We slipped into the farmer's room, all quiet, like...
Yeah, and we- [pauses] Like a FISH? You stupid Norbert.
Bunty
Imelda Staunton · 27 quotes
Ginger
Julia Sawalha · 22 quotes
Rocky
Mel Gibson · 15 quotes
Fowler
Benjamin Whitrow · 14 quotes
Babs
Jane Horrocks · 13 quotes
Fetcher
Phil Daniels · 9 quotes
Nick
Timothy Spall · 9 quotes
Melisha Tweedy
7 quotes
Willard Tweedy
7 quotes
I mindre roller
6 quotes
Mac
Lynn Ferguson · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Bunty & Ginger (18), Babs & Ginger (10), Rocky & Bunty (9)
Chicken Run quotes
Page 2 of 4So, 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!
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]
Time to make good on that deal, doll--
The name, is Ginger.
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!
Hey, if this is the way you show it, I hope you never care about me!
I can assure you, I never will!
Good!
Fine!
You see, flying takes three things: Hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
You said "hard work" twice.
That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
Wally The Rooster
****-A-DOODLE-DOO!
[A tire iron wedges into a crate and pries the front off. Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy peer inside.]
Oooh, what's all this, then?
[spins a circular saw blade, menacingly]
This is our future, Mr. Tweedy. No more wastin’ time with petty egg collection and miniscule profits.
No more eggs? But...we've always been egg farmers. Me father, and his father, and all their fathers, they were always...
Poor! Worthless! Nothings! But all that's about to change. [holding up the saw blade] This will take Tweedy’s farm out of the dark ages and into full-scale automated production. [As she clicks a switch. Knives shoot out from the blade in all directions.] Melisha Tweedy will be poor no longer. [shoves the manual into Mr. Tweedy's chest]
I'll put it together then, shall 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.
Little moments like this, mate. It's what makes the job all worthwhile. [to Nick, putting a red light in] Wanna dance?
Yeah, all right.
[Bunty, Babs and another hen sneak towards Hut 17 with knitted masks over them. Bunty bangs the door, and Ginger lets them in when she sees who it is, except for Babs, who stands there. Ginger then pulls Babs in by her wing]
Ohh!
Fetcher.
At your service.
[Ginger comes out the door. Suddenly, she hears dogs barking and sees Mr Tweedy looking out the farmhouse window]
Over here!
Right you are, Miss! [opens a lunchbox and holds up a couple of thimbles] How about this quality, hand-crafted tea set?
Um, no...
Well, it's lovely...
[holds up a badminton birdie]
Or how about this little number that's all the rage in the most fashionable coops in Paris. Simply pop it on like so... [pops it on Ginger's head, feathers side up so that she looks like an Indian] And as the French hens say, "Voilà!"
That IS French.
And that's two hats in one, Miss. For parties... [turns the birdie over, making it look like a wedding veil] ...For weddings! Uh, madame! This makes you look like a vision, like a dream.
Like a duck!
[Nick glares at him]
No, thank you. [takes off the birdie and shows a diagram of a catapult] We're making this. We need these things. Can you get them?
Ooh-hoo-hoo, ooh, this is a big job, Miss. Uh, bigger than the other ones. No, no, this is gonna cost.
Same as always: one bag of seed. [hands Nick a bag of chicken feed]
You call this pay?!
It's chicken feed!
What else could we give you?
Eggs.
Eggs?!
Eggs. [holds up an egg cup and licks his lips]
We can't give you our eggs. They're too valuable.
And so are we. [packs up to leave] After you, Fetcher.
Move!
[Edwina has been sentenced to the chop after she fails to produce any more.]
Oh no. Edwina. Bunty, why didn't you give her some of yours?
I would have. She didn't tell me. She didn't tell anyone.
[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...
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!
Yo! baby doll!
Rocky!
I'm coming! [He begins slipping on the metal] I'm still coming!
Come on! Stop this thing!
I'm getting there!
ROCKY!
Don't worry! I'll be down there before you can say...
Oh, it's possible, alright.
I knew the answer would come.
Amen!
We're all going to FLY over that fence, and Mr Rhodes is going to show us how, right?
That's r... W-w-what, did you say "fly"?
You can teach us.
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.
[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.
But... Ginger...
Just do it.
Increase velocity!
What does that mean?
It means PEDAL YOUR FLIPPIN' GIBLETS OUT!!
I'm trying!
GINGER! [She raising her axe. But then Rocky starts firing eggs at Melisha Tweedy]
FIRE! FIRE!
Oh, me eggs. [Ginger loses Babs' scissors]
MORE AMMO, HURRY!
WE'VE GOT NO MORE EGGS!
GINGER! LOOK OUT!
[Snarling. Melisha Tweedy breaks the wire with her axe, and seemingly beheads Ginger]
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!
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.