29 Movie Quotes about Bureaucracy with Audio

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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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 They're penetrating the bureaucracy!

Quote from The Incredibles

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

Quote from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

4 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

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 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

7 Well, I think it's bureaucratical _!

Quote from The Amityville Horror (1979)

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

Ken Sansom as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 Here, big brother, you got a letter. -The Environmental Protection Agency? -It's something about you biting a tree.

Cindi Reilly as Sally Brown in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown