74 Movie Quotes about Colors (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: May 24, 2026

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

41 Why can't we pick our own colors? -No way. No way. Tried it once, it doesn't work. You get four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black. And they don't know each other so nobody wants to back down.

Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

42 Sometimes I wonder what the colors mean, why the sea is g-green like your eyes.

Martin Short as Hubie The Penguin in The Pebble and the Penguin

43 Purple is so gloomy.

Quote from Darkwing Duck (1991)

44 What do you think? I'm kind of partial to purple and gold, myself. It goes better with my coloring.

Dee Bradley Baker as Daffy Duck in Space Jam

45 This whole drug _, it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death doesn't give a _ about color.

Judd Nelson as Nick Peretti in New Jack City

46 Your car. What color is it? -Black. -Get out of here. Get away from me with that!

Margo as Gabriella "Clo-Clo" in The Leopard Man (1943)

47 I love colors. Working with them is an endless puzzle.

Gina Lollobrigida as Maria Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

48 I never saw anybody with an orange face before.

Quote from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

49 Well, you know how it is at sunset. You can look out and that water ain't exactly blue, and it ain't exactly purple. It's a kind of color a man can feel, but he can't put a name to. Well, that's Lily's eyes.

Gary Cooper as Cole Harden in The Westerner (1940)

50 Look at the color of that sky. -Yeah, but I'll still take blue.

Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J. Adams in Forbidden Planet (1956)