50 Movie Quotes about Pollution (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

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

1 The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.

Sean Bean as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2 Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's going to get a little hard to breathe.

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff Black Widow in The Avengers (2012)

3 This planet will explode within 30 days, if not sooner.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

4 It ain't healthy livin' in the country. Why, look at me. Raised on gasoline fumes and carbon monoxide. The picture of vigorous vitality.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

5 The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs that it can no longer be breathed.

Paul Frees in The Time Machine (1960)

6 We will persuade everyone to drive hybrid cars and stop smoking.

Trey Parker as Gary Johnston in Team America: World Police

7 Now that the world is going to be run peacefully, we should all drive hybrid cars.

Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police

8 Mom? Are you sure this water's sanitary? It looks questionable to me.

Tantor in Tarzan (1999)

9 You fool. You fool! I warned you against sudden changes in temperature.

George Sanders as Mr. Freeze in Batman (1966)

10 The river's changed, hasn't it? And that smell. Why, it's like marigolds, stale marigolds. -Not a very good smell for a flower. -They're very pretty, though, marigolds.

Quote from The African Queen (1952)

50 Movie Quotes about Pollution (+ Sound Clips)

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