27 Movie Quotes about Architecture (+ Sound Clips)

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Memorable quotes about architecture, 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 We're just part of the architecture. Right? -Yet, if you chip us, will we not flake? If you moisten us, do we not grow moss?

Jason Alexander as Hugo the gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2 The tower. Grim monument to despair. Cold, cruel, forbidding.

Quote from The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

3 I suggest you have your architect investigated as well.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

4 A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction. The masterpiece of murder.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat (1934)

5 Talk about your slipshod construction. Try putting in a basement, and the whole place comes down.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 There. Quality construction. Meets all the modern standards. Should hold up against fallen skies.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 You know, you don't have a straight angle on that whole goddamn porch. Or the whole house, for that matter! He is the worst damn carpenter.

Quote from Unforgiven

8 Always dreamed of having a dream house, just like this one. Has a few holes in the roof. They'll let in the rain. Of course, they'll let the sun in, too.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 I shall do very little repairing. It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania.

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)

10 Oh! Those beautiful hills. -Mm-hmm. That's the work of the Supreme Architect. I'm afraid we can't compete with that.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux