11 Movie Quotes about Excess (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: April 4, 2025

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

1 You can either wear that or feed a small country. That's so nice. So decadent.

Robin Williams as Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire in Mrs. Doubtfire

2 So you think they have enough? Well, they don't. For humans, enough is never enough!

Bruce Willis as Rj in Over the Hedge

3 Nothing exceeds like excess.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock in Scarface (1983)

4 A woman with six martinis can ruin a city.

Quote from The Big Knife (1955)

5 In the days of our greatest civilization, we drank to excess. In fact, one of my ancestors, a very famous poet, was drowned in an attempt to catch the moon in the Yellow River.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

6 You know how those millionaire playboys are.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

7 How about you? You drink, don't you? Alcohol, I mean. -Oh, a little. -A little? And you a writer? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8 What do the good know, except what the bad teach them by their excesses?

Tony Todd as Candyman in Candyman (1992)

9 I want more wine. Give me more.

Polyphemus in Ulysses (1954)

10 All told, the weekend cost me 2 million bucks, including the cost of refurbishing the entire 28th floor.

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street