22 Movie Quotes about Hesitation (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 4, 2025

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

1 Only... Why did he hesitate? -If he'd not been the kind of man who hesitates when faced with such a great responsibility, I would not have chosen him.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

2 When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

3 Do what must be done, Lord Vader. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy.

Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

4 Next time you have a chance to kill someone, don't hesitate.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard (1988)

5 And I will not hesitate to lay the hammer down on any clown that comes around.

Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite in Black Dynamite

6 I'd strike while the iron is hot if I were you. He who hesitates, masturbates. Go.

Jim Carrey as Cable Guy in The Cable Guy (1996)

7 I saw you with those guys. You're a pit bull. You didn't hesitate, and they didn't back you down an inch, and that is very rare in this world.

Patrick Swayze as Bodhi in Point Break (1991)

8 You see, fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Patrick Swayze as Bodhi in Point Break (1991)

9 See what I mean, Joe? Two seconds ago, you had this gun in your hand. We're all alone here. The thought of using it flashed through your mind... but you couldn't.

Richard Conte as Mr. Brown in The Big Combo (1955)

10 Gee, I don't know. That would be a big, big, oh, very big favor.

Gilbert Gottfried as Berkeley Beetle in Thumbelina (1994)

22 Movie Quotes about Hesitation (+ Sound Clips)

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