11 Movie Quotes about Fortune (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

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

1 What's more important, a fortune or your life? -Well... -Hey, it's not exactly a trick question.

Rip Taylor as Genie in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

2 Sometimes the gods bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.

Eric Bana as Hector Of Troy in Troy

3 Yow! We struck a bone well! You're a millionaire, a billionaire, a trillionaire, a gillionaire, a grillionaire, a dog that's rolling in bone!

Jim Backus in Mickey Mouse

4 Boy! Fortune is smackin' us on the head with a champagne bottle.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

5 How lucky can I get?

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 Haven't you heard of a Chinese proverb? Good fortune after a near-death disaster.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

7 Son of a _, we struck the mother lode!

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

8 Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Harold Lloyd as Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

9 Thank you, thank you. But my only real interest is in fighting. I don't care about fame, honor or fortune.

Quote from King Boxer: Fingers of Death

10 I don't understand why people struggle for fame and for fortune, and for these things even kill people.

Quote from Strife for Mastery (1978)