Jiminy Cricket Quotes in Fun & Fancy Free (1947)

Jiminy Cricket: [singing] Don't cross a bridge or peak 'round the corner until you're there. / Just learn to smile, and in a while, you'll find trouble's a bubble of air.

Jiminy Cricket: Now, some folks like the heavy stuff with titles five feet wide. Not me, I'm always out for fun. I like the lighter side, yes, sir!

Jiminy Cricket: Never saw such a dismal pair. A deadpan doll and a droopy bear.

Jiminy Cricket: Life is a song - happy, gay. So let's have some music. Come on! What do you say?

Narrator: This is the story of three bears.

Jiminy Cricket: Yeah, I know. The mama bear, the papa bear, and the itsy-bitsy baby bear.

Narrator: Oh, but it's not the story you expect.

Jiminy Cricket: Three is a crowd, they say, so I'll drop back another day.

Jiminy Cricket: [reading in a newspaper] Here, just look at the morning paper. Turn to any page. You'll find the whole world worryin' about some future age. But why get so excited? What's gonna be is gonna be. The end of the world's been comin' since 1903. That's, uh, B.C., of course.

Jiminy Cricket: [comes across an envelope] Miss Luana Patten?

[walks off]

Jiminy Cricket: Hmm, well! Of course, it's not cricket to read other folk's mail, but...

[stops in his tracks and sees an invitation]

Jiminy Cricket: A party?

[opens and reads]

Jiminy Cricket: "Tonight! The house across the street. Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen." Hmm. Never heard of him. "Please come." Why, I'd be delighted!

Mickey Mouse: How'd you get here?

Singing Harp: I was kidnapped by that wicked giant!

Mickey Mouse: Oh. What? A giant?

Mortimer Snerd: A giant?

Luana Patten: A giant?

Jiminy Cricket: A giant?

Edgar Bergen: Bigger than forty men!

Mortimer Snerd: Oh, no!

Edgar Bergen: An ogre who had the power to turn himself into anything, man or beast!

Jiminy Cricket: That calls for a drink!

Jiminy Cricket: You know, you worry too much. In fact, everybody worries too much.

Jiminy Cricket: Well... guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?

Jiminy Cricket: You buttered your bread. Now sleep in it!

Jiminy Cricket: [pointing to Honest John] Remember what I said about temptations? That's him.

Pinocchio: Oh, no, Jiminy. That's Mr. Honest John.

Jiminy Cricket: [shocked] Honest John?

[first lines]

Jiminy Cricket: [after singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"] Pretty, huh? I'll bet a lot of you folks don't believe that, about a wish comin' true, do ya? Well, I didn't, either. Of course, I'm just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.

The Blue Fairy: You must learn to choose between right and wrong.

Pinocchio: Right and wrong? But how will I know?

Jiminy Cricket: [watching] How'll he know!

The Blue Fairy: [to Pinocchio] Your conscience will tell you.

Pinocchio: What's a conscience?

Jiminy Cricket: What's a conscience! I'll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to. That's just the trouble with the world today...

Pinocchio: Are you my conscience?

Jiminy Cricket: Who, me?

Jiminy Cricket: [to Monstro] Hey, blubber mouth, open up! I gotta get in there!

Jiminy Cricket: [frustrated by the clocks ticking and Geppetto's and Figaro's snoring while trying to get to sleep] QUIET!

[the noise stops]

Jiminy Cricket: After all, enough is enough.

Jiminy Cricket: [guietly] Toodle-oo, Stromboli.

Pinocchio: Goodbye, Mr Stromb...

Jiminy Cricket: Shhh! Quiet! Let's get out of here before something else happens.

Lampwick: [picks up Jiminy] Hey, who's the beetle?

Jiminy Cricket: Let go! Put me down!

Pinocchio: He's my conscience. He tells me what's right and wrong.

Lampwick: What? You mean to tell me you take orders from a grasshopper?

Jiminy Cricket: Grasshopper? Look here, you - you impudent young pup! It wouldn't hurt you to take orders from your grasshop - er, your conscience, if you have one!

