18 Movie Quotes about CIA (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about CIA, selected from famous or less known movies, featuring short audio clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils? Huh?

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch in Predator (1987)

2 Apart from those present in this room, the information resides only with the CIA and British Intelligence. -Wonderful. That means by now it's all over the Kremlin.

Quote from Never Say Never Again

3 Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments, set up friendly dictators. -No, that's the CIA.

Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)

4 And the gun goes off. The game is over. -Call the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Pentagon. Find out who won the game!

Quote from The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

5 Central Intelligence Agency... Now, there's a contradiction in terms.

Scott Glenn as Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October

6 CIA? -I'm not an agent. I just write books for the CIA.

Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October

7 I thought you were gonna say you worked for the CIA.

Quote from Vacation (1983)

8 All right, who are you? CIA, FBI, ATF?

Demi Moore as Dallas Grimes in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

9 Now, what are you saying? The CIA caused the Managua earthquake? -Well, I can't prove it, but...

Quote from Sneakers (1992)

10 So why'd you quit the CIA? -I never worked for the CIA. -Of course you didn't. But if you had worked for the CIA, why would you quit? -Because they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches. -And you're not. -And I'm not. -Glad to hear it.

Laura Linney as Karen Ross; Ernie Hudson as Captain Monroe Kelly in Congo (1995)