Jack Black movie quotes

“Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man.”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“- Dewey Finn: Now, what makes you mad more than anything in the world?
[sees Billy who has his hand raised]
- Dewey Finn: Billy?
- Billy: You.”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Brian Falduto - Billy

“Sometimes... it's easy to get so focused on your own stuff that... you forget other people have problems too.”

Jack Black - Bethany

“- Shifu: If you only do what you can do, you'll never be better than what you are.
- Po: But I like who I am!
- Shifu: You don't even know who you are!”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu
Jack Black - Po

“- Professor Shelly Oberon: Oh my God, this is so cool! Martha, come look at my penis!
- Ruby Roundhouse: No, thanks!”

Jack Black - Bethany
Karen Gillan - Martha

“Every story ever told can be broken down into three parts. The beginning. The middle. And the twist.”

Jack Black - Stine

“- Po: Master Shifu? Good time, bad time?
- Shifu: Time is an allusion, there is only the now.
- Po: So now is a... good time?
- Shifu: Oh!”
Jack Black - Po
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.”
Jack Black

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“- Dewey Finn: You, Freddy, what do you like to do?
- Freddy Jones: I dunno... burn stuff?”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Kevin Alexander Clark - Freddy Jones

“We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass.”
Jack Black On Jennifer Lopez

“Where’s the jungle? This is a whole new thing. Nobody told us we had to do a whole new thing!”

Jack Black - Oberon

“- Shifu: You must take the next step on your journey, from warrior to teacher.
- Po: But I'm no good at it!
- Shifu: You're terrible at it!”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu
Jack Black - Po

- Professor Shelly Oberon: Seriously, I can't even open my mouth around you. You don't even know me, but you, like, decided you hate me.
- Ruby Roundhouse: Look, I just think you live in, like, the "hot popular girl" bubble, you know, where everybody either treats you like a princess or like an object. Maybe it makes you a little self-absorbed... (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Black - Bethany
Karen Gillan - Martha

“- Po: Teaching? There's no way I'm ever gonna be like you!
- Shifu: I'm not trying to turn you into me; I'm trying to turn you into you.”

Jack Black - Po
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“- Mr. Ping: What was I supposed to do, huh? What if the pandas don't have food you like? You're never gonna be able to save the world on an empty stomach.
- Li: Oh yes, about that. We can't share the location of the village with others. So...
- Mr. Ping: Oh, you think I can't keep a secret, huh? I raised Po for twenty years before I finally told...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Hong - Mr. Ping
Javier Bardem - Li
Jack Black - Po

“No! I'm an over-weight middle-aged man!”

Jack Black - Bethany

“- Li: We’re pandas! We don’t do stairs!
- Po: I have waited all my life to hear those words.”

Javier Bardem - Li
Jack Black - Po

“- Li: You have to come home with me.
- Po: What? To the secret village?
- Li: Yes, son. You must rediscover what it is to be a panda. You have to learn how to live like a panda. Sleep like a panda. Eat like a panda. Those one hundred and three dumplings? I was just warming up.
- Po: I always knew I wasn’t eating up to my full potential!”
Javier Bardem - Li
Jack Black - Po

“Monsters belong in B movies.”
Jack Black - Carl Denham

“Your real strength comes from being your best you.”
Jack Black - Po

“- Oogway: I understand. You eat when you are upset.
- Po: Upset? I'm not upset. Why, what makes you think I'm upset?
- Oogway: So why are you upset?
- Po: I probably sucked more today than anybody in the history of kung fu. In the history of China. In the history of sucking!”

Randall Duk Kim - Oogway
Jack Black - Po

“I service society by rocking, ok? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“- Ruby Roundhouse: Could I borrow your jacket? I feel like I'm wearing a bikini.
- Professor Shelly Oberon: I once wore a bikini to school.”
Karen Gillan - Martha
Jack Black - Bethany

“- Martha: Are you gonna help, or are you too pretty?
- Bethany: [serious] I'm too pretty.”
Karen Gillan - Martha
Jack Black - Bethany