to be a big shot. (The roaring twenties, 1939)

Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?. What've you got?" The Wild One (1953)

I'd rather be his whore than your wife. (Titanic)

I'd rather be dead than living with you. For all the things you've done, J.J. I know I should hate you. But I don't. I pity you. (Sweet smell of success, 1957)

It's Mrs. Danvers. She's gone mad. She said she'd rather destroy Manderley than see us happy here. (Rebeca, 1940)

I could dance with you till the cows come home...On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home. Duck Soup, 1933

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?. The Graduate (1967)

Would you like me to seduce you? (What?) Is that what you're trying to tell me?. The Graduate (1967)

To speak properly it is necessary to enunciate every syllable. Bugsy.


My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. (Forrest Gump, 1994)

There's no place like home. (The wizard of Oz, 1939)

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. (AFI misquotes the line as "I've got a feeling...") The wizard of Oz, 1939

No pride at all. That's a luxury women in love can't afford. (The Women, 1940)
I'll have what she's having. (When Harry met Sally, 1989)

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (Network, 1977)

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. (The Godfather, 1972)

I can stand anything but pain. The Band Wagon (1953) 

I feel as though I'd lived through all of this before in another life. (The Philadelphia Story, 1940)

(Louis), I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Casablanca, 1942)

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. (The diary of Ann Frank, 1959) 

(Robert E. Lee Prewitt). Isn't that a silly old name? From Here to Eternity (1953)

May the force be with you. (Star wars, 1977)

Psichologically, I'm very confused but personally, I feel just wonderful. (In the good old summertime, 1949)

Sure, forgive your enemies, but first get even. (Blood on the Sun, 1945)

The stuff that dreams are made of. (The Maltese falcon, 1942)

The secret of my success is, never say die. (A free soul, 1931)

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. (The pride of the Yankees, 1942)

The judge has left town, Harvey's quit, and I'm havin' trouble gettin' deputy(ies). High Noon (1952)


We'll always have Paris. (Casablanca, 1942)

We rob banks. (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967)

What are you crying about, Anna? I love you. Everything will be all right. You'll like being married. You will. You'll see. (Indiscreet, 1958)

Why is it always, always so costly for Man to move from the present to the future. (20 million miles to Earth, 1957)



Well, nobody's perfect. (Some like it hot, 1959)

You're gonna need a bigger boat. (Jaws, 1975)

You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? (Dirty Harry, 1971)

The Best Breakup Lines in Film

We searched through film history for 25 of the most memorable goodbye lines. Don’t be too sad, though. This is where some of the best screenwriting really shines.

“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.” (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

“Rhett, Rhett… Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?”
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (Gone with the wind)

“I’d rather be his whore than your wife.” (Titanic)

“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” (Annie Hall)

“I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.” (Closer)

“You’re immature, Fielding.
“How am I immature?”
“Well, emotionally, sexually, and intellectually.”
“Yeah, but what other ways?” (Bananas)

“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.” (Casablanca)

“You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.” (The Social Network)

It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain… and love.” (Network)

“I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul.”
“I want to die. If only I could die… ”
“If you’d die, you’d forget me. I want to be remembered.” (Brief encounter)