The Rescuers (1977) - Quotes

Taglines: Two tiny heroes, one big adventure!

Taglines: A girl in danger... A cry for help... And two marvelous mice who will risk anything to save her!

Taglines: Two tiny agents vs. the world's wickedest woman in a dazzling animated adventure!

Taglines: Mystery - Fun - Intrigue!

Penny: [prays; to her stuffed bear; tearfully; she sobs on her bed, until Bernard and Miss Bianca walk up to her] Please bless Rufus and Teddy, and all the kids at the orphanage: Jennifer, Bobby, Mary, Julie. And please let someone find my bottle. There's a message in it. Because running away isn't working. Amen. Don't worry, Teddy. We'll... We'll be... ...all right.

Miss Bianca: [tries to awaken Penny] Penny? Penny?

Penny: [awakens in tears] Yes?

Miss Bianca: Penny. Penny, dear, now don't cry. We are here to help you.

Penny: Wait. Hi! Where'd you come from?

Bernard: We found the bottle with your message, and we've come to rescue you.

Penny: [with joy; to the two mice] Did you hear that, Teddy?! Our bottle worked! Didn't you bring somebody big with you? Like the police?

Bernard: Uh, no. There's just the two of us.

Miss Bianca: But if the three of us work together, and we have a little faith...

Penny: That's what Rufus said! "Faith makes things turn out right".

Rufus: [after telling Bernard and Miss Bianca about when he last saw Penny] She seemed happy enough, but the next thing I heard, Penny was gone.

Bernard: Well, aren't the police still looking for her?

Rufus: No. They gave up weeks ago.

Miss Bianca: This is terrible. That poor little girl.

Bernard: I just can't believe that Penny would run away. Mr. Rufus, please think. There must be something else.

Rufus: Well, come to think of it, there was. No. No. It's nothing. Penny wouldn't get in with her.

Bernard: Get in what? With who?

Rufus: Oh, a weird lady tried to give Penny a ride, but she wouldn't have anything to do with trashy people like them.

Miss Bianca: Trashy people? Who?

Rufus: Well, she and her partner run a sleazy pawn shop down the street.

Bernard: Miss Bianca, we must go down there and investigate.

Rufus: Suit yourself. But you'd be wasting your time goin down there.

Bernard: She could be in real trouble. We gotta find her and help her.

Rufus: [laughs a bit] Yeah. But, two little mice. What can you do?

Madame Medusa: [enters her office in a huff; answers; kindly] Who could be ringing at this time of night? (Hello?) Madame Medusa's Pawn Shop Boutique.

Mr. Snoops: Hello, Boss!

Madame Medusa: [excitedly; laughs like crazy; Mr. Snoops speaks indistinctly through the phone; in annoyance; Mr. Snoops indistinctly continues; firmly; seethes; enraged; hangs up in outrage, picks up her suitcase and opens it, and storms off to get her stuff, leaving Bernard to fall over, and causing objects to collapse on top of Bianca] Snoops! Don't tell me, Snoops. Let me guess! You've found it! You've found the diamond! Give you time? You bungler! You have been down there for three months! Bottles? What bottles? You caught Penny sending messages in bottles?! You blundering fool! Can't you control a little girl?! SHUT UP! I am taking the next flight down to Devil's Bayou!

Bianca: This is terrible. We've got to go with her.

Bernard: [climbs into the suitcase] Yeah, come on. In the suitcase.

Medusa: [coming back, carrying a load of clothes; muttering; scoffs and puts on her purple coat while Bianca tries to get in with Bernard, but ends up falling out; tries to close her suitcase; finally closes her trunk, then leaves Bianca out] Bumbling boob. He fouls up everything. Leave him for a few weeks and… Oh, why won't this stupid thing close?!

Orville: Sufferin sassafras! My rudder's on fire! Bail out! Bail out! Mayday! Mayday!

Bernard: [looks at the departure time; looks at the clock, which indicates that it's 7:00, much to his astonishment] Flight leaves 6:45. Oh, no! We missed the flight! Miss Bianca, if you hadn't...

Miss Bianca: [laughs] You worry too much. You know that flights are always late.

Orville: [through radio] Albatross flight 13 to tower! Albatross 13!

Miss Bianca: Now, what did I tell you? We are lucky, Mr. Bernard!

Bernard: Luck? Flight 13? Maybe we'd better take the train.

Orville: [through radio] Wake up!

Orville: Dad-drat it! Somebody answer down there! Get off the dime! Hello! Hello! Is anybody down there?!

Bernard: [responds through microphone] Uh, say- Uh, hello.

Orville: Where in tuck have you been, huh, ya lazy knucklehead?

Bernard: Well, we just got here, sir. You see, my co-agent insisted on packing her, uh...

Orville: [whilst the sound of a helicopter is heard] Look, bud. Am I clear to land? Traffic up here's thicker than fleas on a hound dog!

Orville: [angrily] WOW! WOW! Dad-blast, you dirty road-hog! Road hog! Crazy! See, look! What is-! You stupid lunk-headed...

Miss Bianca: What did he say, Mr. Bernard?

Bernard: I wouldn't dare repeat it.

Bianca: Well, then give him the permission to land.

