443 Paradox Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 18, 2026

A selection of paradox quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be... than me.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

2 No! No! I was wrong! And so as punishment, I'm forced to carry these heavy chains through eternity. Maybe even longer.

Pinto Colvig as Goofy in Mickey Mouse

3 And now I name you the winner, or, more appropriately... the loser!

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

4 If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would.

Kathryn Beaumont as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

5 I wanted to run away that day. But you can't run away from your own feet.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

6 Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea.

Boris Karloff in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

7 If anybody needs me, which I doubt, I'll be in here for the rest of my life, if not longer.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 I don't trust a man who makes toys in a land where children are forbidden.

Robert Helpmann as Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

9 Money is not everything. I know, because I have money and I have everything...

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

10 Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute. Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Quote from An American Tail