44 Movie Quotes about Beginnings (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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

1 And that was just the beginning.

Quote from Inside Out

2 And here we go!

Jim Jordan as Orville The Albatross in The Rescuers (1977)

3 And for the first time since I don't remember when, I felt just like my old bony self again.

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

4 Why is it so dark? -In the beginning, it is always dark.

Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress; Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

5 Look. It has begun.

Christopher Lambert as Raiden in Mortal Kombat (1995)

6 Can you feel it? You guys, do you feel this? Our origin story begins. We're gonna be superheroes!

T.J. Miller as Fred in Big Hero 6

7 Big things have small beginnings, sir.

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

8 You know the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning...

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

9 But after all, I never met a girl before. Was the first time.

Quote from Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)

10 Is this the end? -Of course not. It's only the beginning.

Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson; John Travolta as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978)