100 Movie Quotes about Wasting Time (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

51 Yeah. Yes, we can only get more of everything except time. Can't send home for more time.

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

52 How do you expect anything to go out of it's way to have a go at you? Look at you, sitting there like a bag of nutty slack.

Harry H. Corbett as Sergeant Sidney Bung in Carry On Screaming!

53 So let's just stop gabbin' on about it. It's completely pointless. And it's gettin' us nowhere. -Right! -I agree. This is a complete waste of time.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian

54 Well, you certainly exercised your mouth, Cher. Now hit the ball.

Quote from Clueless (1995)

55 Nothing to do but sit around on our backsides for months, starin' at a bunch of angry boars. Mm-hmm.

Quote from Princess Mononoke

56 Can't you see I'm busy? -Doing what? Playing with your _cat?

Ken Berry as Frank Wilson; McLean Stevenson as Norman Link in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

57 We've got customers. -Shoes? -Expensive. -Look busy, guys.

River Phoenix as Carl; Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)

58 Gee, you're such a swell fella wasting your time like this when I don't even know what theheck you're talking about. But I'll try.

Yakky Doodle in Snagglepuss (1961)

59 What are you doing wasting your time with... What am I doing wasting my time? I've got serious work to do!

Ken Sansom as Rabbit in The Tigger Movie (2000)

60 Newton, we are wasting valueless time.

Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit (1986)