[first lines] Mr. Fox: What'd the doctor say? Mrs. Fox: Nothing. Supposedly it's just a 24-hour bug. He gave me some pills. Mr. Fox: I told you, you probably just ate some bad gristle.
Private Joker: I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!
[when Nemo first meets Pearl, and people comment on his lucky fin] Pearl: See this tentacle? It's actually shorter than all my other tentacles, but you can't really tell, especially when I twirl them like this. [twirls her tentacles]
[Nemo and Marlin are heading off to Nemo's first day of school, they stop at a busy traffic street] Marlin: Wait, wait... [Red fish darts out and uses its color as a stop light, Nemo and Marlin cross] Marlin: Hold my fin, hold my fin!
Carl Showalter: You ever been to Minneapolis? Gaear Grimsrud: Nope. Carl Showalter: Would it... kill you to say something? Gaear Grimsrud: I did. Carl Showalter: "No." That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's, a fountain of c...
Ruth: I can understand having a funeral for an arm, I just don't know WHY she insists on calling him Stump. Sipsey: Miss Idgie says everybody else will be calling him that, we might as well be the first.
[speaking to himself, practicing his speech] Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child. [then, starting over]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: [writing to his mother, telling her that he's seen his first negroes amongst those fleeing the south] We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.
Ghost Dog: According to what one of the elders said, taking an enemy on the battlefield is like a hawk taking a bird. Even though it enters into the midst of a thousand of them, it gives no attention to any bird than the one it first marked.
Hagrid: Well, first the committee took turns in talking about 'why we were there'. Then I stood up and said my bit, how Buckbeak was a good hippogriff, always cleaned his feathers. And then Lucius Malfoy got up...
Dolores Umbridge: [to the students at the great hall during their first dinner] I hope that we all are going to be good very good friends. Fred Weasley, George Weasley: [sarcastically] That's bloody likely.
[first lines] Dr. Harvey Bassett: Oh, Doctor Hill. Dr. Hill: Dr. Basset. Well, where's the patient? Dr. Harvey Bassett: I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night. You'll soon see why I did.
[his opinion of Tommy] Bill: When I first saw him... I like his hair. The Bride: You promised you'd be nice. Bill: No, I said I'd do my best. That's hardly a promise.
[first lines] Ed Herlihy: And now, from New York, The Jerry Langford Show! With Jerry's guests Tony Randall, Richard Dreyfuss, Rodney Dangerfield, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Lou Brown and the orchestra, and little old me Ed Herlihy. And now say hello to Jer...
Giosué Orefice: We won! Dora: Yes, we won! It's true. Giosué Orefice: We got a thousand points and we won the game! Daddy and me came in first and now we won the real tank! We won! We won!
Jareth: Higgle... Hoggle: Hoggle! Jareth: Yes, If I thought that for one second that you would betray me, I would be forced to suspend you, head first, in the Bog of Eternal Stench. Hoggle: [falls to his knees] Oh no! Your Majesty, not the eternal st...
[first lines] Humbert Humbert: Quilty! Quilty? Clare Quilty: Ah, wha? Who's there? Humbert Humbert: Are you Quilty. Clare Quilty: No, I'm... Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or sumpn? Humbert Humbert: Are you Quilty? Clare Quilty: Yeah, yeah, I...
Sera: So why are you a drunk? Ben Sanderson: Why am I a drunk? Is that really what you wanna ask me? Sera: Yes. Ben Sanderson: Well, then, this is our first date, or our last. Until now I wasn't sure it was either.
Maggie Fitzgerald: [first meeting] Mr. Dunn? Frankie Dunn: Hmm. I owe you money? Maggie Fitzgerald: No sir. Frankie Dunn: I know your mama? Maggie Fitzgerald: Don't rightly know, sir. Frankie Dunn: Then what is it you want?
Kermit the Frog: It's all right, children. Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it. I am sure that we shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting that there was among us.
[first lines] Sam Spade: Yes, sweetheart? Effie Perine: There's a girl wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly. Sam Spade: A customer? Effie Perine: I guess so. You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout.
