34 Movie Quotes about Priests (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 19, 2026

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

1 Listen, you're mighty preachy, and you're gonna preach your neck right into a hangman's noose.

Pat Buttram as The Sheriff Of Nottingham in Robin Hood (1973)

2 Now, now, now, now! Save your sermon, preacher. It ain't Sunday, you know.

Pat Buttram as The Sheriff Of Nottingham in Robin Hood (1973)

3 Where we came from, if one didn't want to die of poverty, one became a priest or a bandit.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4 Father, you seem like a religious man.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

5 You shut up, he's not a monk. He's a Buddha. And he gave me good advice, on how to beat some men. I chased off the whole lot.

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

6 Brother, are you a priest or are you a fighter? I fear I don't know how to treat you.

Quote from The Ninja Hunter

7 From what I understand, if this thing goes to court they won't need a lawyer, they will need a priest.

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

8 We're looking for the priests, man, the priests. -Why? -I don't know. I guess because you need God on your side, stupid.

Bob Holt as Avatar in Wizards (1977)

9 Now I will tell you something. You became a priest because you were too much of a coward to do what I do.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

10 Sorry, pal. We might all need priests in a few minutes.

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak