153 Movie Quotes about Words (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

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

61 Speak words we can all understand!

John Rhys Davies as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

62 I'm gonna learn big words myself someday.

John Wayne as Bob Seton in Dark Command (1940)

63 My word is good. Women and people of high birth are very trustworthy.

Quote from The A-Team

64 Words. Nothing but words. You came in here to preach.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

65 Not my words. The one who first spoke them gave up his life for them.

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

66 I expect nothing from you. Nothing but words and phrases you learned in Sunday school. You don't believe in them any more than I do.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

67 Well, bad words break no bones, and they're wonderful for hardening the heart. If it wasn't for a lady's presence, I could give you a specimen or two.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

68 What's cellar door? -This famous linguist once said that, of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that cellar door is the most beautiful.

Drew Barrymore as Karen Pomeroy in Donnie Darko

69 Your word? Well, here's my word. Get the hell off my spread! Now!

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)

70 Any last words before I kill you? -Uhh... I have a couple. Butt cheeks. -Yeah, yeah! And, um, and boobs.

Quote from Beavis and Butt-Head Do America