Nathan Lane movie quotes

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

Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“- 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

“- 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