22 Movie Quotes about Canned Food (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 11, 2026

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

1 Hi, old buddy. Any luck? -Yeah. But it's all bad. -Well, keep trying, pal. -Likewise.

John Byner as The Ant And The Aardvark in The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

2 You couldn't open a can of dog food with a spell like that!

Joey Zimmerman as Dylan Piper in Halloweentown

3 The house wouldn't even be for sale, and if it was, we couldn't afford it if we had tuna casseroles for a year.

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

4 Well, the tank boys captured some vodka and some canned fish eggs, and I thought maybe if it's quiet around here this evening, we'd have a little celebration.

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

5 Before that I was thinking I could use me another six or eight cans of that potted meat, if you got any extra.

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade (1996)

6 I'm late because I had to go to the store and get peanut butter 'cause all we have is stinkin' tuna!

Chris Sanders as Stitch in Lilo & Stitch (2002)

7 Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

8 You think you got it made? No home, no family, no friends. Eating cold beans outta tin cans, sleepin' on your office couch five nights a week.

Jack Lemmon as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page (1974)

9 Darling, you didn't use canned salmon, did you?

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

10 It really hits the spot! I'm gonna take a couple of cases for my trip back. Sure beats the blah I've been eating.

Ken Berry as Frank Wilson in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

22 Movie Quotes about Canned Food (+ Sound Clips)

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