Dr. Karen Ross Quotes in Congo (1995)

Dr. Karen Ross: This is for you Charlie...

[zaps satellite with laser]

Monroe: So why'd you quit the CIA?

Dr. Karen Ross: I never worked for the CIA.

Monroe: Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?

Dr. Karen Ross: 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.

Monroe: And you're not?

Dr. Karen Ross: And I'm not.

Monroe: Glad to hear it.

Dr. Karen Ross: Are you serving that ape a martini?

Monroe: And this is your cover?

Dr. Karen Ross: Yes

Dr. Peter Elliot: I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?

Monroe: ...find yourself in the middle of something.

Dr. Peter Elliot: Cover for what?

Monroe: I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.

Dr. Karen Ross: Aren't you human?

Travis: I'll be human later!

Dr. Karen Ross: Name your price.

Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't have a price! I'm not a pound of sugar, I'm a primatologist!

[first lines]

Rudy, TraviCom Security: [over PA system] Doctor Ross. Doctor Ross. We've got satellite in the Congo.

Dr. Karen Ross: What did they say, Rudy?

Rudy, TraviCom Security: I can't repeat anything in here.

Dr. Karen Ross: It's Charles.

Rudy, TraviCom Security: It's Charles.

Rudy, TraviCom Security: [trying her access card] It won't work.

Dr. Karen Ross: You changed the code already?

Rudy, TraviCom Security: The old man's got me changing it every 3 hours now.

[imitating Cary Grant for voice print]

Rudy, TraviCom Security: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.

Dr. Karen Ross: Very inventive!

[last lines]

Monroe: [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.

Dr. Peter Elliot: I hope it blows us some place good.

Dr. Karen Ross: Me too.

Monroe: That region of the Congo's uninhabited.

Dr. Karen Ross: Well, something inhabits it.

Dr. Peter Elliot: What exactly did you see on that tape?

Dr. Karen Ross: A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...

Dr. Peter Elliot: There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.

Dr. Karen Ross: Well, I saw one.

Dr. Peter Elliot: It's hard to believe at this late date...

Monroe: Why are you going in there?

Dr. Karen Ross: Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.

Monroe: Your former?

Dr. Peter Elliot: Well, we better get to him then.

Dr. Peter Elliot: Why are YOU going to Africa?

Dr. Karen Ross: ...Find something I lost.

Dr. Karen Ross: Why teach an ape to talk?

Dr. Peter Elliot: "A lonely impulse of delight."

Dr. Karen Ross: William Butler Yates.

Dr. Peter Elliot: Very good.

Dr. Karen Ross: Did it work? You're not lonely anymore?

Dr. Peter Elliot: Why are *you* going to Africa?

Dr. Karen Ross: To find something I lost...

Dr. Karen Ross: Are you sure there aren't some kind of gorillas that kill.

Dr. Peter Elliot: Please, Dr. Ross. What's your area of expertise? Folk-singing?

Dr. Karen Ross: [smugly] Communications technology.

Dr. Peter Elliot: So you're a geek with a cellular phone.

Dr. Karen Ross: I'm a scientist. But you and your protege, as far as I can see, belong in the circus.

[looks at Amy eating flowers]

Dr. Karen Ross: Tell me you love your son!

Travis: I do!

Dr. Karen Ross: And that's why you're sending me!

Travis: It is!

Dr. Karen Ross: Allright. But if I have one moment, one *moment* when I think otherwise, I will make you sorry. And that's a promise.

Dr. Peter Elliot: [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?

Dr. Karen Ross: Figure it out!

Dr. Peter Elliot: [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachure] This isn't going to work!

Monroe: Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.

Dr. Peter Elliot: She might get hurt. I can't risk it!

Monroe: Do you know how to fly this plane?

Dr. Peter Elliot: No.

Monroe: [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?

Dr. Karen Ross: [Handing Peter a pistol] Here, Peter, take this.

Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't like guns.

Dr. Karen Ross: I didn't ask if you like it - take it.

Dr. Karen Ross: [Soldiers with guns run by] Who are they?

Eddie Ventro: [to soldiers] Hiya fellas!

[to Karen]

Eddie Ventro: Fuck if I know, and it don't pay to ask.

Captain Wanta: So Dr. Ross, I see you used to work for the C.I.A, and now you're Travi Com. Travi Com pays better than the C.I.A?

Dr. Karen Ross: You have a BIG mouth.

Captain Wanta: Everybody says that about me!