Finding Nemo (2003)
Albert Brooks: Marlin
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Quotes
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Dory : How about we play a game?
Marlin : All right.
Dory : Okay, I'm thinking of something orange, and it's small...
Marlin : It's me.
Dory : Right!
[Later]
Dory : I'm thinking of something orange and small...
Marlin : Me again.
Dory : All right, Mr. Smartypants...
[Later]
Dory : ... It's orange and small, and has stripes...
Marlin : Me, and the next one - just a guess - me.
Dory : Okay, that's just scary.
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Dory : No. No, you can't... STOP. Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave... if you leave... I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two... forty-two... I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I... and I'm home. Please... I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget.
Marlin : I'm sorry, Dory. But I... do.
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Crush : Okay. Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting technique.
Squirt : Good afternoon. We're gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.
Marlin : It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it.
[to Squirt]
Marlin : Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying. Say the first thing again.
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Dory : Hey, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you know what you've gotta do?
Marlin : No, I don't know what to do.
Dory : [singing] Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
Marlin : Dory, no singing.
Dory : [continuing] Ha, ha, ha, ha, ho. I love to swim. When you want to swim you want to swim.
Marlin : Now I'm stuck with that song... Now it's in my head.
Dory : Sorry.
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Marlin : Tell me, Dory, do you see anything?
Dory : Yeah, I see a light.
Marlin : A light?
Dory : Yeah. I see a light.
Marlin : Yeah, I see it too.
Dory : Hey, Conscience, am I dead?
Marlin : No, no. I see it, too.
[they swim up to the light]
Marlin : What is it?
Dory : It's so... *pretty*.
Marlin : [mesmerized] I... I'm feeling... happy, which is a big deal... for me.
Dory : I want to touch it...
[she does; the light bobs quickly away]
Dory : Oh!
Marlin : Hey, come back. Come on back here. I'm gonna get ya.
Dory : Come here.
Marlin : [singing] I'm gonna swim with you...
Dory : I'm gonna get ya. I'm gonna get ya.
Marlin : [singing] I'm gonna be your best friend...
[a big scary fish looms into view]
Marlin : ...Good feeling's gone.
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Crush : Dude? Dude? Focus dude... Dude?
[Marlin wakes up]
Crush : Oh, he lives. Hey, dude!
Marlin : Oh... What happened?
Crush : Saw the whole thing, dude. First you were all like "whoa", and we were like "whoa", and you were like "whoa..."
Marlin : What are you talking about?
Crush : You, Mini-Man, takin' on the jellies. You've got serious thrill issues, dude. Awesome.
Marlin : Oh, my stomach. Ohh.
Crush : Oh, man. Hey, no hurling on the shell, dude, ok? Just waxed it.
Marlin : So, Mr. Turtle?
Crush : Whoa, Dude. Mister Turtle is my father. The name's Crush.
Marlin : Crush, really? OK, Crush. I need to get to the East Australian Current. EAC?
Crush : [laughing] Oh, dude. You're ridin' it, dude! Check it out!
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Marlin : What did it say? What did the mask say?
Dory : P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.
[gasps]
Dory : I remembered what it said! I usually forget things, but I remembered it that time! P. Sherman, 4...
Marlin : Wait! What does that mean?
Dory : I don't know. But who cares! Ha ha! I remembered! P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. I remembered it again!
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Nemo : Hey dad! Maybe when I'm at school, I'll see a shark.
Marlin : I highly doubt it.
Nemo : Have how ever met a shark?
Marlin : No, and I don't plan to.
Nemo : How old are sea turtles?
Marlin : Sea turtles? I don't know.
Nemo : Sandy Plankton from next door, he says they live to be a hundred years old.
Marlin : Well, if I ever meet a sea turtle I'll ask him, right after I'm done talking to the shark.
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Dory : [about the humpback whale] Maybe he only speaks whale.
[slowly and deeply, imitating the whale]
Dory : Mooo... Weeee neeeed...
Marlin : Dory?
Dory : ...tooo fiiind hiiis sooon.
Marlin : What are you doing? Are you sure you speak whale?
Dory : Caaaan yoooou giive uuuus direeeeectioooons?
Marlin : Dory! Heaven knows what you're saying! See, he's swimming away.
Dory : Cooome baaaaack.
Marlin : He's not coming back. You offended him.
Dory : Maybe a different dialect. Mmmmoooooowaaaaah...
Marlin : Dory! This is not whale. You're speaking like, upset stomach.
Dory : Maybe I should try humpback.
Marlin : No, don't try humpback.
Dory : Woooooo! Woooooo!
Marlin : Okay, now you really do sound sick.
Dory : Maybe louder. Rah! Rah!
Marlin : Don't do that!
Dory : Too much orca. Did it sound a little orca-ish to you?
Marlin : It doesn't sound orca. It sounds like nothing I've ever heard!
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Marlin : [introduction to the main menu of the first disc of the DVD] Where is it? Where is it?
[the menu appears]
Dory : Oh there's the menu, I knew it was around here somewhere.
Marlin : Well.
[Marlin and Dory do not appear onscreen during this menu exchange]
Marlin : [beginning of menu loop; Marlin talks to the viewer at home] Okay, you've got a lot of choices here. You can watch just the movie *without* the commentary...
Dory : [interrupting] Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I'm so excited! I've always wanted to see... "The Little Mermaid"!
Marlin : Good. Well this is "Finding Nemo".
Dory : Oh, well that sounds nice, too. Maybe we should watch *that* one.
Marlin : We're watching that one! This is "Finding Nemo"!
Dory : [sounding flattered] Oh you shouldn't have switched just for me!
Marlin : Unbelievable...
[pause]
Dory : I've always wanted to be in a film.
Marlin : You were in a film. THIS one. "Finding Nemo"!
Dory : No way! I'd remember that.
[laughs strangely]
Dory : Seriously...
Marlin : No you wouldn't...
Dory : Yes I would.
[excited inhalation sigh]
Dory : Being in a film would be so glamorous!
Marlin : [nonplussed] Really?
Dory : Oh my. Fabulous! Where's my trailer? I need water!
Marlin : Dory...
Dory : Fill my trailer with water!
Marlin : Something's wrong with you.
[pause]
Dory : Just keep watching, just keep watching, just keep watching watching watching. Watching, watching, watching...
[continues singing in this manner while Marlin speaks]
Marlin : You got a lot of choices here. Or you don't even have to watch *this* movie. Take the disc out, and I'll stop talking.
[Dory is still singing]
Marlin : There are no wrong choices. The only wrong choice is to sit there like you're doing.
[Dory is still singing]
Marlin : There are a lot of choices here, just pick one! Pick one so we can start! Please! All of us got nothing to do! Hit a choice, will ya?
Dory : [still singing] Hoo hoo, hoo hoo! Keep on watching...
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Marlin : [Dory and Marlin are in pitch darkness looking for the mask] Dory, do you see anything?
Dory : Ahh! Something's got me!
Marlin : That's just me. I'm sorry.
Dory : Who's that?
Marlin : [exasperated] Who's that? Who else would it be? It's me!
Dory : Are... are you my conscience?
Marlin : [sighs] Yes, I'm your conscience. We haven't spoken for a while. How are you?
Dory : Eh, can't complain.
Marlin : Good. Now, Dory, do you see anything?
Dory : [angler fish's light approaches] Yes, I see... a light. Hey, conscience, am I dead?
Marlin : No, I see it too.
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Marlin : [Surrounded by jellyfish] This is bad, Dory. Very bad.
Dory : [Bouncing on top of a jellyfish] Hey, watch this. Boing! Boing!...
Marlin : Dory!
Dory : You can't catch me!
Marlin : Dory, don't bounce on the tops! They will... not sting you. The tops don't sting you! That's it!
Dory : Two in a row. Beat that.
Marlin : Dory, listen to me. We're going to play a game.
Dory : A game?
Marlin : Yeah, a game.
Dory : I love games! Pick me!
Marlin : We're gonna race. First one out of the jellyfish wins.
Dory : Out, got it!
Marlin : Rules, rules! You can't touch the tentacles, only the tops...
Dory : Something about tentacles, got it.
Marlin : No, it's not something about them, it's all about them.
Dory : On your mark, get set, go!
Marlin : Wait, Dory!
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Marlin : There was this mollusk, and he walks up to this sea cucumber. Normally, they don't talk, sea cucumbers, but in a joke everyone talks. So the sea mollusk says to the cucumber...
[sees the mask]
Marlin : Nemo!
Chum : [laughing] Nemo! Ha ha! Nemo... I don't get it.
Bruce : For a clown fish, he's not that funny.
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Bob : Hey, you're doing pretty well for a first-timer.
Marlin : Well, you can't hold on to them forever, can you?
Bill : You know I had a tough time when my oldest went out to the drop off.
Marlin : They've just got to grow up som - THE DROP OFF? THEY'RE GOING TO THE DROP OFF? WHAT ARE YOU, INSANE? WHY DON'T WE JUST FRY THEM UP NOW AND SERVE THEM WITH CHIPS?
Bob : Hey Marty, calm down.
Marlin : Don't tell me to be calm, pony boy.
Bob : Pony boy?
Bill : You know for a clownfish, he really isn't that funny.
Ted : Pity.
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Dory : I saw a boat.
Marlin : You did?
Dory : Yeah, it went by not too long ago. Follow me.
[few seconds later]
Dory : Would you quit it? What, the ocean isnt big enough for you or something like that? You got a problem? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? You wanna piece of me? Yeah, yeah! Ooh, I'm scared now! What?
Marlin : What? You said you saw a boat.
Dory : A boat?
Marlin : YES.
Dory : Hey, I've seen a boat. It went by not too long ago. It went... this way. It went this way.
Marlin : Wait a minute, you already told me which way the boat went.
Dory : I did? Oh, no...
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Nigel : [quietly] Okay, don't make any sudden moves. Hop inside my mouth... if you want to live.
Marlin : Hop in your mouth, huh? And how does that make me live?
Seagull : Mine?
Nigel : Because - I can take you to your son.
Marlin : Yeah, right.
Nigel : No, I know your son. He's orange and has a gimpy fin on one side.
Marlin : [shouts and jumps] That's Nemo!
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Dory : [At the entrance to the trench] Come on, let's go.
Marlin : No, no, no! Bad trench, bad trench! Come on, we're swimming over this thing.
Dory : Whoa, partner. Little red flag going up. Something tells me we should go through it, not over it.
Marlin : Are you even looking at this thing? It's got death written all over it!
Dory : I'm sorry, but I really, really, really think we should go through it.
Marlin : And I'm really, really done talking about this. Over we go.
Dory : Come on, trust me on this one.
Marlin : Trust you?
Dory : Yes, trust. It's what friends do.
Marlin : Look, something shiny!
Dory : Where?
Marlin : Oh, it just swam over the trench! Come on, we'll follow it. Let's go.
Dory : Okay.
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Marlin : ...and the sea cucumber turns to the mollusk and says, "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"
[Everyone laughs]
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[Nemo has gone to the boat]
Marlin : Nemo! What do you think you're doing? You're gonna get stuck out there and I'll have to go get you before another fish does. Get back here. I said get back here now! Stop! You make one more move, mister...
[Nemo lifts his fin]
Marlin : Don't you dare. If you put one fin on that boat - are you listening to me? Don't touch the...
[Nemo touches the boat]
Marlin : Nemo!
Tad : [Whispering] He touched the butt.
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Dory : Hey, what's the matter?
Marlin : What's the matter? While they're busy doing their little impressions, I'm miles from home with a fish who can't even remember her name.
Dory : Boy, I bet that's frustrating.
Marlin : Meanwhile, my son is missing.
Dory : Your son Chico?
Marlin : Nemo.
Dory : Right. Got it.
Marlin : But it doesn't matter, because no one in this entire ocean is going to help me.
Dory : Well, I'm helping you. Wait right there.
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Marlin : [Inside the Whale] I have to get out! I have to find MY SON! I have to tell him... how!... old!... sea turtles are!
[Sobs]
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[Marlin and Dory are each pulling on the mask; it snaps and hits Dory in the face]
Dory : Ow!
Marlin : Oh, I'm really sorry. Are you okay?
Dory : Ow, ow, ow!
Marlin : I'm so sorry.
Dory : You really clocked me there. Am I bleeding?
[a wisp of blood floats from Dory's nose]
Marlin : Ohh!
Dory : Ow. Ow. Ow.
Bruce : Dory, are you okay...
[Sniffs the blood; his eyes turn black]
Bruce : Oh, ooooooh, that's good...
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Marlin : I didn't come this far to be breakfast.
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[first lines]
Marlin : Wow.
Coral : Mmm.
Marlin : Wow.
Coral : Mm-hmm.
Marlin : Wow.
Coral : Yes, Marlin. I... No, I see it. It's beautiful.
