285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 23

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

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

221 My friend, I'm sorry, that's how I am. The main thing is to stay alive.

Quote from The Avenging Eagle

222 How could you have such horrible instincts and survive this long?

David Spade as Steve Dodds in Black Sheep (1996)

223 You try to live three miles from me and you won't live long, honey.

Quote from Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

224 Hey, brother. I'm just a natural black man trying to survive in a cruel and harsh white corporate America. -I don't know how you do it. -I don't know how you do IT!

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

225 My mission here concerns the existence of every last creature who lives on Earth. It must not be complicated by the childish jealousies, intrigues, suspicions of your planet.

Michael Rennie as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)

226 She's a born painter and might be a very important one, but she must eat, and she also prefers a roof over her head to being constantly out in the rain and snow. -Food and a roof.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

227 What are they doing it for? -It's not for fun. You can bet on that.

Susannah York as Alice LeBlanc in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

228 I tell ya, these are hard times. The whole area's gone to ruin. It's run by gangsters. Even I have to keep my head down.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

229 That's right. I'm alive. All you need's a steel board strapped on your chest. I tell you, it's most effective. -You!

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

230 You're lucky to be alive. You fought with real experts. You might have died.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

285 Movie Quotes about Survival (+ Sound Clips) - page 23

221 My friend, I'm sorry, that's how I am. The main thing is to stay alive.

222 How could you have such horrible instincts and survive this long?

223 You try to live three miles from me and you won't live long, honey.

224 Hey, brother. I'm just a natural black man trying to survive in a cruel and harsh white corporate America. -I don't know how you do it. -I don't know how you do IT!

225 My mission here concerns the existence of every last creature who lives on Earth. It must not be complicated by the childish jealousies, intrigues, suspicions of your planet.

226 She's a born painter and might be a very important one, but she must eat, and she also prefers a roof over her head to being constantly out in the rain and snow. -Food and a roof.

227 What are they doing it for? -It's not for fun. You can bet on that.

228 I tell ya, these are hard times. The whole area's gone to ruin. It's run by gangsters. Even I have to keep my head down.

229 That's right. I'm alive. All you need's a steel board strapped on your chest. I tell you, it's most effective. -You!

230 You're lucky to be alive. You fought with real experts. You might have died.

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