Sawyer Quotes in Cats Don't Dance (1997)

Sawyer: Look, tiger. This town has rules. Around here cats say, "Meow."

Danny: But that's so old hat. I'm sure no one would mind if I jazzed this up a bit.

Sawyer: Okay, learn it the hard way.

Danny: [dramiatic reading] Meow!

[as Gabby Hayes]

Danny: Meow! Dagnabit, meow!

[as Edward G. Robinson]

Danny: Meow, see? Yeah, that's it. Meow! Meow!

Danny: Looks like we'll be the only two cats on the ark. Isn't that great?

Sawyer: So much for preserving the species!

[Sawyer enters, wet and disheveled]

Tillie Hippo: Sawyer, what happened to you?

T.W.: Did you walk under a ladder? Smash a mirror?

Cranston: Have you looked in one lately?

Sawyer: No, a cat crossed my path.

Tillie Hippo: Really? Orange tabby?

Sawyer: Yes.

Tillie Hippo: Green vest?

Sawyer: Uh huh.

Tillie Hippo: Straw hat?

Sawyer: Yes.

Tillie Hippo: Oh, what a coinky-dink!

Sawyer: How did you know?

Tillie Hippo: Oh, hippo's intuition.

Danny: What if I could get you an audition with L.B. Mammoth?

Sawyer: L.B. Mammoth? Head of Mammoth Studios?

Danny: I'm sure he'd appreciate good talent.

Cranston: After nothing but Darla, he's gotta be starving for it!

Sawyer: Well, well. Run of the soundstage, use of Darla's ark, costumes... I don't know. Something seems fishy.

Frances: I beg your pardon?

Sawyer: Sorry. It's just that I smell a rat.

Rat: Excuse me?

Sawyer: Oh, never mind.

Tillie Hippo: Well?

Sawyer: I can't do this.

Tillie Hippo: And?

Sawyer: I can't do this.

Tillie Hippo: So?

Sawyer: I can't believe I'm doing this.

Sawyer: Sometimes I ask myself, "Why do I put up with this?"

Frances: The glamour?

Sawyer: What, this pig sty? No offense, Harry.

Harry the Pig: None taken.

Sawyer: Unless you're talking about the glamour of filing, the romance of typing.

Danny: Say, what happened back there?

Sawyer: Look, I...

Danny: Did I hit a sour note? Because if I hit a sour note, I can go back and... I can fix it.

Sawyer: Danny, they don't care! Don't you get it? What's the matter with you? Why are you so determined on making a fool of yourself?

Danny: What do you mean? All I want to do is the thing I love. Doesn't everyone?

Sawyer: It's not that simple.

Danny: It is in Kokomo.

Sawyer: Then... maybe that's where you should have stayed.

Sawyer: What did you say you did for a living?

Jeff Blue: I'm an airline pilot.

Sawyer: I thought you said you were a vacuum cleaner salesman.

Jeff Blue: Well if you knew, why did you ask?

Police Captain: The FBI fired Blue twice?

Sawyer: Fired him in 81, rehired him in 84, fired him again in 85.

Police Captain: Why?

Sawyer: Well, Captain, there's all sorts of rumors.

Det. Sgt. Halsey: Tell him what he did in between.

Police Captain: I'm gonna hate this aren't I?

Sawyer: CIA.

Police Captain: Perfect!

Sawyer: Until they got on the band wagon and fired him too.

Paulina Novacek: [to Jeff after capturing him and Sawyer] You are still having such a wonderful body.

Jeff Blue: Thank you. What do you think of the Lieutenant here?

Sawyer: Will you shut up?

Sawyer: Those are police cuffs. You can't get them off with a bobby pin!

Jane Blue: [as she's unlocking Jeff's handcuffs] You're absolutely right.

Jeff Blue: Oh thanks, hon.

Jane Blue: Want me to work on yours?

Sawyer: Yeah, sure.

Sawyer: Look we gotta get out of here. Now follow me!

Jane Blue: [mocking Sawyer] "Follow me!"

Jeff Blue: Oh, give him his moment in the sun.

Jane Blue: *What* sun?

Jeff Blue: You can go home and clean up, Lieutenant. It's over.

Sawyer: No plans to invade Cuba while you're in the neighborhood?