THE 50 GREATEST FILM QUOTES SHORTLIST (in alphabetical order)


"All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain."
Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (1982)

"Bond. James Bond."
Sean Connery in Dr No (1962)

"A boy's best friend is his mother."
Norman Bates/Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)

"Daddy! My Daddy!"
Bobbie Waterbury/Jenny Agutter in The Railway Children (1970)

"ET phone home."
Gertie/Drew Barrymore in ET the Extra-terrestrial (1982)

"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"
Margo Channing/Bette Davis in All about Eve (1950)

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Rhett Butler/Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind (1939)

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
Andy Dufresne/Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

"Go ahead, make my day."
Harry Callaghan/Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact (1983)

"Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Ollie/Oliver Hardy in Sons of the Desert (1933)

"Here's looking at you, kid."
Rick Blaine/Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

"He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!"
The mother of Brian, a ratbag/Terry Jones in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

"I am Spartacus."
The crowd in Spartacus (1960)

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Hannibal Lecter/Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."
Terry Molloy/Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)

"I see dead people."
Cole Sear/Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)

"I want to be alone."
Grusinskaya/Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932)

"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

"I wish I knew how to quit you."
Jack Twist/Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)

"If you build it, he will come."
Shoeless Joe Jackson/Ray Liotta in Field of Dreams (1989)

"I'll be back."
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

"I'll have what she's having."
Older woman customer/Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally (1989)

"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."
Anna Scott/Julia Roberts in Notting Hill (1999)

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna to take this anymore!"
Howard Beale/Peter Finch in Network (1976)

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
Don Corleone/Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)

"I'm ready for my close-up."
Norma Desmond/Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd (1950)

"In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
Truman Burbank/Jim Carrey in The Truman Show (1998)

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love – and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Harry Lime/Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)

"Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!"
Julius Caesar/Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo (1964)

"It was beauty killed the beast."
Carl Denham/Robert Armstrong in King Kong (1933)

"Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get."
Mrs Gump/Sally Field in Forrest Gump (1994)

"May the Force be with you."
Han Solo/Harrison Ford in Star Wars (1977)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Johnny Castle/Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing (1987)

"Nobody's perfect."
Osgood E Fielding III/Joe E Brown in Some Like It Hot (1959)

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
Charlotte Vale/Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)

"Rosebud."
Charles Foster Kane/Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)

"Say hello to my little friend."
Tony Montana/Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

"That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing."
Alvy Singer/Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)

"That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise."
CC Baxter/Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (1960)

"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!"
Wanda/Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

"To infinity… and beyond."
Buzz Lightyear/Tim Allen in Toy Story (1995)

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Dorothy/Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!"
Withnail/Richard E Grant in Withnail & I (1986)

"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today."
Phil Connors/Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993)

"You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!"
Fiorello/Chico Marx in A Night at the Opera (1945)

"You had me at hello."
Dorothy Boyd/Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire (1996)

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow."
Slim/Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944)

"You talkin' to me?"
Travis Bickle/Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Brody/Roy Scheider in Jaws (1975)

“You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
Charlie Croker/Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1969)

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And the actual winner(s) of the poll


1. "To infinity... and beyond." Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in Toy Story (1995)

2. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off." Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) in The Italian Job (1969)

3. "Say hello to my little friend." Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface (1983)

4. "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" The mother of Brian (Terry Jones) in Monty Python (1979)

5. "You're gonna need a bigger boat." Brody (Roy Scheider) in Jaws (1975)

6. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

7. "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!" Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams) in Carry on Cleo (1964)

8. "All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain." Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner (1982)

9. "Nobody's perfect". Osgood E Fielding III (Joe E Brown) in Some Like it Hot (1959)

10. "We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!" Withnail (Richard E Grant) in Withnail & I (1986)

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Not bad at all. Though I don't see Commandant Lassard's 'SLIIIDE!' anywhere

like... tears, in rain

I've watched that scene approaching probably 50 times, never fails. Discovering the ending of Blade Runner is one of the best things to happen to me; that's my kind of spirituality right there.

The most obvious omission to me seems to be "You can't fight here gentlemen, this is the war room".

You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.

"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off." from The Thing

"Death has come to your little town, sheriff." from Halloween

"Get away from her you bitch!" from some movie or other....

Predator's best line (IMO): 'There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man.'

Awesome!!

'This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.'

"I ain't got time to bleed!"

Had a quick scan and the best film quote of all time is not here.

It says 50 greatest film quotes, but surely....

"There can be only one" - Highlander.

Edit to add: What about "I've got a bad feeling about this" from pretty much all of the Star Wars films?

Donatello: Uh, ohayou, wasabi.

Raphael: Hello, mustard??

Always made me laugh. My mate and me really liked the Joker's 'I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger.'

"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

I might be blind but where was "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning"? or "Charlie don't surf!"?

Or "I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue!"

There's a serious lack of Kubrick among other things. No "I'm sorry Dave, i can't do that."? No "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."?

And where's "We shail into Hishtory."

Hippee ka yay [LIFTED]!