16 Movie Quotes about Epilepsy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 2, 2025

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

1 At least ninety-eight people have been hospitalized with symptoms ranging from inexplicable fevers and rashes to violent seizures.

Robin Williams as Alan Parrish in Jumanji (1995)

2 The shaking of the bed. That's doubtless due to muscular spasms.

Quote from The Exorcist

3 What is that, a catch phrase or is that epilepsy?

Sacha Baron Cohen as Jean Girard in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

4 The symptoms are wavering gait, convulsions, weakness, sometimes blindness, and then death, always death. Always death, and very quickly.

Ernst Deutsch as Dr. Drossos in Isle of the Dead (1945)

5 You're shaking the house down. Stop it.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

6 It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations... and usually just before a convulsion. A convulsion?

Quote from The Exorcist

7 Look, I got on the bed. The whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor... and shaking, the whole thing, with me on it.

Quote from The Exorcist

8 Lesion. Lesion in the temporal lobe. It's a kind of seizure disorder.

Quote from The Exorcist

9 You were found at the construction site convulsing with a strange piece.

Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014)

10 We've got grand mal seizure activity, but he's postictal now.

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

16 Movie Quotes about Epilepsy (+ Sound Clips)

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