The Princess and the Frog (2009) - Quotes

Charlotte: Who'da thought a prince had a younger brother? How old did you say you were?

Prince Ralphie: I'm 6½.

Charlotte: Well, I waited this long!

Ray: [meeting Tiana and Naveen] Y'all must be new around here.

Prince Naveen: [chuckles lightly] Actually, we are from a place, far, far away from this world.

Ray: Go to bed! Y'all from Shreveport?

Mama Odie: Good to see you again, Ray. How's your grandma?

Ray: Oh, she's fine. She got in a little trouble for flashin the neighbors again.

Mama Odie: [laughs warmly] I like that old gal's spunk!

Lawrence: Sire, I've been looking for you everywhere!

Prince Naveen: Oh, what a coincidence, Lawrence! I've been avoiding you everywhere!

Lawrence: We're going to be late for the masqu...

Prince Naveen: [cut to various jazz musicians] Listen, Lawrence! Listen! Oh! Jazz! Jazz music! It was born here! It's beautiful, no?

Lawrence: No!

Dr. Facilier: [pins Tiana down with his cane; laughs] Y'all shoulda taken ma deal. Now, you're gonna spend the rest o your life bein a slimy little frog!

Tiana: [grins; grabs the charm with her tongue; smashes it on the ground] I got news for you, Shadow Man. It's not slime, it's mucus!

Dr. Facilier: [picks up the remains and gasps in horror as colorful lights flicker around him. Tiana hides; three masks appear from the gravestones, chanting. Facilier smiles nervously] No! NO!! How am I ever gonna pay back my debt?! Friends!

The masks: [smiling evilly] ♪ Are you ready? ♪

Dr. Facilier: No! I'm not ready at all! In fact, I got lots more plans!

The shrunken heads: ♪ Are you ready? ♪

Dr. Facilier: [voodoo dolls burst out of the ground, carrying drumsticks. Facilier shrieks; backs up against a tombstone with his shadow hiding behind him; The tombstone transforms into a huge demonic mask; squeals; a demon's hand grabs his shadow and starts to pulls him toward the mask's mouth; yelps in surprise; the demons chant and bang on drums; latests words before his death; screams; he is pulled into the mask's mouth, along with the other demons. The mouth shuts and becomes a tombstone with his shocked face, above his name, engraved on it] This is just a minor setback in a major operation! As soon as I whip up another spell, we'll be back in business! I've still got that froggy prince locked away. I just need a little more time! No, no, please, no! Just a little more time! I promise I'll pay y'all back! I PROMISE!

Ray: Hey...How come...you're...still...?

Tiana: We're stayin frogs, Ray.

Prince Naveen: And we're staying together.

Ray: Oh. Tres Bien. I like that very much. Evangeline...like that too.

Ray: I know what we’ve seen with our eyes but...If we just go back there, we gonna find that your fairy tale come true.

Tiana: Just because you wish for something doesn’t make it true.

Ray: It’s like my Evangeline always said to me-

Tiana: [snaps; leaves] Evangeline is nothing but a star, Ray! A big ball of hot air a million miles from here! Open your eyes now, before you get hurt.

Ray: [looks back sadly at Evangeline in tears] She’s just big in a broken heart. That’s all it is. Come on, Evangeline. We're going to show Chère the truth.

Prince Naveen: Oh, Evangeline. Why can't I just look Tiana in the eye and say, "I will do whatever it takes to make all your dreams come true because...because I love you."?

Ray: [mistakingly thinks that Naveen is in love with Evangeline] Whoa, whoa, whoa, Cap! You're making goo-goo eyes at my girl?! That's it, put them up! I'm going to make some shoes out of you!

Prince Naveen: No, no, Ray, I'm not in love with Evangeline, I am in love with Tiana!

Dr. Facilier: [the masks snarl; plaughs; pulls out a voodoo doll of Big Daddy La Bouff and a needle; whirls his hand around, showing an illusion of New Orleans; chuckles; the illusion shrinks into his hand; blows the illusions of screaming souls out of the illusion. The illusory souls waft upward into the masks' noses as they smile maliciously; dusts his hands; the large center mask glances at the other smaller masks, who give sinister grins. It then opens its mouth and shadowy ghosts ooze out from it, onto the walls around him; chuckles; slams cane on ground] Friends. I know I am already deeply in debt to ya'll and everything, but it seems our little froggy prince, lost his way. And I'll be interested in ya'll help getting him back. I hear ya, now what's in it for ya'll? Well, as soon as I dispose of Big Daddy La Bouff, and I'm running this town, I'll have the whole of New Orleans, in the palm of my hand. And you'll have all the wayward souls your dark little hearts desire. Ya'll like that, don't you? So, we have ourselves a deal? Now we're cooking! We gonna find ourselves a frog. Search everywhere! The bayou, the Quarter, bring him to me alive. I need his heart pumpin'! For now... Allez! Toute suite!

Prince Naveen: You know, waitress, I've finally figured out what is wrong with you.

Tiana: Have you now?

Prince Naveen: You do not know how to have fun. There. So, what do you have to say?

Tiana: Thank you. Cause I figured out what your problem is, too.

Prince Naveen: [a branch hits him] I'm too wonderful?

Tiana: No. You're a no-account, philanderin', lazy bump on the log!

Prince Naveen: [fake cough] Killjoy!

Tiana: What did you say?

Prince Naveen: [fake cough] Nothing. Stick-in-the-mud!

Tiana: Listen here, Mister. This "stick-in-the-mud" has had to work two jobs her whole life while you've been suckin on a silver spoon, chasing chambermaids round your ivory tower!

Prince Naveen: Actually, it's polished marble.

Lawrence: [gasp; Dr. Facilier silently appears behind him] Oh, dear. Oh! You're so quiet.

Dr. Facilier: You let him go?!

Lawrence: [gets tripped by Facilier's shadow, who laughs maliciously; removes the talisman, changing into his true form; throws the talisman to Facilier] The poor devil was gasping, so I'd loosened the lid, ever so slightly... How did I ever get tangled up this voodoo madness? I can't get through with this! You wear this-this ghastly thing!

Dr. Facilier: [catches the talisman; pauses as Lawrence quivers with fear; sighs and calms down; puts on the talisman; nothing happens] CAREFUL WITH THAT!!! ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THIS, I'M GONNA BE...! Fun fact about voodoo, Larry... ...can't conjure a thing for myself. Besides, you and I both know the real power in this world ain't magic. It's money! Buckets of it.

Lawrence: That's true.

Dr. Facilier: Aren't you tired of living on the margins? While all those fat cats in their fancy cars don't give you so much as a sideways glance?

Lawrence: Yes...I am.

Dr. Facilier: [puts the talisman back on Lawrence] All you gotta do is marry Big Daddy's little princess... And we'll be splittin that juicy Le Buoff fortune right down the middle...60-40, like I said.

Lawrence: Hmm...yeah. But uh...what about Naveen?

Dr. Facilier: [smacks the back of Lawrence's head] Your little SLIP-UP... will be a minor bump in the road. So long as we got the prince's blood in this.

Lawrence: [chuckles] Yes...

Tiana: Okay, Tiana, you can do this.

Prince Naveen: [checks to see if he is still a frog. He is. He glances down and sees Tiana's dress on the floor; silently] Faldi Faldonza!

Tiana: You don't look that much different. But how'd you get way up there?

Travis: But Miss Charlotte, you said "later" 2 hours ago!

Charlotte: [exasperated; after a disappointed Travis walks away; rushes over to Tiana's table and grabs as many napkins as she can] Travis, when a woman says "later", she really means "not ever"! Now, run along. There are plenty of young fillies dyin for you to waltz them into a stupor. GIMME THEM NAPKINS, QUICK!

Tiana: [confused] What on Earth for?

Charlotte: [stuffs the napkins inside the sleeves and neckline of her dress] I swear I am sweatin like a sinner in church!

Dr. Facilier: [singing; to Naveen; aside; talking] Now you, young man, are from across the sea; you come from two long lines of royalty. I'm a royal myself on my mother's side. Your lifestyle's high, but your funds are low. You need to marry a little honey whose daddy got dough. Mom and Dad cut you off, huh, pretty boy?

Prince Naveen: Eh, sad, but true.

