65 Movie Quotes about Quitting (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

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

51 That's the last straw. I give up. I'm gonna throw myself to the lions.

Bill Thompson as Droopy Dog in The Tex Avery Show

52 No, thanks. I quit three years ago. -Gain weight? -Ten pounds. Take it off and put it back on. -That's why I don't quit.

Pam Grier as Jackie Brown; Robert Forster as Max Cherry in Jackie Brown

53 This here is the way we know best how to make money. But we're going to be quitting all this as soon as hard times are over, I can tell you that.

Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

54 Assassins who stay too long wind up assassinated, and that ain't in my game plan.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

55 I thought you'd ring out in two weeks. Bing, bang, it's over, and we're popular.

Anne Bancroft as Senator Lillian DeHaven in G.I. Jane

56 You don't figure he's pulling out, do you? -Fella in his line of work can't pull out once he takes a job.

John Wayne as Cole Thornton; Arthur Hunnicutt as Bull Harris in El Dorado (1966)

57 Now, don't you do that. Don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit. That it's okay to be a failure, because it's not okay.

Stellan Skarsgård as Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting

58 Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Hah! Someday, you'll learn how they hate to give up.

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

59 I quit! -You quit? You can't quit! You can't quit unless I fire you. Remember that! Now get out here!

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

60 You know, you're a quitter. The 'get out before you get hurt' type. -Is that bad? -Well, I suppose you save yourself a lot of trouble that way.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

65 Movie Quotes about Quitting (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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