Donald Duck Quotes in Fun & Fancy Free (1947)

Edgar Bergen: Just look at that miserable creature. Doggedly struggling to maintain life. A gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair. But Donald doesn't whimper. Donald doesn't give up.

Donald Duck: Shut up! I can't stand it!

[Mickey has retrieved the key to the jewel box from Willie's pocket and has climbed back up to the box]

Donald Duck: He made it!

Goofy: He did?

[looks through keyhole]

Goofy: Here he comes with the key!

Donald Duck: [looking through keyhole] Let me have it, Mickey!

[the key goes through the keyhole and hits Donald, knocking him over]

Goofy: Hey, look!

[singing to the tune of "Funiculi Finicula"]

Goofy: Turkey, lobster, sweet potater pie / pancakes piled up till they reach the sky!

Donald Duck: [scat singing] Wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak wak!

Goofy: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[his Adam's apple knocks out Donald]

Goofy: I wanna eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat until I die!

Goofy, Donald Duck: [both singing as Mickey enters the room] Turkey, lobster, sweet potater pie / pancakes piled up till they reach the sky...

Goofy: [singing] Lots of starches, lots of greens, fancy cho-co-late covered...

Mickey Mouse: [holding up a chest of beans, cutting their song short] Beans!

Goofy: [disgusted] What do you mean beans?

Mickey Mouse: Yeah, fellas, I sold the cow for some magic beans.

Donald Duck: Beans?

[jumps into the ceiling throwing a temper tantrum while tearing out his head feathers]

Mickey Mouse: But Donald, these are not ordinary beans, they're *magic* beans. If you plant these beans on the night of a full moon, do you know what'll happen?

Donald Duck: Yes, we'll get more beans!

[takes the box from him and throws them into a hole in the floor]

Mickey Mouse: No, no, Donald!

Donald Duck: Magic beans! Phooey!

Mickey Mouse: Mr. Levine! Okay, Mr. Levine, everybody's in place for the next number.

James Levine: Thanks, Mickey. When...

Mickey Mouse: But we can't find Donald. So you stay here and stall for time, and I'll be right back.

[Exits]

Mickey Mouse: [Offstage] Donald! Oh Donald!

James Levine: When we hear Sir Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" we think of a graduation ceremony.

Mickey Mouse: Donald, where are ya?

James Levine: Actually, Elgar composed it for many kinds of solemn events.

Mickey Mouse: Donald!

James Levine: This march inspired the Disney artists to recreate the age old story...

Mickey Mouse: Donald, are you hiding in...

Daisy Duck: Aaaah!

Mickey Mouse: Oh, sorry, Daisy!

James Levine: ...of Noah's Ark, with one slight twist.

Mickey Mouse: [Knocking on door] Oh, Donald Duck!

Donald Duck: Who is it?

[Mickey and Donald's shadows are projected against a panel; Donald is in the shower]

Mickey Mouse: Donald, it's me, Mickey. You're on in 30 seconds, hurry.

Donald Duck: What? You gotta be kidding! I'm not even dressed...

[Mumbles angrily as he leaves the tub]

Mickey Mouse: [Peeking behind a wall] Psst! Okay, Jim. He's on his way. Go to the intro.

James Levine: Ladies and gentlemen, "Pomp and Circumstance," starring Donald Duck.

Donald Duck: [referring to a pinata] What's this?

Panchito: What's this?

[laughs]

Panchito: This is your gift from Mexico, Donald: a pinata!

Donald Duck: Oh, boy, oh, boy, a pinata!... What's a pinata?

Panchito: A pinata is full of surprises. Presents. It's the very spirit of Christmas.

Donald Duck: Christmas!

[singing]

Donald Duck: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...

Panchito: [laughing] Oh, no, no, Donald! For goodness sake, not "Jingle Bells". In Mexico, they sing "Las Posadas".

José Carioca: But tell me, Donald, have you ever been to Baia?

