18 Movie Quotes about Adaptation (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

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

1 What they forget is every time they build a better mousetrap, the mice get smarter, too.

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

2 Everything we gonna do is changing. We are change. We're gonna change the way we run. We're gonna change the way we eat. We're gonna change the way we block. We're gonna change the way we tackle. We're gonna change the way we win.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

3 I mean, just in the last few days, things have changed. The conditions have changed.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

4 Sorry about the smell, but you get used to it after a couple hundred years.

Rip Taylor as Genie in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

5 Flap, flap, flap. The same old flap. We go north in the spring, we go south in the fall. Year after year, it's the same old thing.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

6 By studying these and other species, we add to our knowledge of how life evolved, how it adapted itself to this world. With that knowledge, perhaps we can teach men to adapt themselves to some new world of the future.

Richard Carlson as Dr. David Reed in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

7 The kamongo was a fish that breathed air. -What does that prove? -Nothing. Except that the kamongo fish, which has lungs, exists today, right here in the Amazon. It hasn't changed in all these millions of years.

Quote from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

8 How he has survived throughout the ages is one of nature's big mysteries.

Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

9 Tell me, you come from Judea? -Yes, sir. -I hear that the climate is difficult to live in. -Not for Judeans.

Quote from Ben-Hur (1959)

10 Why do you want to invade the earth? -Because the atmosphere on the moon has become so thin and dry it is impossible for us to raise food except in pressurized greenhouses.

Roy Barcroft as Retik Ruler of the Moon in Radar Men from the Moon (1952)