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

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

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

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

Quote from Total Recall (1990)

12 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

13 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

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

Quote from Longstreet

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

Trillian Astra in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

Quote from Rocky (1976)

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

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Edgar Millen in Death Hunt

18 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

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

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

20 At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town.

Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)