17 Movie Quotes about Handcuffs (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

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

1 Oh, well, you're about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs. Didn't you ever tell a girl pretty things? You know, she's got hair like the west wind, eyes like limpid pools, skin like velvet?

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The Big Heat (1953)

2 Manacles? My idea of heaven is to be allowed to be put in manacles... just for a few hours.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian

3 But that guy is really tough. Until we break him, tying him is just no good. Even handcuffs wouldn't hold him.

Quote from Five Deadly Venoms

4 Those absolutely necessary? You know, I wasn't born with them. -No, a lot of men would have been safer if you had. -I don't know. Hands ain't everything.

Cary Grant as Capt. Cummings; Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

5 First, let's get to someone who can take these handcuffs off. -Say, you two are really attached to each other, aren't you?

Tommy Bond as Jimmy Olsen; Kirk Alyn as Clark Kent in Superman (1948)

6 You know what he wants. I mean, how would you like to be the dude that handcuffs a legend?

Burt Reynolds as Bandit in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

7 These aren't necessary, the handcuffs? -No, sir.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

8 The son of a _ handcuffed me to a dead man! A dead man!

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

9 No lineup, no testimony. So you can take your handcuffs and shove them up your _!

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

10 We're supposed to get handcuffs, flashlights, taser guns... -Two German shepherds.

Ice Cube as Craig Jones in Friday After Next (2002)

17 Movie Quotes about Handcuffs (+ Sound Clips)

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