Marlin : So, Coral, when you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn't think you were going to get the whole ocean, did you? Huh?
[deep breath]
Marlin : Oh, yeah. A fish can breathe out here. Did your man deliver, or did he deliver?
Coral : My man delivered.
Marlin : And it wasn't so easy.
Coral : Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place.
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Mr. Ray : [introduction to the Bonus Features menu of the first disc of the DVD; Mr. Ray is singing] Let's make a selection, a selection, a selection. Let's make a selection on the D-V-D! Ohhhhh! Pick something.
Nemo : [looks down at the reef] Cool!
Mr. Ray : [all characters are off-screen past this point] Welcome explorers! So much to see, so much to learn. Let's go!
[long pause]
Mr. Ray : Okay, optical orbits up front, and let's pick a button.
Dory : Uh! I'd like to see it with the commentary!
Marlin : It's not up to you.
Dory : Well, they might listen to me; I speak mammal. Choose the commentary!
Marlin : Unbelievable...
Mr. Ray : Sooo... Moving along!
[pause]
Mr. Ray : All scientific exploration is an act of discovery, so pick a button and discover what happens.
Bruce : [Bruce's Easter egg narration on the same menu] Hullo. My name is Bruce. I promise to watch all the making-of features, listen to the complete audio-visual commentary, and search diligently for Easter Eggs. On my honor, so help me.
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Marlin : You think you can do these things, but you just can't, Nemo.
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Marlin : Now it's my turn. I'm thinking of something dark and mysterious. It's a fish we don't know. If we ask it directions, it could ingest us and spit out our bones.
Dory : What is it with men and asking for directions?
Marlin : I don't want to play the gender card right now. You want to play a card, let's play the "let's not die" card.
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[Marlin and Dory are racing through the jellyfish forest. Marlin starts talking to himself]
Marlin : So, we're cheating death now, that's what we're doing, and we're having fun at the same time, I can do this, just be careful...
Dory : Yeah, careful I don't make you cry when I win!
Marlin : Oh I don't think so!
Dory : Give it up old man, you can't fight evolution, I was built for speed!
Marlin : The question is Dory, are you hungry?
Dory : Hungry? Why?
Marlin : 'Cause you're about to eat my bubbles!
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Marlin : I can't afford any more delays and you're one of those fish that causes delays. Sometimes it's a good thing. There's a whole group of fish . They're delay fish.
Dory : You mean...
[whimpers]
Dory : . You mean you don't like me?
Marlin : No, of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.
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Marlin : I was right. You know what? We'll start school in a year or two.
Nemo : No, Dad! Just because you're scared of the ocean...
Marlin : Clearly, you're not ready, and you're not coming back until you are. You think you can do these things, but you just can't, Nemo!
Nemo : [pause, mutters] I hate you.
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Marlin : If this is some kind of practical joke, it's not funny, and I know funny. I'm a clownfish!
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Dory : Excuse me? Whoo-hoo! Little fella? Hello! Don't be rude. Say hi.
Marlin : Ha. Hello.
Dory : His son Bingo...
Marlin : Nemo.
Dory : ...Nemo was taken to, um...
Marlin : Sydney
Dory : ...Sydney, yeah. And it's really, really important that we get there as fast as we can, so can you help us out? Come on, little fella. Come on.
Marlin : Dory? I'm a little fella. I don't think that's a little fella.
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Marlin : Something's wrong with you, really.
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Marlin : [exasperated] Would somebody please just give me directions?
[School of fish take shape of clown fish with sour expression]
School of Fish : [mockingly] Would somebody please just give me directions?
Marlin : I'm serious!
School of Fish : Blah-blah-blah, me-me-blah! Blah-blah, blah-blah, me-me-me!
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Marlin : [Holding Nemo's cracked egg in his fin] I promise to never let anything happen to you, Nemo.
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Marlin : I'm dead. I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I died, I'm dead.
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Dory : I saw a boat.
Marlin : Where? Which way?
Dory : It went... this way. It went this way. Follow me.
[few seconds later, she starts zig-zagging in front of him and glancing back]
Dory : Would you quit it? What, the ocean isn't big enough for you or something like that? You got a problem? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? You wanna piece of me? Yeah, yeah! Ooh, I'm scared now! What?
Marlin : Wait a minute...
Dory : Stop following me, okay?
Marlin : What are you talking about? You're showing which way the boat went.
