51 Movie Quotes about Materialism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 4, 2025

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

1 This velvet painting of Elvis? I didn't really want it, but I own it.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

2 Ah, Katrina, my love. Who can resist your grace? Your charm? And who can resist your father's farm?

Bing Crosby as Narrator in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

3 Silver and gold, silver and gold. Everyone wishes silver and gold.

Quote from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

4 You keep this up, you're gonna end up just like me. Having everything you ever wanted.

Nick Nolte as Vincent in Over the Hedge

5 You know, some men got the cravin' for gold and silver, Others need lots of land with herds of cattle. And there's those that got the weakness, for whiskey and for women.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

6 So you think they have enough? Well, they don't. For humans, enough is never enough!

Bruce Willis as Rj in Over the Hedge

7 You loved your gold more than that precious creature, and you lost her forever.

Quote from Mickey Mouse

8 You're going to sell the True Love? -For money? -Sure. -To that fat, old rum pot?

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

9 Mosquito girls try to trade up. Get with a moth, dragonfly. Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.

Chris Rock as Mooseblood in Bee Movie

10 I wish for... I wish for... Got it all here now. A couple of these, and some of those. Oh, yeah, yeah, don't want to forget these here. Oh, what difference does it make? I wish for... everything!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh