28 Movie Quotes about Bureaucracy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 5, 2025

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

1 I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained, etcetera, etcetera...

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

2 That's impossible. How will the emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

3 Well, I think it's bureaucratical _!

James Brolin as George Lutz in The Amityville Horror (1979)

4 Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5 To you, I'm just a name on a form that you have to fill out.

Charles Bronson as Albert Johnson in Death Hunt

6 I will need two pieces of identification. -Ah, yes. I have my temporary driver's license. and my Astronaut Application form.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

7 This meeting is to decide what to do about we-know-who.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 Lieutenant! Why weren't the original indictment papers placed on my portfolio? -Why, I didn't think those papers were important at this time, Your Excellency. -You didn't think they were important? You realize I had my dessert wrapped in those papers?

Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933)

9 They're penetrating the bureaucracy!

Craig T. Nelson as Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles

10 No! Sorry, no, you see, it's classified in the DMZ. Gotta go ASAP. You know, strictly BYOB. Bye!

Dave Foley as Flik in A Bug's Life

28 Movie Quotes about Bureaucracy (+ Sound Clips)

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