Other Titles • An American Tail • Feivel, der Mauswanderer (1987)
Quotes from An American Tail (1986)
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Gussie Mausheimer: Wewease the secwet weapon.
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Tiger: You lost your family? I lost my family, too, years ago, I mean. Eight brothers. Ten sisters. Three fathers.
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[Warren T. Rat playing the violin] Warren T. Rat: Rats! This nose, this nose keeps getting in the way. Digit: You could stop playing. Warren T. Rat: That's very funny. I've never known a cockroach with good taste, but I've known plenty that taste - heh, heh - good. Digit: [nervous] Heh, heh. Play, play, play.
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Papa Mousekewitz: Ah, Mr Curious, so you've discovered the herring. Fievel Mousekewitz: Herring? I thought they were fish. Papa Mousekewitz: Herring is fish. Fievel Mousekewitz: Really, Papa? Papa Mousekewitz: Oh, yes. There are many kinds of fish, and herring is one of them. Fievel Mousekewitz: All kinds? Papa Mousekewitz: Tiny fishes, not so tiny fishes, fishes as big as this boat. Fievel Mousekewitz: Wow. Let's go up and see the fish.
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Mama Mousekewitz: It's the end of the world. Papa Mousekewitz: No, it's worse.
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Papa Mousekewitz: And for you, Fievel, a new hat. And not just any new hat. A new hat that has been in the family for three generations. It belonged to me, my father, and my father's father, and now it belongs to you. Happy Hannukah. Fievel Mousekewitz: It's too big. Mama Mousekewitz: You'll grow.
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Papa Mousekewitz: Oh, I nearly forgot. Here, Fievel, your hat. [the hat drops as before; Fievel adjusts the hat with his ears] Mama Mousekewitz: The hat, it fits! Papa Mousekewitz: My son! Now, you are a mouse.
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Tiger: Listen, I like mice. [Fievel cries] Tiger: Oh, no. Not like that. You see, I don't eat red meat at all. I'm a vegetarian. Oh, a little fish now and then, but what I really like is a nice piece of... shh... broccoli.
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Seagull #1: I have a cousin in America. Seagull #2: Ha. [spits] Seagull #2: You and everybody else.
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Papa Mousekewitz: Fievel, this is the last time I take you to America.
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[the immigrants are getting off the ship in New York] Female Immigrant: America! Male Immigrant: No, no, New York.
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Papa Mousekewitz: In America there are mouseholes in every wall. Mama Mousekewitz: Who says? Papa Mousekewitz: Everyone. In America there are bread crumbs on every floor. Mama Mousekewitz: What ridiculous nonsense! Papa Mousekewitz: In America you can say anything you want, but most important - and this I know for a fact - in America there are no cats.
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Papa Mousekewitz: Won't it be great when we finally get to America, where we don't have to worry about cats? There are no cats in America. But back home in Mother Russia... Ahh. [singing] Papa Mousekewitz: Our family was travelling through the snow to Minsk / Suddenly Papa saw those huge pawprints / When I heard him screaming I fainted dead away / And I woke up an orphan... Oy vey!
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Italian Mouse: Ma la cosa terrible que esiste en la patria mia! If you think things were bad in Russia, you should have seen things in my country [singing] Italian Mouse: Things were tough in Sicily, we had no provolone / The Don he was a tabby with a taste for my brother Tony / When mamma went to plead for him, the Don said he would see her / We found her rosary on the ground... Poor mamma mia!
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Irish Mouse: That's sad, yes, but sadder still... [singing] Irish Mouse: When I was but a lad, I lost my true love fair / A calico he caught us by surprise / In a flash of teeth and fur / Her tail was all he left of her / 'Neath the heather is where my turra-lurra lies.
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Henri: Q'est que çe? A little immigrant. Now they are coming by bottle.
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Tony Toponi: Stick with me, kid. [Fievel holds on tightly to Tony's arm] Tony Toponi: Hey, hey, hey! What, are we engaged or something?
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Bridget: This is America! We have free speech! We can say "cat" here! Cat, cat, cat, and double-cat!
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Gussie Mausheimer: We must have a wawwy. Honest John: A wawwy? What's a wawwy? Gussie Mausheimer: You know, a warge gathewing of mice for a weason. Honest John: Oh, a rally! Gussie Mausheimer: That's what I said, a wawwy.
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Bridget: Honest John, he's lost his family. By any chance, do you know the Mousekewitzes? Honest John: Oh... Hmm. Are they registered to vo - Hic! - ote? Bridget: They just got off the boat. Honest John: Sorry, don't know them yet.
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Gussie Mausheimer: Why did we come here to America? For fweedom! Why are they building that statue on the harbor? What does it stand for? Fweedom! What do we want? Crowd: Fweedom!
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Tiger: I'm your guard, Tiger. Don't make any sudden moves, 'cause I'm crafty and I'm quick. I've got the instints of a cat. What am I saying? I am a cat.
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Warren T. Rat: Now throw down that kid! Tony Toponi: Oh, yeah? [knocks off Warren's fake nose with his slingshot] Tony Toponi: Bullseye! [the crowd murmurs] Warren T. Rat: Disregard the nose. What's in a nose? A nose by any other name would smell as sweet... [Tony knocks off Warren's fake ears] Crowd: Great whiskers! He's a cat! Warren T. Rat: Hey, who are you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?
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Fievel Mousekewitz: Henri, what's that over there? Henri: Oh, that is more America. Fievel Mousekewitz: Can we go see it? Henri: You will, my little American. Someday, you will.
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Warren T. Rat: If music be the food of love, play on, McDuff, play on. Digit: I don't know which is worse, the music or the Shakespeare?
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Tiger: [playing cards] I got it! I got it! Rummy! Cat: For the hundredth time, Tiger. We're playing poker.
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[after the cats have just raided the marketplace] Mama Mousekewitz: Well Mister there are no WHATS in America, hmm? Papa Mousekewitz: [laughs nervosuly] Cats.
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Gussie Mausheimer: I never thought this morning I'd be riding a fewine. Tiger: [laughs] A fewine? Gussie Mausheimer: A cat. Tiger: I knew that, I knew that.
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Gussie Mausheimer: What's come over me? I'm hugging a cat!
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[Tiger has just let Fievel escape] Warren T. Rat: You're fired. Tiger: Good. I'm glad. I never like you.
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[Fievel sees Warren's true form from behind the mirror] Fievel Mousekewitz: Warren T.! Warren T. Rat: [Warren sees Fievel] You! Fievel Mousekewitz: You're not a Rat, you're a Cat! Warren T. Rat: How'd you get in here? Come here, you little...... [Warren grabs Fievel, but Fievel bites him and runs off] Warren T. Rat: Gentlemen, cat's out of the bag. [throws his mirror to the ground] Warren T. Rat: [yells] Get me that mouse!
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