Top Movie Quotes

Courtesy of The American Film Institute, I give you the top movie quotations of the 30's, 40's, and 50's!

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett Butler
Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
"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." Terry Malloy
Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
"Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Dorothy Gale
Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
"Here's looking at you, kid." Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." Norma Desmond
Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Margo Channing
Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
"The stuff that dreams are made of." Sam Spade
Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
"Rosebud." Charles Foster Kane
Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" Arthur "Cody" Jarrett
James Cagney White Heat 1949
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
"There's no place like home." Dorothy Gale and Glinda
Judy Garland and Billie Burke The Wizard of Oz 1939
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small." Norma Desmond
Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" Lady Lou
Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" Ilsa Lund
Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
"I want to be alone." Grusinskaya
Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932
"After all, tomorrow is another day!" Scarlett O'Hara
Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
"Round up the usual suspects." Capt. Louis Renault
Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." Marie "Slim" Browning
Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
"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"
Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Lou Gehrig
Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
"We'll always have Paris." Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
"Stella! Hey, Stella!" Stanley Kowalski
Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." Charlotte Vale
Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
"Well, nobody's perfect." Osgood Fielding III
Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
"It's alive! It's alive!" Henry Frankenstein
Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding
Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
"A boy's best friend is his mother." Norman Bates
Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." Scarlett O'Hara
Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" Oliver
Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933
"What a dump." Rosa Moline
Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
"Elementary, my dear Watson." Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'!" Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin
Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello
Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1930
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Blanche DuBois
Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." Count Dracula
Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." Carl Denham
Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
"Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." Knute Rockne
Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Mame Dennis
Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
"My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." George M. Cohan
James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" Wicked Witch of the West
Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939