Rocky [Ginger squawks loudly]
Was your father, by any chance, a VULTURE?!
Voiced by Mel Gibson 
Chicken Run (2000) · 55 quotes
Chicken Run (2000) · 55 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Chicken Run (2000): in 15 of its 55 quotes
Most scenes with: Bunty (9), Ginger (8), Fowler (4)
FREEDOM!!!
More lines from Rocky
2 quotes Rocky Rocky [Rocky and Ginger are in an oven]
It's like an oven in here!
Scenes with Rocky
12 scenes Rocky You see, flying takes three things: Hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
You said "hard work" twice.
Rocky That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
Rocky [After everyone is yelling]
Where am I?
Oh, yes how rude of us it's just that we're very exci- This is a chicken farm.
And we're the chickens.
[Fowler is forced to share his bunk with Rocky]
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS! Asking a senior officer to share his quarters?! And with a non-commissioned Yank, no less! Why, back in my day, I'd never...
Rocky Hey, you weren't exactly my first choice either. And scoot over, your wing's on my side of the bunk--
"YOUR SIDE OF THE BUNK"?! The WHOLE bunk is MY side of the bunk!
Rocky [snapping back]
Just-- What's that smell, is that your breath?
So that's it! You're from the circus.
Rocky Shh!
You're on the run, aren't you?
Rocky [Rocky pulls her behind a hut]
You want to keep it down?! I'm trying to lay low here!
I should turn you in right now!
Rocky You wouldn't!... Would you?
Give me one reason why I shouldn't.
Rocky Because I'm... cute?
Rocky [Ginger squawks loudly] [muffles her]
What are you doing?! Do you know what will happen if that guy finds me?!
It's a cruel world.
Rocky I've just decided, I don't like you.
I've just decided, I don't care. Now show us how to fly.
Rocky With this wing?!
Teach us then!
Rocky No!
Rocky [Ginger squawks again] [muffles her again]
Now you listen here, sister. I'm not going back to that life! I'm a lone free ranger! Emphasis on FREE!
And that's what we want! Freedom!
Rocky [Rocky notices the Tweedys approaching]
Oh no! Oh no, they're after me!
Teach us to fly, and we'll hide you.
Rocky And if I don't?!
Rocky [Ginger squawks again] [muffles her again]
Was your father, by any chance, a VULTURE?!
Rocky Time to make good on that deal, doll--
The name, is Ginger.
I thought you were going to teach us how to fly.
Rocky That's what I'm doing.
Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
Rocky Hey, do I tell you how to lay eggs? Relax, were making progress.
Really? I can't help feeling were going around in circles.
Rocky [Ginger points to the chickens, who are indeed, spinning around in circles]
Whoah, woah, cut it out! You're making me dizzy! There, I think they're ready to fly now.
Good, because they certainly can't walk anymore!
Rocky You know what your problem is? You're... difficult!
Why, because I'm honest?! I care about what happens to them! Nothing I expect a lone free ranger to know anything about!
Rocky Hey, if this is the way you show it, I hope you never care about me!
I can assure you, I never will!
Rocky Good!
Fine!
Rocky Yo! baby doll!
Rocky!
Rocky I'm coming! [He begins slipping on the metal] I'm still coming!
Come on! Stop this thing!
Rocky I'm getting there!
Rocky [The machine releases Ginger. Rocky makes a grab at her but misses]
Oh, shoot!
ROCKY!
Rocky Don't worry! I'll be down there before you can say...
Rocky [Mixed vegetables tumble towards him]
... MIXED VEGETABLES?!
Rocky Oh, it's possible, alright.
I knew the answer would come.
Rocky Amen!
We're all going to FLY over that fence, and Mr Rhodes is going to show us how, right?
Rocky That's r... W-w-what, did you say "fly"?
You can teach us.
Rocky No, I can't. [The other hens sigh in despair] Listen. Shh! You hear that? [silence] That's the open road calling my name, and I was born to answer that call. Bye! [dashes out the coop]
...He must have very good hearing.
Rocky So, you wanna fly? Well, it ain't gonna be easy, and it ain't gonna happen overnight either. You see, flying takes three things - hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
You said "hard work" twice!
