12 Movie Quotes about Necessity (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: June 9, 2025

Memorable quotes about necessity, 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 What's that you hit him with, son? -That was a bare necessity!

Quote from The Jungle Book (1967)

2 Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified. -Well, so is an empty stomach.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

3 Necessity is the mother of invention.

Jim Carrey as Cable Guy in The Cable Guy (1996)

4 This blanket is a necessity. It keeps me from cracking up. It could be regarded as a spiritual tourniquet. Without this blanket, I'd be nothing. A ship without a rudder.

Linus Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

5 Is it necessary to yell like a barbarian?

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

6 Nothing hones your mind and your instincts like necessity.

Gary Cole as Reese Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

7 A tailor! We need a tailor in town. -Well, I need a town to tailor in.

Quote from Jack Frost (1979)

8 We need snow just as much as we need rain or sunshine or clean air.

Elisabeth Moss as Holly DeCarlo in Frosty Returns (1992)

9 And confidence, Billy, is the most important necessity in a undertaking of our kind.

Quote from Beat the Devil (1953)

10 Necessity may be the mother of invention, but Yogi bear is the father.

Quote from Yogi Bear