95 Fun Facts About Movie Quotes

Which movie features the quote: 'Here's looking at you, kid'?

Humphrey Bogart says it to Ingrid Bergman four times in Casablanca (1942). It was not in the draft screenplays and is thought to come from a remark Bogart made to Bergman between takes.

Which movie features the quote: 'May the Force be with you'?

The blessing first appears in the original Star Wars (1977), later subtitled A New Hope, and is spoken by several characters. The AFI's list credits the version delivered by Han Solo, not Obi-Wan.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse'?

Marlon Brando's Don Vito Corleone says it in The Godfather (1972). The AFI ranked it the second most memorable line in American film, behind only 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'.

Which movie features the quote: 'You talkin' to me?'?

Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle rehearses a confrontation in the mirror in Taxi Driver (1976). Screenwriter Paul Schrader says De Niro improvised the dialogue.

Which movie features the quote: 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?

Clark Gable delivers this famous exit line to Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). The use of 'damn' was controversial at the time and required special approval from the censors.

In which film did Arnold Schwarzenegger first deliver his catchphrase 'I'll be back'?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's deadpan delivery in The Terminator (1984) became his career-defining catchphrase. He had trouble pronouncing 'I'll' and asked James Cameron to change it to 'I will be back', but Cameron kept the contraction.

Which movie features the quote: 'Go ahead, make my day'?

Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan says it to a robber holding a hostage at the start of Sudden Impact (1983), the fourth Dirty Harry film. Ronald Reagan borrowed the line in a 1985 speech threatening to veto a tax increase.

Which movie features the quote: 'You can't handle the truth!'?

Jack Nicholson's Colonel Jessep explodes at Tom Cruise's Lieutenant Kaffee during the courtroom climax of A Few Good Men (1992). Aaron Sorkin adapted the screenplay from his own 1989 play.

Which movie features the quote: 'To infinity and beyond!'?

Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase in Toy Story (1995) captures his conviction that he is a real space ranger. Philosophers and mathematicians have borrowed it ever since.

Which movie features the quote: 'Why so serious?'?

Heath Ledger's Joker asks it while telling contradictory stories about his scars in The Dark Knight (2008). Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Which movie features the quote: 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get'?

Tom Hanks's Forrest shares his mama's wisdom from a park bench in Forrest Gump (1994). The AFI ranked it 40th among the greatest movie quotes.

Which movie features the quote: 'I see dead people'?

Haley Joel Osment whispers the line to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense (1999). The filmmakers worried the slow zoom on Willis's face at that moment would give away the twist, but left it in.

Which movie features the quote: 'Say hello to my little friend!'?

Scarface's Montana fires a rifle with a grenade launcher as he says it; the line is among the most parodied in film.

Which movie features the quote: 'E.T. phone home'?

In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the stranded alien builds a makeshift communicator to reach his ship. Spielberg's film passed Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film ever, a record it held until Jurassic Park in 1993.

Which movie features the quote: 'Well, nobody's perfect'?

Joe E. Brown's millionaire Osgood shrugs it off when Jack Lemmon's Jerry admits he is a man at the end of Some Like It Hot (1959). Writers Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond meant the closing line as a placeholder and never bettered it.

Which movie features the quote: 'Just keep swimming'?

Ellen DeGeneres voices Dory, the forgetful blue tang, in Finding Nemo (2003). DeGeneres has adopted the motto as a philosophy of persistence in her own career.

Which movie features the quote: 'You're gonna need a bigger boat'?

Roy Scheider's Chief Brody says it in Jaws (1975) after first seeing the shark. The line grew from a crew in-joke about the production's undersized support barge, and the AFI ranked it 35th among movie quotes.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'll have what she's having'?

Estelle Reiner, director Rob Reiner's mother, delivers the deadpan order after Meg Ryan's fake-orgasm scene in Katz's Delicatessen in When Harry Met Sally... (1989).

Which movie features the quote: 'Here's Johnny!'?

