Burgess Meredith Movie Quotes & Lines – 75 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Find and rate the best quotes by Burgess Meredith, selected from famous or less known movies, as rated by our community, featuring short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Oh, the moon! That might explain things. You see, the moon affects the brain.

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

2 Everyone goes around muttering: Call no man happy who is not dead!

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

3 Now wait one moment. I said there was no way known to man. There might be a way known to woman.

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

4 I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

5 One time, this son of a _ that I fought, he put a nail right there. The thumb, yeah. In the glove. And he punched so many holes in my face I had the spit shootin' out of my cheeks. Can you imagine that?

As Mickey Goldmill in Rocky (1976)

6 Listen, kid. You! You lay off that pet shop dame. Women weaken legs.

As Mickey Goldmill in Rocky (1976)

7 How irritating. Here I am due to be released tomorrow, and I still haven't worked out one single crime worthy of my talents.

As The Penguin in Batman (1966)

8 Why, you, birdbrain. How dare you mock me on the eve of my greatest triumph?

As The Penguin in Batman (1966)

9 I was right to say, By the gods! Who else could make a sword that slices through solid marble without leaving the slightest blemish on the blade?

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

10 She transformed her into an apparition so horrible that one look from her will turn any living creature into stone.

As Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

Burgess Meredith Movie Quotes & Lines – 75 Classics (+ Audio)

1 Oh, the moon! That might explain things. You see, the moon affects the brain.

2 Everyone goes around muttering: Call no man happy who is not dead!

3 Now wait one moment. I said there was no way known to man. There might be a way known to woman.

4 I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.

5 One time, this son of a _ that I fought, he put a nail right there. The thumb, yeah. In the glove. And he punched so many holes in my face I had the spit shootin' out of my cheeks. Can you imagine that?

6 Listen, kid. You! You lay off that pet shop dame. Women weaken legs.

7 How irritating. Here I am due to be released tomorrow, and I still haven't worked out one single crime worthy of my talents.

8 Why, you, birdbrain. How dare you mock me on the eve of my greatest triumph?

9 I was right to say, By the gods! Who else could make a sword that slices through solid marble without leaving the slightest blemish on the blade?

10 She transformed her into an apparition so horrible that one look from her will turn any living creature into stone.

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