Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

David Schwimmer: Melman

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Quotes 

• Melman : How are a zebra, a hippo, a lion and a giraffe going to walk into a casino in Monte Carlo?

  Marty : I don't know. Ask the rabbi.

• [Gloria gets stuck after falling down an air shaft, nearly crushing Alex, Marty, and Melman] 

  Melman : [to Gloria, sweetly yet awkwardly]  Hi, honey!

• Gia : Alex? You are from a zoo?

  [pause] 

  Alex : Yes. Yes. But wait, there's more.

  Gia : More?

  Alex : Or less. There's less.

  Vitaly : You were never circus?

  Gloria : We had to say we were circus.

  Melman : Or you'd never let us on the train.

  Gia : After all we have been through together, you want to go live in a zoo?

  Alex : Gia, I...

  Vitaly : You used us.

  Alex : No, no, no. I mean - I mean yes but,

  Gia : Trapeze americano, you make that up, too?

  Alex : It didn't exactly exist when I taught it to you.

  Gia : Jet packs and aquatic cobras! I should've known.

  Stefano : Balloons to the children of the world was not real, either?

  Alex : Yeah, that's not real. But look at what we did.

  Stefano : I was shot out of a cannon! I could've died!

  Marty : But I thought it was your lifelong dream.

  Stefano : For all I know, your name is not even Alice.

  Alex : No, Stefano, but it never really was.

  Stefano : I don't feel safe!

  Alex : Gia, I...

  Gia : We trusted you.

  Stefano : My tears are real! You are not!

• Alex : And Melman, you're the Brooklyn Bridge.

  Melman : Actually, I'm the Triborough Bridge.

• Melman : I can't dance!

  Gloria : Maybe that's because you've never tried it before.

  Melman : I *have* tried it! I practice in private because you're so good at it...

  Gloria : You practice? For me?

  Melman : Yeah, but... It's no use! I never know what to do with my arms.

  Gloria : That's the easy part.

  [wraps Melman's arms around her neck] 

  Gloria : You just put your arms around your partner.