40 Movie Quotes about Waste (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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

21 In the jungle, nothing goes to waste, nature recycles everything.

Quote from Cannibal Holocaust

22 You know what? Haste makes waste.

Bill Thompson as Droopy Dog in The Tex Avery Show

23 Are you going to let all this beauty go to waste?

Tracy Stratford as Lucy Van Pelt in A Charlie Brown Christmas

24 Hey, Toad! Is that you in that beautiful car? Jeez, what a waste of machinery.

Quote from American Graffiti

25 Brothers, why don't we all practice with a pole? Why are you sitting here so silent? It's a waste of time.

Quote from The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

26 You mustn't waste your talents on a petty brawl. Save yourself for worthwhile things.

Quote from Five Fingers of Death

27 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.

Quote from Jungle Fever

28 Okay. Well, I've got to go. Gotta get up early and waste some more money on my overpriced education.

Minnie Driver as Skylar in Good Will Hunting

29 Back home I used to think I knew what the war was all about. -And now? -Now I'm not so sure. Everything seems such a waste.

June Allyson as Lt. Ruth McCara in Battle Circus (1953)

30 Call me any time, love to have you waste your money.

Angie Dickinson as Beatrice Ocean in Ocean's 11 (1960)