133 Movie Quotes about Waking Up (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 20, 2026

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

1 What's this? I can't believe my eyes. I must be dreaming. Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair.

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2 Alice, wake up! Please wake up, Alice. Please wake up, Alice.

Quote from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

3 Wake up, honey.

Quote from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

4 Genie, wake up and smell the hummus.

Robin Williams as Genie; The Genie Of The Lamp in Aladdin (1992)

5 Hey, kids! -What? -Get your lazy bottoms out of bed and do jumping jacks with Binky the Clown. One, two!

Thom Huge as Binky The Clown in Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

6 Wake up and smell the seaweed, you little fool.

Tim Curry as Drake The Evil Penguin in The Pebble and the Penguin

7 Sometimes I wake up and don't know where I am.

Quote from Rambo 1 - First Blood

8 Wake up, stupid. -We've gotta get dressed.

Quote from Cinderella (1950)

9 You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

Quote from The Matrix

10 Wake up, you piece of _!

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street