Rocky That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance. [licks a feather and shows it to the hens, making all of them except Ginger laugh]
Codswallop! [muttering] Cocky Yanks think that they know it all... [goes back into Hut 1]
[Loud nose occurs, the crate is pulled down slightly and the chickens scream]
Great Scott! What was that?!
A cling-on cap'n! And the engines can't take it!
[rumages through her handbag, throwing out a knit, a toothbrush, a lipstick, before finding the scissors]
Bingo!
Lower me down.
Rocky But... Ginger...
Just do it.
Increase velocity!
What does that mean?
It means PEDAL YOUR FLIPPIN' GIBLETS OUT!!
Rocky I'm trying!
Rocky GINGER! [She raising her axe. But then Rocky starts firing eggs at Melisha Tweedy]
Rocky FIRE! FIRE!
Oh, me eggs. [Ginger loses Babs' scissors]
Rocky MORE AMMO, HURRY!
WE'VE GOT NO MORE EGGS!
Rocky GINGER! LOOK OUT!
[Snarling. Melisha Tweedy breaks the wire with her axe, and seemingly beheads Ginger]
Rocky NOOOOO!!! [after a moment of silence, she ducks and cover Ginger looks up at Melisha Tweedy, completely unharmed]
[Groans. Ginger reveals the severed Christmas lights in front of Melisha Tweedy]
HUH?!
Bye-bye! [Melisha Tweedy screams after her side of the wire is lets go]
BOMBS AWAY!
Rocky Oh, that was good, that was GOOD!
The Old Bird bought it! [laughing]
Mrs. Tweedy!, Mrs. Tweed-- [He then sees Melisha Tweedy shrieking and flailing in the blocked-up safety valve; inside, Melisha Tweedy sees the boiling gravy rising. As the machine begins malfunctioning, Willard Tweedy slowly backs away while closing the door, and the pie machine explodes in the distance, creating a mushroom cloud of gravy]
Rocky and Ginger
WHOA!
[Gravy leaks down the door, Willard Tweedy then opens the door to see Melissa Tweedy injured while the two guard dogs are happily licking up the spilt gravy] [his last words]
I told you they were organized. [Melisha Tweedy soon begins growling, and before she's about to reprimand him, she lets out a yelp as the now unsupported door falls flat on her.]
[The chickens continue to celebrate, Mac gives Fowler a big kiss on the cheek, Bunty hugs Babs, Nick tearfully hugs Fetcher, and Ginger grabs Rocky and finally gives him that big kiss. The pedalling chickens stop pedalling.]
KEEP PEDDLING! We’re not there yet! [The plane rises again and sails off toward the sunset] You can’t see paradise if you don’t pedal! Put your drumsticks into it. [hand-flying the plane through the air] That's what I told them, what what. We were losing altitude, you see, and heading for a fearful prang.
Safety is at all times imperative. Now, wind her up and let her go.
[Very last lines, the screen puts up, "The End", then the bonus credits scene]
The egg, obviously. Rollin' along happy as Larry, then, crack! Hatches into the first chicken.
Yeah, but where'd the egg come from, then?
What do you mean, where'd it come from?
Egg comes rollin' along, happy as Larry. It's wonderin', where'd it come from? Without a chicken, you get no egg to come rollin' along.
Well, conversely, without an egg to hatch into the chicken, there will be no chicken to lay the other egg that hatches into the chicken that lays the egg I mentioned in the first place.
So we got two eggs now?
No, we're still talking about the very first egg.
But what happened to the very first chicken?
He's in the very first egg! Aren't you listenin'?
Rocky Uh, guys. Guys? Tryin' to enjoy paradise over here.
Oh, sorry, guv.
Beg your pardon.
Won't happen again.
Rocky Thanks.
Gitface.
Pillock.
Thinks he's such a big shot 'cause he's got his name on a poster. These show biz folk are all the same.
Yeah, the rats are the stars, carefully. Yeah, they are. Of course they are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are. Of course they are. We do all the work; he gets all the credits.
But he does get all the birds. He gets everything.
Yes, he does. Everything.
You said it, mate.
I know.
