14 Movie Quotes about Carnival (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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

1 You're not carnival personnel!

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

2 Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

3 So, I had fun tonight. Even though you took me to the carnival that I was already at.

David Spade as Joe Dirt in Joe Dirt (2001)

4 Step right up and get your tickets... the big side show before you go into the big top.

Edward Brophy as Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo (1941)

5 Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent, which in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merrymaking. Then come the fasting and the penance.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

6 Well, I have the funniest feeling that this is it. -It? -I mean, that for me, too, it's Carnival, Maria.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

7 There's a carnival-like atmosphere here tonight.

Paul Newman as Reggie "Reg" Dunlop in Slap Shot (1977)

8 How about you just add some chimps, okay? We can have a carnival.

Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys (1995)

9 What am I, a guy at a carnival?

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

10 You've never been to a carnival neither, have you? -No.

Kevin Costner as Robert Butch Haynes in A Perfect World