The Jungle Book (2016)

Bill Murray: Baloo

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Quotes 

• Baloo : You say you want to go to the man-village. I say, you could be a man right here.

• Baloo : "This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky."

  Shere Khan : What is this?

  Baloo : "The wolf that keeps it may prosper /"

  Baloo , Bagheera : "... but the wolf that breaks it will die ."

  Shere Khan : You fools.

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha : "Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back."

  Shere Khan : Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha : "For the strength of the pack is the wolf..."

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha , Mowgli : [further joined by the other wolves]  "... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!"

  Shere Khan : I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!

• Baloo : If anything happens to that kid, I'll never forgive myself!

• Baloo : [Mowgli wakes up to find Baloo's nose in his face sniffing him. He screams in terror. Baloo sharply draws his head back]  Relax, kid. No need to get worked up. 'kay?

• Baloo : [having sent Mowgli away]  Well, I did it. And that's about the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Bagheera : I know.

• Baloo : What'd I tell you? He's special.

  Bagheera : I know he's special. I raised him.

  Baloo : Then don't make him leave, Bagheera. You gotta let him be what he is.

  Bagheera : You don't understand. The boy's in danger.

  Baloo : I know. He told me. He's being hunted by a tiger.

  Bagheera : Not any tiger. Shere Khan.

  Baloo : Shere Khan's hunting him? Oh. But if you send him back to the man village, they'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him. We should send him back to the wolf pack. Who's their alpha? Akela. He can protect him.

  Bagheera : Akela is dead.

  Baloo : What?

  Bagheera : Shere Khan killed him. He will stop at nothing until he has this boy. Nothing. The only way we can save him is if he goes to that man village. Please, Baloo. You're the only one he'll listen to.

• Baloo : Didn't the wolves ever sing?

  Mowgli : I don't know. Uh... Oh! We recited the law of the jungle: "This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that keeps it may prosper, but the wolf that breaks it will die."

  Baloo : Kid, that's not a song. That's propaganda.

  Mowgli : What's propaganda?

• Baloo : [sitting in a tree with Mowgli and Bagheera]  I can get used to this.

• Bagheera : Mowgli.

  Baloo : Where is he?

  Bagheera : In the pit.

  Baloo : In the WHAT?

  Bagheera : Is this your teaching?

  Baloo : Oh, come on! You know I'd never teach him to mess around with elephants.

• [from trailer; singing] 

  Baloo : Forget about your worries and your strife.

  Mowgli : What's that?

  Baloo : That's a song about the good life.

• King Louie : No one leaves!

  Baloo : I can show myself out. Thanks. B'-bye.

• Mowgli : It's honey stacks for winter.

  Bagheera : Have you lost your mind?

  Mowgli : You said you wouldn't get mad.

  Bagheera : Did you listen to anything Akela taught you? There's no place in the jungle for these... tricks. You want to do this, you do this in the man village.

  Mowgli : But I'm helping Baloo get ready for hibernation.

  Bagheera : Bears don't hibernate in a jungle. What are you teaching him?

  Baloo : Not full hibernation but I nap a lot.

  Bagheera : Listen to me, you con artist! He may not know your game, but I do. He's leaving now.

  Mowgli : But I don't WANNA leave!

  Bagheera : You don't have a choice!

  Baloo : Why don't we all just settle down for a minute. Look, it's gotten late - too late to travel - so why don't we all just have a little honey...?

  Bagheera : I don't eat honey.

  Baloo : No problem. I'll eat the honey. Let's all get a good night's sleep and we can talk about this in the morning?

  Bagheera : Fine, but we're leaving first thing.

• Baloo : [Looking at the pangolin]  You have never been a more endangered species than you are at this moment.

• Baloo : Excuse me! Anybody? Excuse me, am I in the right monkey temple? Oh, my gosh, is that King Louie? This is so exiting. The legends do you no justice, sir. You are truly... ENORMOUS, ah-ha-ha, in the best way. Look at all of that... flesh just... squatting there on an ancient throne. How... how-how majestic.

  King Louie : [to his monkeys]  Seize him!

