21 Movie Quotes about Translation (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jun 9, 2025

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

11 What? Wait a minute, translate that into English, will you? What? Who?

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue in All Through the Night (1942)

12 Excuse me, but what exactly am I doing with this fish in my ear? -It's translating for you. Look in the book under Babel Fish.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

13 These techniques, the Chinese have them? -Sure, but a different name. In Chinese we call it... murder.

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

14 Is that a Monkey Thought Translator?

Anna Faris as Sam Sparks in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

15 But if you'd like me to translate for you, I'll be happy to. You want him to turn out his pockets?

George Peppard as Col. John Hannibal Smith in The A-Team

16 I don't think he means any disrespect. He probably loses it in the translation.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hercules in Hercules In New York

17 Luke, tell Uncle if he gets a translator, be sure it speaks Bocce.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

18 Oh? Did you see it translate Russian into Chinese?

Spencer Tracy as Richard Sumner in Desk Set (1957)

19 It's Gemonese. Boomer can translate.

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

20 Translation looks good.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

21 Movie Quotes about Translation (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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