30 Movie Quotes about Perception (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Sometimes you got a little bit. You no think it's enough. Somebody else maybe think it's a too much. It's a whole lot too. Now, a whole lot is a too much, too much is a whole lot. Same thing.

Chico Marx as Chico in The Cocoanuts (1929)

22 Why is it strange? Isn't the difference between one woman, and another only in the mind of a man?

Circe in Ulysses (1954)

23 That face you make... Look I so old to young eyes? -No, of course not. -I do. Yes, I do.

Frank Oz as Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

24 The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is the caprice lasts a little longer.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

25 I can sense what hasn't been spoken. I can feel what isn't there.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

26 It looks so small. -Things always do when you look back, darling.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

27 I had no illusion about deceiving you. You have the feline perceptions that all women have.

Quote from Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

28 Amissum quod nescitur non amittitur.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

29 Your Excellency! I thought you left. -Oh, no, I no leave. -But I saw you with my own eyes. -Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?

Quote from Duck Soup (1933)

30 Suppose this house isn't real. Suppose the people are just images. Stolen from our own memories by Martians. Created for us by telepathy, hypnotism.

Quote from X Minus One