Jack Nicholson improvised the line while hacking through a bathroom door in The Shining (1980). It borrows Ed McMahon's nightly introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.

Which movie features the quote: 'Wax on, wax off'?

The Karate Kid's repetitive motions secretly train defensive blocks through muscle memory; Pat Morita plays Miyagi to Ralph Macchio's Daniel.

Which movie features the quote: 'That'll do, pig. That'll do'?

Babe's James Cromwell nearly turned down the part because it had only about 16 lines.

Which movie features the quote: 'I feel the need... the need for speed'?

Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards as Maverick and Goose trade the line in Top Gun (1986). It later lent its name to the long-running Need for Speed racing video game series.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm the king of the world!'?

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson shouts it from the bow in Titanic (1997). The film went on to win eleven Academy Awards, tying Ben-Hur's record.

Which movie features the quote: 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner'?

Patrick Swayze's Johnny Castle says it before pulling Jennifer Grey onto the dance floor in Dirty Dancing (1987). A Swedish art group later put the line up in white neon at a bus square in Umeå.

Which movie features the quote: 'Hasta la vista, baby'?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 says it before shooting the frozen T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Edward Furlong's John Connor teaches him the slang earlier in the film.

Which movie features the quote: 'You had me at hello'?

Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd cuts off Tom Cruise's impassioned speech with the line in Jerry Maguire (1996). The film also gave the world 'You complete me'.

Which movie features the quote: 'I drink your milkshake!'?

Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview delivers the menacing line in the final scene of There Will Be Blood (2007). Paul Thomas Anderson paraphrased it from testimony about oil drainage in the Teapot Dome hearings.

Which movie features the quote: 'There's no crying in baseball!'?

Tom Hanks as manager Jimmy Dugan barks it at a tearful Evelyn Gardner in A League of Their Own (1992), a film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Viola Davis's maid Aibileen repeats 'You is kind. You is smart. You is important' to a toddler in which 2011 film?

The Help is set in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi; Aibileen Clark says the affirmation to little Mae Mobley.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm walking here! I'm walking here!'?

Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo yells it at a cab in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Hoffman says a real cab ran the light and he stayed in character, though producer Jerome Hellman disputes that it was an ad-lib.

Which movie features the quote: 'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore'?

Judy Garland's Dorothy says it to her dog on arriving in Technicolor Oz in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The AFI ranked it fourth among all movie quotes.

In which 1999 film does Tyler Durden declare its 'first rule' is that you do not talk about it?

Tyler Durden lays down the rules of the underground bare-knuckle group in David Fincher's Fight Club (1999). Premiere magazine later ranked the line the 27th greatest in movie history.

Andy Dufresne tells Red 'Get busy living, or get busy dying' in which 1994 prison film?

The Shawshank Redemption earned only about $16 million in its first run, yet became one of the most beloved films of all time; Tim Robbins' Andy says the line while dreaming of Zihuatanejo.

Which movie features the quote: 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good'?

Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko delivers the speech in Wall Street (1987) and won the Best Actor Oscar. Oliver Stone modeled it on Ivan Boesky's 1986 Berkeley commencement remark that 'greed is healthy'.

Which movie features the quote: 'Rosebud'?

Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane whispers it as his dying word in Citizen Kane (1941). The mystery of its meaning drives the plot, and it turns out to be the name of his childhood sled.

Which movie features the quote: 'With great power comes great responsibility'?

Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben imparts this wisdom to Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002). Though it originates from the Spider-Man comics (1962), the film cemented it in popular culture.

Which movie features the quote: 'I am Groot'?

Vin Diesel voices the tree-like Groot, whose speech is limited to that one phrase, in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Diesel also recorded the line for several foreign-language dubs.

Which movie has the line 'Surely you can't be serious.' 'I am serious... and don't call me Shirley'?

Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rumack answers Robert Hays's Ted Striker with the deadpan gag in Airplane! (1980). The film's rapid-fire pun style reshaped the spoof comedy.

Which movie features the quote: 'You shall not pass!'?

