114 Movie Quotes about Minimalism (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Apr 27, 2026

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

41 There was a time when eating was pleasurable. Now it bores me. Just fuel for survival.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

42 First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

43 What I wouldn't give for a place like this with a cow and a few chickens and you.

Verree Teasdale as Ann Westley in The Milky Way (1936)

44 There's a wonderful and exciting world out there when we discover that we don't need TV to entertain us.

Mike Judge as Beavis, Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

45 I know that you no longer have your own home. But from now on, you must see the world as your home. There's no need to settle in one place. You'll be amazed at how wonderful it all is.

Quote from Disciple of Shaolin Master (1981)

46 Young man, unless you dismiss all worldly thoughts, you can never become a monk.

Quote from The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

47 His warehouse having burnt down, nothing obscures his view of the bright moon.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

48 All my possessions are with me. Some are more lethal than others.

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

49 Sir, my wife is very frugal. She saves out of the housekeeping money.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther (1963)

50 I'll put a bed down here, get a bigger bulb. I'll bring some sheets from the house. You'll be set for life.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk