Ferdinand Quotes in Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Ferdinand: Ferdinand the duck, witness to insanity.

Ferdinand: Face it, you're just a little pig in the big city. What can you possibly do? What can anyone do? Why even try?

[Ferdinand laughs at Figg and Lickboot arguing about Robyn]

Aunt Pristine Figg: You find this amusing, Ferdie, you fat freeloader? You're the one who let her get away!

[Ferdinand mumbles something in pidgin English about eating]

Aunt Pristine Figg: I know you were eating. You're ALWAYS eating.

[Picks up a cupcake]

Aunt Pristine Figg: You want this cupcake?

Ferdinand: [Smacking his lips] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yum!

Aunt Pristine Figg: Fetch!

[Throws the cupcake. Ferdie goes after it on his skateboard, gobbles it up, and smashes straight into a door]

Ferdinand: [Dizzy] Thank you.

Maa: Darn silly carry-on, if you ask me.

Horse: The cat says, they call it Christmas

Ferdinand: Christmas! Christmas dinner, yeah. Dinner means death. Death means carnage! CHRISTMAS MEANS CARNAGE!

[flies away frantically]

Ferdinand: CHRISTMASMEANSCARNAGE!

Ferdinand: Look, there's something you should know.

Babe: Yes?

Ferdinand: Humans eat ducks!

Babe: [Gasps] I beg your pardon?

Ferdinand: Ah, most ducks prefer to forget it, but the fact is that humans like to eat plump, attractive ducks.

Babe: Ohhh, I don't think so. Not the Boss, not the Boss's wife.

Ferdinand: Oh, come on. Humans don't eat cats - why?

Babe: Well, they're...

Ferdinand: They're indispensable: they catch mice. Humans don't eat roosters - why? They make eggs with the hens and wake everyone up in the morning.

Babe: Right.

Ferdinand: I tried it with the hens: it didn't work. So I turned to crowing, and lo! I discover my gift. But no sooner do I become indispensable than they bring in a machine to do the job. Ohhhh-oh-oh. the treachery of it - a mechanical rooster!

Ferdinand: I suppose the life of an anorexic duck doesn't amount to much in the broad scheme of things.

Babe: [relieved that he's alive] Ferdinand!

Cow: If you're out here, who's that in there?

Ferdinand: Her name's Rosanna.

[They watch the Hoggett family carve the roast duck]

Ferdinand: Why Rosanna? She - she had such a beautiful nature.

Babe: Oh, Ferdinand...

Ferdinand: I can't take it anymore.

Cow: [disapprovingly] Really.

Ferdinand: The fear's too much for a duck. It - it eats away at the soul! There must be kinder dispositions in far-off gentler lands.

Cow: The only way you'll find happiness is to accept that the way things are is the way things are.

Ferdinand: 'The way things are' stinks! I'm not gonna be a goner, I'm gone! I wish all of you the best of luck.

Ferdinand: That thing in the bushes. I was choking the chicken.

Girl: You must be crazy!