Ian McKellen's Gandalf roars it at the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). In Tolkien's novel the wizard's words are 'You cannot pass'.

Which 2008 Marvel film ends with Tony Stark ad-libbing a line revealing his identity?

Robert Downey Jr. ad-libbed 'I am Iron Man' as the closing line of Iron Man (2008), the film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe; director Jon Favreau kept the improvisation.

Which movie features the quote: 'Inconceivable!'?

Wallace Shawn's Vizzini keeps exclaiming it in The Princess Bride (1987), prompting Inigo Montoya's reply: 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

Which movie features the quote: 'Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night'?

Bette Davis as Margo Channing delivers the warning at her party in All About Eve (1950). It is often misquoted as 'bumpy ride', and the film went on to win Best Picture.

Which movie features the quote: 'I coulda been a contender'?

Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy laments to his brother in the back of a taxi in On the Waterfront (1954). Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for the role.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'?

Peter Finch's unraveling anchorman Howard Beale urges viewers to shout it from their windows in Network (1976). Finch died before the ceremony and became the first performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar.

Which movie features the quote: 'Houston, we have a problem'?

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell delivers the line in Apollo 13 (1995). The real 1970 transmission was 'Houston, we've had a problem', which screenwriter William Broyles Jr. felt was less dramatic.

In what year did the AFI unveil its list of the 100 greatest movie quotes?

The list was revealed in a three-hour CBS special, and a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians picked the winners.

How many of the AFI's 100 greatest movie quotes come from Casablanca, the top film?

Casablanca leads with six entries, including 'We'll always have Paris' (No. 43) and 'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship' (No. 20); Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz follow with three each.

Which actor hosted the 2005 TV special counting down the AFI's 100 greatest movie quotes?

A fitting choice: two of the quotes on the list belong to James Bond, the role Brosnan had just handed over.

Which actor spoke the most quotes on the AFI's top-100 list, with five?

Humphrey Bogart speaks five of the hundred: four lines from Casablanca and one from The Maltese Falcon, more than Brando, Pacino or Gable manage.

'Hello, gorgeous' is the opening line of which 1968 musical film?

Funny Girl's line is No. 81 on the AFI's 100 Movie Quotes; the other opening-line entry is 'Rosebud' from Citizen Kane.

Who actually says 'Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By' in Casablanca?

Ilsa Lund says it; the famous 'Play it again, Sam' is never spoken in the film, though Rick later says 'If she can stand it, I can. Play it.'

In Casablanca, who orders the police to 'round up the usual suspects'?

Captain Renault (Claude Rains) says it after Rick shoots Major Strasser; the line gave its name to the 1995 neo-noir The Usual Suspects.

The misquoted 'Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!' comes from which 1948 film?

The novel's version was far more profane; John Huston had to soften it to satisfy the Hays Code.

In Field of Dreams, whose ghost appears after Ray hears 'If you build it, he will come'?

Shoeless Joe Jackson, banned after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, walks out of the corn; the whisper says 'he will come' and is routinely misquoted as 'they will come'.

Which 1953 Western ends with a boy shouting 'Come back!' after a departing gunfighter?

Shane (1953) ends with young Joey calling 'Shane! Come back!' as Alan Ladd's gunfighter rides away; the role earned Brandon deWilde a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Mae West's 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' is from which 1933 film?

She Done Him Wrong (1933), adapted from West's own Broadway hit Diamond Lil, earned a Best Picture nomination; the line is usually misquoted as 'Come up and see me sometime'.

Who played Mrs. Robinson, asked 'you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?' in The Graduate?

Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman, who played the recent graduate she seduces.

Which character says 'A boy's best friend is his mother'?

Norman Bates says it to Marion Crane in Psycho (1960); the AFI's 2003 villains list ranked him second, between Hannibal Lecter and Darth Vader.

Who says 'All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up' in Sunset Boulevard?

Swanson had been a genuine silent-era star, which made her faded Norma Desmond unnervingly convincing.

