Fierce Creatures (1997) quotes

Directors
Fred Schepisi, Robert Young.

Cast
John Cleese.
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Michael Palin.

Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.

You really don’t like animals, do you?
– Willa Weston
No, it’s not that I don’t like them, I just don’t see the point. I remember, when I was five, my mother got me this… dog. Pft. I just didn’t *get* it. I suppose I had nothing I needed fetched. So I sold him.
– Vince McCain
How sad.
– Willa Weston
Oh, he got over it.
– Vince McCain

Is there a history of insanity in your family?
– Rollo Lee

No, no. This is the kind of conversation that two people have when one of them is female.
– Vince

He reminds me of my father.
– Willa Weston
Was your father ugly?
– Vince McCaine

For one thing, he loves animals.
– Willa Weston
Oh, he doesn’t just love ’em.
– Vince

Why do you work for us, Rollo?
– Willa Weston
Cowardice?
– Rollo Lee

Mate, Beijing called. We’ve got the television rights to their public executions.
– Neville
Worldwide?
– Rod McCain
Five guys a week, guaranteed.
– Neville
Beauty.
– Rod McCain

It’s an anteater, not a maneater.
– Rollo Lee
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?
– Sydney Lotterby
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.”
– Rollo Lee

I don’t like you. You’re weird and unattractive.
– Vince

Now over here, this used to be the lion house, but as it’s no longer suitable for animals, we’re using it for middle management.
– Vince McCain
What the hell do you think you’re doing? Can you keep a lid on it till the sun goes down, for God’s sake? You’re supposed to be working, not prancing around in your cell like a… flamingo with a boner.
– Vince McCain

Did you get a whiff of that guy’s cologne? Eau de Monkey Fart!
– Vince

Mr. Sylvester Stallone didn’t get where he is today by playing in Jane Austen.
– Rollo Lee