26 Movie Quotes about Self Defense (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 10, 2025

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

11 Your father must have taught you some kung fu. -He taught me to read. He never taught me kung fu.

Quote from Dragon on Shaolin Tower

12 In this position, your arms are useless. -Yeah. -Can you kick or stomp me? -No. -Then, if you wish to survive, what do you do? -I don't know. -Bite. -Bite? -Are we not animals?

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung; James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

13 I guess you know, Bob, that if I see you again, I'm just gonna start shooting and figure it's self-defense.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

14 Haven't you done enough? -I haven't done anything, except kill a lot of coyotes in self-defense, if you want to put it in law talk.

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

15 Self-defense, _.

Tupac Shakur as Bishop in Juice (1992)

16 I am only teaching you kung fu to protect yourself, and if you use it wrongly, only evil will befall you.

Quote from The Woman Avenger (1980)

17 I kill only what tries to kill me.

Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren in It Came from Outer Space

18 I watched you fight them. You have courage. -To fight back when people attack me? Dog has that kind of courage.

Rose Byrne as Briseis in Troy

19 You let him get too close. See, when your assailant gets a hold of your arm like this, you twist under it. Tap it on the forehead like that. It's all that's necessary.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

20 You broke into the house. You demanded money. You tried to attack me and I shot you in self-defense. I've a right to kill in self-defense. That's what the law says, doesn't it, Walter?

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

26 Movie Quotes about Self Defense (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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