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Suzy: We're in love, we just wanna be together, what's wrong with that?
Sam: I guess we better try to pretend we're
struggling over our decision for a minute
before we go back over there and tell him.
Suzy: Maybe he's right. It could be a mistake.
Sam: What? Why? How?
Suzy: Being married. Sometimes it seems sad to me. It might be better to just go steady permanently.
Sam: I don't know what to say.
Lazy-Eye: What's your real job, sir?
Scout Master Ward: I'm a math teacher.
Lazy-Eye: What grade?
Scout Master Ward: Eighth.
Lazy-Eye: Do you need a PhD for that?
Mrs. Bishop: I'm sorry, Walt.
Mr. Bishop: It's not your fault. (pause) Which injuries are you apologizing for, specifically?
Mrs. Bishop: Specifically? Whichever ones still hurt.
Mr. Bishop: Half of those were self-inflicted.
Gadge: I heard he's going to reform school.
Deluca: I heard they're going to take out a piece
of his brain and send him to an insane
asylum.
Roosevelt: I like his girl.
Panagle: She's too scruffy for me
Nickleby: Supposedly, they got to third base.
Lazy-Eye: That's not true. He just felt her up.
Roosevelt: Over-shirt or under-shirt?
Suzy: I always wished I was an orphan. Most of
my favorite characters are. I think your
lives are more special.
Mrs. Bishop: I beg your pardon. Are you a lawyer?
Scout Master Ward: No, ma'am, but
Mrs. Bishop: Well, I am!
Mrs. Bishop: Does it concern you that your daughter's
just run away from home?
Mr. Bishop: That's a loaded question.
Suzy: It's not funny.
Sam: To me, it is.
Suzy: You really know how to make friends.
Sam: I'm sorry.
Captain Sharp: Be that as it may, will you let me know
if you see anything unusual?
Suzy: I'd be careful if I were you. One of these days, someone might get pushed too far, and who knows what they're capable of?
Sam: No, I said... what kind of bird are you?
Mr. Bishop: I'll be out in the back. I'm going to find a tree to chop down.
Mr. Bishop: Jesus christ, what am I looking at?
Mr. Bishop: WHY can't you control your scouts?
Scout Master Ward: Umm...I'm trying to...
Sam: So, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Suzy: I don't know...I want go on adventures I think--not get stuck in one place. How about you?
Sam: Go on adventures too, not get stuck too.
Sam: Poems don't always have to rhyme, you know. They just have to be creative.
Captain Sharp: It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes.
Cousin Ben: I can't offer you a legally binding union, it won't hold up in the state, the county or frankly any court in the world due to your age, lack of a license and failure to get parental consent BUT the ritual does carry a very important moral weight within yourselves - you can't enter into this lightly. Look into my eyes - do you love each other?
Sam: Fish on hook! Now reel him in SLOWLY.
Sam: I said: what kind of bird are YOU?
Suzy: I forgot my comb, but it's okay I'll just use my fingers.
Sam: I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Sam: Sorry, do you mind?
Sam: Come get me you bastards!
Sam: What kind of bird are you?
Scout Master Ward: You know what, scratch that. This is my job... math teacher on the side.
Sam: What happened to your hand?
Suzy: It got hit by a mirror.
Sam: How'd that happen?
Suzy: I lost my temper at myself.
Mrs. Bishop: Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Mr. Bishop: Why?
Social Services: Find the boy and deliver him to Social Services. Nothing else is in your power.
Cousin Ben: You want pop? You want candy? You want a snake-bite kit? Get some money.
Sam: On this spot I will fight no more forever. Come and get me you bastards!
Scout Master Ward: I suppose, because Sam is, unfortunately, the least popular scout in the troop, by a significant margin.
Mr. Bishop: My daughter has been abducted by one of those beige lunatics.
Scout Master Ward: This is not just a rescue party. This is a great scouting opportunity.
Captain Sharp: I need volunteers! You, you, you and you.
Sam: It wasn't made for a man to wear, but I don't give a damn.
The Narrator: The year...is 1965. We are on the far edge of Black Beacon Sound, famous for the ferocious and well-documented storm which will strike from the East, on the fifth of September -- in three days' time.
The Narrator: There are no paved roads, but - here comes Jet with the mail -- but instead many miles of intersecting footpaths and dirt trails and a ferry that runs twice daily from Stone Cove.
The Narrator: This is the island of New Penzance. Sixteen miles long...forested with old growth pine and maple...crisscrossed by shallow tidal creeks...Chickchaw territory.
Captain Sharp: Juvenile refuge.
Sounds like jail.
Sam: Were you followed?
Suzy: ...I doubt it.
Captain Sharp: I can't argue against anything you are saying. Then I don't have to because you are twelve.
Cousin Ben: Take the carbon. Leave the bible.
Suzy: Was he a good dog?
Suzy: Who's to know...
Suzy: You can touch my chest.
Mr. Bishop: I'm going to cut down a tree.
Rudy: Where's my record player?
Sam: Suzy, I love you, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
Suzy: ...I love you, too.
Sam: Suzy, I love you, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
Captain Sharp: Did you hit him?
Mrs. Bishop: No, he drove into a ditch.
Captain Sharp: You're doing what's right. For everyone. Except me.
Ft. Lebanon Khaki Scout: Well, where would you build it?
Scout Master Ward: I would build it....lower!
Sam: We can feed the guts and eyeballs to the cat.
Mr. Bishop: What am I looking at here?
Mrs. Bishop: He does watercolors. Landscapes, a few nudes.
Commander Pierce: And now he's lost his whole troop? Who is that bimbo?
Suzy: They were right. I do go bezerk.
Suzy: I know what you're doing with that sad, dumb cop.
Cousin Ben: I'm keeping the nickels!
Captain Sharp: Don't let go!
Suzy: I think they're going to get bigger.
Sam: Want some beef jerky?
Mr. Bishop: I'm gonna find a tree to chop down.
Sam: Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die.
Sam: I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Scout Master Ward: Jiminey Cricket, he flew the coop!
Sam: I'm on your side.
Sam: Who's to judge. But he didn't deserve to die.
Lazy-Eye: She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!
Lazy-Eye: She stabbed him with the lefty scissors!
Social Services: Where's the boy? I'm told that he's just been struck by lightening.
Scout MasterWard: It's true.
Mr. Bishop: What am I lookin' at?
Mrs. Bishop: He does water colors. Mostly landscapes, but a few nudes.
Sam: Dear Suzy, walk four hundred yards due north from your house to the dirt path which has not got any name on it. Turn right and follow to the end. I will meet you in the meadow.
Sam: What kind of bird are you?
Mrs. Bishop: Frances, where the hell are you?
Mr. Bishop: I'm up here!
Mrs. Bishop: Does it concern that your daughter has run away from home?
Mr. Bishop: That's a loaded question.
Ward: Jiminey Cricket, he flew the coop!
Mr. Bishop: I'll be outback. I'm gonna find a tree to chop down.