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

Joey Zimmerman as Dylan Piper in Halloweentown

2 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)

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 Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.

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

7 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)

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

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

9 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)

10 Now, all I got to do is find something to open this can and it's lunch time.

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