Movie Quotes

Lovelace: Enraged by their indifference, he followed them long after they had gone from his sight. He swam further than any of us had before, past all hope of return. Swept up by the currents, he was carried endlessly, across vast oceans, to worlds unknown.

Norma Jean: You know what? We’re going to have a graduation ceremony of our own.
Mumble: You mean it, ma?
Norma Jean: [both Norma Jean and Mumble] Eeeexelsior! Ya, ya, yaaa!
Memphis: Keep it down.
[pretends to clear his throat]
Memphis: Ya. Ya, ya.

Gloria: Ah-ah, baby. They’re sayin’
[pause]
Gloria: Mumble!

Noah the Elder: So, you dare come back?

Mumble: [after he dives off the ice cliff] Adios, Amigoooooos!

Gloria: [holding Mumble's flipper during "I Wish"] I love my love! I love my love!

Miss Viola: Good morning class, today we will begin with the most important lesson you will ever learn at penguin elementary. Does anyone know what that is? Anyone? Anyone? Someone? Seymour?
Baby Seymour: Fishing?
Miss Viola: No. Mumble?
Baby Mumble: Don’t eat yellow snow?

Mumble: There are things out there; things we don’t understand.
Raul: Mysteries!
Lombardo: Mind-boggling mysteries!
Rinaldo: Mystic beings!

UN Delagate: I do not want to live in a world without Penguins!

[to Memphis]
Mumble: It’s just like… singing, with your body.

Mumble: Excuse me. What is this place?
Zoo Penguin: You’re in heaven, Dave. Penguin heaven.
Mumble: Is it anywhere near Emperor Land?
Zoo Penguin: It’s wherever you want it to be. Try the water, Dave. It’s really real.

[Killer whales are menacing the adelies and Mumble perched on a buoy]
Rinaldo: They’re making us appeteasers!
Ramón: They’re appe-teasing us! Ha, ha, ha!
[pause]
Ramón: We’re gonna die.

Ramón: I don’t care where you come from, that has got to hurt!

Ramón: STOP! Lemme tell something to joo… I know size can be daunting… but don’t be afraid… I love you!

Ramón: You did everything penguinly possible.

Néstor: [watching Mumble as he slides down the cliff after falling] Man, this guy is so accidentally cool!
[all the Adélies jump after him]

Mumble: [to the leopard seal] See you fatty!
[the Amigos suddenly stop walking and slowly turn towards Mumble]
Ramón: That’s cool! “See you fatty!”
[Amigos laugh]
Ramón: Did it take you a long time to come up with that one?
Rinaldo: [reaching up to high-five Mumble] Gimme fin! Gimme fin!

Norma Jean: You don’t have to be beautiful, to turn me on. I just need your body, baby.
Male Penguin #1: Hello…
Norma Jean: From dusk ’til dawn.
Male Penguin #1: Is it me you’re lookin’ for?
Norma Jean: You don’t need experience.
Male Penguin #2: Take…
Norma Jean: To turn me out.
Male Penguin #2: These broken wings.
Norma Jean: You just leave it all up to me.
Male Penguin #3: Let’s talk about eggs, baby. Let’s talk about you and me.
Norma Jean: Mm-mm, mm-mm. You don’t have to be rich to be my pearl. Don’t have to be cool to rule my world. Ain’t no particular song I’m more compatible with. I just want your…
[turns to the huge crowd of males following her]
Norma Jean: Boys, boys! Give a chick a chance!
Memphis: [appearing on the crest of a hill] Well, since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell. It’s down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel. And I said, I’m feelin’ so lonely, baby. I’m feelin’ so lonely.
Norma Jean, Memphis: I’m feelin’ so lonely…
Norma Jean: …I could die.
Memphis: You don’t have to be rich to be my girl.
Norma Jean: Don’t have to be cool to rule my world.
Memphis: You rule my world.
Norma Jean: You’re the particular song I’m compatible with.
Memphis: I just want your…
Norma Jean, Memphis: …extra time… and your kiss.