Dory : A boat? Hey, I've seen a boat. It passed by not too long ago. It went... this way. It went this way. Follow me.
Marlin : Wait a minute, wait a minute. What is going on? You already told me which way the boat was going.
Dory : I did? Oh, no...
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School of Fish : Hey, hey! You like impressions?
Dory : Mmm-hmm.
School of Fish : Okay, just like in rehearsal, gentlemen.
[School takes form of swordfish]
School of Fish : So, what are we? Take a guess.
Dory : Oh, oh, I've seen one of those.
School of Fish : I'm a fish with a nose like a *sword*.
Dory : Wait, wait, umm...
Marlin : It's a swordfish!
School of Fish : Hey, clown boy! Let the lady guess.
[Takes form of lobster]
School of Fish : Where's the butter?
Dory : Ooh! It's on the tip of my tongue...
Marlin : [Coughing] Lobster!
School of Fish : Saw that.
Marlin : What?
School of Fish : [Takes form of octopus] Lots of legs, swims in the ocean.
Dory : Clam!
School of Fish : Close enough.
[Takes form of pirate ship]
School of Fish : Oh, it's a whale of a tale, I'll tell you, lad...
Dory : Oh, they're good.
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Marlin : Hey. Guess what?
Nemo : What?
Marlin : Sea turtles? I met one, and he was a hundred and fifty years old.
Nemo : Hundred and fifty?
Marlin : Yup.
Nemo : Oh. 'Cause Sandy Plankton said that they only live to be a hundred.
Marlin : Sandy Plankton? You think I would travel the whole ocean and not know as much as Sandy Plankton? He was a hundred and fifty, not a hundred!
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[the parents are looking at their 400 unhatched children]
Coral : We still have to name them...
Marlin : You wanna name all of 'em, right now? All right.
Marlin : [points to the eggs on the left side of the nest] We'll name this half Marlin Jr.,
Marlin : [points to the eggs on the right side] And then this half Coral Jr. Okay, we're done.
[Marlin leaves]
Coral : I like Nemo.
Marlin : [Comes back] Nemo? Well, we'll name one Nemo, but I'd like most of them to be Marlin Jr.
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Marlin : [Inside the whale] I have to get out of here! I have to find my son! I have to tell him how old sea turtles are!
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Marlin : It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.
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Bruce : So, what's a couple of bites like you doing out so late?
Marlin : Nothing, we're not doing anything, we're not even out.
Bruce : Great! Then how would you little morsels like to come to a little - a little get-together I'm having?
Dory : You mean like a party?
Bruce : Yeah, that's it, a party! What do you say?
Dory : Oh, I love parties! That sounds like fun.
Marlin : Parties are fun, and it's tempting, but we really have to...
Bruce : [Takes Dory and Marlin by the fin] Aw, come on. I insist.
Marlin : [Nervous] Okay, that's all that matters.
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Marlin : The dropoff? They're going to the dropoff? What - what are you insane? Why not just fry them up now and serve them with chips?
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Marlin : [notices the fish have gone] Where did everybody go?
[Marlin and Coral looks up to notice a barracuda has appeared]
Marlin : Coral. Get inside the house, Coral.
[Coral looks down at the egg nest]
Marlin : No, Coral, don't you'll be fine. Just get inside, you right now.
[Coral swims down, the barracuda went onto attack]
Marlin : No!
[Marlin tries to fight the barracuda, but knocks him out]
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Kathy : [notices Nemo swimming off to the boat] Oh, my gosh! Nemo's swimming out to sea!
Marlin : [sees Nemo swimming off to the boat and gasps] Nemo! What do you think you're doing? You're gonna get stuck out there, and I'll have to get you before another fish does! Get back here! I said get back here now! Stop!
[Nemo stops swimming and turns around]
Marlin : You take one more move, mister.
[Nemo raises his fin]
Marlin : No, don't you dare! If you put one fin on that boat... Are you listening to me? Don't touch the b...
[Nemo angrily slaps the boat]
Marlin : Nemo!
Tad : [whispers] He touched the butt.
Marlin : [as Nemo swims back] You just paddle your little tail back here, Nemo! That's right! You are in big trouble, young man! Do you hear me? Big!
[diver appears behind Nemo, shocked]
Marlin : Big.
Nemo : [turns around to the diver and screams] Daddy, help me!
Marlin : I'm coming, Nemo!
[gets his way blocked by another diver]
