| 100% | AHAB | 4 | Captain who said, "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" |
| 100% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional captain who said "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" |
| 90% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional character who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" |
| 84% | AHAB | 4 | Character who said, “I’d strike the sun if it insulted me” |
| 75% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character who cries "Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me" |
| 46% | ILSA | 4 | Film character who says "Kiss me as if it were the last time" |
| 46% | ILSA | 4 | Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film |
| 46% | ILSA | 4 | Classic movie character who says "Kiss me as if it were the last time" |
| 40% | MRED | 4 | TV character who said "Time to hit the hay ... oh, I forgot, I ate it!" |
| 39% | MAEWEST | 7 | Who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure" |
| 38% | WEST | 4 | Mae who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure” |
| 38% | PRYOR | 5 | Comic who said "I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells" |
| 38% | NEILARMSTRONG | 13 | Who said "I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth" |
| 36% | SHARONSTONE | 11 | "Mosaic" star who said "I've been in this business for 40 years ... I've seen it all" when asked if she'd experienced sexual harassment: 2 wds. |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who says, "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing" |
| 35% | AHAB | 4 | Captain who says, “Sleep? ... I do not sleep, I die” |
| 35% | BERRA | 5 | Sports great who said "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be" |
| 35% | EDNA | 4 | ___ Mode, character from "The Incredibles" who says the line "I never look back, darling. It distracts me from the now" |
| 35% | EDNAMODE | 8 | Pixar character who says, "I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." |
| 34% | ROMEO | 5 | Shakespeare character who says "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" |
| 34% | BACH | 4 | Who said "I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music" |
| 33% | KANE | 4 | Film title character who says, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough" |
| 33% | EYRE | 4 | Heroine who says "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me" |
| 33% | JACOBMARLEY | 11 | *Ghost who says: "I wear the chain I forged in life" |
| 33% | ABANDON | 7 | The captain might yell "__ ship!" if it's sinking |
| 33% | ALGORE | 6 | Who said "Take it from me, every vote counts" |
| 33% | HANSOLO | 7 | Fictional pilot who said, "Never tell me the odds" |
| 33% | MISTERSCOTT | 11 | Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!" |
| 33% | MORRISON | 8 | Nobel laureate who said "If I tried to write a universal novel it would be water" |
| 33% | COLBERT | 7 | Who said "I can't prove it, but I can say it" |