24 Movie Quotes about Adaptation with Audio – Page 2

Updated: Oct 26, 2026

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11 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)

12 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)

13 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

14 There is no shelter. -Dig a burrow as the fox and rabbits do.

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death

15 Our maid took a night out three years ago, we haven't seen her since. But everything's all right because I took a course in domestic science. Even bought a cook book.

Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

16 I wanna do something, see something. And I've been in jungles and around savages so long I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

17 Another ex-serviceman, huh? Greetings, brother. Have you had any trouble getting readjusted? -Not in particular. It's easy if you just take everything in your stride. -That's what I've heard.

Dana Andrews as Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

18 I learned the way of the West, so I've become a little of both. A paradox. And it is hard to reconcile the extremes.

Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala in The Pink Panther (1963)

19 I guess you and I have been more or less used to a life of pink champagne. Maybe it'll be a little difficult to... -Mmm.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

20 Her life is over. -My life is over. -She just needs to get used to the idea.

Penny Singleton as Jane Jetson; Tiffany Darwish as Judy Jetson in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)