Rio Quotes

Jewel: [Blu throws himself out of the plane and grabs hold of Jewel in the air]Blu! You're crazy! What are you doing?
Blu: I'm not gonna let you go! We're chained-to-each-other birds, remember? [Jewel kisses Blu]

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Lead Marmoset: [from trailer]You two are coming with me.
Jewel: In your little monkey dreams.

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Jewel: Luiz is a bulldog?
Luiz: You got something against dogs?
Jewel: I do when they're drooling on me.
Luiz: It's a medical condition!

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Pedro: Yippie-ki-yay, monkey-man!

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Nigel: [singing]I'm a feathery freak with a beak, a bird murderer. You think you're badder than me? I never heard o' ya!

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Blu: What is natural about getting thrown halfway across the room?

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Pedro: [breaking a stare-off]Birds versus monkeys!

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Nico: [crooning]Party in the Ipanema baby!

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Nigel: Going somewhere, pretty bird?
Jewel: Oh, yeah. I was just on my way to claw your eyes out!

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Pedro: I'm gonna pop this cage open like a soda can!

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Pedro: Freedom!

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Tulio: I'm not really built for this weather.
Linda: Oh, are you looking for some books?
Tulio: Books? No! No! I have come six thousand miles, looking for him. [pointing to Blu]

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Linda: Um. Look, I know you're doing your job, but I can't... well, Blu is very particular. And we have our little routine here. And we're not big on travel. Heck, he doesn't even fly!
Tulio: But of course he can fly. [takes Blu and inspects him]
Tulio: He's a perfect specimen.
Linda: Uh... what you are doing?
Tulio: Don't worry, their natural instincts always tell them to fly. [he lets Blu go so that he will fly]
Linda: Wait! Wait! Wait! No! No! [Blu crashes on to the ground]
Tulio: Well, almost always.
Linda: Blu!

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Linda: [to Blu after picking him up from his fall]Are you okay?
Tulio: Perhaps he's too domesticated.
Linda: It was very nice of you to stop in and squawk around and throw my bird. But now it's time for you to go.
Tulio: Well... I... I'm very sorry. I'm... I'm very sorry. But... wait... wait! Linda! Linda! [Linda walks him out of her shop]
Tulio: This could be our last chance.
Linda: Have a safe flight. [she shuts her shop door in his face and walks away]
Tulio: Linda, please listen to me! If we don't do this, his whole species will be gone! [he throws his business card through her shop door post flap]
Tulio: Just think about it.

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Blu: Natural instincts. There's nothing natural about being thrown halfway across a room. Well, I'll show him. [reading a book about flying]
Blu: I can do this. I just have to work out the physics. I have quadrated my vector angles. I have adjusted for wind shear. Positive reinforcement. Good. Okay. Let's see. Flaps open. [opens his wings]
Blu: Perfect. Landing gear. [wiggles his claws]
Blu: Check. Tail flaps. [flaps his tail]
Blu: Operational. And actually... not bad. [as he prepares to fly for the first time]
Blu: This is it! Let's fly! Just keep it simple. Thrust, lift, drag and weight. Thrust, lift, drag, weight. [speeds up to get off the table]
Blu: Thrust, lift, drag, weight. Thrust, lift, drag, wei... wai... wait! [gets scared and tries to stop himself, but instead falls from the table]

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Blu: [Nico and Pedro approach Blu]I... am... not... from... here.
Pedro: Hey, Nico, he's a tourist!
Nico: Funny, you don't look like one.
Blu: Really? I... I don't?
Pedro: Except you got pigeon doodle on your nose. [Blu wipes the sun cream from his beak]
Blu: Oh no no, this is just SPF three thousand.

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Blu: [as he sets eyes on Jewel for the first time]Oh, she's beautiful. [Blu is mesmerized as she flies towards him]
Blu: What were they talking about? She's... she's like an angel. An angel, who's getting really close. [suddenly Jewel crashes into him]

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Police Officer: [Linda and Tulio watch as Sylvio gets questioned by a police officer]So let me get this straight? You were attacked by a little white bird?
Sylvio: Yes! With this rag! [he holds up a small white rag]
Sylvio: He held it to my mouth, like... like this! [he holds the rag against his mouth, takes a breath and faints to the ground; the police officer catches the rag, takes a sniff of it and also faints]
Linda: We're doomed.