In Dirty Harry's 'Do I feel lucky?' speech, which gun is 'the most powerful' in the world?

Harry calls his Smith & Wesson Model 29 a '.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world'; he pulls the trigger on the surrendering robber anyway, and the gun clicks empty.

In Jerry Maguire, which character shouts 'Show me the money!' down the phone?

Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Rod Tidwell makes Jerry shout it back over the phone; writer-director Cameron Crowe was surprised the line eclipsed his pet concept from the film, the 'Kwan'.

Marlon Brando bellowing 'Stella! Hey, Stella!' made the AFI list from which film?

The same film contributed a second AFI quote, Blanche's 'I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.'

'What we've got here is failure to communicate' is from which 1967 prison film?

The Captain (Strother Martin) delivers it in Cool Hand Luke after bludgeoning Paul Newman's recaptured Luke, who has just been fitted with leg irons.

In Apocalypse Now, which officer says 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'?

Robert Duvall's Lt. Col. Kilgore says it on the beach after the air-cavalry raid; the AFI ranked the line 12th among movie quotes, and Duvall earned a Supporting Actor nomination.

'...means never having to say you're sorry' is the famous line of which 1970 tearjerker?

In Love Story (1970) Jenny says it to Oliver earlier in the film, and Oliver repeats 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' to his father after her death.

Sam Spade calls a statuette 'the stuff that dreams are made of' at the end of which film?

Bogart's Sam Spade says it of the black bird at the end of The Maltese Falcon (1941); novelist Dashiell Hammett, born Samuel, had worked as a Pinkerton detective and gave Spade his own first name.

Hannibal Lecter says he ate a census taker's liver with fava beans and which wine?

Lecter tells Clarice he ate the liver 'with some fava beans and a nice Chianti'; the line ranks 21st on the AFI's quotes list, and Lecter tops its 100 greatest screen villains.

Which actor shouts the closing line 'Soylent Green is people!'?

The 1973 film was Edward G. Robinson's last; the novel it was based on, Make Room! Make Room!, contains no cannibalism twist.

In Dead Poets Society, who first stands on his desk for 'O Captain! My Captain!'?

It is a breakthrough for the shyest boy in the class; Keating had earlier coaxed a spontaneous poem out of him.

Which 1982 film has a little girl announce 'They're here' to a static-filled TV?

In Poltergeist, five-year-old Carol Anne had been chatting with the set after the broadcast day ended; the next morning the silverware bends and the kitchen chairs stack themselves.

'Is it safe?' is asked over and over during a dental torture scene in which 1976 thriller?

Laurence Olivier's Nazi dentist Szell drills into Dustin Hoffman's teeth without anaesthetic in Marathon Man (1976); the AFI ranked 'Is it safe?' 70th among movie quotes.

In which 1975 film does Al Pacino's bank robber chant 'Attica! Attica!' to a crowd?

Sonny's demands include a jet, pizzas for the hostages, and a visit from his wife.

Adrian, of Rocky's 'Yo, Adrian!', works part-time in what kind of shop?

Adrian works at the J&M Tropical Fish pet store, where Rocky visits her and buys his turtles Cuff and Link; her brother Paulie sets up their first date.

In which film does James Bond himself first say 'shaken, not stirred' on screen?

Bond first says 'shaken, not stirred' himself in Goldfinger (1964); in Dr. No the words come from the villain offering him a drink, not from 007.

In Cast Away, Wilson, the companion Tom Hanks talks to, is what kind of ball?

Wilson is a Wilson-brand volleyball that washed ashore in a FedEx package; Chuck draws its face in his own blood after cutting his hand trying to make fire.

Who spoke 'Wait a minute... you ain't heard nothin' yet' in 1927's The Jazz Singer?

Al Jolson's 'You ain't heard nothin' yet' was already his well-worn stage patter, so audiences heard a long-running in-joke become the first famous line of the talkies.

'Snap out of it!' earned a spot on the AFI list for which 1987 romantic comedy?

