62 Movie Quotes about Silence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 26, 2026

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

1 Silence in the ranks!

J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book (1967)

2 The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up, like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.

Oliver Reed as Proximo in Gladiator (2000)

3 I don't wanna go in there. It's too quiet.

Tod And Vixey in The Fox and the Hound (1981)

4 Hush your mouth.

Pat Buttram as Napoleon in The Aristocats

5 Enough! Silence! I can't take this _ no more.

Dave Chappelle as Reggie Warrington in The Nutty Professor (1996)

6 Clear. -Yes. I don't think I've ever seen such a flat calm. -Like a mill pond. Not a breath of wind.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

7 Funny thing how a fella can sleep with four big engines hollering in his ears, only wake up when they stop hollering. Imagine silence waking you up at home?

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

8 Hush, now, hush.

Barbara Luddy as Miss Lady in Lady and the Tramp

9 Too much talk always spoils it.

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

10 A hot dog is singing. You need quiet while a hot dog is singing?

Greg Kinnear as Frank Navasky in You've Got Mail