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Ossie Davis
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Ossie Davis movie quotes

31 quotes from 4 movies

Dinosaur (2000) as Yar

View Quote Yar: Hey, old girl, you're wandering off a bit.
Eema: [panting] That's all I need: a monkey on my back.
View Quote [Soon after, they encounter of a herd of various dinosaurs (Iguanodons, Parasaurolophus, Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Microceratus, Struthiominus, and Stygimoloch.) It led by Kron as each other]
Bruton: Kron, There is a more protected spot further down the--
Kron: We'll rest here for the night. Go ahead, Bruton.
[Bruton shows a bellow roars at the herd, as Aladar walking towards the herd]
Baylene: Oh, Eema! I wish we were at your nesting grounds now! All this pushing and shoving about, just for a place to sleep! I'm not used to this kind of behavior.
Eema: Baylene, you've got big feet; just give 'em a kick! [shoves a stygimoloch] GET!
Baylene: Oh, I couldn't possibly... eh, shoo! Shoo!
Eema: Would you come on, Baylene? If you wanna get to the nesting grounds alive, show some backbone!
Aladar: Hey there!
Eema: Ahhh!
Aladar: [after spooking Eema] Oh... sorry about that. Uh, it's just that, we overhead you talking and, umm...
[Url drops a rock enthusiastically at his feet just like a dog, Aladar looks confused]
Eema: Well, my word. Look at Url. He doesn't normally warm up to strangers so fast.
Baylene: [Sniffing the lemurs on Aladar's back and sneezing to lemurs] What an unfortunate blemish.
Eema: Good mud bath would clear those right up.
Yar: Excuse me?
[Eema growls in surprise]
Aladar: Um, he's my grandfather. [chuckles] Couple of times removed.
Zini: Or a couple of species removed.
Aladar: My name's Aladar. This is my family. We're all that's left.
Baylene: Oh, dear. I'm so sorry.
Eema: Baylene's the last of her kind. Finding stragglers like her all along the way!
Plio: I heard you say something about "Nesting Grounds".
Eema: It is the most beautiful place there is, child. It's where the herd goes to have their babies.
Suri: Will we find anybody that looks...like us there?
Eema: Oh, the last few days, I've seen 'em all shapes and sizes. Who knows what we'll find? The hard job now is just getting there.
Baylene: And we're being driven unmercifully.
Aladar: By who?
Eema: Kron, the herd's head honcho.
Baylene: We can hardly keep up. An older woman like myself, it's...well, it's positively indecent.
Aladar: Then tell him! What's the worst he can do? [Neera, Kron, and Bruton approach; Url nervously walks out of the way; Bruton growls; Kron rudely pushes past] Hey! What's his problem?
Eema: That's him, honey, Kron.
Aladar: [runs up to Kron] Huh. Excuse me! Kron! Got a second?
Bruton: Get lost kid!
Kron: [chuckles] Relax Bruton. [comes up to Aladar] Who are you?
Aladar: Uh...Aladar.
Kron: Why aren't you up here with the— [notices the lemurs on Aladar's back] ...uh, young bloods? [snorts at them]
Aladar: Well, I was back here talking to these guys. I guess they're having a hard time keeping up. So, you know, maybe you could slow down a bit?
[Neera chuckles and smiles]
Kron: Hmm! Let the weak set the pace. Now, there's an idea. Better let me do the thinking from now on, Aladar.
Aladar: Hey! They need help back here!
Kron: Watch yourself, boy. [leaves with a dismissive snort]
Neera: Don't worry. That's how my brother treats newcomers… no matter how charming they are. [follows Kron away]
Zini: [to Aladar] You sure know how to catch a girl's eye there, stud!
Eema: I wouldn't be catching nobody's eye if I was you. Especially Neera's. You just keep your head down, and you mind what Kron tells you.
Yar: Since when do we take orders from the likes of him?!
Eema: [chuckles] Kron has swatted flies bigger than you, pops.
Yar: I could hold that monster's brain in the palm of my-!
Aladar: No, Yar, she's right. Better to keep our heads down with this bunch than get 'em bitten off by those things.
Eema: [The velociraptors hissing] Well, you just consider yourself lucky that's all that's following us.
[When velociraptors playing fighting biting each other but the raptor stop fighting, and furious looking an scaring eye behind to it]
View Quote [When a dinosaur egg falls on the island. A colony of lemurs scatter in a frenzy. 4 lemurs approach: Plio, Yar, Zini, and Suri.]
Young Zini: Yar, what is it?
Yar: I don't know. PLIO, GET BACK HERE! We don't know what it is!
Young Zini: Plio, be careful.
[Plio sneak over sensing, she got present when the egg cracks, then opens the shell and is happy to see a baby iguanodon]
Plio: Dad, get over here.
Yar: [pulls Zini to safety] Zini, it's not safe!
Young Zini: Oh, I always have to go when stuff's happening.
Yar: [scoffs at Zini and gets closer to Plio] Well, what is it?
Plio: It was an egg. [to baby Aladar] Look. [Yar gasps in shock] What?
Yar: It's a cold-blooded monster from across the sea: vicious, flesh-eating! [Baby Aladar burps] Eurgh...
Plio: Looks like a baby to me.
Yar: Babies grow up! You keep that thing, one day, we'll turn our backs, it'll be picking us out of it's teeth! [to the other lemurs] Things like THAT eat things lie US as snacks!
[Some lemurs yelp in fear]
Plio: So, what do we do?
Yar: Get rid of it! [trying to dissuade Plio from raising the baby Aladar]
Plio: [vexed] What has gotten into you?
Yar: [exasperated] Plio...That thing is dangerous!
Plio: [to baby Aladar; regretfully sighs] I'm sorry, little one. [to Yar, handling baby Aladar over to him] Okay, get rid of it. [Yar gasps] Hmph. [sits on a patch of moss to watch]
Yar: All right, I will. [lifts baby Aladar over the edge of the branch, preparing to drop the dinosaur baby to his death. All the other lemurs are watching him. He hesitates]
Plio: [sarcastically] You'd better hurry up, Dad. It looks hungry.
Yar: Hmph! [looks at baby Aladar. Baby Aladar comes and looks at him with droopy eyelids. He closes his eyes and sighs, defeated. He hears a strange sound and opens his eyes to see that baby Aladar is peeing on him. Disgusted, defeated; handling Aladar back to Plio] Rmmm...Here.
Plio: [smiling] It's okay. We'll teach him to hate meat.
Yar: Hmph. Watch his head! [Plio looks up] I-I mean, watch it! he could bite. [walks away]
[Other lemurs, including Zini, leap up to Baby Aladar]
Young Zini: This "monster's" got no teeth! What's he gonna do? Gum us to death?
Plio: Zini, come on: look at that sweet little face. Does that look like a monster to you?
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Do the Right Thing (1989) as Da Mayor