Cher's Loretta delivers it in Moonstruck with a slap to Nicolas Cage; the role won her the Best Actress Oscar, and the AFI placed the line 96th.

'We rob banks' is the matter-of-fact introduction in which 1967 film?

Clyde Barrow's 'We rob banks' introduces the pair in Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow also rank 32nd on the AFI's list of screen villains.

Who improvised Caddyshack's 'Cinderella story' monologue from two lines of direction?

Bill Murray, as groundskeeper Carl Spackler, was simply told by director Harold Ramis to act like a kid narrating his own game; he beheaded flowers with a grass whip while 'winning' the Masters.

'Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast' closes which 1933 film?

Showman Carl Denham says it over the ape's body after a policeman credits the planes.

Which film's president protests 'you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!'?

Peter Sellers played President Merkin Muffley, and two other roles besides, in Kubrick's 1964 satire.

'Win just one for the Gipper' comes from a 1940 biopic of which Notre Dame football coach?

Pat O'Brien played Knute Rockne in Knute Rockne, All American (1940); the dying George Gipp, whose deathbed wish it was, was played by a young Ronald Reagan.

Which president quoted 'Where we're going, we don't need roads' in a State of the Union?

Ronald Reagan used Doc Brown's line in his 1986 State of the Union; Back to the Future itself had joked in 1985 about an actor named Reagan being president.

Greta Garbo's 'I want to be alone' comes from which 1932 Best Picture winner?

Greta Garbo's ballerina Grusinskaya says it in Grand Hotel, which won the 1932 Best Picture Oscar without a nomination in any other category, a feat no other film has matched.

Who delivered 'They call me Mister Tibbs!' in In the Heat of the Night?

Sidney Poitier's Virgil Tibbs snaps it at Rod Steiger's police chief; the line ranks 16th on the AFI list and became the title of the 1970 sequel.

Which Ghostbuster warns the team that crossing the streams could be catastrophic?

Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) warns 'Don't cross the streams', then reverses himself at the climax, ordering the team to cross them to close Gozer's gateway.

'Made it, Ma! Top of the world!' is shouted from an exploding gas tank in which 1949 film?

James Cagney's Cody Jarrett fires into the tank himself as police close in; the line ranks 18th on the AFI list.

Jules and Vincent's 'Royale with Cheese' conversation is in which 1994 film?

Pulp Fiction's exchange was revisited sixteen years later in From Paris with Love, another John Travolta vehicle.

Who says 'Leave the gun, take the cannoli' in The Godfather?

Peter Clemenza (Richard Castellano) says it to Rocco after stepping away to relieve himself while Paulie Gatto is shot in the front seat; his wife had asked him to bring cannoli home.

John McClane's 'Yippee-ki-yay' in Die Hard was inspired by which singing cowboy's line?

The filmmakers debated 'yippee-ti-yay' instead; Bruce Willis backed the version that stuck.

In Spartacus, which character is the first to shout 'I'm Spartacus!'?

Tony Curtis's Antoninus, a fictional slave poet, jumps up first; the cry is taken up by the whole defeated army, so all are crucified along the Appian Way.

In It's a Wonderful Life, which Bailey child says a ringing bell means an angel got wings?

Zuzu Bailey, in George's arms, says it when a bell on the Christmas tree rings; a copy of Tom Sawyer inscribed by Clarence arrives at the same moment.

In Forrest Gump, who first shouts 'Run, Forrest, run!' as bullies chase him?

Young Jenny Curran shouts it as bullies chase Forrest on bikes, and his leg braces fall apart as he discovers he can run.

Diane Keaton's 'La-dee-da, la-dee-da' comes from which Woody Allen film?

Annie Hall's line was ranked the 55th greatest movie quote by the AFI.

'Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?' is the dying line of which 1931 gangster film?

Edward G. Robinson's Rico Bandello dies with the line in Little Caesar (1931); the film helped invent the gangster genre alongside The Public Enemy and Scarface, and the AFI ranked the line 73rd.