32 Movie Quotes about Architecture (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

11 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)

12 Not me. I'd want my house so that nothing could ever move it. So down deep that an earthquake couldn't shake it, and a cyclone would be just another wind going by.

Gary Cooper as Cole Harden in The Westerner (1940)

13 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

14 Nice house. I'd say that's a nice house in general, wouldn't you? Look at these bricks, Adrian.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

15 Hey, man. Nice pile of bricks you got here.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

16 Did that swine architect of yours move that door by any chance?

Roger Moore as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Curse of the Pink Panther

17 Well, I suppose we've got to have architects, too. If I wanted to build a nice, cozy, unpretentious insane asylum, he'd be the man for it.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

18 Go upstairs and count the rooms. I think the third floor is missing.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

19 Hmm... it is humble, isn't it? Like early primitive. -I wish 'twere a palace. Split-level even. -So do I.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

20 Just finished it this morning. Built to last the ages. Using all the finest timbers. Be glad for you to call it home, too.

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