Mrs. Fox Quotes in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Mrs. Fox: Why did you lie to me?

Mr. Fox: Because I'm a wild animal.

Mrs. Fox: [to Ash] We're all different.

[indicates Mr. Fox]

Mrs. Fox: Especially him. But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?

Mrs. Fox: If what I think is happening, IS happening... It better not be.

Mrs. Fox: This story's too predictable.

Mr. Fox: Predictable? Really? Then, how does it end?

Mrs. Fox: In the end, we all die. Unless you change.

[from trailer]

Mrs. Fox: You know, you really are... fantastic.

Mr. Fox: I try.

Mrs. Fox: [Kristofferson has just departed after Ash's comment] You have got twenty-nine minutes to come up with a proper apology.

Ash: [snaps, gestures wildly] Me? *Me* have an apology? He gets a bandit hat? He just got here, and he gets a bandit hat? Where's *my* bandit hat? Why didn't *I* get shot at? It's because, you... you... you think I'm no good at anything! Well, maybe you're right, thanks.

[stomps away angrily and slams door upon exit]

Kylie: [sighs, to Mr. Fox] Told ya not to bring him.

Mrs. Fox: [Mr. Fox and Kylie are sneaking through the Fox family's kitchen, Kylie is wearing a bandit mask; Mrs. Fox sees them from a doorway] Another book party?

Mr. Fox: [surprised] Oh! I didn't see you sitting in the dark over there.

[grins sheepishly]

Mr. Fox: Yeah! No actually, there's a fire. I just got the call; they said maybe it's arson. I've got to interview the marshal and see if it's...

Mrs. Fox: Kylie,

[turns on the light]

Mrs. Fox: is he telling the truth?

Kylie: [turns to Mr. Fox] I... I don't want to be put into the middle of this!

Mr. Fox: Thanks, Kylie.

Mrs. Fox: [notices something off to her right] Why is he wearing that bandit hat?

[points to Kris, who is halfway out the door leading to the kitchen from the starwell leading upstairs; Kris pulls his bandit hat up to unobscure his face]

Mr. Fox: His ears were cold. He's not with us.

[to Kris]

Mr. Fox: Go back to bed.

[Kris leaves and closes the door]

Mrs. Fox: If what I think is happening is happening - it better not be.

Mrs. Fox: [to Mr. Fox] I love you, but I should have never married you.

Mrs. Fox: If we're still alive in the morning I want you to find another line of work.

Mr. Fox: Okay.

Title Card: Two years later - 12 fox-years.

Mrs. Fox: Excuse me? Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?

[first lines]

Mr. Fox: What'd the doctor say?

Mrs. Fox: Nothing. Supposedly it's just a 24-hour bug. He gave me some pills.

Mr. Fox: I told you, you probably just ate some bad gristle.

Mrs. Fox: Mrs. Collins, if that boy's your son I'll eat my yard stick.

[In the last scene, The Foxes are driving down FDR Drive towards the U.S. Court House downtown]

Carl Fox: You told the truth and gave the money back. All things considered in this cockamamie world, you're shooting par.

Mrs. Fox: You helped saved the airline, and the airline people are gonna remember you for it.

Carl Fox: That's right. If I were you, I'd think about the job at Bluestar that Wildman offered you.

Bud Fox: Dad, I'm going to jail and you know it.

Carl Fox: Yeah, well, maybe that's the price, son. It's gonna be hard on you, that's for sure. But maybe in some kind of screwed-up way, it's the best thing that could've happened to you. You stop going for the easy buck and produce something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

[drops Bud off at the Supreme Court House]

Carl Fox: We'll park the car and catch up with you.

Bud Fox: All right.