100 Movie Quotes about Wasting Time (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 Would you like some tea? -No. I've got to crack this case, and I'm on a tight schedule.

Quote from Curse of the Pink Panther

82 Michael, we don't have a lot of time on this earth. We weren't meant to spend it this way.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

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

James Caan as Mississippi; John Wayne as Cole Thornton in El Dorado (1966)

84 Hey, listen, let's cut out the talkie. Serves no point. All it does is waste time.

Quote from The Avenging Eagle

85 You'd better not be wasting my time. You got money?

Quote from Coming to America (1988)

86 This bickering is pointless.

Quote from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

87 I guess we can't make small talk all day, huh?

Quote from Ted (2012)

88 Quiet, goddamn it! You're wasting my time!

Quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

89 Stop jerking around before I close you down for wasting my time.

Quote from Taken (2008)

90 We're wasting time. Let's go to the sandlot.

Quote from The Sandlot (1993)