513 Simile Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 18

Updated: Mar 16, 2026

A selection of simile quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

171 Yeah, diesels love their oil like a sailor loves his rum. -Huh! Yes, they do. Why is that, Captain Ron? -Ah, nobody knows. Huh.

Kurt Russell as Captain Ron in Captain Ron

172 If only I had my shadow back, why, we'd be inseparable, like peanut butter and jelly... only less sticky, that is, if he'd ever forgive me.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

173 I like him. He's nice. -But scary. -Like Santa!

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

174 You gotta admit, I played this stinking city like a harp from hell!

Danny DeVito as The Penguin in Batman Returns (1992)

175 Only three years. It seems like a hundred million.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

176 What do you think? Your staff just follows you around, says right. Just like a regular parrot.

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979)

177 The old man said maybe your friend should give in. When the old man says maybe, that's like a papal bull.

Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino (1995)

178 You know what you two look like? - What? -Like a couple of guys who just blew off somebody's head.

Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction

179 Flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle. Just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.

Robert Stack as Capt. Rex Kramer in Airplane (1980)

180 What kind of plane is it? -Oh, it's a big, pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the window, and wheels, and it looks like a big Tylenol.

Robert Hays as Ted Striker in Airplane (1980)