31 Movie Quotes about Tunnels (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 17, 2025

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

1 That long, dark tunnel to nowhere. -Or somewhere.

Yvette Mimieux as Dr. Kate McCrae; Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt in The Black Hole (1979)

2 Ha! Think you got it bad? My tunnels are soaked. This weather isn't fit for man nor beast. Not to mention gophers.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 Shortest distance between two points is a straight tunnel.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 Now remember, stick close to me. The worst thing in tunnel excavation is losing your bearings.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 I don't know, but I don't like the looks of that tunnel up there.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

6 The kid's not kidding, Ma. There's a tunnel down there.

Sean Astin as Michael "Mikey" Walsh in The Goonies

7 It's coming from that tunnel.

Tom Hanks as The Polar Express Conductor in The Polar Express

8 My tools! They're gone! Thieves! Tunnel invaders!

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 Ah! Why, yes. That's it. His tunnels. We'll clear them out of his tunnels. Hoo hoo! Then he can do home.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 My grandpappy was always an overeager young whippersnapper, and one day he accidentally tunneled into the Grand Canyon.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh