17 Movie Quotes about Moths (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 17, 2025

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

1 That's moths, you dumb-_, not bats. -Yeah, moths.

Chris Farley as Mike Donnelly in Black Sheep (1996)

2 The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa... and, from thence, into beauty.

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

3 Moths? Let them eat the rugs. Let them eat the curtains. Who cares?

Robert Strauss as Kruhulik in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

4 Uh-uh. You can't trust a moth. Sometimes they get hungry in the middle of the night, so they start looking around for a little snack, and then...

Robert Strauss as Kruhulik in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

5 You want to know how to wreck a movie, eh? Take a jar of moths into the theater, eh, and, like...

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

6 And all the moths will fly up to the projection booth window, cloud it up... and you can demand your money back.

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

7 Better known to his friends as the death's-head moth.

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

8 Was it a butterfly? -Yes. A moth.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter; Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

9 Will you shut the window, Tommy! You're letting moths in.

Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy (1995)

10 Could we get any more moths in here?