Dr. Facilier: [snickers evilly and sings; to Lawrence; singing; Naveen chuckles; talking; while both men shake Dr. Faciller's hands, the background dissolves to some creepy voodoo masks singing] Now y'all gotta get hitched, but hitchin ties ya down! You just wanna be free - hop from place to place! But freedom takes green... It's the green, it's the green, it's the green you need! And when I look into your future, it's the green that I see. On you, little man, I don't wanna waste much time! You've been pushed around all your life! You've been pushed around by your mother, and your sister, and your brother. And if you was married...You'd be pushed around by your wife. But in your future, the you I see, is exactly the man you've always wanted to be! Shake my hand. Come on boys...Won't you shake, a poor sinner's hand? Yes...

Tiana: Mornin', Mr. La Bouff.

Eli Big Daddy La Bouff: Good mornin', Tiana.

Tiana: Congratulations on bein voted king of the Mardi Gras parade.

Eli Big Daddy La Bouff: Caught me completely by surprise...for the fifth year in a row! Now, how about I celebrate with...

Tiana: Beignets? Got me a fresh batch just waitin for you.

Eli Big Daddy La Bouff: Well, keep em comin til I pass out!

Buford: Are you talkin bout that dang restaurant again?

Tiana: Buford, your eggs are burnin'.

Buford: You ain't never gonna get enough for the down payment.

Tiana: I'm gettin close.

Buford: Yeah. How close?

Tiana: Where my flapjacks?

Buford: [laughing] You got about as much chance of gettin that restaurant as I do of winnin the Kentucky Derby.

Georgia: We all goin out dancin tonight. Care to join us?

Male Customers: Yeah, c'mon, Tiana, live a little. It's Mardi Gras.

Tiana: [to a rather messy baby; serving pancakes to a male customer] No, I got two left feet. Besides, I'm gonna... Need a napkin, sweetheart? I'm gonna work a double shift tonight. Here're your hotcakes. You know, so I...

Georgia: You can save for your restaurant. I know, I know. Girl! All you ever do is work!

James: You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life. It warms them right up and it puts little smiles on their faces, and when I open up my own restaurant, I tell you, people are gonna line up from miles around just to get a taste of my food!

Young Tiana: Our food.

James: [writes "Tiana's Place" on the paper] That's right, baby. Our food.

James: Mmm. Gumbo smells good, Tiana.

Young Tiana: I think it's done, Daddy.

James: Yeah. Are you sure?

Young Tiana: Mm-hmm.

James: Absolutely positive?

Young Tiana: Yes.

James: Okay. I'm about to put this spoon in my...

Young Tiana: [yanks the spoon out of her dad's hand; adds some hot sauce to the gumbo, then tastes it; feeds the gumbo to James] Wait! Done.

James: Hmm.

Young Tiana: What?

James: Well, sweetheart, this is the...best gumbo I've ever tasted! Come here! Eudora, our little girl's got a gift!

Eudora: I coulda told you that.

James: A gift this special just gotta be shared.

Eli Big Daddy La Bouff: Evenin', Eudora.

Young Charlotte: Daddy, Daddy! Look at my new dress! Isn't it pretty?

Eli Big Daddy La Bouff: Look at you! Why, I'd expect nothin less from the finest seamstress in New Orleans!

Eudora: [reads "The Frog Prince" to a young Tiana and Charlotte] Just at that moment, the ugly little frog looked up with his sad, round eyes and pleaded, "Oh, please, dear princess, only a kiss from you can break this terrible spell that was inflicted on me by a wicked witch.

Young Charlotte: [whispering] Here comes my favorite part!

Eudora: [still reading] And the beautiful princess was so moved by his desperate plea that she stooped down, picked up the slippery creature, leaned forward, raised him to her lips, and kissed that little frog!

Young Charlotte: Aww!

Eudora: [continues reading] Then the frog was transformed into a handsome prince! They were married and lived happily ever after! The end.

Young Charlotte: Yay! Read it again! Read it again!

Eudora: Sorry, Charlotte. It's time for us to be headin home. Say goodnight, Tiana.

Young Tiana: There's no way, in the whole wide world, I would ever ever ever, and I mean never kiss a frog. Bleugh!

Young Charlotte: [Randomsly] ? ?

Lawrence: [latest words before his taken away by policeman; '''Big Daddy La Bouff''': (furiously) Boys, dragged this maggot down to the perish prison.] I'm completely innocent! The Shadow Man bamboozled me!