11 Movie Quotes about Inflation (+ Sound Clips)

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

1 Ah, but since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have all, of course, become immensely rich. But we have run into a small inflation problem, owing to the high level of leaf availability.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 This stuff's expensive. -It's outrageous. My pay can't possibly keep up with inflation.

Jenny Agutter as Nurse Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London

3 Here's inflation. Very soon money will be worthless. What have you done about it? Nothing.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

4 Do you know how much money it costs to go to New York? -Nobody knows. It changes practically every day.

Gaby Hoffmann in Sleepless in Seattle

5 Premier balloonist par excellence to the Miracle Wonderland Carnival Company.

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

6 It was a nice little house. He'd probably paid four or five thousand for it, before houses went up. From all I hear, it'd probably bring fifteen Gs by now.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

7 We, the people, suffered. We still suffer from unemployment, inflation, crime and corruption.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

8 For far too long, the wrong roads have been taken. The wrong roads have led us into war, into poverty, into unemployment and inflation.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

9 I'm talking about good, wholesome, fortified with eight essential vitamins love that cost anywhere... How much it cost? -About $136, Monday through Fridays. $212 on the weekends. -Because of inflation.

Eddie Murphy as Norbit in Norbit

10 My friend Bremann was ruined by inflation. Couldn't get a job in postwar Germany. Killed himself.

Anthony Hopkins as Mr Stevens in The Remains of the Day