19 Movie Quotes about Knitting (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 Last year I got a sweater with a big bird knitted on it.

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990)

2 All day, tumbrils go through the streets, feeding the guillotine, and at its foot, splashed with blood, sit the women knitting late into the night, counting dropping heads.

Martin Gabel as Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

3 My wife made it. -Oh, she knits? -Crochets. -Crochets? Nice.

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

4 Perhaps he just went to get away from your infernal knitting!

Imelda Staunton as Bunty in Chicken Run

5 You know what I do when I can't sleep? -What? -I knit. -Maybe I'll knit myself a beer.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

6 We each knitted a bit: Grandma Georgina, Grandma Josephine, and me.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

7 I've taken up knitting. -So I see. It'll probably look very nice once it's finished.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

8 José brought up the blueprints for a new ranch house he's building, and I have this strange feeling that maybe the blueprints and my knitting instructions got switched. I mean, it isn't impossible that I'm knitting a ranch house.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

9 Only, with me around, you wouldn't have to knit. -Wouldn't I? -You bet your life, you wouldn't.

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity

10 I'll play guitar, and knit, and cook and basically just wonder when will my life, begin.

Mandy Moore as Rapunzel in Tangled