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

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.

51 My time is extremely valuable, so I can stick away into minutes, minutes become hours, hours disappear into days and weeks, weeks suddenly form months and months have a habit of becoming years.

Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters in Champagne for Caesar

52 You are wasting time and you have so little left.

Quote from Batman (1966)

53 I fear at this moment, time's too precious to spend with our admirers. We must get cracking.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

54 You know something? You ought to spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself, and a little less time trying to impress people. You might be better off.

Paul Gleason as Richard Vernon in The Breakfast Club

55 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

56 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

57 Maybe I could help. You saved my life two times. -But I'm gonna be too busy to keep doing that.

Quote from El Dorado (1966)

58 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)

59 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!

60 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