47 Movie Quotes about Electricity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 4, 2026

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

1 Doesn't it give you kind of a shudder of electricity through you to be in the same room with me?

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

2 It's like tryin' to drive a toaster through a car wash.

Kevin Bacon as Jack Swigert in Apollo 13

3 Why, if I taped terminals to your head, General, your brain could run an electric train.

Ken Berry as Frank Wilson in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

4 If I can just reverse the polarity - send out waves of super-energy.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

5 Hold it! Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! A fuse is out.

Darren McGavin as Mr. Parker in A Christmas Story (1983)

6 It's electrical. You can smell the charge.

JoBeth Williams as Diane in Poltergeist (1982)

7 Perfect. The electrical output is at its peak. Exactly where I want it.

Frank Welker as Megatron in The Transformers (1984)

8 No, we're in the right place. Those electronic signals are stronger than ever.

Hound From The Transformers in The Transformers (1984)

9 I've been crying so much. And the tears and everything, man. I leaned down towards the microphone, I almost shorted myself out.

Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti

10 The brain itself is an electrical machine. It's nothing but a machine. When it malfunctions, a blow to the head, for example, then the brain produces useless excess currents. These excess currents are our dreams and delusions.

Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz