23 Movie Quotes about Desperation (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 21, 2025

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

11 Desperate times call for desperate measures, my lord.

Jafar The Sorcerer in Aladdin (1992)

12 Bunny boy, you got to get us out of here. You're our only hopelessness.

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

13 Desperation is a stinky cologne, John.

Daniel Von Bargen as Chief Bruce Grady in Super Troopers

14 There are a lot of desperate women out there lookin' for love. -Especially over a certain age.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

15 Lost. One light blue blanket in the shape of a kite. Please return. -Anything else? -Owner, desperate.

Earl Reilly as Linus Van Pelt in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

16 Wait. I'll do anything! I'll change your diapers!

Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 3

17 Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. I really need a job. And I will take any position, as long as it doesn't involve having sex with old ladies for money or bear traps.

Will Ferrell as Brennan Huff in Step Brothers (2008)

18 But now things have changed. We are many. All of us desperate men, trying to get back what's been taken from us.

Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

19 People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

20 And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, grim desperation took a hold in his sex-crazed mind.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

23 Movie Quotes about Desperation (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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