125 Movie Quotes about Listening (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 1, 2025

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

1 Now, who telling this here tale? -You are! -Then you just sit and do the listening.

James Baskett as Uncle Remus in Song of the South (1946)

2 Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much.

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

3 I knew it. I knew it. I just knew this would happen. I tried to warn you, but no, you wouldn't listen. You just had to...

Terry-Thomas as Sir Hiss in Robin Hood (1973)

4 Ha! You got to be ready to listen to your children, even if they have nothing to say.

Garry Marshall as Buck Cluck in Chicken Little

5 Listen to my voice. There's nothing below you. There's nothing around you. We are one.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

6 Do you hear me? Are you listening to me?

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

7 Don't you cuss on this here radio. -I apologise to all the friendly folk who are listenin'.

Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

8 Anybody listenin'? It's like I'm... What am I, an echo or something?

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules

9 I ain't heard that much worth listening to. Just a lot of guys laying down a lot of rules and regulations.

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

10 Just words. -But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them.

William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan