23 Movie Quotes about Acoustics (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 Ooh, an echo. Echo.

Will Smith as Oscar in Shark Tale

12 What? Sound! My secret radio detector. Somebody has planted an electronic bug in this room.

Burgess Meredith as The Penguin in Batman (1966)

13 Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

14 I believe Phantom Skill uses sound waves to control heartbeats to counter attack. Our only chance is to use another sound to contain it.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

15 Worms attack all rhythmic vibrations.

Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides Muad'Dib in Dune (1984)

16 I don't understand it. All the frequencies are dead.

Max Von Sydow as Emperor Ming The Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980)

17 Then increases the audio modulation to about 20,000 decibels knowing full well, it will split the tiger's skull.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

18 Ouch. Sorry about that, folks. I guess we picked up a police frequency or something. It sometimes happens, and it can drive you crazy.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

19 Intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out.

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

20 The frequency of a bat's shriek is somewhere around 20,000 cycles a second.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar