Who Said It?
“You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world. Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!”
The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
“Rosebud.”
Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)
Citizen Kane (1941)
“That’s quite a dress you almost have on.”
- Jerry Mulligan
Gene Kelly
An American in Paris (1951)
“I just love finding new places to wear diamonds.”
- Lorelei Lee, nightclub entertainer and fortune hunter
Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
“Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Margo Channing (Bette Davis)
All About Eve (1950)
"Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night."
"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.”
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
Forrest Gump (1994)
"Bye, Felisha."
Craig Jones (Ice Cube)
Friday (1995)
“Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the war room!”
- President Merkin Muffley
Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small."
Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
“Well, here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into!”
Ollie to Stan (Laurel and Hardy)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
Laurel and Hardy did make a short film called Another Fine Mess (1930), but it was nice messes that Hardy was repeatedly pointing out to Laurel with his signature line.
“This is what makes time travel possible – the flux capacitor!”
“Doc” Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd)
Back to the Future (1985)
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider)
Jaws (1975)
“I wasn’t always rich. No, there was a time when I didn’t know where my next husband was coming from.”
- Saloon singer Lady Lou
Mae West
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Whose lines are these? "When I'm good I'm very good; when I'm bad, I'm better."
"It's better be looked over than overlooked."
"I'll never forget you." - "Well, no one ever does."
"What'd you do, get your hair cut or get your ears moved down?"
Mae West (she wrote her funny lines herself)
"Play it again, Sam."
Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman)
Casablanca (1942)
"Play it, Sam. Play as time goes by."
“Some day, when things are tough, maybe you can ask the boys to go in there and win just one for the Gipper.”
George Gipp (Ronald Reagan)
Knute Rockne – All American (1940)
“Go ahead. Make my day.”
Detective “Dirty Harry” Callahan (Clint Eastwood)
Sudden Impact (1983)
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
-Mortimer Brewster
Cary Grant
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
"I'll have what she's having"
Estelle Reiner, a woman in cafe
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
"He's alive! He's alive!"
Colin Clive
Frankenstein (1931)
"It's alive! It's alive!"
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Don Vito Corleone
Marlon Brando
The Godfather (1972)
"Plastics."
Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke)
The Graduate (1967)
“Clear? Huh! Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head or tail out of it.”
- The President of Freedonia
Groucho Marx
Duck Soup (1933)
"After all, tomorrow is another day."
Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."
Dorothy (Judy Garland)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
"Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."