130 Movie Quotes about People (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 12, 2025

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

1 You need people like me so you can point your _ing fingers and say, that's the bad guy.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

2 You know, when I was a kid, I would have given anything to be exactly like everybody else. -You wanted to be petty and dishonest?

Tate Donovan as Hercules; Susan Egan as Megara in Hercules

3 People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

4 They can be a great people, Kal-El. They wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

5 And then some people just get lost on the way to the light. And they need someone to guide them to it.

JoBeth Williams as Diane in Poltergeist (1982)

6 There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom, and I go to make sure that they have it.

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart (1995)

7 But the people need more than a leader. They must believe the gods have not deserted them.

Tim Turner as Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

8 You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.

Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix

9 The time to make up your mind about people... is never.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

10 Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat. I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

130 Movie Quotes about People (+ Sound Clips)

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