Up (2009) quotes

Directors
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson.

Cast
Edward Asner.
Jordan Nagai.
John Ratzenberger.

Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he’s trying to kill us. What a joke.
– Carl Fredricksen
Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, “I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.” Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.
– Dug

[Carl, in his once-again airborne house, suddenly hears a knock at the front door]
Russell?
– Carl Fredricksen
[opens the door to find Dug on his doorstep]
Dug!
– Carl Fredricksen
I was hiding under your porch because I love you. Can I stay?
– Dug
Can you stay? Why, you’re my dog, aren’t you? And I’m your master!
– Carl Fredricksen
You are my master? Oh, boy! Oh, boy!
– Dug
[lunges forward and covers Carl in slobbery kisses]
[laughing] Good boy, Dug. You’re a good boy.
– Carl Fredricksen

That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.
– Russell

[Ellie opens her Adventure Book to reveal to Carl a “Life” magazine with Charles Muntz on the cover] You know him.
– Young Ellie
[Carl gasps]
Charles Muntz, explorer. When I get big, I’m going where he’s going,
– Young Ellie
[pulls away the magazine to reveal a map of… ]
South America. It’s like America, but south.
– Young Ellie

Hey, let’s play a game. It’s called “See Who Can Be Quiet the Longest”.
– Carl Fredricksen
Cool! My mom loves that game!
– Russell

[reading from his scout handbook in monotone] Good afternoon. My name is Russell, and I am a Wilderness Explorer in Tribe 54, Sweatlodge 12. Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?
– Russell
No.
– Carl Fredricksen
I could help you cross the street.
– Russell
No.
– Carl Fredricksen
I could help you cross your yard.
– Russell
No.
– Carl Fredricksen
I could help you cross your… porch?
– Russell
No.
– Carl Fredricksen
Well, I gotta help you cross *something*!
– Russell

[to Carl] You don’t talk much… I like you!
– Young Ellie

This is serious. He’s out to get your house!
– Construction Foreman Tom
Tell your boss he can *have* our house.
– Carl Fredricksen
Really?
– Construction Foreman Tom
When I’m dead!
– Carl Fredricksen
[goes inside and slams the front door]
I’ll take that as a maybe!
– Construction Foreman Tom

[Whining] I’m tired! My knee hurts!
– Russell
Which knee?
– Carl Fredricksen
…My elbow hurts!
– Russell

Hi, Mr. Fredricksen! It’s me, Russell!
– Russell
What are you doing out here, kid?
– Carl Fredricksen
I found the snipe and I followed it under your porch, but this snipe had a long tail and looked more like a large mouse.
– Russell
[Russell’s Wilderness Explorers flag blows away in the wind]
Please let me in.
– Russell
No.
– Carl Fredricksen
[Carl goes inside and slams the door. Russell waits uncertainly a few moments]
[opens the door] Oh, all right. You can come…
– Carl Fredricksen
[Russell races past Carl into the house]
…in.
– Carl Fredricksen

[to the bird Kevin] Won’t you please be my prisoner, please, please, please!
– Dug