15 Movie Quotes about Bad Dreams (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 13, 2026

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

1 There, there, lie quiet now. You just had a bad dream. Sure.

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

2 It certainly is a very small bed, for such a very frightening dream.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 It was a dream. -Bad? -Like the ones I used to have about my mother. Just before she died. -And? -And, it was about you.

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

4 It was only a dream. -I won't let this one become real.

Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala; Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

5 You've never had bad dreams before? -Sure, as a kid, but never so real. Never so weird.

David Naughton as David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London

6 What are those? -Oh. When we're ready, we'll just put them over your ears and pretty soon they'll draw all those unpleasant dreams out of your head.

Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz

7 Ah, such dreams I had. Such strange and troubled drunken dreams.

Fredric March as Philip Ii Of Macedon in Alexander the Great (1956)

8 I dreamed of death. And when I awoke, I didn't know whose death it was.

Fredric March as Philip Ii Of Macedon in Alexander the Great (1956)

9 What's keeping you awake? -Dreams. Bad dreams. -Yeah, I get 'em sometimes, too.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan; Joan Crawford as Vienna in Johnny Guitar (1954)

10 I guess I knew it would happen... In the night, in my sleep... dreams like knives. Always, you were bad. Always, you were running away.

Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton in Knock on Any Door (1949)