Nathan Lane movie quotes

“- Franz Liebkind: Not many people know this, but the Fuhrer was descended from a long line of English queens.
- Max Bialystock: Is that right?”
Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“- Snowbell: Cats don't eat raisins! We have too much class. We eat fish byproducts.
- Stuart Little: How about the alley?
- Snowbell: An alley? I'm a cat! We're fastidious creatures. We use a litter box. We don't just yell 'Bombs away' and go wherever we are!”
Nathan Lane - Snowbell
Michael J. Fox - Stuart Little

“- Ernie Smuntz: Wow... I almost feel sorry for the little fella.
- Ernie Smuntz and Lars Smuntz: [together, laughing] Almost!”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz
Lee Evans - Lars Smuntz

“This is a sign, like the burning bush, except this a carburetor and I'm not Moses.”

Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“- Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!
- Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?”
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“I don't wanna get kicked out of my house! I'm not a street cat, I'm a house cat! I don't wanna lose my furry basket or my tinkle-ball that I push along the floor with my nose!”
Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“- Max Bialystock: The two cardinal rules of producing. One: Never put your own money in the show.
- Leo Bloom: And two?
- Max Bialystock: Never put your own money in the show!”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom

“- Mom: I gotta hand it to you, Timon. This place has everything.
- Timon: Well, now that we're all here, it does.”

Julie Kavner - Mom
Nathan Lane - Timon

“What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?”

Nathan Lane - Timon

“I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse.”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“We got the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did we go right?”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

- Timon: I know what you're thinking: "We're too different", "It'll never work", "What will the children look like?".
- Shenzi: That violates so many laws of nature.
- Timon: Listen to me! The problems of a couple of wacky kids like us don't amount to hill of termites in this nutty circle-of-life thing. And so I ask you: if not now, when? If not... (continue)(continue reading)

Nathan Lane - Timon
Whoopi Goldberg - Shenzi

He's Hitler with a tail. He's "The Omen" with whiskers. Even Nostradamus didn't see him coming!

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“- Preed: You positively glow with maternal warmth, Akima. It's very touching. I must have you.
- Akima: In your dreams.
- Preed: Akrennians don't dream, remember?
- Akima: They don't bathe much either.”
Nathan Lane - Preed
Drew Barrymore - Akima

- Pumbaa: They say first impressions are very important.
- Timon: I thought you were a "scream".
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Nathan Lane - Timon

“Hold me touch me, hold me touch me... Kiss me feel me, yank me spank me, suck me fu... ah! Hold me touch me!”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“- Pumbaa: What'd ya do, kid?
- Young Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
- Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.”
Ernie Sabella - Pumbaa
Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Young Simba
Nathan Lane - Timon

“- Stuart: Snowbell, you saved me?
- Snowbell: Yeah, yeah. Look, let's get one thing straight. I'm doing this for the Littles. They love you. George loves you. They're all miserable without you.
- Stuart: But Snowbell, you said...
- Snowbell: I know what I said, I... I lied, okay? Welcome to Manhattan. I'm the one that hates you.
- Stuart: Oh,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael J. Fox - Stuart Little
Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“Just like Julius Caesar was betrayed by Brutus, who'd think an accountant would turn out to be my Judas! I'm so dismayed, is this how I'm repaid? To be... Betrayed!”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

My mother always said, "live on Fisher Island, get buried in Palm Beach. That way, you'll have the best of Florida".
Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman

“- Lars Smuntz: I don't believe it. He snapped the trap, ate the olive and left the pit just to mock us!
- Ernie Smuntz: I think you're giving him a little too much credit. Mice don't mock. They don't have a sense of humor or irony.”
Lee Evans - Lars Smuntz
Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

- Leo Bloom: I'm very sorry I caught you feeling up the old lady.
- Max Bialystock: "Feeling up the old lady". Thank you Mr. Tact.
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“- Snowbell: I wish I were the one that was dead!
- Margalo: Really?
- Snowbell: No. But I'm feeling very unhappy!”
Nathan Lane - Snowbell
Melanie Griffith - Margalo

“- Leo Bloom: Oh, Max. Max, she's fantastic. The most beautiful girl I've ever seen. I've never felt this way before. It's like a volcano erupting inside of me... like hot lava rising higher and higher and - What is that, Max? What is it?
- Max Bialystock: It's called an erection. It's either that or malaria.”
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“Shut up! I'm having a rhetorical conversation!”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock