The Book of Life Quotes

Lawyer: It's the Mormons. I'm outta here, you're on your own.
Jesus Christ: Now, who are the Mormons again?

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[about human beings]
Satan: It's amazing the things they do. They're inventing themselves now. Artificial intelligence and cybergenetics and so on.
Jesus Christ: It's impressive, I admit.
Satan: They're cross-fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobacco plants with lightning bugs.
Jesus Christ: Now that's just stupid.
Satan: Well, I agree.

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Goth Kid: What's with Mexicans and death!

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Carlos Sanchez: Mama, how did you get here?
Grandma: Eh. Cholesterol.

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Grandma: Kids these days, with their long hair and not killing stuff.

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La Muerte: The world keeps spinning, and the tales keep turning, and people come and people go, but they're never forgotten. And the one truth we know, it held true one more time... That love, true love, the really, really good kind of love never dies.

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Land of the Remembered Captain: You know, I've been down here for years awaiting my beloved honey bunny.
Land of the Remembered Captain's Wife: [older ugly woman appears]Hi honey!
Land of the Remembered Captain: AH! TOO SOON!

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Joaquin: Hey, Chakal! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
Bandit: 'Cause no one's that big, man.

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[Last lines] Candle Maker: Go write your own stories.

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Pepe Rodriguez: I'm allergic to dying!
Pancho Rodriguez: Especially in the face!

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Manolo: I know about the wager. Xibalba cheated!
La Muerte: He did what?
Manolo: Yeah! With a two-headed snake! [La Muerte starts to boil with rage]
Candle Maker: [to Manolo, Carmen and Luis]You might wanna cover your ears right now.
La Muerte: [yelling with rage as her candles brightens the Land of the Forgotten]XIIIII... BAAAAL... BAAAAAAAA!

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Carlos Sanchez: All of the Sanchezes have been bullfighters. All of them.
Grandma: I was a beast in the ring. A beast!

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Skeleton Jorge: [Repeated line]Savage.

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Manolo: [Confronting Chakal]So, my father tells me you hate bullfighters.
Chakal: I hate everybody. [Spits]
Manolo: [Draws his swords]Well then, let's do this.
Chakal: [laughs]You and what army? [Manolo's decreased family suddenly appears]

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Carlos Sanchez: All of these families have lost someone, but as long as we remember them, we can feel their presence with us for one night each year.

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Grandma: Kids today, with their long hair and their no killing stuff.

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Chakal: I hate everybody. [Spits]

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Manolo: So, my father tells me you hate bull fighters.

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Manolo: [Draws his swords]Well then, let's do this.

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Chakal: [laughs]You and what army? [Manolo's deceased family member suddenly appear]

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Maria: [Revealing her skill with fencing]Did I mention I also studied fencing?

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