13 Movie Quotes about Toxic Relationships (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 1, 2026

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

1 I don't think you realize that our daughter has married a monster!

Julie Andrews as Queen Lillian in Shrek 2

2 And never forget... Anybody can control a woman's body, see, but the key is to control her mind.

Quote from The Mack (1973)

3 And what if I ever leave you? No, really! -Then I cut your throat.

Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo; Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again

4 And when you tell me you're going someplace with the girls, that's exactly and precisely what you're gonna do, with every second rigidly accounted for!

Hector Elizondo in Kojak

5 Available? You're like an old coat that's hanging in his closet. Every time he reaches in, there you are.

Quote from Desk Set (1957)

6 You don't let me talk to people. I am in a cage, Harry. I need to talk to somebody besides our stupid kids.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

7 And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was as jealous of him.

Quote from Psycho (1960)

8 And so the girl suffered in silence until one night, when she was tired from a day of housework and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother and she could no longer stand it.

Quote from Labyrinth (1986)

9 Because I saw, through a revelation of pain, that my wife was determined in her innermost mind to destroy me and my career out of willful, malicious jealousy.

Rod Steiger as Stanley Shriner Hoff in The Big Knife (1955)

10 Listen, if you leave me, cross your fingers as you go. In fact, pray for me.

Quote from The Big Knife (1955)