34 Movie Quotes about Efficiency (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

21 Cut the small talk. Check my pulse.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

22 You folks are still operating on the bulk system as opposed to content. I'll just reduce it to the size I need and still retain all its properties.

Quote from The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

23 The secret to not being late is taking short cuts. And to do that, you find the straight line which is the shortest distance between two points.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

24 Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. -Why should we have a standing army? -Because then we save money on chairs!

Quote from Duck Soup (1933)

25 What a mess. What a medieval muddle. We'll have to modernize it. Start an assembly line system.

Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

26 More speed. -Negative. We are already running 110 percent. -Then get me 115 percent.

Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

27 We can't afford any distractions!

Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario in Despicable Me

28 Of course! That would simplify everything.

Quote from Young Frankenstein (1974)

29 You can tolerate a little compromise if you're actually managing to get something accomplished.

Bill Pullman as Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

30 Time. Time's of the essence. We have a tight schedule.

Frank Gorshin as The Riddler in Batman (1966)