Donald Duck: No, I haven't.

José Carioca: No? Oh, I am so sorry for you. Ah, Baia. It is like a song in my heart. A song with love and beautiful memories. Que saudades que eu tenho. Ah, Baia. I close my eyes, and I can see it now. I can see the beautiful twilight in the sky. I can feel the breeze from the bay. And I can hear the music, the music of Baia.

[Donald is struggling to dance the Mexican Lilongo with Carmen Molina]

Panchito: Hey, Donald, you are what they say "off the cob". You know, corny.

Donald Duck: Oh, yeah?

[he starts doing his own dance, instead: the jitterbug]

[Pablo the penguin has fulfilled his dream of moving to a warmer, more tropical climate]

Prof. Holloway: And so, as the warm, tropical sun sinks slowly in the west, we leave little Pablo, a bird in paradise, a picture of health in his new coat of tan. He should be the happiest penguin in the world.

[Pablo looks at some photographs of penguins back at the South Pole]

Prof. Holloway: Only, sometimes he gets to thinking...

Narrator: [laughs] Never satisfied. Well, that's human nature for you, even if you're a penguin.

Donald Duck: You're absolutely right.

[Donald is about to watch a movie on rare birds, one of his birthday presents]

Narrator: [on movie] Aves raras.

Donald Duck: ¿Aves raras?

Narrator: Si, señor. That means "strange birds".

Donald Duck: Oh, sure, sure! I know! Birds!

[he forms his hands together and flaps them like the wings of a bird]

Narrator: Yes, amigo, your feathered cousins. You know, Donald, you have more relatives here than there are coffee beans in Brazil.

Narrator: By the way, amigo, did you know that some birds are skilled craftsmen?

Donald Duck: Uh-uh, is that so?

Narrator: [during footage of a Marrequito building a nest, by piling up sticks and twigs on top of each other] Yes, quite a builder is the little Marrequito.

[the Aracuan bird watches]

Narrator: His nest may look haphazard in design, ah, but every single stick and straw...

[the Aracuan gives the Marrequito one last twig]

Narrator: ... is scientifically placed to withstand the stress and strain of...

[the Marrequito places this twig on the pile, but the nest then collapses]

Narrator: ... well, almost anything.

José Carioca: [to Donald] As you Americans say, what's cooking?

Donald Duck: Joe Carioca! Well, I'll be doggoned!

José Carioca: Imagining, meeting me here! Donald, have you ever been to Baia, no?

Donald Duck: No, I haven't.

José Carioca: What do you feel about Baia? Tell me the truth.

Donald Duck: Oh, swell! Marvelous! Romance!

[puckers up lips as if kissing]

Donald Duck: Moonlight!

[a crescent moon falls out the sky, landing next to Donald]

Donald Duck: Beautiful girls!

[pretends momentarily to look like a girl]

José Carioca: Sim, senhor. Voce e um grande pirata. Or, as you say, you are a wolf!

José Carioca: Have you been to Baia, Donald?

Donald Duck: No.

José Carioca: Well, let's go!

Donald Duck: [meeting some women on Acapulco Beach] Hello, my sweet little bathing beauties!

[Benchley is watching a camera man shooting cels of Donald Duck]

Robert Benchley: Yeah, but he still doesn't move.

Donald Duck: Just a minute, big boy. Give me time, give me time!

[Benchley laughs in astonishment]

Donald Duck: Look, I'll show ya. I'll show ya. Now look. First my foot is up here, see?

Robert Benchley: Uh-huh.

Donald Duck: Then, it's down here, understand?

Robert Benchley: Now I get it.

Donald Duck: Like this...

Robert Benchley: Yeah.

Donald Duck: And this...

Robert Benchley: I see.

Donald Duck: And that. See?

Robert Benchley: Sure.

Donald Duck: When I do it faster, I'm walking. Get it?

Robert Benchley: Yeah, certainly.