23 Movie Quotes about Acoustics (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

Memorable quotes about acoustics, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Yeah, I want speakers that you can hug with your arms and your legs and just feel the beat.

Will Ferrell as Lord Business in The Lego Movie (2014)

2 Every room has its sympathetic vibration, a note that will shatter glass like the great Caruso did with his voice. The note for this room should be F-sharp above high C.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

3 Yooo-oh! Bad echo.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

4 In fact, I'm going to whisper, so that by the time my voice reverberates off the walls, and gets back to me, I won't be able to hear it!

Jim Carrey as The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

5 My throat's sore. I've had a sore throat for a month and a half. And this is not an acoustic environment that's suitable to request this from me.

Will Ferrell as Brennan Huff in Step Brothers (2008)

6 Bad vibrations?

Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent Superman in Superman (1978)

7 Sound! Any sound is important.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

8 I never heard of anything that'd stop the frequencies I'm using. -Well, you're hearing about it now.

Gerald Mohr as Thomas O’Bannion in The Angry Red Planet

9 I'll speak to them through this trick microphone that disguises our voices.

Cesar Romero as The Joker in Batman (1966)

10 I was told after my crash that I would never speak again. The doctors were, of course, wrong. For as you see and can hear, I have used my knowledge of music and acoustics to re-create my voice.

Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes