The Jungle Book Quotes
The Jungle Book
After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
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PG | 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 15 April 2016 (USA)
Mowgli: [to King Louie] What do you want me for?
King Louie: Word has grabbed my royal ear... Have a banana. [he pops a banana neatly out of its skin and into Mowgli's mouth]
King Louie: ... that you want to stay in the jungle.
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Stay in the jungle? I sure do.
King Louie: Good, and ol' King Louie... [scatting]
King Louie: Ba-ba-do-bay-boo-boo-doo-doo... [stops scatting]
King Louie: ... that's me, can fix it for you. [he takes two bananas]
King Louie: Have two bananas. [like the first one, he pops these two out of their skins and into Mowgli's mouth]
King Louie: Have we got a deal?
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Yes, sir, I'll do... [he swallows them]
Mowgli: I'll do anything to stay in the jungle.
King Louie: Well, then, I'll lay it on the line for you. [he starts singing "I Wanna Be Like You"]
King Louie: Word has grabbed my royal ear... Have a banana. [he pops a banana neatly out of its skin and into Mowgli's mouth]
King Louie: ... that you want to stay in the jungle.
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Stay in the jungle? I sure do.
King Louie: Good, and ol' King Louie... [scatting]
King Louie: Ba-ba-do-bay-boo-boo-doo-doo... [stops scatting]
King Louie: ... that's me, can fix it for you. [he takes two bananas]
King Louie: Have two bananas. [like the first one, he pops these two out of their skins and into Mowgli's mouth]
King Louie: Have we got a deal?
Mowgli: [his mouth full of banana] Yes, sir, I'll do... [he swallows them]
Mowgli: I'll do anything to stay in the jungle.
King Louie: Well, then, I'll lay it on the line for you. [he starts singing "I Wanna Be Like You"]
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Raksha: [to Mowgli]Never forget this: You're mine. Mine to me. No matter where you go, or what they may call you, you will always be my son.
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Kaa: [to Mowgli]Poor, sweet little cub. What are you doing so deep in the jungle?
Mowgli: This is my home.
Kaa: Don't you know what you are? I know what you are. I know where you came from.
Mowgli: You do?
Kaa: Yesssss. Would you like to see?
Mowgli: This is my home.
Kaa: Don't you know what you are? I know what you are. I know where you came from.
Mowgli: You do?
Kaa: Yesssss. Would you like to see?
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Shere Khan: Shift your hunting ground for a few years and everyone forgets how the law works. Well, let me remind you. A man-cub becomes man, and man is FORBIDDEN!
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Baloo: You say you want to go to the man-village. I say, you could be a man right here.
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Akela: Mowgli belongs to my pack, Shere Khan.
Shere Khan: Mowgli? They've given it a name! When was it we came to adopt man into the jungle?
Akela: He's just a cub.
Shere Khan: [shows his scars]Does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do?
Shere Khan: Mowgli? They've given it a name! When was it we came to adopt man into the jungle?
Akela: He's just a cub.
Shere Khan: [shows his scars]Does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do?
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Shere Khan: I can't help but notice there's this strange odor today. What is it, this scent that I'm on? I almost... I almost think it was some kind of... man-cub. [spots Mowgli]
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Baloo: This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky.
Shere Khan: What is this?
Baloo: The wolf that keeps it may prosper /
Baloo ,
Bagheera: ... but the wolf that breaks it will die .
Shere Khan: You fools.
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha: Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back.
Shere Khan: Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha: For the strength of the pack is the wolf...
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha ,
Mowgli: [further joined by the other wolves]... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!
Shere Khan: I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!
Shere Khan: What is this?
Baloo: The wolf that keeps it may prosper /
Baloo ,
Bagheera: ... but the wolf that breaks it will die .
Shere Khan: You fools.
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha: Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back.
Shere Khan: Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha: For the strength of the pack is the wolf...
Baloo ,
Bagheera ,
Raksha ,
Mowgli: [further joined by the other wolves]... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!
Shere Khan: I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!
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Mowgli: [en route to a man village]But I want to stay in the jungle. Why do I have to go there?
Bagheera: Because the jungle is no longer safe for you. You're being hunted by a tiger. Only man can protect you now.
Bagheera: Because the jungle is no longer safe for you. You're being hunted by a tiger. Only man can protect you now.
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Bagheera: [tackles Mowgli to restrain him from fighting Shere Khan]Stay here!
Mowgli: [trying to push Bagheera's paw away]But I want to fight with the wolves!
Bagheera: You can't fight him like a wolf! You're not a wolf! Fight him like a man!
Mowgli: [trying to push Bagheera's paw away]But I want to fight with the wolves!
Bagheera: You can't fight him like a wolf! You're not a wolf! Fight him like a man!
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Shere Khan: [playing with Akela's cubs after he killed Akela]I think they like me.
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Baloo: [Mowgli wakes up to find Baloo's nose in his face sniffing him. He screams in terror. Baloo sharply draws his head back]Relax, kid. No need to get worked up. 'kay?
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Bagheera: Maybe I can be of help. The boy's right. Maybe it's time he found another people.
Raksha: No!
Bagheera: I'm the one who brought him to you, and now I'll return him to where he belongs.
Raksha: [goes in front of Mowgli]I won't let you. He's MY cub!
Akela: We knew this day would come.
Raksha: We are the only family he's ever known!
Akela: Raksha, it's the only place he'll be safe.
Mowgli: [walks to Raksha]It's okay, ami, I won't go far. I-I'll come back and visit.
Raksha: No!
Bagheera: I'm the one who brought him to you, and now I'll return him to where he belongs.
Raksha: [goes in front of Mowgli]I won't let you. He's MY cub!
Akela: We knew this day would come.
Raksha: We are the only family he's ever known!
Akela: Raksha, it's the only place he'll be safe.
Mowgli: [walks to Raksha]It's okay, ami, I won't go far. I-I'll come back and visit.
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Baloo: What'd I tell you? He's special.
Bagheera: I know he's special. I raised him.
Baloo: Then don't make him leave, Bagheera. You gotta let him be what he is.
Bagheera: You don't understand. The boy's in danger.
Baloo: I know. He told me. He's being hunted by a tiger.
Bagheera: Not any tiger. Shere Khan.
Baloo: Shere Khan's hunting him? Oh. But if you send him back to the man village, they'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him. We should send him back to the wolf pack. Who's their alpha? Akela. He can protect him.
Bagheera: Akela is dead.
Baloo: What?
Bagheera: Shere Khan killed him. He will stop at nothing until he has this boy. Nothing. The only way we can save him is if he goes to that man village. Please, Baloo. You're the only one he'll listen to.
Bagheera: I know he's special. I raised him.
Baloo: Then don't make him leave, Bagheera. You gotta let him be what he is.
Bagheera: You don't understand. The boy's in danger.
Baloo: I know. He told me. He's being hunted by a tiger.
Bagheera: Not any tiger. Shere Khan.
Baloo: Shere Khan's hunting him? Oh. But if you send him back to the man village, they'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him. We should send him back to the wolf pack. Who's their alpha? Akela. He can protect him.
Bagheera: Akela is dead.
Baloo: What?
Bagheera: Shere Khan killed him. He will stop at nothing until he has this boy. Nothing. The only way we can save him is if he goes to that man village. Please, Baloo. You're the only one he'll listen to.
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Baloo: [having sent Mowgli away]Well, I did it. And that's about the hardest thing I've ever done.
Bagheera: I know.
Bagheera: I know.
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Bagheera: Mowgli.
Baloo: Where is he?
Bagheera: In the pit.
Baloo: In the WHAT?
Bagheera: Is this your teaching?
Baloo: Oh, come on! You know I'd never teach him to mess around with elephants.
Baloo: Where is he?
Bagheera: In the pit.
Baloo: In the WHAT?
Bagheera: Is this your teaching?
Baloo: Oh, come on! You know I'd never teach him to mess around with elephants.
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Baloo: Didn't the wolves ever sing?
Mowgli: I don't know. Uh... Oh! We recited the law of the jungle: This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that keeps it may prosper, but the wolf that breaks it will die.
Baloo: Kid, that's not a song. That's propaganda.
Mowgli: What's propaganda?
Mowgli: I don't know. Uh... Oh! We recited the law of the jungle: This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that keeps it may prosper, but the wolf that breaks it will die.
Baloo: Kid, that's not a song. That's propaganda.
Mowgli: What's propaganda?
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Shere Khan: [finds himself on the branch of a dead tree that starts to crack under his weight]Did you think I would let you grow old? [sees the flames below the tree]
Shere Khan: Either I'll devour you or the red flower will. It's just a matter of time. How long did you really think you'd survive against me? Longer than your father did? Longer than... Akela?
Mowgli: I'm not afraid of you! Do you hear me? I'm done running from you! [Shere Khan roars and leaps at the end of the branch to tackle Mowgli, but the boy manages to jump onto a vine. The branch snaps and Shere Khan falls to his death]
Shere Khan: NOOO!
Shere Khan: Either I'll devour you or the red flower will. It's just a matter of time. How long did you really think you'd survive against me? Longer than your father did? Longer than... Akela?
Mowgli: I'm not afraid of you! Do you hear me? I'm done running from you! [Shere Khan roars and leaps at the end of the branch to tackle Mowgli, but the boy manages to jump onto a vine. The branch snaps and Shere Khan falls to his death]
Shere Khan: NOOO!
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[from trailer; singing] Baloo: Forget about your worries and your strife.
Mowgli: What's that?
Baloo: That's a song about the good life.
Mowgli: What's that?
Baloo: That's a song about the good life.
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Bagheera: When I found him many years ago he was just an infant abandoned in the woods. If he was going to survive, I knew he needed a people. A people to protect him. That's why I entrusted him to the wolves.
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Mowgli: Don't be mad, okay?
Bagheera: Why would I be mad?
Mowgli: 'Cause you're always mad when I do stuff. You gotta promise not to be mad THIS time.
Bagheera: Show me, then I'll decide.
Bagheera: Why would I be mad?
Mowgli: 'Cause you're always mad when I do stuff. You gotta promise not to be mad THIS time.
Bagheera: Show me, then I'll decide.
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Mowgli: It's honey stacks for winter.
Bagheera: Have you lost your mind?
Mowgli: You said you wouldn't get mad.
Bagheera: Did you listen to anything Akela taught you? There's no place in the jungle for these... tricks. You want to do this, you do this in the man village.
Mowgli: But I'm helping Baloo get ready for hibernation.
Bagheera: Bears don't hibernate in a jungle. What are you teaching him?
Baloo: Not full hibernation but I nap a lot.
Bagheera: Listen to me, you con artist! He may not know your game, but I do. He's leaving now.
Mowgli: But I don't WANNA leave!
Bagheera: You don't have a choice!
Baloo: Why don't we all just settle down for a minute. Look, it's gotten late - too late to travel - so why don't we all just have a little honey...?
Bagheera: I don't eat honey.
Baloo: No problem. I'll eat the honey. Let's all get a good night's sleep and we can talk about this in the morning?
Bagheera: Fine, but we're leaving first thing.
Bagheera: Have you lost your mind?
Mowgli: You said you wouldn't get mad.
Bagheera: Did you listen to anything Akela taught you? There's no place in the jungle for these... tricks. You want to do this, you do this in the man village.
Mowgli: But I'm helping Baloo get ready for hibernation.
Bagheera: Bears don't hibernate in a jungle. What are you teaching him?
Baloo: Not full hibernation but I nap a lot.
Bagheera: Listen to me, you con artist! He may not know your game, but I do. He's leaving now.
Mowgli: But I don't WANNA leave!
Bagheera: You don't have a choice!
Baloo: Why don't we all just settle down for a minute. Look, it's gotten late - too late to travel - so why don't we all just have a little honey...?
Bagheera: I don't eat honey.
Baloo: No problem. I'll eat the honey. Let's all get a good night's sleep and we can talk about this in the morning?
Bagheera: Fine, but we're leaving first thing.
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Shere Khan: [to Raksha's cubs]But the one you have to watch out for is the cuckoo bird. Do you know how the cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother's weakness. The cuckoo bird is too cleaver to raise its young. Instead, it sneaks its eggs into the nests of simpler birds; so, when they hatch, the mother bird is fooled. She feeds them, nurtures them... And do you know what happens to her own chicks? They starve and die from neglect, all because a mother loved a chick that wasn't her own.
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King Louie: And YOU are a man-cub who wants to live in a jungle.
Mowgli: How do you know that?
King Louie: Kid, I got ears. My ears got ears. You wanna live here? You need a people to protect you. Only I can protect you - and I will for a price.
Mowgli: I don't have anything to give you.
King Louie: I think you DO.
Mowgli: How do you know that?
King Louie: Kid, I got ears. My ears got ears. You wanna live here? You need a people to protect you. Only I can protect you - and I will for a price.
Mowgli: I don't have anything to give you.
King Louie: I think you DO.
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