Short Round [about Indy]
He no nuts, he crazy.
Most-quoted character in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984): in 35 of its 66 quotes
Most scenes with: Indiana Jones (11), Willie Scott (9), Mola Ram (2)
Okey-Dokey, Dr. Jones! Hold on to your potatoes!
More lines from Short Round
20 quotes Short Round Short Round [To Willie]
You call him Dr. Jones, DOLL!
Short Round [To Willie]
Hang on, lady, we going for a ride!
Short Round [To Indy]
I keep telling you. You listen to me more, you live longer!
Short Round Indy, I love you! Wake up, Indy! Wake up!
Short Round What is Sankara?
Short Round They crash the plane to make you come here?
Short Round Three aces! I win! Two more games, I have all your money! Ha, ha, ha!
Short Round You make me poor! No fun! Playing with you no fun!
Short Round Cover your heart!
Short Round [first line]
Wow! Holy smokes! Crash landing!
Short Round Diamonds? Diamonds!
Short Round [to Indy]
Feels like I step on fortune cookies.
Short Round I step where you step! I touch nothing!
Short Round Dr. Jones! No more parachutes!
Short Round Very funny!
Short Round [To Indy, who is digging through Willie's dress to get the antidote]
Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love! We got company!
Short Round All wet!
Short Round Indy, take the left tunnel! (Indy takes the right) No, Indy! The left tunnel! The left! Indy!
Short Round Not very funny.
Scenes with Short Round
14 scenes Short Round [When they need to escape from Lao Che's men]
Wow! Holy smokes! Crash landing!
Short Round, step on it!
Short Round Okey-Dokey Dr. Jones! Hold on to your potatoes!
For cryin' out loud, there's a KID drivin' the car!
Indy
[Indy desperately reaches down Willie's cleavage for the antidote bottle]
Where's the antidote?!
Oh, listen, I just met you... Oh, I'm not that kind of girl!
Short Round Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love! We got company!
[Indy finds the vial, shoves Willie away, and hurriedly swallows the antidote.]
Oh, I hope you choke!
Pilot
[After dumping the plane's fuel, the pilot and co-pilot walk past the sleeping Willie, Short Round and Indy. However, the chickens are awake and make noises, jostling Willie, who sees the door is ajar.]
Goodbye!
[The pilots jump out wearing parachutes. Willie awakens, makes her way to the cockpit, and sees it is empty.]
Oh, no... oh, no... [to a sleeping Indy] Oh, Mister! Mister! Oh, Mister, wake up!
Short Round [waking up]
You call him Dr. Jones, doll!
Okay! Dr. Jones? Dr. Jones, oh please wake up!
No!
Huh?
Oh, boy...
They've all gone! [Indy sits into the pilot's seat] You know how to fly, don't you?
...No. [hopefully] Do you?
Oh, my God... I'm gonna faint...
How hard could it be?
Short Round What is Sankara?
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
Short Round [Indiana Jones is forced to drink the blood of Kali]
Dr. Jones! Don't drink it! It's bad! Spit it out! [Indiana spits the blood in Mola Ram's face]
You dare not do that! [Barks a command to his thugee who has an assistant use a voodoo-doll of Jones]
[Indy and Shorty are playing poker; Willie is screaming and running away from numerous animals]
The biggest trouble with her is the noise.
Short Round Hey! You cheat, Doctor Jones! You cheat! You took four cards!
Short Round No stuck! No mistake!
They were stuck together! It was a MISTAKE!
Short Round I am very little, you cheat very big!
[Willie is scared by an owl; Indy finds an ace card hidden in Shorty's sleeve]
Look at this. Look at THIS. You accuse me of cheating?! YOU'RE CHEATING!
Short Round [The two argue in Chinese]
You make me poor! No fun! Playing with you no fun!
Short Round [Chinese, then]
I quit too.
Short Round [as Indiana examines a foreboding statue]
Dr. Jones, what you look at?
[Willie is impressed by the wealth of Pankot Palace and wonders about the Maharajah]
Mr. Lal? What do they call the Maharajah's wife?
Chattar Lal Well, his Highness has not yet taken a wife.
How interesting- well, ah, maybe it's because he hasn't found the right woman.
Chattar Lal The supreme highness, guardian of Pankot tradition, the Maharajah of Pankot, Zalim Singh.
[Maharajah enters dining room, revealing that he is a minor] [irate]
That's the maharajah? A KID?
Short Round Maybe he like older women.
Large Guest
[a plate full of beetles is passed around the table]
What, you are not eating?
I had bugs for lunch. [holds her hand out to Shorty] Give me your hat.
Short Round [slowly hands it to her]
...Why?
Because I'm gonna puke in it! [Shorty manages to wrestle it back]
Short Round (Indy and Shorty are exploring a cavern)
I stepped on something.
Yes there's something on the ground.
Short Round Feels like I step on fortune cookie!
It's not fortune cookies. Let me take a look.
Short Round [Indy lights a lighter to find bugs crawling all over the place] (as a scorpion-like bug crawls on his leg)
That no cookie!
Short Round [After Willie realizes she is in a room filled with an uncountable amount of bugs]
Hurry, Willie!
They're in my hair!
Indy, let me in!
Short Round No, let us out!
Let me in!
Short Round Let us out!
SHUT UP!
I'm down here! They're all over me! Let me in!
There's got to be a fulcrum release lever somewhere!
A what?!
A handle that opens the door!
Go to the right hole!
Short Round Hurry, Willie!
[Willie almost puts her hand into the hole on her left when Indy's hand comes out and grabs hers]
The other one, the other right. YOUR OTHER RIGHT.
There's slime inside! I can't do it!
You can do it- feel inside!
OKAY!!!
[Willie slowly begins to push her hand through the hole] [panicking]
Willie, WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!
Short Round [Indy, boxed in on the rope bridge by Thuggees, shouts in Chinese to Short Round]
Hang on, lady. We going for a ride.
[sees Indy raising his sword, about to cut the rope bridge down]
Oh, my GOD! Oh, my God... Oh, my God... Oh, my GOD! Is he nuts?!
Short Round He no nuts, he's crazy!
Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali... IN HELL!
[starts to cut the bridge with his sword]
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU FOOL! NO...!
[the rope bridge falls apart, sending several Thuggees to their death in the crocodile-infested river below]
You could've kept it.
Ah, what for? They'd just put it in the museum, it'd be another rock collecting dust.
But then it would have given you your fortune and glory.
Anything can happen. It's a long way to Delhi.
No, thanks. No more adventures with you, Doctor Jones.
Sweetheart, after all the fun we've had together?
If you think I'm going to Delhi with you, or anyplace else after all the trouble you've gotten me into, think again, buster! I'm going home to Missouri where they never feed you snakes before ripping your heart out and lowering you into hot pits! This is NOT my idea of a swell time! [to native] Excuse me sir? I need a guide to Delhi. If you could--
Short Round [Indy snaps his whip around Willie's waist and pulls her back; the two are about to kiss until Shorty's elephant blasts them both with water]
Very funny! Very funny!
