Quotes / You Talk Too Much!

"Oh, why don't you button up your lip? You're always squawkin' about something. You've got more static than a radio."

—Jack, Reefer Madness

Donkey: Hi, Princess!
Princess Fiona: It talks?!
Shrek: Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick.

—Shrek

"Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, you're dead now, so shut up."

—Grim Reaper, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Doyle: You're supposed to be the king of South London. How come I've never heard of you?
Stuart: I heard of you, Doyle—good things. No-one ever told me you talk too much.

— The Professionals, "Blackout"

Batman: We can do this easy, Kobra. Give me the antidote. If it works, you go free. You have the word of the Batman on that.
Kobra: You waste both of our times. Both of us know the wine of violence. Both of us know that this must end here, with a long and heady draft of it. I will toast your death with it.
Batman: You talk too much.

— Dance with the Demons

Supergirl: Let's forgo the posturing, Zod. How did you escape the Phantom Zone? What is it you think you're commanding? And where's Superman?
Kru-El: Tedious is she not? A family trait, I'm afraid, General.

— The Phantom Zone

Grace: "But, you know what gets me the most about you anorexic Barbie dolls...?"
Supergirl: (breaking Grace's metal staff) You talk way too much!"

— Girl Power

John: Cortana, do me a favor.
Cortana: Anything.
John: Stop talking. Can't hear myself think.
Cortana (undertone): Well, I can, and you're not missing much.

— Halo (2022), "Reckoning"

Neon: You know who we are?
Astos: I'm a dark elf, you see. And we dark elves kn—
Jack: Just tell us about the crystals. That's all I want to know.
Astos: Good, good. Those who are to forge the future mustn't be concerned with trivialities.
Jack: Then cut to the chase.

— Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

"It astonishes me that Mr. LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled, and nearly bitten his tongue off, and yet not only does he continue to talk but he spills the banks of English."

— Rooster, True Grit

Lex Luthor: "Why the hurry, Kryptonian— unless you're worried that red-sun screen of yours might wear off before you've spirited me out of range of Lexor's red sun!"
Superman: (annoyed) "Luthor, you never did know when to shut up!"

— "Luthor Unleashed"

"I think you're a very capable person, and I value you very much. So far we've made a good team. But you know...you talk too much."

— Major Grigori Bortsov, Telefon

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