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Blu: [Blu chants to himself with fear whilst trapped in a cage]Okay. Okay. There's no place like home, there's no place like home! Oh, how I wish I was back in my own cage, with my mirror and my swing and my little bell! Oh, how I miss my bell.
Jewel: Shh! Play dead. [she drops to the floor of the cage]
Blu: I don't need to play dead, I'm about to have a heart attack!
Jewel: Just do it!
Blu: Oh, fine! [he fakes a fall and starts twitching]
Jewel: Stop twitching!
Blu: Come on! It's the twitching that sells it.

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Marcel: [a boy places the cage holding Blu and Jewel on the table in front of Marcel]Well, what do you know? Good work, Fernando. You see, boys. What did I tell you about this one?
Tipa: That you were going to pay him half as much as you said? [Marcel slaps Tipa in the face to shut him up]
Marcel: No! You idiot! That he reminds me of myself when I was that age. Smart, resourceful. Here you go, kid. [he hands the boy some money]
Fernando: Hey! This is only half of what you promised me!
Marcel: Ah, shut up, kid! [takes the cover off the cage to see Blu and Jewel looking dead]
Marcel: What the...? [he picks up Jewel]
Marcel: I thought I told you I needed these birds alive! Tell me, Fernando, does this look alive to you? Huh? [Jewel bites Marcel's thumb and flies away]

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Rafael: Eva, my love. I must take this couple to see Luiz.
Eva: Luiz? Huh! You don't fool me for a second. You and your amigo just want to sneak off to carnival.
Rafael: Oh, carnival! that magical time when I met the most beautiful bird in the world. [he hugs Eva and blows an air kiss towards her]
Eva: Aah! [Jewel huffs at Blu with disgust]

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Rafael: [as Eva sings out of tune]Like a river of the sweetest honey. [Blu and Jewel wince as Eva sings]
Jewel: Ooh! I guess love is deaf too.

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Blu: [as he looks down the edge of a cliff]I've changed my mind! Yeah. Uh, maybe we could find a... a bus schedule or something?
Rafael: Come on! You're not gonna back out now, Not in front of the lady!
Blu: Uh... huh! Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure.
Rafael: All right! That's the spirit!

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Rafael: [to Blu and Jewel who are standing side by side]Now, you flap your right wing, you flap your left wing, and together, you fly!
Blu: Uh... but this doesn't seem aerodynamically possible!
Rafael: Ey-ya-ya-ya-ya! You think too much! Fly! It's not what you think up here. [points to Blu's head]
Rafael: It's what you feel in here. [points to Blu's heart]
Rafael: And when you feel the rhythm of your heart, it's like Samba! You fly!

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Rafael: [after Blu and Jewel have landed on top of a hand glider's wings]All right, Blu! You're flying! Sort of. Not really. But do you feel it?
Blu: Yes! I do feel it.

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Rafael: [after Blu and Jewel have crash landed to the ground from Blu's failed attempt at flying]You did not feel it in here. [pointing to his heart]
Jewel: [sarcastically]You think?

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Nico: Hey, Ralfie! If it isn't the king of carnival!
Rafael: Nico! Pedro! What up, family?
Pedro: Where you been hidin' yourself, bird?
Nico: Man, I thought you were dead!
Pedro: Hold up! Rewind! [going towards Blu]
Pedro: Ain't that the bird from the cage?
Nico: I think our love lessons went down smooth.
Pedro: You work fast!
Nico: Baby got big!
Pedro: You was locked up and now you're rollin' up with a hot wing! Woo! I wanna be like you!
Blu: Oh, no, no! It's not what you think. We're just uh... chained together.
Nico: Hey, I'm not judging you.

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Blu: [as they enter a club full of birds dancing and thumping with music]This is the coolest place I've ever seen! Despite all the obvious health code violations.
Rafael: I like you! Nothing you say makes any sense!

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Lead marmoset: You two are coming with me.
Jewel: In your little monkey dreams. [she spits at him]
Blu: Yeah! [he tries to spit like Jewel but instead just drools on himself]
Blu: That was meant for you!

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Nico: [as he hits one of the monkey's with his bottle top hat]Take that, you funky monkey!

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