99 Movie Quotes about Wasting Time (Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Sep 15, 2025

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

21 You never hear somebody say, 'With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.' You don't hear that.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

22 In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

23 Who calls him on the phone? -If you're a good swimmer, you can ask the guy who found out. He's at the bottom of the river.

Zero Mostel as Big Babe Lazick in The Enforcer (1951)

24 Beastly things, telephones. Ring, ring, ring. Stop what you're doing. Get up. Hurry, hurry. Ring, Ring, Ring. No manners at all, huh?

Quote from Shadowlands

25 Get them IQs off their tennis courts. -Yes, sir. -Double pronto!

Harry Morgan as General Stilton in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

26 Gab, gab, gab. Always gossiping.

Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo (1941)

27 Wait a minute. All we're doing is going around in circles.

Oliver Hardy as Ollie in A Chump at Oxford

28 What are you? Insane? We're wasting time.

Quote from Toy Story 2

29 I ain't got time to bleed. Oh... OK.

Quote from Predator (1987)

30 Oh! You're wasting my time!

Quote from The Wizard of Oz (1939)