• Baloo : Hey! Hang on! Can you hang on? Can you just hang on? I climbed a mountain to see you - and I'm not a climber - just to be in your presence. For me this is a dream come true. Oh!

  King Louie : Throw him off the cliff!

• Mowgli : Bagheera!

  Bagheera : Mowgli? Stay there. We'll come around to you.

  Mowgli : Is it true?

  Bagheera : What?

  Mowgli : Is Akela dead?

  Bagheera : We were going to tell you.

  Mowgli : You knew! You both knew! And nobody did anything about it!

  Baloo : Kid, just hold on.

  Mowgli : Someone's gotta do something!

• Baloo : [climbing a cliff, frightened]  A bird. That can't be a good sign.

  Bagheera : [alongside him]  Baloo, look at me. Look at nothing but me. You're doing fine.

  Baloo : All right I'm coming. I'm coming.

• Baloo : I would have done this myself but I'm afraid of heights.

• Baloo : I did it! Ahh...

  Bagheera : Well done, old chap. He must be in there. Follow me.

  Baloo : No, no. We're on level ground here. I'm in charge, and I've got a plan.

• Baloo : And could you keep your voice down? I'm trying to concentrate.

• Baloo : Uh.

  Bagheera : I'll take it from here.

  Baloo : No, I... I'm coming. I... it's-it's doable if I don't have to go too high.

  Bagheera : Good. Let's get going.

  Baloo : All right.

• Mowgli : Where am i?

  Baloo : Uh, this is a cave. It's my cave. You don't remember what happened, do you?

  Mowgli : No.

  Baloo : I saved your life. Yeah, I snatched you from the jaws of death - the COILS of death, if you will - and lucky for you your new favorite hero, old Baloo here, just happened to be passing by.

• Baloo : Hey! Hey-hey-hey-hey, Mowgli, my friend, my buddy, my pal. Slow down a second, handsome!

  Mowgli : Bagheera said I have to go to the man village.

  Baloo : Oh, Bagheera? I know him! Sure. You know what his problem is? He always plays by the rules - and sometimes rules were meant to be... well, not necessarily broken, but certainly bent - and definitely reinterpreted, don't you think?

• Baloo : Why do you wanna go there?

  Mowgli : Bagheera said I need a people.

  Baloo : [sighs]  Again with the listening to Bagheera.

  Mowgli : Hey, he's my friend, okay? Now I don't know where he is.

• Mowgli : [back from the beehive with welts]  You said they didn't sting. What do you call this?

  Baloo : How the heck did you do THAT? Oh, those must have been females! Ahhh! They look like males from down here. Females DO sting. Just put some, uh... honey on those.

  Mowgli : Honey? Really?

  Baloo : Yeah. You put it on, you lick it off, you feel much better.

  Giant Squirrel : It's nature's ointment. I put it everywhere.

• Mowgli : That's the man village?

  Baloo : Yep. You can always tell by the red flower. They do love their red flower.

  Mowgli : The red flower doesn't seem SO bad.

  Baloo : Yeah. Let it loose and it destroys everything it touches. Don't ever play with it! You got that?

  Mowgli : Yeah, I got it.

  Baloo : Good.

• Baloo : Wait wait wait wait wait I have no problem with that. I don't have any problem with that. I came up here without an invitation. It was extremely presumptuous of me. Let me interrupt myself. I just gotta say you guys are so much handsomer in person than anyone know. No one ever gets up close to you. Why? Because of the smell. The smell is rough. But it's not just oh look at me. It's I got the brains. You guys got the know-how. You got the noggin You came up with this stuff with the thumb. Come on show me. How do you do that? I can't do that. Look I scratch I rub I can grab a fish. But I was hoping and you may not be open to this at all but I was hoping and once again it's a dream but i was hoping that I might become a bandar-log myself. Gosh I wanna be like you. I am hitching my wagon to your star.

• Baloo : But, I was hoping - and you may not be open to this at all - but I was hoping - and once again it's a dream - but I was hoping that I might become a bandar-log myself. Gosh, I wanna be like you. I am hitching a wagon to your star!