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Every film fan has a favourite movie quote, including all those industry bods across the pond in Hollywood.
Journalists often run their own ‘best quotes of all-time’ lists but The Hollywood Reporter has shaken things up a little by asking 1,600 experts from actors and producers to directors and agents for their most loved line.
The poll took place in January and since then, reporters have been sifting through responses to order a Top 100 list for our viewing pleasure.
Interestingly, the ten most popular quotes favour older movies, with 1939’s The Wizard of Oz making two appearances. Rhett Butler’s last words to Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind that same year take the number one spot, followed by the famous “Here’s looking at you, kid” from 1942’s Casablanca.
The most recent film to make the Top 10 came courtesy of 1999’s Fight Club, suggesting newer releases have some way to go before they can claim to be timeless.
Take a look at Hollywood’s ten favourite movie quotes:
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn (Gone with the Wind, 1939)
“Here’s looking at you, kid” (Casablanca, 1942)
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat” (Jaws, 1975)
“May the Force be with you” (Star Wars, 1977)
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” (The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” (The Godfather, 1972)
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” (Casablanca, 1942)
“You talkin’ to me?” (Taxi Driver, 1976)
“There’s no place like home” (The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club” (Fight Club, 1999)
Head on over to The Hollywood Reporter for the back stories to these 90 other classics that also got a look in:
“I am your father” (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” (The Princess Bride, 1987)
“Why so serious?” (The Dark Knight, 2008)
“I’ll have what she’s having” (When Harry Met Sally, 1989)
“This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” (Casablanca, 1942)
“We’ll always have Paris” (Casablanca, 1942)
“Bond. James Bond” (Dr No, 1962)
“I see dead people” (The Sixth Sense, 1999)
“I’ll be back” (The Terminator, 1984)
“You can’t handle the truth!” (A Few Good Men, 1992)
“E.T phone home” (ET, 1982)
“Yippie-ki-yay, mother f**ker!” (Die Hard, 1988)
“To infinity and beyond!” (Toy Story, 1995)
“Houston, we have a problem” (Apollo 13, 1995)
“You had me at hello” (Jerry Maguire, 1996)
“There’s no crying in baseball!” (A League of Their Own, 1992)
“Here’s Johnny!” (The Shining, 1980)
”I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.” (Airplane, 1980)
“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?” (The Graduate, 1967)
“Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys” (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
“Leave the gun, take the cannoli” (The Godfather, 1972)
“Show me the money!” (Jerry Maguire, 1996)
“Say hello to my little friend” (Scarface, 1983)
”You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?” (Dirty Harry, 1971)
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” (Apocalypse Now, 1979)
”Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.” (All About Eve, 1950)
“Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.” (Back to the Future, 1985)
”You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” (On the Waterfront, 1954)
“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” (Network, 1976)
”The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.” (The Usual Suspects, 1995)
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” (The Godfather Part II, 1974)
”Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” (It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946)
“I am big! It's the pictures that got small.” (Sunset Boulevard, 1950)
”What we've got here is a failure to communicate.” (Cool Hand Luke, 1967)
“Shaken, not stirred” (Goldfinger, 1964)
“I’m the king of the world!” (Titanic, 1997)
“Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.’” (Forrest Gump, 1994)
“Just keep swimming (Finding Nemo, 2003)
“If you built it, he will come” (Field of Dreams, 1989)
“I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.” (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988)
“I’m having an old friend for dinner” (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991)
”Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.’“ (Casablanca, 1942)
”I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!” (The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
“Hasta la vista, baby” (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991)
“The Dude abides” (The Big Lebowski, 1998)
“I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” (Notting Hill, 1999)
”Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” (The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
“Stella! Hey, Stella!” (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951)
“After all, tomorrow is another day!” (Gone with the Wind, 1939)
”You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” (The Help, 2011)
“You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” (To Have and Have Not, 1944)
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”Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.” (Star Wars, 1977)
“I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?” (Goodfellas, 1990)
“Go ahead, make my day” (Sudden Impact, 1983)
”I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951)
“It’s alive! It’s alive!” (Frankenstein, 1931)
“Argo f**k yourself” (Argo, 2012)
“My precious” (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002)
“Good morning, Vietnam!” (Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987)
“I wish I knew how to quit you” (Brokeback Mountain, 2005)
“That’ll do, pig, that’ll do” (Babe, 1995)
“Elementary, my dear Watson” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1939)
“I don't want to survive. I want to live.” (12 Years a Slave, 2013)
”Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!” (Dr Strangelove, 1964)
“You ain't heard nothin' yet!” (The Jazz Singer, 1927)
“Wax on, wax off” (The Karate Kid, 1984)
“Yo, Adrian!” (Rocky, 1976)
“Nobody’s perfect” (Some Like it Hot, 1959)
”Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” (The Godfather Part III, 1990)
“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, 1937)
“They’re here!” (Poltergeist, 1982)
”They call it a Royale with cheese.” (Pulp Fiction, 1994)
“I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.” (The Devil Wears Prada, 2006)
”Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!” (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948)
“It was Beauty killed the Beast” (King Kong, 1933)
“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!” (Midnight Cowboy, 1969)
“These go to eleven” (This is Spinal Tap, 1984)
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown” (Chinatown, 1974)
“Chewie, we’re home” (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015)
“As if!” (Clueless, 1995)
“You make me want to be a better man” (As Good as It Gets, 1997)
”Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” (Planet of the Apes, 1968)
“I drink your milkshake!” (There Will be Blood, 2007)
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” (Gladiator, 2000)
“You complete me” (Jerry Maguire, 1996)
”If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” (Taken, 2008)
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” (When Harry Met Sally, 1989)
“They call me Mister Tibbs!” (In the Heat of the Night, 1967)
”They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!” (Braveheart, 1995)
“Love means never having to say you're sorry” (Love Story, 1970)
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