Veronica Micelli Quotes in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)

Veronica Micelli: Professor! Come here.

James Krippendorf: Oh... Tinker Bell.

Veronica Micelli: [drunk] How do I stack up?

James Krippendorf: Well, as the Shelmickedmu would say, "Jagga banga!" which roughly translates as, "More pigs than you can imagine."

Veronica Micelli: [storming out of the house] You can kiss my Neolithic butt!

James Krippendorf: [to his father-in-law] Proud woman. I try to respect her feelings.

[goat in the hall bleats]

James Krippendorf: Oh, Miss Micelli, you forgot your goat!

Veronica Micelli: It's so cool to be a globe-trotting fourteen-year-old.

Veronica Micelli: Down-da-hatcha! Eat-ah-puke-ah!

[holds out a large bug for James Krippendorf, dressed as the Shelmikedmu Chief, to swallow]

Veronica Micelli: [he chews on the bug, grimaces and swallows]

[Edmund opens the door to find Professor Micelli and a strange man]

Veronica Micelli: Oh, Pumpkin, do you remember me from yesterday? I'm Veronica Micelli and I've brought this nice reporter.

[Edmund slams the door in their faces]

Veronica Micelli: The Shelmickedmu deal with the same problems we deal with every day: loneliness... despair... extreme sexual tension!

James Krippendorf: Another brandy, Professor Micelli?

Veronica Micelli: [drunk] I'd don't think I should.

[She tilts the bottle to fill her glass]

Veronica Micelli: No, just a little bit more.

James Krippendorf: [as the Utabaji] You-ah bitch.

Veronica Micelli: He says it's a very large and frightening country, filled with many things he thought existed only in myth.

Larry Swift: And he said all of that in three syllables?

Veronica Micelli: It's a very concise language, Larry.