The Greatest Movie Lines Ever! (1927-1959)

THE GREATEST AND
MOST MEMORABLE
MOVIE LINES OF ALL TIME
1927-1959
1960-1989 * 1990-Present
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MOVIE	LINE
ACTOR

**1959**
Plan Nine from Outer Space	"All you of Earth are idiots."
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Some Like it Hot	"Well, nobody's perfect."
Joe E. Brown

**1958**
Auntie Mame	"Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."
Rosalind Russel


The Fly	"Help me!"
David Hedison

**1956**
The Court Jester	"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, and the chalice from the palace has the true that is brew... er... brew that is true."
Danny Kay


The King and I	"Etcetera etcetera."
Yul Brynner


Moby Dick	"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"
Gregory Peck


The Ten Commandments	"Let my people go!"
Charlton Heston

**1955**
Mr. Roberts	"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard."
Jack Lemon

**1954**
On the Waterfront	"I coulda been a contender."
Marlon Brando

**1953**
Shane	"A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it."
Alan Ladd

**1951**
An American in Paris	"That's, uh, quite a dress you almost have on."
Gene Kelly


The Day the Earth Stood Still	"Gort, Klaatu boradda nikto."
Patricia Neal

**1950**
All About Eve	"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Bette Davis


Sunset Boulevard	"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Gloria Swanson

**1949**
Beyond the Forest	"What a dump."
Bette Davis


White Heat	"Made it, ma! Top of the world!"
James Cagney

**1948**
Hamlet	"To be or not to be? That is the question."
Sir Laurence Olivier


Treasure of the Sierra Madre	"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."
Alfonso Bedoya

**1946**
It's a Wonderful Life	"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings."
Karolyn Grimes

**1944**
To Have and Have Not	"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? Just put your lips together and blow."
Lauren Bacall

**1942**
Casablanca	"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." . . . "Here's lookin' at you, kid." . . . "This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Humphrey Bogart


Now, Voyager	"Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
Bette Davis


Yankee Doodle Dandy	"My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you."
James Cagney

**1941**
Citizen Kane	"Rosebud."
Orson Wells

**1940**
Knute Rockne, All American	"Tell them to get out there and win just one for the Gipper."
Ronald Reagan

**1939**
Gone with the Wind	"As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again."
Vivien Leigh	"As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again."
Butterfly McQueen	"I don't know nothin' ' bout birthin' babies."
Clark Gable	"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."


The Wizard of Oz	"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" . . . "I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?"
Margaret Hamilton
Judy Garland	"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." . . . "Lions and tigers and bears? Oh my."
Billie Burke	"Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"

**1937**
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves	"Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"
Lucille LaVerne (Voice)

**1936**
Dracula's Daughter	"I do not drink... wine."
Gloria Holden

**1932**
Grand Hotel	"I want to be alone."
Gretta Garbo

**1931**
Dracula	"Children of the night. What music they make."
Bela Lugosi


Frankenstein	"It's alive, alive!"
Colin Clive

**1929**
The Return of Sherlock Holmes	"Elementary, my dear Watson."
Basil Rathbone

**1927**
The Jazz Singer	"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet."
Al Jolson

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(P.S. You will NOT be seeing the lines "Play it again, Sam," "Beam me up, Scotty," or "Ooh, you dirty rat." They don't exist.)

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1960-1989 * 1990-Present
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(See also: Famous Dialogs)


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