Congo (1995) quotes

12 total quotes

Dr. Karen Ross – Laura Linney
Hekermer Homolka
Herkermer Homolka – Tim Curry
Monroe – Ernie Hudson

View Quote Captain Wanta: [notices Homolka eating his sesame cake] Mr. Homolka?
Herkermer Homolka: Yes?
Captain Wanta: Stop eating my sesame cake. [Homolka pauses in confusion and angrily shouts to Homolka] STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE! [Homolka spits out the cake] What are you doing in my country, bag of shit?
Herkermer Homolka: Captain, please, I only wish to explore and discover...
Captain Wanta: [pokes Homolka's face with a stick] This fellow is a big bag of shit. [turns to Monroe] You should shake this RAT from off your neck. He owes money to everyone everywhere he goes. [turns back to Homolka] I will ask you to wait outside, Mr. Homolka!

View Quote Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a crashed plane] Good Lord.
Monroe: It's that plane we saw burning in the sky.
Herkermer Homolka: Who were they?
Dr. Karen Ross: Travis, my boss, he thought I wasn't gonna make it. He sent another expedition.
Monroe: He tried to push away too far. Looks like a rocket got them. No point going in there.
Dr. Karen Ross: My God, what a waste of life.

View Quote Monroe: That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
Dr. Karen Ross: Well, something inhabits it.
Dr. Peter Elliot: What exactly did you see on that tape?
Dr. Karen Ross: A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
Dr. Peter Elliot: There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
Dr. Karen Ross: Well, I saw one.
Dr. Peter Elliot: It's hard to believe at this late date...
Monroe: Why are you going in there?
Dr. Karen Ross: Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
Monroe: Your former?
Dr. Peter Elliot: Well, we better get to him then.

View Quote Monroe: This, as they say, is a fork in the road. We could go left or we could go right. If we go the wrong way, we lose two or three days.
Herkermer Homolka: We must follow the gorilla, where she leads.
Monroe: That would be left.
Dr. Karen Ross: My best guess off my last coordinates was this way.
Monroe: That'd be right.
Amy: Amy, Peter, go this way.
Dr. Karen Ross: Well... I don't have her passion. I'll follow the gorilla.

View Quote Rudy: [over PA system] Doctor Ross. Doctor Ross. We've got satellite in the Congo.
Dr. Karen Ross: What did they say, Rudy?
Rudy: I can't repeat anything in here.
Dr. Karen Ross: It's Charles.
Rudy: It's Charles. [trying her access card] It won't work.
Dr. Karen Ross: You changed the code already?
Rudy: The old man's got me changing it every 3 hours now. [imitating Cary Grant for voice print] Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
Dr. Karen Ross: Very inventive!

View Quote [before signing out and destroying the satellite] This is for you, Charlie.

View Quote [introducing himself] Herkermer Homolka, formerly of Romania, free now of the chains of Ceauçescu, traveling the world, doing good.

View Quote Are you serving that ape a martini?

View Quote Do you remember what I told you? That if I ever found out you sent me here for some diamond... and NOT for Charlie... that I would make you sorry?

View Quote Have your laughing, and I will have mine!

View Quote In my life I have heard many a bizarre story. Many a bizarre story containing bizarre truth.

View Quote It's the lost city of Zinj, which I have looked for all my life.