29 Movie Quotes about Garbage (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 Sull, that's a cube of garbage.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

2 Ah. This looks good. Galvanized. Not one of those cheap, plastic places.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield on the Town

3 So where are we now? -In a garbage truck on the way to the dump!

Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear; Tim Allen as Rex; Wallace Shawn in Toy Story 3

4 I don't know. I just... I was just tired of living alone in the garbage.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

5 There's gonna be a lot of garbage today.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

6 Right. And I took your garbage for 30 years until I could steal that book so that my son could become the leader.

Jackie Chan as Dubbed By Unknown Actor in Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)

7 Hey, who said you could get out of the garbage? Get back in there!

Alan Oppenheimer as Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, Narrator in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

8 Oh, you want to hit people with garbage cans?

Eddie Murphy as Vernest "Quick" Brown in Harlem Nights

9 She took direction like a pig takes to garbage.

Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

10 Now shut up and eat your garbage.

Brian Dennehy as Django The Rat in Ratatouille