51 Movie Quotes about Pollution (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

21 No, not true! I recycle!

Martin Mull in Jingle All the Way (1996)

22 Man, there's a lot of debris floating around out there.

Bill Paxton as Fred Haise in Apollo 13

23 No more waste dumps. We're just gonna have to store it.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

24 Those CO2 levels will gonna be getting toxic.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

25 You know, when I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life.

Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth in Soylent Green

26 How can anything survive in a climate like this? A heat wave all year long. A greenhouse effect. Everything is burning up.

Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth in Soylent Green

27 You have been here only a matter of hours. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air...

Vincent Price as Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

28 We can't stand by and watch the destruction of this beautiful planet.

Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in The Transformers (1984)

29 We've got a little problem with the smog and the grapes, but I'm thinking maybe we put a plastic cover over the fields.

Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones in Black Belt Jones (1974)

30 Me, no? I don't even have a car. You know, 'cause they pollute.

Jim Carrey as The Mask Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask (1994)