Raul: What you huggin me for?
Ramón: He told me to.
Raul: Get away.
Ramón: No, you like it!

Ramón: I like big tails and I can’t deny!

Mumble: I’m being spontan-you-us!

Leopard Seal: Remember dumplings, I know where you live.
Raul: Yeah! It’s called LAND, lardface!

Lovelace: Ladies, please avert your eyes… ’cause I’ve been known to hypnotize.

Ramón: Kiss my frozen tushy! Kiss it, kiss it!

Memphis: It… it just ain’t penguin, okay?

[talking to humans]
Mumble: I’m speaking plain penguin!

Memphis: Whatcha doin’ there, boy?
Baby Mumble: [tap dancing] I’m happy, Pa!
Memphis: Whatcha doin’ with your feet?
Baby Mumble: [looks down] They’re happy, too!

Ramón: You know, chica chica boom boom.
Mumble: You are not interested in chicas?
Raul: You kidding?
Ramón: Without us, the chicas got no boom!
[laughs]

Seymour: [Gloria is singing "Somebody To Love"] Hey! I’m somebody!

Seymour: It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under!

Baby Seymour: Don’t push me ’cause I am close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head.

Ramón: Don’t be so snooty, booty!

Memphis: No harm done, see?

Memphis: Remember stranger danger!
Mumble: Sure thing, pa!
Memphis: Watch out for leopard seals and them killer whales!

Mumble: Let me tell something to joo! When I find out what’s happening to the fish, I’ll be back!

Ramón: Big guy. Let me tell something to you. Come close. Don’t be afraid. You want answers?
Mumble: Yeah.
Ramón: Thats all you need?
Mumble: Yeah.
Ramón: Nothing else?
Mumble: No.
Ramón: Then this is very easy. You go see Lovelace.
Raul, Lombardo, Néstor, Rinaldo: Yaaaah. Lovelace
Raul: Genius Ramon.
Ramón: Thank you
Raul: You are the man.
Ramón: I right now take a moment for myself. Bow down, bow down.
[All Amigos bow to him]
Raul: You the man, you the man.
Ramón: Thats enough. I feel your love.

Mumble: Take the fish.
Gloria: Huh?
Mumble: Take the stupid fish.
Gloria: Oh, okay.
[eats the fish]
Gloria: Thanks, Mumble.
Mumble: You’re welcome.

Lovelace: [narrating Memphis and Norma Jean] His Mom and Dad met in the usual way, the song became love, and love became the egg.

Néstor: Amigo, that is a good thing you do.
Ramón: She is going to be so much better off without you. She is going to find a good steady guy to comfort her…
[Raul attempts to slap Ramón, but misses]
Ramón: And love her up real good and raise a big family…
Rinaldo: Ramón. Ramón! He’s hurting. He’s hurting bad.

Ramón: We sing the heart of our true friend Mumble. You are a nation of teeny weeny, pibbling pickolini, piddily diddily poof!

Gloria: Daylight deals a bad hand…
[Mumble taps his feet]
Gloria: Baby, uh-uh, it don’t work
[Mumble taps his feet again]
Gloria: Baby, uh uh uh, uh-uh
[Mumble taps his feet again]
Gloria: Uh uh uh, uh
[Mumble taps his feet again]
Gloria: Uh uh uh, uh
[Mumble taps his feet again]
Gloria: Uh uh uh/So slowly…
[Mumble taps his feet along while Gloria sings]
Gloria: So slowly into hearts of those who/Need more than they get/Daylight deals a bad hand/To a penguin that has laid too many bets/The mirror stares you in the face and says/”Baby, uh-uh, it don’t work!”/You say your prayers, though you don’t care/You sing and you/Shake the hurt… /DANCE!

Lovelace: I must retire now to my couch of perpetual indulgence.

Noah the Elder: Give praise to the great Guin!

Ramón: Just a moment. I hear people wanting something… ME!

Mumble: [attempting to sing] Twinkle twinkle little (grating squawking) STAAAR!

Miss Viola: A penguin without a heart song is hardly a penguin at all!