The greatest film quotes shortlist

01 October 2014 - 02:13 By © The Daily Telegraph
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Sean Connery started off the longest-running film franchise, playing James Bond in 'Dr No'
Sean Connery started off the longest-running film franchise, playing James Bond in 'Dr No'

''All those moments will be lost in time ... like tears in rain.'' - Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (1982)

"Bond. James Bond.'' - Sean Connery in Dr No (1962)

"A boy's best friend is his mother." - Norman Bates/Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)

"ET phone home." - Gertie/Drew Barrymore in ET the Extra-terrestrial (1982)

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler/Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind (1939)

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Andy Dufresne/Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

"Go ahead, make my day." - Harry Callaghan/Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact (1983)

"Here's looking at you, kid." - Rick Blaine/Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

"He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" - The mother of Brian, a ratbag/Terry Jones in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

"I am Spartacus." - The crowd in Spartacus (1960)

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." - Hannibal Lecter/Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody." - Terry Molloy/Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)

"I see dead people." - Cole Sear/Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)

"I want to be alone." - Grusinskaya/Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932)

"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." - Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

"I wish I knew how to quit you." - Jack Twist/Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2005)

"If you build it, he will come." - Shoeless Joe Jackson/Ray Liotta in Field of Dreams (1989)

"I'll be back." - Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

"I'll have what she's having." - Customer/Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally (1989)

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - Don Corleone/Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love - and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." - Harry Lime/Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)

"Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get." - Mrs Gump/Sally Field in Forrest Gump (1994)

"May the Force be with you." - Han Solo/Harrison Ford in Star Wars (1977)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." - Johnny Castle/Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing (1987)

"Say hello to my little friend." - Tony Montana/Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." - Dorothy/Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and . blow." - Slim/Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944)

"You talkin' to me?" - Travis Bickle/Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

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