20 Movie Quotes about Inventors (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 12, 2025

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

1 And I'm gonna be so proud of you tomorrow when you cut that ribbon, save the town, and prove to everybody what a great inventor you are.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

2 Ha ha ha! What do bunnies know about bouncing? -Why, they invented it!

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Paul Winchell as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 The only thing you can invent is excuses for not working.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 But I had something far, far greater. My amazing intellect and knack for building objects of mayhem.

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

5 Don't worry, Dad, I get it. Mom was wrong about me. I'm not an inventor. I should've just quit when you said.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

6 You're the inventor. Make this car fly.

Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

7 Oh, I wouldn't if I were you. After all he's an inventor. When he gets an idea he wants to work on, it's only natural that he should hide away somewhere. He's done it before. -Yes, but never for 3 months!

William Powell as Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1936)

8 I'm an inventor. And I have a story to tell.

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins

9 I'm an inventor. I made this.

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins

10 The country needs inventors like you. I can put you in touch with the War Office if you wish.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

20 Movie Quotes about Inventors (+ Sound Clips)

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