Sound quotes

“The movie might have sucked, but that soundtrack was FIRE!”
Ben Schwartz - F. Tony Scarapiducci

“The walls are as thin as paper and the acoustics disgustingly perfect.”
Gene Tierney - Ellen Berent Harland

“Sounds have soul. Build them from scratch. Find new ones. Get your head out of that laptop and start listening to what the world's trying to tell you.”
Wes Bentley - James

“You know what my new favorite sound is going to be? The sound of you screaming like a bitch!”

Neal McDonough - Jay Hamilton

“- Dale Kerrigan: [voiceover] He loved the serenity of the place.
- Darryl Kerrigan: Hows the serenity?
- Dale Kerrigan: [voiceover] I think he also just loved the word.
- Darryl Kerrigan: So much serenity.”
Stephen Curry - Dale Kerrigan
Michael Caton-Jones - Darryl Kerrigan

“At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.”
Holly Hunter - Ada

“You know the sound that a fork makes in the garbage disposal? That’s the sound that my brain makes all the time.”
William Jackson Harper - Chidi Anagonye

“There's a popular myth that 128 beats per minute is the rate that synergizes most with your heartbeat. That's the magic number. Once you've gotten your crowd there, you're controlling their entire circulatory system.”

Zac Efron - Cole

“Sometimes they hear a thundering sound when there are no clouds. They assume the gods have eaten too much and their tummies are rumbling. Sometimes they can even see the evidence of the gods' flatulence.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman, and that's you.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“Stay back, or I'll Poupon you! Get it? Poop-on-you?”

Tim Redwine - Drew Utley

“- Q: We packed the finder with a highly concentrated plastic explosive. Sufficient to remove a door of any safe. Its magnetic. The actuating signal is personalized.
- James Bond: What's my code?
- Q: Most appropriate: A wolf whistle.”
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
Timothy Dalton - James Bond

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”
Mary Pickford

“Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something.”

Eric Portman - Thomas Colpeper, JP

“The torture of the bell: it never stops. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day. Seems harmless, doesn't it? Just a bell ringing. But the percussion and the repercussion of sound against your eardrums will soften and destroy them until the sound is magnified a thousand times.”

Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“- Ann Carrington: What's that sound?
- Lillian - the Housekeeper: It's the waves. Angry waves. Day after day, night after night, they beat with savage fury against the black rocks below. For twenty years they've been calling... calling to someone who never answers.”
Carole Landis - Ann Carrington
Rafaela Ottiano - Lillian - the Housekeeper

“I don't know how to pronounce it: Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague.”

Julianne Moore - Cathy Whitaker

“- Annie Bean: It sounds like it's gonna break.
- Yul Perrkins a.k.a. Charles Bronson: No, it does not sound like it's gonna break. It sounds like is has 700 horsepower. All right? You're being a girl. Believe me, all dudes love how this car sounds.
- Annie Bean: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I'm in a 700 horsepower dude lure?
- Yul Perrkins a.k.a. Charles...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kristen Bell - Annie Bean
Dax Shepard - Yul Perrkins a.k.a. Charles Bronson

“I got you the big screen TV, deluxe karaoke machine, and THX quality sound that would make George Lucas cream in his pants!”
Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy

“- John W. Creasy: The gunshot holds no fear, say it.
- Lupita Ramos: The gunshot holds no fear.
- John W. Creasy: You welcome the sound. In fact it's the sound that sets you free. You are a prisoner on this block until that sound sets you free.”

Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy
Dakota Fanning - Lupita Ramos

“Hang on, people. I am picking up an underwater bubbling sound. I'm not sure what it is, but it is bubbling furiously.”
Allen Covert - Fred Wolf

“- Oscar Galvin: What the hell was that?
- Connie: That was ten million pounds of train, Mr. Galvin! And this is the sound of me saving your ass!”

Kevin Dunn - Galvin
Rosario Dawson - Connie

“His ass is so tight, when he farts only dogs can hear it.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero

“Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs.”
Kyle MacLachlan - Paul Atreides

“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula