11 Movie Quotes about Turbulence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

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

1 No, I can never sleep on a plane. Turbulence. Pardon? -Turbulence... solar radiation heats the earth's crust, warm air rises, cool airs descends. Turbulence. I don't like that.

Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October

2 Some turbulence, eh, commander? You don't like flying, huh? Oh, this is nothing! You should've been with us five, six months ago!

Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

3 Turbulence.

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979)

4 I can't help it. This turbulence is slowing us down and we can't climb out of it!

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

5 Bit of clear-air turbulence. Nothing serious.

Max Von Sydow as Emperor Ming The Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980)

6 It's just a little turbulence. We'll be through it in a minute.

Max Von Sydow as Emperor Ming The Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980)

7 You have a good flight? It's a shitty flight down to Cabo. I went down there one time with Susan, my wife. _in' turbulence was unbelievable.

Pam Grier as Jackie Brown in Jackie Brown

8 Some say the wind just stoppered. Others reckon it were a gang called Turbulence.

Mel Gibson as Mad Max Rockatansky in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

9 Picking up anything on the sensors? -Negative. But with all that turbulence out there, our signal might not be getting through.

Robert Forster as Captain Dan Holland in The Black Hole (1979)

10 But it's pretty miserable flying weather. Much too turbulent to make a landing from this direction. I'll have to circle around and make a long approach from the south.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II

11 Movie Quotes about Turbulence (+ Sound Clips)

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