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Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Tony Haygarth, and Julia Sawalha in Chicken Run (2000)

Quotes

Chicken Run

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  • Babs: [after fainting from a near-death experience] All of me life flashed before me eyes!
  • [disappointed]
  • Babs: It was really borin'.
  • Rocky: Easy, pops. Cockfighting's illegal where I come from.
  • Bunty: And where is that exactly?
  • Rocky: Just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave.
  • Mac: Scotland!
  • Rocky: No! America.
  • Mr. Tweedy: [being attacked by chickens] Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!
  • Mrs. Tweedy: [with her back turned] Finally, something we agree on.
  • Babs: I don't want to be a pie. I don't like gravy.
  • Nick: [on the chickens' plane before take-off, pointing then crossing his arms to point] The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees...
  • Fetcher: and kiss your bum goodbye!
  • Fowler: Poppycock. Pushy Americans. Always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed and over here!
  • Babs: Morning, Ginger. Back from holiday?
  • Ginger: I wasn't on holiday, Babs. I was in solitary confinement.
  • Babs: Oh, it's nice to get a bit of time to yourself, isn't it?
  • Mr. Tweedy: Ooh, that's champion, that is. What is it?
  • Mrs. Tweedy: It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chickens go in, pies come out.
  • Mr. Tweedy: Ooh! What kind of pies?
  • Mrs. Tweedy: Apple.
  • Mr. Tweedy: My favorite!
  • Mrs. Tweedy: Chicken pies, you great lummox! Imagine it. In less than a fortnight, every grocers' in the county will be stocked with box upon box of Mrs. Tweedy's Homemade Chicken Pies.
  • Mr. Tweedy: Just... "Mrs."?
  • Mrs. Tweedy: Woman's touch. Makes the public feel more comfortable.
  • [last lines]
  • Nick: Here's a thought. Why don't we get an egg and start our own chicken farm? That way we'd have all the eggs we could eat.
  • Fetcher: Right. We'll need a chicken, then.
  • Nick: No... no, we'll need an egg. You have the egg first, that's where you get the chicken from.
  • Fetcher: No, that's cobblers. If you don't have a chicken, where are you going to get the egg?
  • Nick: From the chicken that comes from the egg.
  • Fetcher: Yeah, but you have to have an egg to have a chicken.
  • Nick: Yeah, but you've got to get the chicken first to get the egg, and then you get the egg... to get the chicken out of...
  • Fetcher: Hang on. Let's go over this again?
  • [Ginger has given a speech about the the advantages of a life free from the Tweedys]
  • Bunty: In all my life I've never heard such a fantastic... load of tripe! Oh, face the facts, ducks. The chances of us gettin' out of here are a million to one.
  • Ginger: Then there's still a chance.
  • Rocky: Now, the most important thing is we have to work as a team, which means... you do everything I tell you.
  • Hen: And what brings you to England, Mr. Rhodes?
  • Rocky: Why, all the beautiful English chicks, of course.
  • [the plane reels as Mrs. Tweedy hangs on to it]
  • Fowler: Great Scott, what was that?
  • Mac: A cling-on, Cap'n, and the engines can't take it.
  • Nick: Poultry in motion.
  • Nick: What are you sobbin' about, you nancy?
  • Fetcher: Little moments like this, mate. It's what makes the job all worthwhile. Wanna dance?
  • Nick: ...Yeah, all right.
  • Ginger: I thought you were teaching us how to fly.
  • Rocky: That's what I'm doing.
  • Ginger: Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
  • Rocky: Hey, do I tell you how to lay eggs?
  • Ginger: But you're supposed to be up there. You're the pilot.
  • Fowler: Oh, don't be ridiculous. I can't fly this contraption.
  • Ginger: Back in your day -- the Royal Air Force...
  • Fowler: 6-4-4 Squadron, poultry division. We were the mascots.
  • Ginger: You mean you never actually flew the plane?
  • Fowler: Good heavens, no. I'm a chicken. The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of a complex aircraft.
  • [Rocky and Ginger are in an oven]
  • Rocky: It's like an oven in here.
  • Mr. Tweedy: Oh, yes. Those chickens are up to something.
  • Mrs. Tweedy: Quiet. I'm onto something.
  • Mr. Tweedy: They're organised, I know it.
  • Mrs. Tweedy: I said quiet.
  • Mr. Tweedy: And that Ginger one, I reckon she's their leader.
  • Mrs. Tweedy: [losing her patience and slamming her fist on the table] Mr. Tweedy! I may finally have found a way to make us some real money around here and what are you on about? Ridiculous notions of escaping chickens!
  • Mr. Tweedy: [stammering] But... but...
  • Mrs. Tweedy: It's all in your head, Mr. Tweedy. Say it!
  • Mr. Tweedy: It's all in me head. It's all in me head.
  • Mrs. Tweedy: Now, you keep telling yourself that because I don't want to hear another word about it! Is that clear?
  • Mr. Tweedy: Yes, love. But you know that Ginger one...
  • Mrs. Tweedy: They're *chickens*, you dolt! Apart from you, they're the most stupid creatures on this planet. They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are *not* organised!
  • Rocky: [escaping from circus, shooing through the air]
  • [shouts]
  • Rocky: FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
  • [Ginger slaps Rocky]
  • Ginger: *That's* for leaving.
  • [pulls him close]
  • Ginger: And *this* is for coming back.
  • Rocky: Listen. Shh. You hear that?
  • [silence]
  • Rocky: That's the open road calling my name, and I was born to answer that call. Bye.
  • [he leaves]
  • Babs: He must have very good hearing.
  • [the chickens are panicking]
  • Ginger: Ladies, please. Let's not lose our heads.
  • Bunty: Lose our heads? Aaaahh!
  • Rocky: The name's Rocky. Rocky the Rhode Island Red. Rhodes for short.
  • Hen: Rocky Rhodes?
  • Rocky: Catchy, ain't it?
  • Fetcher: It's raining hen.
  • [Fowler is forced to share his bunk with Rocky]
  • Fowler: Absolutely outrageous! Asking a senior officer to share his quarters. And with a noncommissioned Yank, no less. Why, back in my day, I'd never...
  • Rocky: Hey! You weren't exactly *my* first choice, either. And scoot over. Your wing's on my side of the bunk.
  • Fowler: *Your* side of the bunk? The *whole bunk* is my side of the bunk!
  • Rocky: [snapping back] Just... What's that smell? Is that your breath?
  • Fowler: It's absolutely outrageous.
  • [encouraging after a failed day of "flying"]
  • Rocky: Ducky, I think you flew four feet today!
  • Nick: Right, four feet! From the roof to the ground.
  • [finding the chickens building the Crate]
  • Mr. Tweedy: Me tools! Why, you thieving little buggers!
  • [telling Rocky about a caper]
  • Nick: We slipped into the farmer's room, all quiet like.
  • Fetcher: Like a fish.
  • Nick: Yeah, and we... "Like a fish"? You stupid norbert.
  • Fetcher: Birds of a feather, flop together.
  • Rocky: You see, flying takes three things. Hard work, perseverance and-- Hard work.
  • Fowler: You said hard work twice!
  • Rocky: That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
  • [Babs falls from they sky, nearly on their heads]
  • Nick: What's this caper love?
  • Babs: We're flying!
  • Nick: [wryly] Obviously.
  • [spots the intense attempts at flying]
  • Nick: Flippin' 'ell! Look at this, Fetch.
  • Fetcher: They're gonna kill themselves!
  • [Beat]
  • Fetcher: Wanna watch?
  • Nick: [Ponders] Yeah, all right.
  • Ginger: Think, everyone, think. What *haven't* we tried yet?
  • Bunty: We haven't tried *not* trying to escape.
  • Babs: Hmm. *That* might work.
  • Fowler: Increase velocity!
  • Babs: What does that mean?
  • Bunty: It means pedal your flippin' giblets out!
  • [on finding out Rocky can't fly. Inside joke, see Trivia]
  • Bunty: I knew he was fake all along. In fact, I'm not even certain he was American.
  • Rocky: Guys, you are without a doubt the sneakiest, most light-fingered thieving parasites I've ever met.
  • Nick: [flattered] Oh, don't, don't. Stop it!
  • Fetcher: I've gone bright red.
  • Ginger: I should turn you in right now.
  • Rocky: You wouldn't! Would you?
  • Ginger: Give me one reason why I shouldn't.
  • Rocky: Because I'm... cute?
  • [Ginger squawks to attract the farmer's attention]
  • Rocky: Hey, hey, hey, hey. Wwhat kind of crazy chick are you? Do you know what'll happen if he finds me?
  • Ginger: [quoting him] It's a cruel world.
  • Rocky: I just decided, I don't like you.
  • Ginger: I just decided, I don't care.
  • Ginger: [whispering, right after one of the other chickens is killed] We've got to get out of here.
