Nathan Lane movie quotes

“If more people gave up, there'd be fewer wars.”

Nathan Lane - Snowbell

Oh, I know what you're going to say. "If you kill the mother, the fetus dies, too". But the fetus is going to be aborted anyway, so why not let it go down with the ship?

Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman

“- Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
- Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
- Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
- Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
- Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
- Timon: Pumbaa,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon

“Limbo is like New Jersey. You can see all the good stuff, you just have to get there.”
Nathan Lane - Phil Webster

“I like to use both sides of my brain.”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“- Richard Levy the Driven: Congratulations. You're actually drinking, driving, smoking, leering and groping at the same time.
- Richard Levy the Shameless: Which on one hand, is just about the coolest thing ever but on the other hand, maybe isn't so great for the image.”

Nathan Lane - Richard Levy the Driven
Sean Hayes - Richard Levy the Shameless

- Albert Goldman: Oh God, I pierced the toast!
- Armand Goldman: So what? The important thing to remember is not to go to pieces when that happens. You have to react like a man, calmly. You have to say to yourself, "Albert, you pierced the toast, so what? It's not the end of your life".
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman

“- Armand Goldman: Al, you old son of a bitch! How ya doin'? How do you feel about that call today? I mean the Dolphins! Fourth-and-three play on their 30 yard line with only 34 seconds to go!
- Albert Goldman: How do you think I feel? Betrayed, bewildered... wrong response?”
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman

“Friends stick together to the end.”
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Lars Smuntz: What are you gonna do?
- Ernie Smuntz: I'm gonna kill that unspeakable thing once and for all.”

Lee Evans - Lars Smuntz
Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

"You look tired" means "you look old". And "you look rested" means "you've had collagen"..
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman

“Watch where you aim that morning breath. That should come with a warning label.”

Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Albert Goldman: Don't give me that tone!
- Armand Goldman: What tone?
- Albert Goldman: That sarcastic contemptuous tone that means you know everything because you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.
- Armand Goldman: You're not a woman.
- Albert Goldman: Oh, you bastard!”
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman

“Don't anybody move! This things loaded... I'll let you have it!”

Nathan Lane - Timon

- Rafiki: You seek Hakuna Matata.
- Timon: Harpoon a tomato?
- Rafiki: Hakuna Matata. It means "no worries".
Robert Guillaume - Rafiki
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Armand Goldman: Los Copa? There's nothing in Los Copa but a cemetery.
- Albert Goldman: I know, that's why I'm packing light.
- Armand Goldman: Oh I see, so you're going to a cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian.”
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman

“- Cale Tucker: For your information, I happen to be humanity's last great hope.
- Preed: I weep for the species.”
Matt Damon - Cale Tucker
Nathan Lane - Preed

“Excuse me, Johnny, I've got to hang up. We're expecting a call from you any minute.”

Nathan Lane - Tim

“- Uncle Max: We're food for other animals! A moveable feast, feared by no-one and eaten by all!
- Timon: But when they die, they become the grass, and we eat the grass, right?
- Uncle Max: Not exactly. We can't digest grass. We're grass intolerant.”
Jerry Stiller - Uncle Max
Nathan Lane - Timon

“Why you miserable, cowardly, wretched little caterpillar! Don't you ever want to become a butterfly? Don't you want to spread your wings, and flap your way to glory?”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“What's wrong with giving up?... And just think of the time you save!”
Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“Hide and seek is it? Or should we play search and destroy?”

Nathan Lane - Preed

“- Lars Smuntz: This is how accidents happen, come on, Ernie, just put the gun down...
- Ernie Smuntz: I'm gonna blow his furry little head off, and I'm gonna splatter his devious little mouse brain from here to kingdom come!”

Lee Evans - Lars Smuntz
Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“- Timon: What do you call a hyena with half a brain?
- Pumbaa: Beats me, Timon. What?
- Timon: Gifted!”
Nathan Lane - Timon
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa

- Pumbaa: You know, kid, in times like this my buddy Timon here says: "You got to put your behind in your past".
- Timon: No, no, no. Amateur. Lie down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you".

Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon