19 Movie Quotes about Knitting (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 Look, I don't know what you guys put in my cryo-slush, but when I thawed out, the first thing I wanted to do was knit.a

Sylvester Stallone as John Spartan in Demolition Man

12 Look at me! Dying... simply dying! to go and fight at Father's side, and here I am, sitting and knitting... like a poky old woman.

June Allyson as Jo March in Little Women (1950)

13 Well, you know, women are knitting from Maine to California these days. And believe it or not, the Hollywood actresses are just as enthusiastic about it as women anywhere else.

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1939)

14 I've seen Joan Crawford knitting between scenes on the set of Strange Cargo. It's one of Myrna Loy's favorite occupations.

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1939)

15 And whenever Rosalyn Russell has a free moment on her hand, out comes the knitting bag.

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1939)

16 You knit with great skill, Madame Defarge. -I am accustomed to it.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

17 A pretty pattern. -You think so? -Strange, too. It looks like many names knitted there, but that can't be. -No, that can't be.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

18 Day after day, fresh victims are driven through the streets of Paris to feed this new monster which lives on human blood, the guillotine. And at its foot, day after day, sit the women, knitting, knitting.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

19 I noticed, standing in the door, a heavily built woman, silently knitting.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)