17 Movie Quotes about Wires (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

1 'Evening, Dr. Brown. What's with the wire?

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future

2 I'm gonna have her wires tied when I get back.

Burt Young as Paulie Pennino in Rocky IV (1985)

3 I'll never get used to it. The invention of the devil - that's what it is! People talking through wires, waking respectable people at all hours.

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

4 It seems that this wire... leads up to that speaker. -Now things are beginning to make a little sense.

Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley; Frank Welker as Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

5 It's not being a him. It's only being wires and several mechanisms and other such machine type apparatus, for the Pete of sake, the sate of Peekle.

Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit (1986)

6 Be advised. We've got zips in the wire down here.

Dale Dye as Captain Harris in Platoon

7 Oh, my God! There's a little goat eating the wire!

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

8 And sometimes you think that the wind gets in the wires and hums, and listens, and talks. Just like what we're hearing now.

Richard Carlson as John Putnam in It Came from Outer Space

9 There's one more thing. We figured out all those floating tricks. Watch. -Look, no hands! -See? Wires.

Frank Welker as Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

10 Huh? Where am I? -Scooby, be careful! You're on the trapeze wire. -The wire? Oh, no!

Don Messick as Scooby Doo in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)