41 Movie Quotes about Math (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

1 I hear you're good with numbers. How nice.

Quote from The Shawshank Redemption

2 I didn't quit because of religion. I quit because of mathematics. That's right. The odds are stacking up against me.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

3 What's Mongolian? -What am I, your math teacher?

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn; Frank Gorshin as Pete Puma in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

4 Say, I like this guy's mathematicals.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh, Tigger; Tigger in A Very Merry Pooh Year

5 All we do is invert the height of the sun in the sky, and multiply by the square root of the hypotenuse. -Hey! Who are you calling a hippopotamus?

Michael Gough as Gopher; Owl in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 My man, my man, my man. What's this thing with all these numbers?

Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element

7 Yeah. If they laugh when he jumps 20 feet, they'll laugh twice as hard if he jumps 40 feet. -Yeah, that's right. Simple mathematics.

Quote from Dumbo (1941)

8 He thinks he's cute enough for me. And that's why he's in retard math.

Megan Fox as Jennifer Check in Jennifer's Body

9 And to think it looked like just a bunch of numbers to me. -No, siree. These are more than just numbers.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Michael Gough as Gopher; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 This humansgirl got an A in geometry.

Quote from Home (2015)