Birds quotes

“The birds in the desert eat only flesh, and there is no wind.”
Isabelle Adjani - Shirra Assel

“Flying is much more than flapping wings. A bird can flap its wings and not move an inch then when it wants to fly the slightest flick of its wings sends it up against the sky. You have to feel that air has substance and can hold you up. It's mostly a matter of confidence.”
Matthew Modine - Birdy

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls. For me they will always be “glorious birds”.
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“- Birdy: Do you like pigeons?
- Al Columbato: What's to like?
- Birdy: They fly.
- Al Columbato: They fly. So what?
- Birdy: That's enough.”
Matthew Modine - Birdy
Nicolas Cage - Al Columbato

“- Paulie: Hit the brakes, ugly.
- Benny: That's cute. You train the bird to insult your customers?
- Paulie: No, I could tell you're ugly all by myself.”

Jay Mohr - Paulie
Jay Mohr - Benny

“- Mary Jane: Are you an ornithologist as well?
- Bartell D'Arcy: An amateur. I suppose being a singer makes me susceptible to other creatures that sing. Birds are the most beautiful singers of all. Just think of the widow warbler and the wren.”
Ingrid Craigie - Mary Jane
Frank Patterson - Bartell D'Arcy

“- Dr. Reingold: He mimics.
- Misha Vilyenkov: Mimics? What is mimics?
- Dr. Reingold: He repeats what he hears. It is not talk.
- Misha Vilyenkov: No, you don't understand. He's intelligent, Doctor.”

Bruce Davison - Dr. Reingold
Tony Shalhoub - Misha Vilyenkov

“- Joshamee Gibbs: He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how.
- Jack Sparrow: Mr. Cotton's... parrot. Same question.
- Parrot Voice: [squawk] Wind in the sails. Wind in the sails.
- Joshamee Gibbs: Mostly, we figure, that means 'yes'.”
Kevin McNally - Joshamee Gibbs
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Christopher S. Capp - Parrot Voice

“- Stuart Little: You know where we can find him?
- Monty: You don't wanna find him. You don't want anything to do with him. Trust me. He'd eat you so fast, you'd be a pile of falcon poop before you could yell for help.”
Michael J. Fox - Stuart Little
Steve Zahn - Monty

“This big fat crow lands on a billboard. Biggest, fattest crow I ever saw in my life. And I fix on him, and he dropped dead - boom, in the sand. Damndest thing I ever saw. Kind of made me sick. In fact, it made me poop. It made me poop my pants. It was about a four-inch, bell-shaped fece, very hard, very firm. Things haven't been going too good...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marshall Bell - Larry

“- Miss Bianca: Oh, Captain. Is this a non-stop flight to Australia?
- Wilbur: Well, uh, not exactly. No. I can definitely say no. We're gonna have to make connections with a bigger bird. Non-stop? Who do I look like, Charles Lindbergh?”
Eva Gabor - Miss Bianca
John Candy - Wilbur

“- Sonny Valerio: Where's he live?
- Louie: Fuck, if I know. That's the next strange thing. I mean, I can't just call him up. Instead, he contacts me every day through a bird.
- Sonny Valerio: Did you just say he contacts you through a bird? Did I just hear you say that?!”

Cliff Gorman - Sonny Valerio
John Tormey - Louie

“- Imperius: What do you want?
- Gaston: I was told to bring you this bird. It's been wounded.
- Imperius: Oh, good shot! Bring it in, we'll dine together.
- Gaston: We can't eat this bird.
- Imperius: What? Oh God, is it Lent again already?”
Leo McKern - Imperius
Matthew Broderick - Gaston

“- Marie Alweather: Paulie is helping me learn some new words.
- Warren Alweather: Birds don't teach.”

Hallie Eisenberg - Marie Alweather
Matt Craven - Warren Alweather

“Dude, it's a llama!”

Ashton Kutcher - Jesse Montgomery III

“- Anthony Findlater: She eats like a bird...
- Ruth Ellis: Really? My son tells me birds eat twice their own weight every day.”

Tom Chadbon - Anthony Findlater
Miranda Richardson - Ruth Ellis

“- Jeremy Grey: Wow. Mr. Environmental is also a hunter. That's got to be an interesting combination.
- Sack Lodge: I hunt quail, Jeremy. They're overpopulated in this region and they're decimating the grubworm population. You got a fucking problem with that?”
Vince Vaughn - Jeremy Grey
Bradley Cooper - Sack Lodge

“- Dr. Wallace Wrightwood: You've seen hundreds, thousands of pigeons, right?
- George Henderson: Of course.
- Dr. Wallace Wrightwood: Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? Well, neither have I. I got a hunch they exist.”
Don Ameche - Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
John Lithgow - George Henderson

“Falcons are vicious. They grab you by the back of the neck and carry you so high you can't even see the ground, and then they drop you. And by the time you hit the pavement, they just drink what's left through a straw.”
Steve Zahn - Monty

“Birdie num num.”

Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi

“The head of the sexually aroused adult gobbler can change into a variety of shades of red, white and blue. It's a very patriotic bird.”
Chandler McIntyre - Naturalist

“I don't know of anything prettier, than a scissortail flyin' through the sky!”
Geraldine Page - Mrs. Watts

“- Daryl Van Horne: You haven't seen any snowy egrets around here, have you?
- Alexandra Medford: No.
- Daryl Van Horne: Of course, I wouldn't know a snowy egret if I were pissing on one. Lunch?
- Alexandra Medford: I think it's a little late in the season.
- Daryl Van Horne: For lunch?
- Alexandra Medford: No, pissing on birds.”
Jack Nicholson - Daryl Van Horne
Cher - Alexandra Medford

“I like choppers, they're like birds.”
Anthony Mannino - Gordie Jones - The Black Tigers

“I'm a bird. I have a small brain, and it's about to explode.”
Jay Mohr - Paulie