[trying to unlock the cage lock to Stromboli's cage so Pinocchio can get out]

Jiminy Cricket: Needs a little oil.

["Needs a little oil" echoes through the lock]

Jiminy Cricket: That's what I said.

[Pinocchio, having heard that Geppetto is alive after being swallowed by Monstro, makes the bold decision to save him and takes off]

Jiminy Cricket: Hey, where ya goin'?

Pinocchio: I'm going to find him!

Jiminy Cricket: [following after Pinocchio] But Pinocch, are you crazy? Don't you realize he's in a whale?

Pinocchio: I've *gotta* go to him!

Jiminy Cricket: [following after] Hey, Pinocch! Wait! Listen here, son!

[Pinocchio just keeps going straight to a high cliff overlooking the ocean, Jiminy following all the way]

Jiminy Cricket: But this Monstro, I've heard of him; he's a whale of a whale!

[Pinocchio starts tying a rock to his donkey tail]

Jiminy Cricket: Why, he swallows whole ships alive!

[Hhelps tie Pinocchio's tail to the rock completely]

Jiminy Cricket: Tie it good and tight now. And besides, it's dangerous! Why, I...

Pinocchio: Good-bye, Jiminy.

Jiminy Cricket: Good-bye? I may be live bait down there, but I'm with ya!

Jiminy Cricket: Now, you see, the world is full of temptations.

Pinocchio: Temptations?

Jiminy Cricket: Yep, temptations. They're the wrong things that seem right at the time... but... uh... even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, or sometimes the wrong things...

[chuckles]

Jiminy Cricket: may be right at the wrong time, or visa versa.

Jiminy Cricket: [clears throat] Understand?

Pinocchio: [Shakes his head] Uh-uh. But I'm gonna do right.

Jiminy Cricket: Atta boy, Pinoke! And I'm gonna help ya.

[last lines]

Jiminy Cricket: [to the night sky] Thank you, milady. He deserved to be a real boy. And it sure was nice of you to...

[suddenly the whole area turns bright]

Jiminy Cricket: Huh? Wha... Oh? Wha...

[suddenly a big gold conscience badge appears on his shirt]

Jiminy Cricket: Well, I'll be! Ho-ho-ho! My, my! Solid gold, too. Oh, I think it's swell.

[he flashes the badge to the sky]

Pinocchio: [looking for Geppetto, who has been swallowed by Monstro the whale] Father!

Jiminy Cricket: Father! Huh? He ain't *my* father. Uh, Mr. Geppetto!

Jiminy Cricket: All right, then, here's what we'll tell 'em. You can't go to the theater. Say thank you just the same - you're sorry, but you've got to go to school.

Pinocchio: Mmm-hmm.

Foulfellow: Pinocchio! Oh, Pinocchio! Woo-hoo!

Jiminy Cricket: Here they come, Pinoke. Now, you tell 'em.

Foulfellow: Woo hoo! Oh, little boy! Ah, there you are. Where were we? Ah, yes. On to the theater!

Pinocchio: Good-bye, Jiminy! Good-bye!

Jiminy Cricket: Good-bye? Huh? Good-bye?

[Sees Pinocchio going off with Foulfellow and Gideon]

Jiminy Cricket: Hey, Pinoke! You can't go...! There he goes. What'll I do? I'll run and tell his father. No, that'd be snitching. I'll go after him myself.

The Blue Fairy: Would you like to be Pinocchio's conscience?

Jiminy Cricket: [blushing] Well, uh, I... Uh-huh.

The Blue Fairy: Very well. What is your name?

Jiminy Cricket: [tipping his hat] Oh, Cricket's the name. *Jiminy* Cricket!

The Blue Fairy: Kneel, Mr. Cricket.

Jiminy Cricket: Huh?

[Kneels]

Jiminy Cricket: No tricks now.

[the fairy taps Jiminy with her wand; his rags turn into fine clothes]

The Blue Fairy: I dub you Pinocchio's conscience, Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, Counselor in Moments of High Temptation, and Guide Along the Straight and Narrow Path. Arise, Sir Jiminy Cricket.

Jiminy Cricket: [Admiring his new clothes] Well! Ho-ho-ho! My, my! Mmm! Say, that's pretty swell! Gee, thanks. But, uh, don't I get a badge or something?

The Blue Fairy: Well, we'll see.

Jiminy Cricket: You mean maybe I will?

The Blue Fairy: I shouldn't wonder.

Jiminy Cricket: Make it a gold one?

The Blue Fairy: Maybe.

Jiminy Cricket: [seeing the Blue Fairy appear for the first time] As I live and breathe, a fairy. Mm-mmm!

[repeated line]

Jiminy Cricket: A fine conscience I turned out to be!

Jiminy Cricket: [seeing Pinocchio for the first time] Good piece of wood, too.

Jiminy Cricket: [after Pinocchio falls down the stage stairs during Stromboli's puppet show] Go ahead, make a fool of yourself, then maybe you'll listen to your conscience.

Pinocchio: [of Lampwick] Don't hurt him, Jiminy. He's my best friend.

Jiminy Cricket: [outraged] Your *best friend*? And what am *I*? Just your conscience? Okay! That settles it!

The Blue Fairy: Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine.

[She touches her wand to Pinocchio who wakes and begins to move]

Jiminy Cricket: Whew! What they can't do these days!

Pinocchio: I can move!

[covers his mouth]

Pinocchio: I can talk!

[stands as the Blue Fairy chuckles]

Pinocchio: I can walk!

[falls back down clumsily]

The Blue Fairy: Yes, Pinocchio. I've given you life.

Pinocchio: Why?

The Blue Fairy: Because tonight, Geppetto wished for a real boy.

Pinocchio: Am I a real boy?

The Blue Fairy: No, Pinocchio. To make Geppetto's wish come true will be entirely up to you.

Pinocchio: Up to me?

The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful and unselfish, and someday you *will* be a real boy.

Jiminy Cricket: When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are / Anything your heart desires will come to you / If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme / When you wish upon a star as dreamers do...

Chorus: Fate is kind, / she brings to those who love / the sweet fulfillment of / their secret longing...

Jiminy Cricket: Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through / When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true...

Jiminy Cricket: [arrives at the billiard hall on Pleasure Island] Pinocchio! So this is where I find you! How do you ever expect to be a real boy? Look at yourself. Smoking! Playing pool!

[angrily kicks a billiard ball next to him, only to hurt his foot. He hops around, clutching his foot]

Jiminy Cricket: Oww! You're comin' right home with me this minute!

[Having been ditched by Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket starts to leave Pleausre Island]

Jiminy Cricket: Lampwick, hmph! Lampwick! Burns me up! After all I tried to do for him. Who's his conscience, anyway? Me or that hoodlum Lampwick? Well, I've had enough of this. I'm takin' the next boat outta here.

The Blue Fairy: Pinocchio, why didn't you go to school?

Jiminy Cricket: [Pinocchio looks up at him] Go ahead. Tell her.

Pinocchio: I was going to school 'til I met somebody.

The Blue Fairy: Met somebody?

Pinocchio: Yeah, two big monsters, with big green eyes!

[His nose grows a little]

Pinocchio: Why, I...

The Blue Fairy: Monsters? Weren't you afraid?

Pinocchio: No, ma'am, but they tied me in a big sack.

[His nose grows a little more and sprouts leaves]

The Blue Fairy: You don't say? And where was Sir Jiminy?

Pinocchio: Huh? Oh, Jiminy?

Pinocchio: [Jumps in front of Pinocchio] Psst! Leave me out of this.

Pinocchio: They put him in a little sack.

[His nose grows even more, taking Jiminy along with it]

The Blue Fairy: No!

Pinocchio: Yeah!

[His nose sprouts flowers]

The Blue Fairy: How did you escape?

Pinocchio: I didn't - they chopped me into firewood!

[His nose grows again, and a nest with baby birds sprouts at the end of it]

Pinocchio: Oh, look! My nose! What's happened?

The Blue Fairy: Perhaps you haven't been telling the truth, Pinocchio.

Jiminy Cricket: Perhaps?

Pinocchio: Oh, but I have! Every single word!

[the branch with the nest on his nose whithers, and the birds fly away, whistling]