12 Movie Quotes about Necessity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 9, 2025

Memorable quotes about necessity, selected from famous or less known movies 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!

Phil Harris as Baloo in 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.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor; Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie in 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.

Glenn Gilger as 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.

Robert Morse as Jack Frost in 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.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

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

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear in Yogi Bear

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