Oh snap! The 90’s have been over for almost two decades. But that doesn’t mean we don’t sit here and reminisce about back in the day when the music, and style, was grungy and the only thing we had to worry about was keeping our Tamogatchi alive. The times may have been simpler, but the movies were just as memorable as any other decade.
The most iconic movies of the 1990’s included everything from surviving the mob to surviving high school. Some of these popular movies made you laugh while others made you cry. But no matter what, we guarantee you’re going to feel very nostalgic reading over our list. So suit up in your favorite 90s movie costume and settle in for an evening of binging your favorite movies of the decade.
Some of the quotes featured in this infographic might just be something only 90s kids remember. Props to you if you recognize all of these iconic quotes said by 90s movie characters!
1990 Movies
“Keep the change, ya filthy animal.” – Kevin MCCallister from Home Alone (1990) played by Macaulay Culkin.
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” – Michael Corleone from The Godfather: Part III (1990) played by Al Pacino.
“But I’m funny how? I mean, funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?” – Tommy DeVito from GoodFellas (1990) played by Joe Pesci.
1991 Movies
“You said you and me was gonna get outta town and, for once, just really let our hair down. Well, darlin’, look out, ‘cause my hair is comin’ down!” – Thelma Dickerson from Thelma & Louse (1991) played by Geena Davis.
“Hasta la vista, baby.” — Terminator from Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1992 Movies
“You can’t handle the truth!” – Jessup from A Few Good Men (1992) played by Jack Nicholson.
“There’s no crying in baseball.” – Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own (1992) played by Tom Hanks.
“All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die.” Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) played by Kristy Swanson.
“I’m going to the little nun’s room, nosy!” – Deloris from Sister Act (1992) played by Whoopi Goldberg.
1993 Movies
“You’re killing me, Smalls.” – Ham Porter from The Sandlot (1993) played by Patrick Renna.
“All right, all right, all right.” — Wooderson from Dazed and Confused (1993) played by Matthew McConaughey.
“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” — Phil from Groundhog Day (1993) played by Bill Murray.
1994 Movies
“My momma always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump (1994) played by Tom Hanks.
“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.” – Andy Dufresne from The Shawshank Redemption (1994) played by Tim Robbins.
“I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take me out and do whatever I wanted. Now, I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.” – Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction (1994) played by Uma Thurman.
1995 Movies
“To infinity and beyond!” – Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story (1995) voiced by Tim Allen.
“Houston, we have a problem.” – Jim Lovell from Apollo 13 (1995) played by Tom Hanks.
“That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” – Farmer Hoggett from Babe (1995) played by James Cromwell.
“Oh. As if!” – Cher Horowitz from Clueless (1995) played by Alicia Silverstone.
“You know, you drive almost slow enough to drive Miss Daisy.” – Mike Lowery from Bad Boys (1995) played by Will Smith.
“As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t want to, but too much has happened and we can’t.” – Samantha Albertson from Now and Then (1995) played by Demi Moore.
1996 Movies
“You had me at hello.” – Dorothy Boyd from Jerry Maguire (1996) played by Renee Zellweger.
“Do you like scary movies?” – Ghostface from Scream (1996) voiced by Roger Jackson.
“There’s more to life than a little money, you know.” – Marge Gunderson from Fargo (1996) played by Frances McDormand.
1997 Movies
“I’m the king of the world!” – Jack Dawson from Titanic (1997) played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Oh, behave!” – Austin Powers from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) played my Michael Meyers.
“You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall from As Good As It Gets (1997) played by Jack Nicholson.
1998 Movies
You got the wrong guy. I’m the Dude, man.” – The Dude from The Big Lebowski (1998) played by Jeff Bridges.
1999 Movies
“I see dead people.” – Cole Sear from The Sixth Sense (1999) played by Haley Joel Osment.
“I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Anna Scott from Notting Hill (1999) played by Julia Roberts.
“The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.” – Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999) played by Brad Pitt.
“I’m no Josie Grossy anymore!” – Josie Geller from Never Been Kissed (1999) played by Drew Barrymore.
“I guess in this society, being a male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.” – Kat Stratford from 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) played by Julia Stiles.
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