441 Paradox Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 14, 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 No! No! I was wrong! And so as punishment, I'm forced to carry these heavy chains through eternity. Maybe even longer.

Goofy From Disney Movies in Mickey Mouse

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

Brian Bedford as Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1973)

3 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

4 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

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

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

6 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)

7 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)

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

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

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

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail

10 We're working for a better tomorrow, today.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.