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Top 100 Greatest Movie Quotes

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

A past Centumth puzzle. Play it on this page with five guesses, or read the full Top 100 ranking below.

The lines that escaped the screen and became immortal. Ranked by the American Film Institute in 2005 (AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes).

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
  2. #2I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
  3. #3You 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.
  4. #4Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
  5. #5Here's looking at you, kid.
  6. #6Go ahead, make my day.
  7. #7All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
  8. #8May the Force be with you.
  9. #9Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
  10. #10You talkin' to me?
  11. #11What we've got here is failure to communicate.
  12. #12I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
  13. #13Love means never having to say you're sorry.
  14. #14The stuff that dreams are made of.
  15. #15E.T. phone home.
  16. #16They call me Mister Tibbs!
  17. #17Rosebud.
  18. #18Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
  19. #19I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
  20. #20Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
  21. #21A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
  22. #22Bond. James Bond.
  23. #23There's no place like home.
  24. #24I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
  25. #25Show me the money!
  26. #26Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
  27. #27I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!
  28. #28Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
  29. #29You can't handle the truth!
  30. #30I want to be alone.
  31. #31After all, tomorrow is another day!
  32. #32Round up the usual suspects.
  33. #33I'll have what she's having.
  34. #34You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
  35. #35You're gonna need a bigger boat.
  36. #36Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
  37. #37I'll be back.
  38. #38Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
  39. #39If you build it, he will come.
  40. #40My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
  41. #41We rob banks.
  42. #42Plastics.
  43. #43We'll always have Paris.
  44. #44I see dead people.
  45. #45Stella! Hey, Stella!
  46. #46Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
  47. #47Shane. Shane. Come back!
  48. #48Well, nobody's perfect.
  49. #49It's alive! It's alive!
  50. #50Houston, we have a problem.
  51. #51You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
  52. #52You had me at 'hello.'
  53. #53One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
  54. #54There's no crying in baseball!
  55. #55La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
  56. #56A boy's best friend is his mother.
  57. #57Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
  58. #58Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
  59. #59As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
  60. #60Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
  61. #61Say 'hello' to my little friend!
  62. #62What a dump.
  63. #63Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
  64. #64Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
  65. #65Elementary, my dear Watson.
  66. #66Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
  67. #67Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
  68. #68Here's Johnny!
  69. #69They're here!
  70. #70Is it safe?
  71. #71Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
  72. #72No wire hangers, ever!
  73. #73Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
  74. #74Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
  75. #75I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
  76. #76Hasta la vista, baby.
  77. #77Soylent Green is people!
  78. #78Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
  79. #79Surely you can't be serious. I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley.
  80. #80Yo, Adrian!
  81. #81Hello, gorgeous.
  82. #82Toga! Toga!
  83. #83Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
  84. #84Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
  85. #85My precious.
  86. #86Attica! Attica!
  87. #87Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
  88. #88Listen 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!
  89. #89Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
  90. #90A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
  91. #91Who's on first?
  92. #92Cinderella 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!
  93. #93Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
  94. #94I feel the need—the need for speed!
  95. #95Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
  96. #96Snap out of it!
  97. #97My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
  98. #98Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
  99. #99I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!
  100. #100I'm the king of the world!

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