536 Simile Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 35

Updated: Aug 18, 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.

341 And when she wanted to arouse a man's interest she treated him like a dog. -Yes, well, you treated me like a dog. -Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik; Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

342 Well, I feel like a goat being prepared for the sacrifice. -Baaa! -Now, that's a sheep.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

343 That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

344 Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

Quote from The Lost Weekend (1945)

345 Boy, an anteater can bust up a party faster than a skunk in an air-conditioner.

John Byner as The Ant And The Aardvark in The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

346 Sometimes I wonder what the colors mean, why the sea is g-green like your eyes.

Martin Short as Hubie The Penguin in The Pebble and the Penguin

347 I'm tougher than any bird. Why, I'm tougher than any polar bear. Why, I'm hungry.

Jim Belushi as Rocko The Rockhopper in The Pebble and the Penguin

348 Goodness glaciers! What was that? -Looked like a killer whale. -It was bigger than a leopard seal. -Twice as big, twice as fast and twice as mean. -Oh, good.

Martin Short as Hubie The Penguin; Jim Belushi as Rocko The Rockhopper in The Pebble and the Penguin

349 A bright child? -Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head. -So can a calculator.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull; Embeth Davidtz as Miss Honey in Matilda (1996)

350 The audience out there obviously wants a prophet, even a manufactured one, even if he's as mad as Moses.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)