This is a list of my 100 favorite film quotes of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of December 2025.
I followed a few self imposed rules here. The first is only one quote per film in order to have 100 films by the end. Second, the quote cannot be a character quoting something else, so for example Laura's speech at the end of Logan doesn't count since that's a quote from Shane. I will make exceptions however for adaptations or remakes. Finally, I will only be including quotes from a single character, not exchanges between characters. Along with that, I will try to limit to at most a few lines per…
This is a list of my 100 favorite film quotes of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of December 2025.
I followed a few self imposed rules here. The first is only one quote per film in order to have 100 films by the end. Second, the quote cannot be a character quoting something else, so for example Laura's speech at the end of Logan doesn't count since that's a quote from Shane. I will make exceptions however for adaptations or remakes. Finally, I will only be including quotes from a single character, not exchanges between characters. Along with that, I will try to limit to at most a few lines per quote.
This list was first made in December of 2023. For this revision of the list, a total of 17 quotes dropped out from the original. The highest ranking film to drop was from Interview with the Vampire from 22. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is The Fountain (10). 15 of the 17 films to join were first time watches since December 2024.
The newest film on this list is Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (25). The oldest film on this list is The Dying Swan (62).
12 films have kept their placement with the highest being Babylon (1) and the lowest being The Tragedy of Man (96). The film that moved down the most spots was Nimona (63) which moved down 37 spots. The film that moves up the most spots was The Night of the Iguana (75) which moved up 18 spots.
Every decade starting from the 1910's is represented on this list:
1910's: 1
1920's: 2
1930's: 4
1940's: 4
1950's: 10
1960's: 6
1970's: 6
1980's: 12
1990's: 12
2000's: 17
2010's: 14
2020's: 12
Along with this, 2000 and 2021 are the most represented years with 4 films each.
21 countries are represented on this list:
USA: 85
UK: 9
Japan: 8
France: 5
Italy: 3
China: 3
Sweden: 2
Hong Kong: 2
Taiwan: 2
Canada: 2
Hungary: 2
Belgium: 2
Australia: 1
Mexico: 1
Germany: 1
New Zealand: 1
Soviet Union: 1
Czechoslovakia: 1
Russia: 1
West Germany: 1
Luxembourg: 1
161 writers are represented on this list. The following are writers with multiple quotes on the list:
Christopher Nolan: 3 (The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Batman Begins)
Damien Chazelle: 2 (Babylon, La La Land)
Francis Coppola: 2 (Megalopolis, Apocalypse Now)
Ingmar Bergman: 2 (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander)
Jonathan Nolan: 2 (The Dark Knight, Interstellar)
Paul Schrader: 2 (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Taxi Driver)
Frances Goodrich: 2 (It's A Wonderful Life, The Diary of Anne Frank)
Albert Hackett: 2 (It's A Wonderful Life, The Diary of Anne Frank)
Billy Wilder: 2 (Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity)
David S. Goyer: 2 (Man of Steel, Batman Begins)
Akira Kurosawa: 2 (Ran, Ikiru)
Dean DeBlois: 2 (How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Lilo & Stitch)
Hideo Oguni: 2 (Ran, Ikiru)
94 performers delivered the quotes below. The following performers delivered multiple quotes:
Robin Williams: 2 (Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting)
Marlon Brando: 2 (On the Waterfront, Apocalypse Now)
Peter O'Toole: 2 (Man of La Mancha; Ratatouille)
Along with this, 3 of the quotes are from silent films.
22 of these scripts were nominated for Oscars and 3 won.
The average length of the list is 123.44 minutes with the longest film being Zack Snyder's Justice League (73) at 232 minutes and the shortest being The Dying Swan (62) at 49 minutes.
The average length of the quotes on this list is 25.6 words with the longest quote being from Shadow of the Vampire (19) with 65 words and the shortest being from The White Sister (30) with 4 words.
The average letterbox score of the list is 3.86 with the highest rated film being The Shawshank Redemption (46) with a 4.6 and the lowest rated film being Megalopolis (9) with a 2.3. I personally gave 23 of these films 5 stars, 69 of them 4.5 stars, 4 of them 4 stars, 2 of them 3.5 stars, 1 of them 3 stars, and 1 of them 2.5 stars.
