56 Movie Quotes about Sailors (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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

21 That's it. He's the proverbial sailor, but in his case it's a wife in every port.

Quote from Monsieur Verdoux

22 Hey, swab, come here. Listen up. The way it works shipboard is, you do your job. You do it good, you get a better job. Maybe you get promoted from swab to mate. All right, get on it.

Kurt Russell as Captain Ron in Captain Ron

23 What shall we do with a drunken sailor early in the morning? -Increase the wind. Increase the wind!

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank; Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

24 That sailor's a liar!

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

25 I guessed you're a sailor. That's why you wear that life preserver.

Quote from Back to the Future

26 It was a long cruise, was it, sailor? -It was too long.

Quote from Top Gun (1986)

27 You're my little sailor.

Quote from Titanic (1997)

28 What's your name, sailor?

Quote from Apocalypse Now

29 Hello, all you paratroopers out there! And the Marines! And the sailors!

Quote from Apocalypse Now

30 He is a sailor on the pirate ship Revenge.

Quote from The Princess Bride (1987)