58 Movie Quotes about Toughness (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

11 Listen, little girl, this is a tough neighborhood. You'd better go home.

Dom Deluise as Fagin in Oliver & Company (1988)

12 You're a nice guy, John. I like you. You're gentle. I always like gentle people. Me... I'm hard. Hard and tough. I got no use for hard people. Gotta be gentle to suit me. Like you, for instance.

James Gleason in Meet John Doe (1941)

13 Man, I ain't worried about jail! _, I don't give a damn about goin' to jail. You can take me to jail! _, lock me up! Throw away the key!

Toothpick in Don't Be a Menace

14 Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot?

Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur in Airplane (1980)

15 Put that down! The only souvenirs we collect here are bloody knuckles and broken bones.

Quote from Kung Fu Panda

16 Old lady, you're a tough old bird! -You can say that again! You won't pluck my feathers!

Quote from Drunken Dragon

17 Cos I'm a karate man, all right? Karate men bruise on the inside, they don't show their weaknesses.

Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading places (1983)

18 I love anything with full contact. Need a few more scars on my face.

Ray Jackson in Bloodsport

19 What do you think? This ought to be the right kind of place for a tough guy like you. Garbage cans, rats galore.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

20 I don't care. I'm gonna be tough. -Sure, you live in the jungle, you gotta be tough. But running away, that ain't tough, kid.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune