18 Movie Quotes about Vanity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 4, 2025

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

1 Lastly, do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

2 Were it not for vanity, why at this very moment I could embrace you in my arms... my son.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

3 Amida Buddha, all is vanity and emptiness. All is illusion.

Quote from Ninja vs. Shaolin Guards (1984)

4 And look at this: he's throwing another I'm the richest man in the universe party.

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

5 This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.

Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta

6 I know you're egocentric. It's your defining characteristic.

Andie MacDowell as Rita Hanson in Groundhog Day

7 I don't want to die. I must look awful.

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The Big Heat (1953)

8 My dressing room has not been sprayed with eau de cologne as I ordered.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

9 If his body was as big as his ego he'd be king-size.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

10 I'll go and change. I wouldn't want him to see me in the same dress twice.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

18 Movie Quotes about Vanity (+ Sound Clips)

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