170 Movie Quotes about Sleep (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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

81 I'm going to bed now, and it better be plenty quiet around here. What I want is peace and quiet!

Quote from The Tex Avery Show

82 You are the laziest man on Mars. Why are you sleeping during working hours?

Quote from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

83 I've been up for two hours. -That's not much sleep. -It's all the sleep I need.

Quote from The Remains of the Day

84 Okay, that settles it. Goodbye! -But, but... -You buttered your bread. Now sleep in it!

Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1939)

85 If you knew, you wouldn't sleep much tonight.

Quote from Bullets or Ballots (1939)

86 No sleep, no peace. No hot meals... No women... No women!

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

87 I tell you it's a new scientific theory. People only think coffee keeps them awake. Those kind of people are nervous wreck and couldn't sleep anyway.

Dick Powell as Jimmy in Christmas in July (1944)

88 I ask you to think on the hours when one sleeps. Do you know what happens then? The body may lie still in bed, but what happens to the thoughts, the spirit? With what ancient demons does it spend its time, and in what deeds?

Quote from Isle of the Dead (1945)

89 I want you to listen carefully. I've been through hell today. I want food and sleep. But before we sleep, there's work to do.

Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933)

90 They're not interested in sleep. Their job is taxes. They're not gonna send me to jail for insomnia.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)