25 Movie Quotes about Skeletons (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 23, 2026

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

1 Police. I know. A skeleton. Keep calm. Turn off the lights. Make sure doors are locked.

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2 Who's there? -A skeleton.

Quote from The Tex Avery Show

3 Mmm. Meatless Tuesday.

Robert Lowery as Larry Adams in Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

4 What rare things have you stored away there, Dorian? -Skeletons of inquisitive guests. -I suspected as much.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

5 Any skeletons in the closet? -You mean to say Julia hasn't told you about Grandfather? -No.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case; Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)

6 I got a good one for ya. Why don't skeletons play music in church? 'Cause they got no organs! A-ha-ha!

Richard Dreyfuss as Mr. Centipede in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

7 I'm alive. -But I, we... We saw your skeleton! You were dead!

Quote from Megamind (2010)

8 I saw it. It ain't turned to no skeleton at all. It lived right through the fire.

Quote from Bride of Frankenstein

9 This boy's making more noise than a couple of skeletons throwin' a fit on a tin roof.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

10 Yipes! It's a skeleton. -Back upstairs! -It's just an old skeleton. He can't hurt us. Come on.

Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)