Fierce Creatures (1997)

Robert Lindsay: Sydney Small Mammals

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Quotes 

• Rollo Lee : It's an anteater, not a maneater.

  Sydney Lotterby : What would you be saying if it went over there, jumped into that pram? What would you be saying to the child's mother now?

  Rollo Lee : I'd be saying, "Madam, you are the victim of an 8 billion to one chance: a leaping anteater. An evolutionary mutant previously unknown to science."

• [Cub and Pip burst into Rollo's office, with Sydney close behind] 

  Pip Small Mammals : You didn't kill them!

  Rollo Lee : What?

  [Both women throw their arms around him] 

  Cub Felines : We checked, they're all alive!

  Rollo Lee : Oh...!

  [Before he can say another word, they're smothering his cheeks with kisses] 

  Sydney Lotterby : [grinning]  You rascal!

  [to Bugsy] 

  Sydney Lotterby : He was only kidding!

  Adrian "Bugsy" Malone : [as if he's known it all along]  Just figured that out, have you?

  Rollo Lee : [still getting kissed]  I say...

• [about the zoo's new owner] 

  Rollo Lee : Starting with his father's radio stations in New Zealand, he has built up a global empire currently worth more than six billion dollars... and growing.

  Adrian "Bugsy" Malone : How much does he want in the end?

  Sydney Lotterby : Yeah.

  Rollo Lee : What?

  Adrian "Bugsy" Malone : How much bigger does he want to get?

  Rollo Lee : Well, there aren't any limits. He wants growth.

  Adrian "Bugsy" Malone : Presumably he's aware of Dr. E.F. Schumacher's concept of limited resources, or as Jean-Paul Sartre puts it...

  Rollo Lee : [interrupting]  Any *sensible* questions?

• Sydney Lotterby : Please, this is a wild animal! You get too close, it'll give you a nasty nip!

  Rollo Lee : A safety pin would give me a nasty nip, Lotterby. I'll tell you what fierce is, fierce is biting the whole hand off!

  Sydney Lotterby : The whole hand?

  Hugh Primates : [who keeps gorillas]  Is it all right if it wrenches the hand off?

  Rollo Lee : Oh, yes.

  Hugh Primates : Whew!

• Cub Felines : We weren't playing tricks, Bugsy. We're trying to confront him with the reality.

  Adrian "Bugsy" Malone : Presumably you realize...

  Sydney Lotterby : Bugsy, shut up! He's not a cold-blooded murderer. We've given him the five sweetest, cuddliest, most lovable...

  [From the woods, they hear a series of five gunshots]