36 Movie Quotes about Perception (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 23, 2025

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

1 What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, with the most convenient definitions.

Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club

2 Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand.

Tom Conway as Paul Holland in I Walked with a Zombie

3 We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. It's as simple as that.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

4 If I hadn't have seen it with my own two eyes, I never would have seen it.

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

5 Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

6 Kingdom? This looks like junk.

Kevin Clash as Elmo in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

7 Well, it's difficult to explain a man like him to a man like you. Where you would say, Black, he would say, White. Where you would say, Ugly, he says, Beautiful. And where you say, Old maid, he says... Eyes that sparkle with fire and mystery.

Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

8 Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Keanu Reeves as Thomas A. Anderson in The Matrix

9 No, she can't turn cream into butter, but she can make a lion look like a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore.

Alan Arkin as Schmendrick in The Last Unicorn

10 Oh, I know exactly how you feel. It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.

Alan Arkin as Schmendrick in The Last Unicorn