67 Movie Quotes about Greed (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

1 Something's happening. I'm not the Jedi I should be. I want more. And I know I shouldn't.

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

2 No, you're a greedy, selfish villain, and nobody likes to be friends with a greedy, selfish villain.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

3 We are cursed men. Compelled by greed we were, but now... we are consumed by it.

Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

4 Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

Frank Oz as Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

5 Silver and gold, silver and gold. Everyone wishes silver and gold.

Burl Ives as Sam The Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

6 We want to be rich and selfish, too.

Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse in Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

7 Greedy _. Take the _in' money.

Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino (1995)

8 Move the money from your client's pocket into your pocket.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

9 Greed is an overpowering emotion. It sometimes dims all the senses even that of self-preservation. I suppose in the end that's what trips up all criminals.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

10 Which brings us, once again, to the urgent realization of just how much there is still left to own.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life