12 Gaslighting Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 23, 2026

A selection of gaslighting quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Mother knows best. Take it from your mumsey. On your own, you won't survive.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

2 The outside world is a dangerous place, filled with horrible, selfish people. You must stay here, where you're safe.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

3 Now, you haven't told us one thing that can't be written off as simple hysteria.

James Brolin as George Lutz in The Amityville Horror (1979)

4 Even psychotherapists lose touch with reality sometimes. Your education doesn't give you any immunity.

Murray Hamilton as Father Ryan in The Amityville Horror (1979)

5 What you're experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes, but you're inventing it yourself as you go along.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid in Total Recall (1990)

6 And never forget... Anybody can control a woman's body, see, but the key is to control her mind.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

7 And we have to do this very delicately otherwise people might get the wrong idea. -We have to lie. -Did I say that? -No, you didn't.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

8 At this moment, I could go before a board and have you put away for observation. You're that close to real insanity.

Tom Conway as Dr. Louis Judd in Cat People (1942)

9 What? No, no, I didn't say that. -Yes, you did. I heard you. -No, no, no. I didn't say that. No, no, no, no. Get out of my face. Get out of my face. I didn't say nothing like that.

Jim Belushi as Rocko The Rockhopper in The Pebble and the Penguin

10 This is so nuts. I mean, listen Listen to what you're saying. It's paranoid delusion.

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986)