31 Movie Quotes about Manipulation (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 1, 2025

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

1 You were duped, brainwashed.

Adam West as Bruce Wayne - Batman in Batman (1966)

2 Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator (2000)

3 Would you say it has the ability to manipulate its own environment?

Dee Wallace as Mary in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

4 No, no, don't give me those crocodile tears.

Minnie Driver as Jane Porter in Tarzan (1999)

5 He must be stopped. -No, he must be encouraged, enticed and only then... entrapped.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

6 He poisons your minds to obtain that which he desires.

Kevin Clash as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

7 It's Lotso. He's made us into a pyramid, and he put himself on top!

Michael Keaton as Ken Doll in Toy Story 3

8 And there are insects out there that will take advantage of you.

Dave Foley as Flik in A Bug's Life

9 I'm not your puppet, and you're not my puppet-controlling guy!

Patton Oswalt as Remy The Rat in Ratatouille

10 You are only interested in taking advantage of them because they're too stupid and naive to know any better.

Garry Shandling as Verne in Over the Hedge