68 Movie Quotes about Insomnia (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 7, 2025

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

1 I can't sleep, so I sing myself to sleep. You know, self-hypnosis?

Sterling Holloway as Kaa in The Jungle Book (1967)

2 Burning the midnight oil?

Scott Adsit as Baymax in Big Hero 6

3 Maybe that's why he can't sleep at night.

Wayne Knight as Stan Podolak in Space Jam

4 So did you, uh, sleep okay last night? -Great. I got a full 40 minutes.

Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf in Elf (2003)

5 And poor Madame didn't sleep a wink, either.

Eva Gabor as Duchess in The Aristocats

6 No, I'll tell you what's horseshit. Horseshit is responsibility. That's the guy who has the sleepless nights, the guy who has the ulcers.

Clint Eastwood as Chief Red Garnett in A Perfect World

7 Although their automatic somno-beds tried very hard, the two adults could not be rocked to sleep for another hour.

Fred Collins as Announcer in X Minus One

8 Tell me something, really. How do you sleep at night? -I use a wonderful over-the-counter drug: Ultra-dorm.

Greg Kinnear as Frank Navasky in You've Got Mail

9 You know a lot of things, don't ya? Well, just what do you know about insomnia? -Bourbon can't cure it. -Well, that's for sure.

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie; Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

10 Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee. -Oh, yeah, it's no trouble. -Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

68 Movie Quotes about Insomnia (+ Sound Clips)

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