8 Movie Quotes about Recession (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 11, 2025

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

1 Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed. -Slept? -Yes, through the economic recession.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 Well, anyway, the recession came and we thought, thought it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3 And, not only that, it's the wrong time. It's a terrible idea. I mean, you got the economy. You got the credit bubble, the Supreme Court. I mean, look at Haiti.

Seth Macfarlane as Ted Bear in Ted (2012)

4 Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.

Graham Chapman as Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5 And soon everybody was rich with their, uh... frozen assets, heh, to coin a phrase.

Robert Morse as Jack Frost in Jack Frost (1979)

6 Then the economy went bad, and they all went bankrupt.

Daveigh Chase as Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away

7 Yo, bad news, though. Being that we in a recession and all, the _'s gonna cost 15 dollars instead of 10.

Omar Epps as Quincy "Q" Powell in Juice (1992)

8 Now business is bad, getting worse and worse. And the workers... how can I pay them? Also, the expenses. I have no money.

Bruce Lee as Tang Lung in The Way of the Dragon

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