109 Movie Quotes about Ideas (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

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

1 Aye. And we've no need for mongrels and their radical ideas. Off with you, now. Off with you!

Barbara Luddy as Miss Lady in Lady and the Tramp

2 That's an excellent idea.

George Sanders as Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967)

3 We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

4 I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

5 A man has an idea. The idea attracts others like-minded. The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution. What was the idea? See, that's what's been bothering me, boys.

Michael Wincott as Top Dollar in The Crow (1994)

6 Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea.

Boris Karloff in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

7 I used to think they were followers with no ideas or vision.

Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014)

8 Just words. -But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them.

William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

9 I have no idea. You're the criminal mastermind, not me.

David Spade as Emperor Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove

10 A fella I once knew in El Paso, one day he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him the same question, Why? -And? -He said It seemed to be a good idea at the time.

Steve McQueen as Vin Tanner in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

109 Movie Quotes about Ideas (+ Sound Clips)

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