25 Movie Quotes about Common Sense (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

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

11 I'm no dummy. It's basic common sense and arithmetic.

Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown in New Jack City

12 Bennie, why did you put this orange juice in the refrigerator with just a swallow left in the container?

Della Reese as Vera Walker in Harlem Nights

13 That's enough of that malarkey.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

14 You better stop talkin' foolishness and give me an answer.

Esther Sutherland in Black Belt Jones (1974)

15 Don't be a fool! By the time you bait the hook, the fish'll be gone! Where's your common sense?

Martha Raye as Annabella Bonheur in Monsieur Verdoux

16 Step down off your high horse, mister. You don't get lard less'n you boil the hog.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

17 There's a law here against fencing land that seems nothing short of murder to people raising crops, but it's common sense to men running cattle.

Gary Cooper as Cole Harden in The Westerner (1940)

18 Here, on the battlefield of the Senate his weapons are common sense and hope.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

19 Didn't have much common sense. -It's highly overrated.

Dave Foley as Flik in A Bug's Life

20 There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta