82 Movie Quotes about Respect (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

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

1 See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works.

Jason Lee as Incrediboy Syndrome in The Incredibles

2 Turns out there's a lot of people, whole countries who want respect. And they will pay through the nose to get it.

Jason Lee as Incrediboy Syndrome in The Incredibles

3 You know, I think it's a shame the way they treat you. Just because you're one-eighth their size doesn't mean you deserve one-eighth of their respect. Does it?

Michael Caine as Nigel Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember

4 I lived most of my life in the wild country, and you set a code of laws to live by. -What laws? -I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

5 I try and I try, but there's no respect for anyone with vision. That's it! There's just nothing I can do about it!

Quote from The Emperor's New Groove

6 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)

7 She won't respect him. 'Cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your _. Just doesn't work.

Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

8 You're alive because I have allowed you to live. So you show me some goddamn respect!

John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire

9 Let's just say I'm not getting the respect a cop killer deserves.

Harland Williams as Kenny Davis in Half Baked

10 I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people. I require the same from them.