Be careful what you wish for.

Other lines from this film

• Let the curse fit the crime.featured
• More terror. Less filling.

This wording in other films

One line, 10 films.

• Coraline (2009)
• Into the Woods (2014)
• The Time Machine (2002)
• Wish (2023)
• Wish Upon (2017)
• Wishmaster (1997)
• Leprechaun Returns (2018)
• Candy Cane Lane (2023)
• Birthday Girl (2001)

Near-identical lines elsewhere

• Careful what you wish for. — Birth (2004)
• Careful what you wish for — Crush (2013)

Similar meaning

Lines whose meaning sits closest, by embedding similarity.

Same sentence pattern

Shape: be … what you … for