42 Movie Quotes about Disability (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

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

21 A deaf-mute can't scream.

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin in The Tingler (1959)

22 Or his elbows could be in splints, so he couldn't really dial. -Or he could be unconscious. -In a coma. -Stuck in intensive care. -With a heart monitor beeping. -And like... No phone

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

23 Gimp. I got it. Handles are dangerous things. Only once you start walking, you won't be called the Gimp any longer.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

24 You know, I've been reading up on the activities that they got for people in wheelchairs and such. They got Olympics.

Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans

25 How'd they get you nervous? -Well, they keep staring at these hooks or else they keep staring away from them. -You mean whatever they do is wrong.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson; Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

26 Take Pop for instance. He was cleaning his pipe like I've seen him do a million times. And all of a sudden he got conscious that he had hands and I didn't and he stopped cleaning his pipe and he tried to hide his hands like he was guilty or something.

Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

27 I'm lucky, I have my elbows. Some of the boys don't.

Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

28 Don't worry. It doesn't have to be a miracle. If you can paint, I can walk.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

29 I'm sorry, Officer. Could you speak in sign language... or a little slower. I haven't gotten lipreading down yet. -You mean you can't hear?

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)

30 He's not gonna get much out of this concert, because he's stone-deaf!

Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element

42 Movie Quotes about Disability (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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