The Lion King Quotes

The Lion King

A Lion cub crown prince is tricked by a treacherous uncle into thinking he caused his father's death and flees into exile in despair, only to learn in adulthood his identity and his responsibilities.

8.5/10

G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 24 June 1994 (USA)

Rafiki : It is time.

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Young Simba : [ Nala's mother, Sarafina is giving Nala a bath ] Hey, Nala.
Young Nala : Hi, Simba.
Young Simba : Come on, I just heard about this great place.
Young Nala : Simba, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath.
Sarabi : And it's time for yours. [ grabs Simba and starts licking him ]
Young Simba : Mom! Mom, you're messing up my mane! [ Sarabi smiles ]
Young Simba : Ok, ok. I'm clean. Can we go now?
Young Nala : So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Young Simba : No, it's really cool.
Sarabi : So where is this really cool place?
Young Simba : Oh... around the waterhole.
Young Nala : The waterhole? What's so great about the waterhole?
Young Simba : [ muttering ] I'll *show* you when we *get* there.
Young Nala : Oh... Mom, can I go with Simba?
Sarafina - Nala's Mother : Hmm, what do you think Sarabi?
Sarabi : Well...
Young Simba, Young Nala : [ with forced grins ] Please!
Sarabi : It's alright with me.
Young Simba : Yeah!
Young Nala : All right!
Sarabi : As long as Zazu goes with you.
Young Simba : No, not Zazu!

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Timon : Lady, have you got your lions crossed!

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Timon : Let me get this straight. You're the king? And you never told us?
Adult Simba : Look, I'm still the same guy.
Timon : But with power!
Nala : Could you guys excuse us for a few minutes?
Timon : Hey, whatever she has to say, she can say in front of us. Right, Simba?
Adult Simba : Hm... Maybe you'd better go.
Timon : [ leaving ] It starts. You think you know a guy...
Adult Simba : Timon and Pumbaa. You learn to love 'em.

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Adult Simba : Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala : I would if you just tell me!
Adult Simba : Forget it!
Nala : Fine!

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Rafiki : What was *that*? [ laughs ]
Rafiki : The weather - Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Adult Simba : Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki : Ahhh. Change is good.

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Nala : What made you come back?
Adult Simba : I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.

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Scar : Simba, Simba. Please. Please have mercy. I beg you.
Adult Simba : You don't deserve to live.
Scar : But, Simba, I am family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea!
Adult Simba : Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
Scar : What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your old Uncle...?
Adult Simba : No, Scar. I'm not like you
Scar : Oh, Simba, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me; I mean, anything.
Adult Simba : Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.

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Young Simba : What am I supposed to do?
Scar : Run away Simba... Run away, and never return. [ Simba leaves and Hyenas come out of the mist ]
Scar : Kill him.

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[ eating a grub from a rotten log ]
Pumbaa : Slimy... yet satisfying.

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Timon : This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
Young Simba : What's that?
Timon : A grub. What's it look like? [ Timon eats the grub ]
Young Simba : Ewwwww, gross.
Timon : Tastes like chicken.

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Adult Simba : Man, I'm stuffed.
Pumbaa : Me, too. I ate like a pig.
Adult Simba : Pumbaa, you *are* a pig.

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Pumbaa : It's like my buddy Timon always says: you got to put your behind in your past.
Timon : No, no no. Amateur. Sit down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you."

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Pumbaa : [ singing ] And I got down-hearted.
Timon : How did you feel?
Pumbaa : Everytime that I...
Timon : Pumbaa. Not in front of the kids. [ Faces the camera ]
Pumbaa : Oh. Sorry.

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Shenzi : What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.
Banzai : Yeah. We could have whatever's "lion" around.
Shenzi : Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think? [ Ed points ]
Shenzi : What, Ed?
Banzai : Hey, did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi : No, why?
Banzai : Cause there it goes!

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[ talking about Scar ]
Mufasa : What am I going to do with him?
Zazu : He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa : [ childing ] Zazu.
Zazu : And just think, whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him.

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Zazu : Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother you should've been first in line. [ Scar threatens to bite, he retreats toward Mufasa ]
Scar : I was first in line, until the little hair ball was born.
Mufasa : That hairball is my son. And *your* future king.
Scar : Oohh, I shall have to practice my curtsey.

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Pumbaa : What'd ya do, kid?
Young Simba : Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon : Good. We don't wanna hear about it.

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Banzai : The little majordomo bird hippity hop, all the way to the birdie boiler.
Zazu : Oh no, not the birdie boiler.

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Timon : [ singing ] Luau. If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat/ Eat my buddy Pumbaa here, 'cause he's a tasty treat/Come on down and dine/ On this tasty swine/ All you gotta is get in line/Are you achin'...
Pumbaa : Yup, yup, yup.
Timon : For some bacon?
Pumbaa : Yup, yup, yup.
Timon : He's a big pig.
Pumbaa : Yup, yup.
Timon : You can be a big pig, too. Oy.

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[ first lines ] [ Scar catches a mouse ]
Scar : Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.
Zazu : Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?

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Shenzi : Hey. There he goes. There he goes.
Banzai : So go get him.
Shenzi : There ain't no way I'm going in there. What, you want me to come out there looking like you? Cactus-Butt?

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Mufasa : Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Young Simba : But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa : Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.

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Timon : Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it. Right?
Young Simba : Right.
Timon : Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.

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[ Banzai's stomach growls ]
Shenzi : Shut up.
Banzai : I can't help it. I'm so hungry... I gotta have a wildebeest.
Shenzi : Stay *put*.
Banzai : Well... can't I just pick off one of the little sick ones?
Shenzi : NO!

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Young Simba : Everything the light touches... But what about that shadowy place?
Mufasa : That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Young Simba : But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa : There's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Young Simba : There's more?
Mufasa : [ laughing ] Simba.

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Young Simba : All right, it worked.
Young Nala : We lost 'im.
Young Simba : I... am a genius.
Young Nala : Hey, Genius, it was my idea.
Young Simba : Yeah, but I pulled it off.
Young Nala : With me.
Young Simba : Oh, yeah? [ leaps at Nala who flips Simba on his back ]
Young Nala : Pinned ya!
Young Simba : Hey let me up! [ Nala does so. Simba leaps at Nala again. They tumble down a hill and Nala ends up on top of Simba again ]
Young Nala : Pinned ya again!

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Sarabi : If you were half the king Mufasa was...
Scar : [ striking her ] I am *ten* times the king Mufasa was!

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Banzai : Man, I hate lions.
Shenzi : They're so pushy.
Banzai : And hairy.
Shenzi : And stinky.
Banzai : And, man, are they...
Banzai, Shenzi : UGG... GA-LY! [ laughing ]

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Young Simba : I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra.
Timon : Ah-ha, we're fresh out of zebra.
Young Simba : Any antelope?
Timon : Nah-ah.
Young Simba : Hippo?
Timon : Nope. Listen kid, if you're going to live with us, you gotta have to eat like us.

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