51 Movie Quotes about Red Flags (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 1, 2026

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

1 If they lie to me, they don't respect me. If they don't respect me, how can they ever love me?

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator (2000)

2 Look at that! I'm not even pretty. -They don't care, just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Tony Curtis as Joe; Jack Lemmon as Jerry in Some Like It Hot

3 What do you mean, am I checking up on you? Of course I am. I forgot to tell you, I don't trust anybody. Especially women.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

4 The outside world is a dangerous place, filled with horrible, selfish people. You must stay here, where you're safe.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

5 A man with no language, no human behavior... -And no respect for personal boundaries.

Minnie Driver as Jane Porter; Nigel Hawthorne as Professor Archimedes Q. Porter in Tarzan (1999)

6 He's contemptible, dishonest, selfish, deceitful, vicious. Yet he's out there, and I'm in here. He's called normal, and I'm not. Well, if that's normal, I don't want it.

Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

7 And the last one, I think, was... to never respect anybody who doesn't respect you back. That right?

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood

8 I'd watch out for Bruce if I were you, girls. First he wines and dines you, makes you think you're the only woman he's ever been interested in, and just when you're wondering where to register the China, he forgets your phone number.

Quote from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

9 You have got to trust me on this. Don't you understand there's something wrong with this guy? My tail tingles every time I get near him.

Garry Shandling as Verne in Over the Hedge

10 It takes so many things to make love last. Most of all, it takes respect. And I can't live with a man I don't respect.

Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson in Airplane (1980)