Bernard: [to microphone] Uh, Captain? You, uh, you have our permission to land.

Orville: Well, it's about time, bud!

Bernard: [buckles up] Miss Bianca, make sure it's fastened good and tight.

Miss Bianca: I can't. It'll wrinkle my dress.

Mr. Chairman: [reads Penny's message and clears throat] To Morningside Orphanage, New York." Hmm. Most difficult to decipher. I can't make it out.

Miss Bianca: [reads the rest of the message] I am... In a terrible... terrible trouble." Oh. Oh, dear. It's all watered out. "H-h-hurry! Help! Penny.

Mr. Chairman: Penny? Morningside Orphanage? Dash it all! It's not much to go on, is it?

Miss Bianca: Oh, that poor little girl. Oh, Mr. Chairman. Please! Please, may I have this assignment?

Mr. Chairman: [laughs] You? Miss Bianca? Dear lady, this is absolutely without precedent. I mean, it's not like the old days, when it was a man's world. However, I suppose there has to be a first time.

Madame Medusa: [clinging onto one of the riverboat's smokestacks as Penny and the animals drive far away, escaping; lamenting, much to her sorrow] THERE GOES MY DIAMOND!

Bernard: Are you all right, dear?

Miss Bianca: She tried to kill us. That terrible woman! Oh, if I was only a 10-foot mouse, I'd show her.

Ellie Mae: Are you ready to help rescue that little young un?

Deadeye: Sure enough, Ellie Mae!

Deacon Owl: Hallelujah!

Ellie Mae: [notices Luke fast asleep] Luke! On your feet, you lazy critter!

Luke: Oh! Shucks, Ellie Mae. I was just a-waitin for someone to holler "Charge"!

Gramps: Dagnabbit! Let's cut out the jawin and get it goin'.

Deadeye: [laughs] When old Gramps gets head up, his nose gets plum out of joint.

Ellie Mae: Take it easy, Gramps! We gotta stay here till Evinrude brings us word from them mice.

Gramps: If that bug don't get here soon, they'll put that poor little girl down the black hole again!

Orville: [when he ends up being sucked into Medusa's swamp mobile, which has chased him away and sucked him up and covered him in black smoke and steam; coughs; continues coughing as he flies away] Holy smoke! Why don't you watch where you're goin'?!

Bernard: Sir, could you tell us what happened to a little girl named Penny?

Rufus: I sure can. But you ain't gonna find her round here. See, poor little thing ran away.

Madame Medusa: You get down there and find the big diamond, or you will never see the teddy again!

Mr. Snoops: Welsher! Swindler! Chiseler!

Madame Medusa: [holds Penny and Snoops at gunpoint while clutching her shotgun and Teddy in both of her hands] Shut up, Snoops! And don't move. If either of you try to follow me, you'll get BLASTED!

Penny: [walks toward her and attempts to grab her teddy bear with the diamond inside him] You gimme my teddy bear. You promised.

Madame Medusa: Teddy goes with me, my dear. I've become quite attached to him.

Madame Medusa: [calling from above] What are you doing down there?

Penny: I'm looking!

Madame Medusa: Well, look faster!

Orville: Say, bud, read the checklist to me.

Bernard: [reads the checklist] Uh, oh, yeah. Goggles down.

Orville: [dons his goggles] Check.

Bernard: Wing flaps down.

Orville: Check.

Bernard: Tail feathers.

Orville: Double check.

Bernard: [looks apprehensive when the checklist says: Albatross Air Charter Service - Check List: Before Taxi Check. Goggles down: Check. Wing flaps down: Check. Tail Feathers: Check. Before Take Off: if at first you don't succeed....... Try, try, again!] If at first you don't succeed, try, try again".

Orville: [takes off] And here we go!

Bernard: How bout trying the three blocks down and four blocks over?

Miss Bianca: What did you do to make him so mad?

Bernard: Nothing. He's just a grumpy old lion.

Miss Bianca: Well, after all, waking him up in the middle of the night. Wouldn't you be grumpy, too?

Bernard: [fade to black] I didn't wake him up in the middle of the night. I just walked into a thing--

Madame Medusa: What's taking so long?!

Penny: It's stuck tight!

Madame Medusa: Stuck tight? You get that diamond, or you'll never see daylight again!

Bernard: No, no, back, back, Penny!

Miss Bianca: Oh, Penny, you’ll fall!

Penny: Aah!

Bianca: She's insane. Utterly mad.

Madame Medusa: I want that diamond. I've got to have the Devil's Eye! You didn't leave the girl down in the cave long enough.

Mr. Snoops: She won't take orders.

Madame Medusa: You are too soft!

Mr. Snoops: But the water was rising and the tide was coming in, and all she did down there was fuss about her teddy bear getting wet.

Madame Medusa: Snoops, you don't have a way with children. You must gain their confidence. Make them like you.

Mr. Snoops: Yeah? How do you do that?

Madame Medusa: You force them to like you, idiot! At the next low tide, I'm going to put her down there myself, and keep her there, until she finds it. And it is as simple as that!

Mr. Snoops: Oh, as simple as that, is it? Well, you're the boss, boss.

Madame Medusa: Yes.