51 Movie Quotes about Materialism (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 I don't understand that fancy talk. You mean I'm a gold digger? Sure, I'm a gold digger. Why not?

Margo as Gabriella "Clo-Clo" in The Leopard Man (1943)

22 Isn't that nice? -We really don't need a car. -Oh, come on, Adrian. You know, I'm gonna be doing commercials now. I can afford this, you know. No problem.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

23 That's the trouble with you. It always was, from the beginning. You just don't know what kind of a world it is. -Well, I'll know better next time.

Quote from Criss Cross (1949)

24 Did I show you the loqued-out jeep Daddy got me? It's got four-wheel drive, dual side airbags, and a monster sound system. I don't have a license yet, but I needed something to learn on.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

25 Gold will never fill an empty heart.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

26 I don't care about losing all the money. It's losing all the stuff.

Bernadette Peters as Marie Kimble Johnson in The Jerk

27 Clothes, travel, expensive excitement. What's wrong with that? -Nothing, if you don't care where his money comes from.

Quote from The Big Heat (1953)

28 You know, it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

29 The amount of money that you spend on a present should be in direct proportion to the amount of affection that you have for that person.

Linus Van Pelt in Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

30 Look at all I got, this lamp, this yacht, but what makes having fun is knowing you have none.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland