21 Movie Quotes about Digging (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

11 They hand him a shovel, tell him where to dig. When he's dug deep enough, they tell him to put the shovel down, smoke a cigarette, and say his prayers. In another 5 minutes, he's being covered over with the earth he dug out.

Bruce Bennett as James Cody in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

12 Hard digging, might hit bedrock. Danger of cave-in. Risky.

Quote from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

13 You're digging a big, black pit and shoving all of us down into it.

Sterling Hayden as Sheriff Tod Shaw in Suddenly (1954)

14 We're in here digging and dying, he's out there living and flying.

George Kennedy as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke

15 Now, here's the proper tools for hole digging. I'll dig you the nicest hole this side of the Grand Canyon.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

16 Digging tunnels takes much longer than digging irritation streams. -All night, to be exact.

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

17 Why not try gold digging for a change? Well, it ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

18 We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. The least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

19 Well... you'd better take a look at me, too. Am I the kind of man who'd live in... a place like this? Hm? Digging my life away out in the fields? Me, a farmer, a peasant?

Quote from The Magnificent Seven (1960)

20 Then again, I always found mere observation in and of itself is a tad rudimentary. Sometimes, we gotta dig deeper to mine the true emotional pay dirt.

Quote from Tropic Thunder (2008)