68 Movie Quotes about Boredom (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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

31 Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

32 We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

33 I wonder what they do around here for excitement. - They probably sit around and watch the cars rust.

Burt Reynolds as Bandit; Jerry Reed as Cledus Snow "Snowman"; Cledus Snow in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

34 I could hear people getting bored with me, but I couldn't stop. It just kept coming up like word vomit.

Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron in Mean Girls (2004)

35 You think you have a nice relationship with someone based on professional courtesy and mutual boredom. The next thing you know, they're trying to take you out.

Quote from Super Troopers

36 You don't know what you're doing. You're bored out of your mind. You need a little adult supervision.

Laurie Metcalf as Marcie Dahlgren Frost in Uncle Buck (1989)

37 That's all there is. Farmer's wives don't die of boredom any more, they die of heart failure!

Fred MacMurray as John Sargent in Remember the Night (1940)

38 Oh, I wish something would happen. Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here.

Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

39 And he worries you. -Yeah, he certainly does, particularly when he complains about being bored, and needing excitement.

Lauren Bacall as Bond Rogers in The Shootist

40 You know what I think it was? I think he went crazy, bored beyond human endurance, messing around in this sand and these rocks.

Quote from The Mummy (1932)