The Mouse and His Child (1977)

Peter Ustinov: Manny the Rat

Quotes 

• The Mouse Child : Papa, I'm afraid! I wanna go home! What's gonna happen to us?

  The Mouse : Well, something good, son, as easily as something else. Why, anything can happen.

  Manny the Rat : But it won't! Not this evening, my lads!

• The Mouse : [after witnessing Ralphie dismantle the donkey]  That was horrible!

  The Mouse Child : You're a bad rat!

  Manny the Rat : You noticed?

• The Frog : It's been very slow, boss. These are hard times for oracles.

  Manny the Rat : For incompetent ones.

  The Frog : Are you sayin' that my charms don't work? That my potions don't heal? That my fortunes are false?

  Manny the Rat : Of course. That's why I hired you.

• Manny the Rat : [after getting his teeth knocked out by the "you will succeed" pendant]  Bawww! No teef! I'm finished! What is a rat wif no teef!

• The Mouse Child : Oh, uncle Frog, it *is* coming true. All of it!

  Manny the Rat : [shows up, crazed with revenge]  Not quite, my little lovelies, not quite!

  [the mice, Frog, Kingfisher and Seal shiver in fear] 

  Manny the Rat : It's nice to see you again. I have missed your company.

  The Frog : No, no you don't! Not this time, Manny Rat!

  Manny the Rat : Yes I do, Frog! THIS TIME!

• Manny the Rat : [quivers in fear at seeing the Bonzo can appearing]  "A dog shall rise, a rat shall fall"? The Frog's prophecy, can it be coming true? Should I have listened to him?

  Iggy : Not *this* rat.

• Manny the Rat : Two innocents abroad, eh? But for me, you'd be flattened to a fare-thee-well.

• The Mouse Child : I wanna go home.

  Manny the Rat : The very place I had in mind. Come on, now, my lovelies, I'm taking you home.

  The Mouse Child : We're going back to the toy shop?

  The Mouse : I don't think that's the home he's talking about.

• Manny the Rat : Frog, you're fired!

  The Frog : For bein' a fraud?

  Manny the Rat : For being a failure *as* a fraud!

• Manny the Rat : Those wind-ups will wind up scrap!

• Manny the Rat : Home. Modest, perfect, even humble. But didn't Lincoln start out in a log cabin? Yes, he did. And I have my plans, I have my plans: An empire, built on these... the sharpest teeth in the dump. One day, one day, it will all be MINE!

  The Mouse : And what will you do with us?

  Manny the Rat : [points at a parade of wind-up slaves marching in and carrying food for him]