28 Movie Quotes about Bad Habits (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 Now lately, Yzma's gotten into this bad habit of trying to run the country behind my back, and I'm thinkin' that's got to stop.

Quote from The Emperor's New Groove

2 What you have to do is change your habits. -Yeah? Who you been talking to? -Mrs. Dugan. She's an expert. She had three husbands. They all died of alcohol. -She's no expert, she's a carrier.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

3 What can I say? Old habits die hard.

Quote from Megamind (2010)

4 Isn't it true that you have, perhaps unwillingly, acquired a certain harmful habit through association with certain undesirable people?

Quote from Reefer Madness (1936)

5 It's a bad habit. It's like drinking coffee. Believe me, if I could quit this thing, I would.

Michael Keaton as Johnny Dangerously in Johnny Dangerously

6 We just ran from a fight. That's a bad habit for a man to get into that makes his way with a gun.

Ben Johnson as Jesse in The Train Robbers

7 Well, here's to the drink habit. It's the only one I got that don't get me into trouble.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

8 Opium, that can get to be a habit. -Why, absolutely, an addiction.

John Wayne as J.B. Books; James Stewart as Dr. Hostetler in The Shootist

9 You'll never give up your old habits, James. -No, you're wrong. Those days are over.

Sean Connery as James Bond; Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again

10 Well, here's to all those nasty little habits that we hold so dear.

David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton in The Pink Panther (1963)