38 Movie Quotes about Statues (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Nov 20, 2025

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

1 Have you come to pray to the gods? -If I had, I wouldn't have chosen a fallen one. Only a statue.

Tim Turner as Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

2 But that's not all. We stole the Statue of Liberty... The small one from Las Vegas.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

3 Why are they building that statue? What does it stand for? Freedom!

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

4 All right. But someday they'll erect a statue to me in this town -Well, don't start posing for it now.

Jack Haley as Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5 He has the most endurance, the most fidelity, the most intelligence! -They should build a statue of him! Ohh! -You said it! -I did?

Kevin Bacon as Balto in Balto (1995)

6 Two years ago, those women put up a fight to save a park statue that even the pigeons didn't want.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

7 There's a life-size bronze statue of you standing out there somewhere. Oh, it's probably turned green by now, nobody can read the nameplate.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

8 But I don't want any statues. -Shh! They don't know that. Besides, they love doing things for you.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 I can see the Statue of Liberty already. Very small, of course.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

10 I'm so interested in North American culture. I've been already, of course, to the Statue of Liberty, and to the restaurant Automatique. But this is the first time I'm in a typical North American home.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's