The Rescuers (1977)

Geraldine Page: Madame Medusa

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Quotes 

• Madame Medusa : Snoops, you don't have a way with children. You must gain their confidence... make them like you.

  Mr. Snoops : Yeah? How do you do that?

  Madame Medusa : You FORCE them to like you, idiot!

• [repeated line] 

  Madame Medusa : Snoops! Snoops, get down here!

  Mr. Snoops : W-W-What's up, Medusa? W-What's going on?

• [repeated line] 

  [Medusa's equipment isn't working properly] 

  Madame Medusa : Snoops! What's wrong?

• Madame Medusa : [Madame Medusa calls Penny into her bedroom sweetly]  Come in! Come in!

  Penny : [Penny walks in holding her teddy bear]  Did you wanna see me, ma'am?

  Madame Medusa : Why, yes, my dear. Don't be so shy.

  [chuckling] 

  Madame Medusa : Now, I'm going to let bygones be bygones. Do you know what would make Auntie Medusa very happy?

  Penny : Yes, you want me to find that diamond.

  Madame Medusa : That's right, dear.

  Penny : But I've tried as hard as I could. Honest!

  Madame Medusa : Of course, you have. But we must try harder, mustn't we?

  Penny : Then, please, will you take me back to the orphanage... like you promised?

  Madame Medusa : Penny, don't you like it here? A big, beautiful boat all to yourself?

  Penny : But if I don't get back to the orphanage... I'll never get adopted.

  Madame Medusa : Adopted? What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl like you?

  [Penny walks away in tears] 

• Madame Medusa : Brutus! Nero, stop that infernal racket. I mean NOW!

  [Hits one of the crocodiles on the head; Bernard pops out of its mouth] 

  Madame Medusa : [screams and jumps on a chair]  AAAH! SNOOPS! SNOOPS, A MOUSE! OH, KILL IT! KILL IT!

• Madame Medusa : You get down there and find the big diamond, or you will never see the teddy a - gain!

• Mr. Snoops : Welsher! Swindler! Chiseler!

  Madame Medusa : [Pointing gun at Mr. Snoops and Penny]  Shut up, Snoops! And don't move. If either of you try to follow me, you'll get BLASTED!

  Penny : [walking towards Madame Medusa]  You give me my teddy bear. You promised.

  Madame Medusa : [Pushing Penny away with her foot and walking backwards]  Teddy goes with me, my dear. I've become quite attached to him.

  [laughs] 

• Madame Medusa : [Holding the Devil's Eye]  Just look at it! Filled with power, for its owner!

  Mr. Snoops : Let me look at it.

  [Medusa only shows the diamond for a fraction of a second] 

  Mr. Snoops : I got... Hey, that wasn't much of a look.

• Madame Medusa : [phone rings, Medusa comes in]  Who could be ringing at this time of night?

  [answers] 

  Madame Medusa : Madame Medusa's Pawn Shop Boutique.

  [Snoops's voice is on the line: "Hello, boss!"] 

  Madame Medusa : Snoops! Don't tell me, Snoops, let me guess! You found it! Ha-ha! You've - found the diamond!

  [indistinct voice] 

  Madame Medusa : Give you *time*? You bungler! You have been down there for three months!

  [indistinct voice continues] 

  Madame Medusa : Bottles? What - Bottles? You caught Penny sending messages in *bottles*? You BLUNDERING fool; can't you control a little girl? Shut up! I am taking the next flight down to Devil's Bayou!

  [slams the phone down onto the receiver] 

• Penny : The water's coming in. Please pull me up!

  Madame Medusa : Not until you get the diamond!

• Madame Medusa : High tide or not... that little brat is going to find me that diamond... tomorrow... or else!

• Madame Medusa : Now my dear, you're going to find the big shiny, diamond for your Auntie Medusa, aren't you...?

• Madame Medusa : At the next low tide I'm going to put her down there, myself, and keep her there, until she finds it. And it is as simple as *that*!

• Bernard : [as he, Bianca, Penny, and the swamp denizens escape successfully from the riverboat via the swampmobile]  We did it, Bianca!

  Miss Bianca : Hooray! Oh, Bernard, Bernard, you're wonderful!

  [chuckles as she and Bernard embrace; the others cheer happily as the swampmobile drives away into the distance] 

  Madame Medusa : [lamenting, as she is left clinging to one of the riverboat's smokestacks]  There... goes... my diamond!

• Madame Medusa : [grumbles]  Oh, that boob... He fuddles up everything... Leave him for a few weeks and *scoffs!*

  [tries to shut her overpacked luggage] 

  Madame Medusa : Oh! Why won't this stupid thing... c-lose! *grunts*