36 Movie Quotes about Perception (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 They may, for instance, be able to smell colors.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)

12 What you're experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes, but you're inventing it yourself as you go along.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid in Total Recall (1990)

13 Good and evil exist only in one's own mind. Who should realize this truth will find peace at last.

Quote from 10 Brothers of Shaolin

14 Maybe I'm better than you've already decided. Maybe I'm no worse than that good reverend you're always bragging about.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

15 You're blind. That must give you a special perception of the world. Special and a little frightening, I should think.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

16 And we will be restoring normality as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you.

Sandra Dickinson as Trillian Astra in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

17 He doesn't know it's a damn show. He thinks it's a damn fight.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976)

18 What did you see up there? -Nothin'. Just my eyes playing tricks on me.

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Edgar Millen in Death Hunt

19 The first day seemed like a week. And the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

20 Strange, the Dipper's gone. -The Dipper is not gone. It's just behind the clouds.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

36 Movie Quotes about Perception (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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