  • Rocky: Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You wanna get every chicken in this place out of here *at the same time*?
  • Ginger: Of course.
  • Rocky: You're certifiable! You can't pull off a stunt like that; that's suicide.
  • Ginger: Where there's a will, there's a way.
  • Rocky: Couldn't agree more. And I *will* be leaving *that* way.
  • Rocky: [Ginger falls down a chute] Oh, shoot!
  • Ginger: [falling] Rocky!
  • Rocky: I'll be down before you can say...
  • [spots something about to be dumped on him]
  • Rocky: ... "mixed vegetables"!
  • Fowler: I don't like the look of this one. His eyes are too close together.
  • Ginger: Fowler, please.
  • Fowler: And he's a Yank!
  • Rocky: Easy, Pops. Cockfighting is illegal where I come from.
  • Ginger: Uh, Mr. Rhodes, perhaps I didn't explain our situation properly. We lay eggs; day in and day out. And when we can't lay any more, they kill us.
  • Rocky: It's a cruel world, dollface. Might as well get used to it.
  • Ginger: What part of 'They kill us' do you not understand?
  • Fowler: [of Rocky] I don't like the look of this one. His eyes are too close together.
  • Ginger: Fowler, please.
  • Fowler: And he's a Yank.
  • [during the credits]
  • Nick: The egg, obviously, rolling along, happy as Larry, then crack! Hatches into the first chicken.
  • Fetcher: Yeah, but where'd the egg come from, then?
  • Nick: What do you mean where'd it come from?
  • Fetcher: Egg comes rollin' along, 'appy as Larry, it's wonderin'... where'd it come from? Without a chicken, you get no egg to come rollin' along.
  • Nick: Well, conversely, without an egg to hatch into the chicken, there will be no chicken to lay the other egg that hatches into the chicken that lays the egg I mentioned in the first place.
  • Nick: So we got two eggs now?
  • Fetcher: No, we're still talking about the very first egg.
  • Fetcher: Yeah, but what 'appened to the very first chicken?
  • Nick: 'E's in the very first egg, aren't you listening?
  • Rocky: Uh, guys, guys? We're trying to enjoy paradise over here.
  • Nick: Oh, sorry, guv.
  • Fetcher: Beg your pardon.
  • Nick: Won't happen again.
  • Rocky: Thanks.
  • Nick: Gitface.
  • Fetcher: Pillock.
  • Nick: Think he's such a bigshot 'cause he's got his name on a poster. Showbiz folk are all the same.
  • Fetcher: Yeah, the rats are the stars, actually. But he does get all the birds
  • Nick: Yeah, of course they are. We do all the 'ard work, 'e gets all the credit.
  • Fetcher: He gets everything, doesn't he?
  • Nick: Yes, he does. Everything.
  • Fetcher: You said it, mate.
  • Nick: I know.
  • Rocky: [lands in dough] D'oh. Get it? Dough!
  • Ginger: I'm stuck!
  • Ginger: We can't give you our eggs. They're too valuable.
  • Nick: And so are we.
  • [Packing up to leave]
  • Nick: After you, Fetcher.
  • Fetcher: ...After I what?
  • Nick: Move!
  • Rocky: [apparently training the chickens] And left, two, three, and right, two, three and... stop right there.
  • [chickens stop leaning to the side, confused]
  • Rocky: Oh, yeah. Down.
  • [chickens stoop]
  • Rocky: All right, now: make little circles.
  • [chickens start to spin]
  • Rocky: That's it, faster, faster... yeah, that hits the spot...
  • Ginger: [Ginger looks up only to see Rocky sighing in contentment getting massaged; she walks over and clears throat; other chickens wander away, embarrassed] I thought you were going to teach us how to fly.
  • Rocky: That's what I'm doing.
  • Ginger: Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
  • Rocky: Hey. Do I tell you how to lay eggs? Relax. We're making progress!
  • Ginger: Really? I can't help feeling we're going around in circles.
  • [motions to the spinning chickens behind her]
  • Rocky: What the - ? Hey! Cut it out! You're making *me* dizzy!
  • [chickens stop and start stumbling dizzily]
  • Rocky: I think they're ready to fly now.
  • Ginger: Good. Because they certainly can't *walk* anymore.
  • Rocky: What's eating Grandpa?
  • Rocky: [to Ginger after being put against the wall] You know, you're the first chick I ever met with the shell still on.
  • Fowler: Cock-a-doodle-doo! What, what.

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