71 Movie Quotes about Taxes (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

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

21 Look over here. Incredible! -It oughta be. It sure cost the taxpayers enough.

Ernest Borgnine as Harry Booth in The Black Hole (1979)

22 Okay, folks, but remember your manners. No stampeding. Walk slow, like you do when you come to pay your taxes.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

23 This part of my life is called Paying Taxes. If you didn't pay'em, the government could stick their hands into your bank account and take your money.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

24 It's all my fault. I should've committed highway robbery to get that tax money for you.

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939)

25 Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe enough to buy a new car. And then what? I've got to pay tax on the car. Repair, maintenance, goddamn kids pestering me to take 'em for a ride all the time

Clancy Brown as Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption

26 I tell you. Uncle Sam! He puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple.

Clancy Brown as Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption

27 No I don't think they pay income tax. At least you never see their names up very high on the list. -Yeah, leaving us to pay it for them. I hate bankers.

Harold Lloyd as Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

28 It's been a bad harvest. The people have nothing. How can we increase the taxes? They won't be able to live.

Quote from Shaolin Prince

29 Department of Internal Revenue, you know, income tax. -Oh yes, yes. -We thought you were gangsters.

Celeste Holm as Flame O'Neill in Champagne for Caesar

30 Income... So, Uncle Sam is checking up on a guy's arithmetic, huh?

Edward G. Robinson as Joe Krozac in The Last Gangster