Greatest Film Lines
and Movie Quotes
of All Time

Index of Contents

• Great Film Quotes From Great Films (Introduction): Here is a quick sample of how to discover the 'hidden' title that identifies the film sources from which the many quotes were taken. Test your knowledge of hundreds of Greatest Film Quotes, memorable lines of dialogue, curtain-call lines, and catch phrases that have frequently been heard. How many classic film quotes do you actually know?
  Other Great Film Quotes parts: Part 1 (with some files for listening) | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
  
  
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: The American Film Institute's (AFI) eighth polling, 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, determined in June of 2005, highlighted "America's Greatest Quotes in the Movies" - 100 of the Greatest Movie Quotes. A list is also included of the 400 Nominated Movie Quotes from films submitted to a jury of 1,500 leaders from the film community, including filmmakers, actors, historians, scholars, journalists and industry types.
  
  
• Top 50 and Most Popular Movie Lines: This collection (in two parts) includes 50 Great Movie Quotes of the Last Half Century, and the Most Popular Movie Quotes Submitted by Readers of Entertainment Weekly.
  With some files for listening.
  
  
• Top 10 Movie Quotes or Movie Lines:
  
  
  • Top 10 Most Famous Movie Quotes: These are the ten most recognizable film quotes according to a 1998 survey of a group of "10 film critics and experts" who were asked by Guinness to draw up a list of the "ten most famous movie quotes ever."
    With some files for listening.
  • Top 10 Best Movie Lines Ever: These are the top 10 best movie lines ever - the ranked winners in a survey taken by Odeon Cinemas in the UK.
    With some files for listening.
    
    
• Top 10 Worst or "Cheesiest" Film Lines in Film History: These are the top 10 worst lines, according to a polling of 2,000 movie-goers in the UK in late 2004. The survey was commissioned by Warburtons, a UK bakery company, to mark the launch of its new snack food, Cheese Flavour Crumpets.
  
  
• Best Film Speeches and Monologues: Greatest Films has provided expanded selections for Best Film Speeches and Monologues (in multiple parts, and illustrated) to contrast with the dubious polling results recently publicized for the Top 20 Best Film Speeches in a late 2003 polling taken with customers of the video store chain Blockbuster Video (in the UK), to determine the best film speeches and monologues throughout cinematic history.
  
  
• Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes: A beginning collection of many of the best-known opening lines, fade-ins, and first words of dialogue heard throughout cinematic history. These are the initial opening words of films often heard even before the title credits.
  
  
• Greatest Last Words and Closing Film Lines: A collection (in five parts) of many of the best-known curtain call lines and final words of dialogue in cinematic history. These are the last lingering words heard before the title "The End."
  
  
• Great Brief Film Quotes: A great collection of brief, concise, succinct, and short retorts, remarks, insults, one-liners and film quotes (usually four to five words maximum), some from the greatest films of all time. All are memorable, quick-to-read, and easily quotable.
  
  
• Greatest Film Misquotes: (in two parts) Here are some of the most classic movie quotes that are really only legendary, misquoted, and/or apocryphal.
  With some audio film clips available to prove the point.
  
  
• Great Film Tag Lines: An extensive compilation, in multiple parts, of the catchy, enticing short phrases, called taglines (or tag lines) used by marketers and film studios to advertise and sell a movie, and to sum up the plot, tone or themes of a film. These 'sound-bite' epigrams are often placed on either film posters (above or below the film's title) or on the merchandise itself (DVD or video cassette box, etc.), to reinforce what the film is all about.