38 Movie Quotes about Efficiency (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 12, 2025

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

11 Like I told you, there's a lot of new angles. Things move faster, 10 years faster. Everything's streamlined, you know what I mean? We get to the point quicker. Getting it?

Lionel Stander as Curly in The Last Gangster

12 Up next, a mother of 800 tells us how she does it all.

Katie Couric as Katie Current in Shark Tale

13 And why is the plant shut down? -It's the middle of the night. -Machines don't sleep. Start it up. Every second lost means money lost. And money lost means I scream a lot!

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

14 Busy, sonny. Busy. Can't stop to gossip now.

Stan Freberg as The Beaver in Lady and the Tramp

15 Why no guns? -We have every policeman on the area on us. We'll use bows and arrows. Silent and efficient.

Van Williams as The Green Hornet in The Green Hornet (1966)

16 You and your shortcuts.

Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in The Transformers (1984)

17 We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

18 This place is a well-oiled machine, my friend.

Dave Chappelle as Kevin in You've Got Mail

19 Suddenly it was all pretty clear. The answer was: Fewer clients. Less money. More attention.

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire

20 All right, ladies, let's cut the clocking and cackling. We've got to speed up production for Easter.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

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