Silence quotes

“Miss Russell, I should've called the police that night but I was weak. You convinced me to stay silent. I regret that. Know this: every time I see your face, I wanna rip your throat out.”
Scott Glenn - Bill Burton

“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.”
David Steinberg

“Time to nut up or shut up!”
Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee

“The world is quieter now. We just have to listen. If we listen, we can hear God's plan.”
Alice Braga - Anna

“- Jason Alexander: Damn, it's quiet out here! I should've brought my radio.
- Lyric: No, it's not quiet. It's full of music. Just listen.”

Allen Payne - Jason Alexander
Jada Pinkett Smith - Lyric

“As he lifted the 400-pound weights above his head, he was in agony... but he bore it in silence.”

Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood

“- Don Diego Vega: He is a mute.
- Esteban: Bueno! Perhaps he can give lessons to my wife.”

George Hamilton - Don Diego Vega

“- Dr. Leo Marvin: I want some peace and quiet!
- Bob Wiley: Well, I'll be quiet.
- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: I'll be peace!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley
Charlie Korsmo - Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin

“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

“Silenzio, Bruno!”
Jack Dylan Grazer - Alberto Scorfano

“If I were buying my coffin, I would get one with thicker walls so you couldn’t hear the other dead people.”
Rainn Wilson - Dwight Schrute

“Don't let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice so use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers. Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes, just find your voice, and when you do, fill the damn silence.”
Ellen Pompeo - Dr. Meredith Grey

“Money buys a man’s silence for a time. A bolt in the heart buys it forever.”
Aidan Gillen - Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish

“Silence can also be a prayer.”
Bartosz Bielenia - Daniel

“Quiet out here. Peaceful. No Noise except my own.”
Tom Holland - Todd

“Branch-Seriously, more singing?
Poppy-Yes, seriously. Singing helps me relax. Maybe you ought to try it.
Branch-I don't sing and I don't relax. This is the way I am and I like it. I also like a little silence!”
Anna Kendrick - Poppy
Justin Timberlake - Branch

“My mother always said that silence can be the loudest thing. But she never shut the fuck up.”
Yael Stone - Lorna Morello

“I play music all the time because silence freaks me out.”
Taika Waititi

“Already I have dropped back into the desert as if it were my own place. Silence and solitude all around me like an impenetrable veil. Sleep more profound that civilization contrives. And then, the roadless desert, again.”

Nicole Kidman - Gertrude Bell

Once, my husband told me of this man. He avenges our wrongs. And the bounty killers sure do tremble when he appears. They call him "Silence." Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows.
Vonetta McGee - Pauline Middleton

“The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone. The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. Suicide? No, too vulgar. But you can...” (continue)(continue reading)

Margaretha Krook - The Doctor

“I understand why you don't speak, why you don't move, why you've created a part for yourself out of apathy. I understand. I admire. You should go on with this part until it is played out, until it loses interest for you. Then you can leave it, just as you've left your other parts one by one.”

Margaretha Krook - The Doctor

“- Ben Wade: I mean, I don't go around just shootin' people down... I work quiet, like you.
- Dan Evans: All right, so you're quiet like me. Well then, shut up like me.”
Glenn Ford - Ben Wade
Van Heflin - Dan Evans

“It's not easy to shut an actor's mouth.”
Vincent Price - Prof. Henry Jarrod