17 Movie Quotes about Distraction (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 12, 2026

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

1 Could you back up a bit, Mr. Foot? You're out of focus.

Bill Farmer as Goofy in A Goofy Movie (1995)

2 My father's too distracted by his bald spot to do anything.

Quote from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

3 Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator (2000)

4 And keep your voices down. You're derailing my train of though.

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

5 Please do no knock, ring bell, or otherwise disturb the genius.

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

6 Whenever you come in here and interrupt, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me and it will then take me time to get back to where I was. Understand?

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980)

7 Well, you distracted me.

Quote from A Goofy Movie (1995)

8 But these girls are becoming a major distraction! They need to go.

Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario in Despicable Me

9 Jumpin' crawdaddies! How's a guy supposed to get any work done with all this playing going on?

Michael Gough as Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 Patrick. You call that a distraction?

Quote from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)