126 Movie Quotes about Listening (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

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.

71 Listen to 'em... Those wonderful, wonderful people. Yowsah.

Gig Young as Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

72 I knew you weren't listening to me. -You're right. I wasn't. I hear nothing. Nothing. Not a sound on the city streets, just the beat of my own heart. I think that's how it goes. Something like that.

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

73 No, no. Please. Please, please listen. I've got one or two things to say. -Tell us! Tell us both of them!

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

74 Slow heartbeat. Close the door on the senses, and listen to the silence.

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

75 What's that in your ear there? -Oh, this? I hear stupid things better.

Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky II

76 Yep, yep, yep. Keep that mouth flapping and do no listening.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

77 I told you not to yell at him. He doesn't respond when you yell at him. -Then why are you yelling at me? -Because you don't listen. -I'm not listening to this.

Quote from Bee Movie

78 Listen to me, as if I were Cerberus barking with all his heads at the gates of hell.

Quote from Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

79 Listen, you, you daydreaming fool. What are you doing there? I mean... Can't you pay attention when I'm talking? Don't you know what I was saying? You're not listening to me.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

80 Play the tape back again. -But you can't even see anything. -Don't look. Listen. -Play it back.

David Strathairn as Whistler; Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)