101 Movie Quotes about Breathing (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

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

31 Curse you for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot!

Keira Knightley as Mr. Gibbs in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

32 Once you have mastered how to breathe, you'll find your power increases.

Lo Jui as Sun Yu Ting in Shaolin vs. Lama (1983)

33 However though, there must always remain the breath gate - one unprotected point.

Quote from The Invincible Armour

34 If you look in the mirror and say his name five times, he'll appear behind you breathing down your neck.

Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle in Candyman (1992)

35 If you save your breath, I feel a man like you could manage it. And if you won't manage it, you'll die, only slowly... very slowly, old friend.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

36 If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.

Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942)

37 Don't talk. Try and use as little oxygen as possible.

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

38 You even exhale, and I will saw your head off.

Fairuza Balk as Vicki Vallencourt in The Waterboy (1998)

39 Now you listen to me, boy. You breathe too deep, you blink once too often, I'm gonna make you look like an ad for Swiss cheese! Okay?

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

40 Maybe I should just hold my breath.

Kevin Bacon as Jack Swigert in Apollo 13