View Quote If we don't stop this and stop it now, we gonna do something we're gonna regret for the rest of our lives. Sal and his boys had nothing to do with what the cops did....Leave him alone.
View Quote Doctor, those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.
View Quote Da Mayor: Doctor.
Mookie: C'mon, what? What?
Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.
Mookie: That's it?
Da Mayor: That's it.
Mookie: I got it. I'm gone.
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Doctor Dolittle (1998) as Archer

View Quote Young John: Why do dogs sniff each other's butts?
Prologue Dog: Well, this is kinda our way of shaking hands. If you really wanna get a sense of who somebody really is, you gotta sniff their butt.
Archer: Son! Stop talking to the dog. She doesn't understand a word that you're saying.
View Quote Maya: Can I tell you a secret?
Archer: Yeah, sure.
Maya: When Mommy told me what happened to Daddy, I wasn't afraid, I was happy because I believed that he could talk to animals. I want Dad to be weird, just like me. Is that wrong?
Archer: No. No, it's not wrong.
Maya: Sometimes I don't think he likes me very much.
Archer: Honey, he loves you.
Maya: I know he loves me, but I don't think he likes me and I want him to. I gonna try to do things his way, Grandpa, and stop doing these stupid experiments.
View Quote Reverend: Leave this boy, devil man. Go now, Satan. Take the serpent's voices with you. I command you to come out of this boy! Come on out of this boy! God said it! Come on!
Young John: [of the prologue dog] She was my best friend.
Archer: You'll make some real friends now.
Lucky: From that day on, John Dolittle never spoke to animals again.
Archer: Someday, you're gonna thank me for this.
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) as Marshall

View Quote Marshall: You're coming into focus, kid
View Quote Marshall: Listen, ain't you got nobody?
Joe: No. But there are certain times in your life when I guess you're not supposed to have anybody, you know? There are certain doors you have to go through alone.
Marshall: You're gonna be all right.
View Quote Marshall: What kinda clothes do you got now?
Joe: Well, I got the kinda clothes I'm wearing.
Marshall: So you got no clothes.
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