35 Movie Quotes about Cleaning (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 4, 2026

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

1 Don't they ever dust this place? Boy! A guy could make a fortune out here selling... vacuum cleaners.

Dom DeLuise as Tiger in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

2 You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized...

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

3 Look! The floor, it's been swept!

Adriana Caselotti as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

4 But there'll be no cleaning up. In fact, you're going to help me make it more dirty!

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate, a diode blew in one of the life-support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for 30000 years.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6 Michael, you'll find that if you add some pine-scented detergent to your scrub water, you'll give your bathrooms that fresh outdoor aroma.

Ernest Borgnine as Dominic Santini in Airwolf (1984)

7 Cleaning your room isn't much fun. Why can't it just be dum-dee-dum done?

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 I'll save some time and sweep this dirt under the rug.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 Maid service, sir. Would you like your bed turned down? Mint? Perhaps I could dust your head.

Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie in Cool Runnings

10 So, sweep that dust from the floor. Let's let some light in the room.

Paige O'Hara as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1991)