Jonathan Taylor Thomas credited as playing...
Young Simba
- 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 connected in the great Circle of Life.
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar! Guess what?
- Scar: I despise guessing games.
- Young Simba: I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock.
- Scar: Oh, goody!
- Young Simba: My dad just showed me the whole kingdom, and I'm gonna rule it all!
- [laughs]
- Scar: Yes. Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.
- [flops on his side]
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar. When I'm king, what'll that make you?
- Scar: A monkey's uncle.
- Young Simba: [laughs] You're so weird.
- Scar: You have no idea.
- Young Simba: Hakuna Matata?
- Pumbaa: Yeah. It's our motto.
- Timon: What's a motto?
- Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
- [laughs]
- Young Simba: Dad?
- Mufasa: Hmm?
- Young Simba: We're pals, right?
- Mufasa: Right.
- Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
- Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Scar: [after forcing Simba to the edge of a cliff while a fire burns below] Now this looks familiar. Where have I seen this before? Hm, let me think. Oh, yes, I remember! This is just the way your father looked before he died.
- [He claws Simba's paws the same way he did to Mufasa]
- Scar: And here's 'my' little secret...
- [whispering]
- Scar: I killed Mufasa!
- Young Simba: [In a flashback] Nooooo!
- Adult Simba: [leaps back up and pounces on him] Nooo! Murderer!
- Scar: Now, you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you.
- Young Simba: Oooh, what is it?
- Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise now, would it?
- Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still act surprised.
- Scar: Ho ho ho! You are such a naughty boy.
- Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
- Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of father-son thing. Well, I'd better go get him.
- Young Simba: I'll go with you.
- Scar: No.
- [regaining composure]
- Scar: No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
- Young Simba: You know about that?
- Scar: Simba, everybody knows about that.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours, hmm?
- Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
- Scar: Simba, it's to die for.
- Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?
- Banzai: Hmm, I don't know Shenzi uh, what do you think Ed?
- Ed the Hyena: Oo ehehe, oh hahahaha
- Banzai: Yeah, just what I was thinking, a trio of trespassers.
- Zazu: And quite by accident let me assure you...
- Shenzi: Whoa, whoa, wait wait. I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge.
- Zazu: I madame, am the king's majordomo.
- Banzai: And that would make you...?
- Young Simba: The future King!
- Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
- Young Simba: Puh, you can't do anything to me.
- Zazu: Uh-uh, technically they can, we are on their land.
- Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangy stupid poachers.
- Zazu: Ix-nay on the upid-stay...
- Banzai: Who you callin' upid-stay?
- 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!
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
- Young Simba: I know.
- Mufasa: You could have been killed. You deliberately disobeyed me, and what's worse, you put Nala in danger.
- Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave, like you.
- Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
- Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
- Mufasa: I was today.
- Young Simba: You were?
- Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
- Young Simba: I guess even kings get scared, huh?
- Mufasa: Mmm-hmm.
- Young Simba: But you know what?
- Mufasa: What?
- Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
- Mufasa: [laughs] 'Cause nobody messes with your dad. Come here, you.
- Young Simba: [laughing] No! no!
- [Mufasa and Simba have a little wrestling match]
- Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
- Young Simba: Wow.
- Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king.
- Young Simba: And this'll all be mine?
- Mufasa: Everything.
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches.
- Mufasa: [above the stampeding wildebeest] Scar! Broth-brother, help me!
- Scar: [Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live the King.
- [throws him into the stampede]
- Mufasa: Aaaaah!
- Young Simba: [as the Camera zooms out] Nooooooooo!
- Scar: So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
- Young Simba: Everything.
- Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
- Young Simba: Well, no. He said I can't go there.
- Scar: And he's absolutely right. It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
- Young Simba: Well, I'm brave. What's out there?
- Scar: I'm sorry, Simba, I just can't tell you.
- Young Simba: Why not?
- Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew.
- Young Simba: Yeah, right! I'm your only nephew.
- Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective. An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince. Oops!
- Young Simba: An elephant what? Whoa!
- Scar: Oh, dear, I've said too much. Well, I suppose you'd have found out sooner or later, you being so clever and all. Just do me one favor. Promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place.
- Young Simba: No problem.
- Scar: There's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. And remember, its our little secret.
- Zazu: [leading Simba and Nala to the waterhole] Step lively. The sooner we get to the water hole, the sooner we can leave.
- Young Nala: [whispering to Simba] So, where are we really going?
- Young Simba: An elephant graveyard.
- Young Nala: Wow!
- Young Simba: Shhhh! Zazu.
- Young Nala: Right. So, how are we gonna ditch the dodo?
- [Simba starts whispering to her]
- Zazu: Just look at you two. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be thrilled, what with your being betrothed and all.
- Young Simba: Be-what?
- Zazu: Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.
- Young Nala: Meaning...
- Zazu: One day, you two are going to be married.
- Young Simba: Yuck!
- Young Nala: Ew.
- Young Simba: I can't marry her. She's my friend.
- Young Nala: Yeah, it'd be so weird.
- Zazu: Well, sorry to bust your bubble, but you two turtledoves have no choice. It's a tradition going back generations.
- Young Simba: Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go.
- Zazu: Not so long as I'm around.
- Young Simba: Well, in that case, you're fired.
- Zazu: Nice try, but only the king can do that.
- Young Nala: Well, he's the future king.
- Young Simba: Yeah, so you have to do what I tell you.
- Zazu: Not yet, I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
- Young Simba: Not the way I see it
- Timon: So, where you from?
- Young Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
- Timon: Ah, you're an outcast. That's great. So are we.
- Young Simba: Dad, Dad, come on, you gotta get up. Dad, we gotta go home.
- [pulls on Mufasa's ear]
- Young Simba: Help!
- [echoes throughout the gorge]
- Young Simba: Somebody,
- [echoes]
- Young Simba: anybody...
- [echoes]
- Young Simba: [Simba sniffs] help.
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches... 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.
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
- Young Simba: I know.
- Mufasa: You could have been killed. You deliberatly disobeyed me, and what's worse, you put Nala in danger!
- Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave, like you.
- Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
- Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
- Mufasa: I was today.
- Young Simba: You were?
- Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
- Young Simba: Oh. I guess even kings get scared, huh?
- Mufasa: Mm-hmm
- Young Simba: But you know what?
- Mufasa: What?
- Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scarder
- Mufasa: 'Cause nobody messes with your dad. Come here, you.
- Young Simba: [Mufasa grabs Simba and gives him a noogie] No! No!
- Young Simba: [Simba squirms away and chases his father and tackles him] Come here! Gotcha!
- [They roll in the grass laughing]
- Young Simba: Dad?
- Mufasa: Hmm?
- Young Simba: We're pals, right?
- Mufasa: Right.
- Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
- Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something that my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Scar: Simba. What have you done?
- Young Simba: There were wildebeests, and he tried to save me. It was an accident. I didn't mean for it to happen.
- Scar: Of course. Of course you didn't. No one ever means for these things to happen. But the king is dead. And if it weren't for you, he'd still be alive.