15 Movie Quotes about Landlords (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

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

1 Oh, boy. Best lawyer in town. He specializes in those cases where a landlord threatens to throw out a tenant. If I only knew how to get ahold of him. -Don't you know his office number? -I knew his old number. He was evicted last week.

Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

2 I've been run out of my place by a bunch of fish.

Michael Gough as Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 Wait a minute. Don't... Don't break that. The landlady will charge us for it. If you gotta break something, smack me on the chin. It's cheaper.

Quote from The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4 You sound like a landlord with eviction papers.

Fred Astaire as Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (1942)

5 My landlady. She came up with a bottle. -Sounds like a pretty loose-living place you lodge in.

Jim Dale as Albert Potter; Harry H. Corbett as Sergeant Sidney Bung in Carry On Screaming!

6 Well, you ain't going to put them out? -Put them out? Me? Oh, no. I just tell them they'll have to move.

Quote from She Done Him Wrong (1933)

7 Harold would never beat up his landlord.

Steve Buscemi as David Veltri in The Wedding Singer (1998)

8 Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing!

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street

9 Are you the landlord here? -Aye.

Quote from The Wicker Man (1973)

10 No garbage and no landlords fouling' up the air.

Quote from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West