Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT One of the best parts of watching movies is picking out the best lines and quoting them relentlessly at the best and most inopportune moments. Films have procured thousands of recognizable lines, from "Life is like a box of chocolate" in Forrest Gump to "I am your father" in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
The American Film Institute conducted a poll to determine the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time and gave it to over 1,500 people in the industry, including film critics, historians, and a variety of artists. Of course, each line had to meet certain criteria levels — it had to have been from an American movie and a film that is considered historic and a cornerstone of popular culture.
Humphrey Bogart Has More Iconic Movie Quotes Than Any Other Actor On AFI's 2005 Poll Humphrey Bogart has more lines in the American Film Institute's top 100 movie quotes than any other actor, and it is not even close. Bogart has five entries, while the next closest performers, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Tom Hanks, have three each. The actor's dominance on the list does not come as too much of a surprise since he starred in one of the most quotable films of all time — Casablanca.
Bogart has four lines from Casablanca on the top 100 movie quotes list, including "Here's looking at you, kid," "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," "We'll always have Paris," and "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." Plus, the actor has one quote from The Maltese Falcon — "The stuff that dreams are made of.