513 Simile Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 36

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.

351 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)

352 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)

353 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.

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

354 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)

355 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

356 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

357 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

358 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)

359 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)

360 How are you now? -I'm as mad as a hatter. -Who isn't?

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)