All Quotes

"[post credits scene; last lines] You have been a fabulous audience! Tell you what, you're the best audience in the whole world! Take care of yourselves! Good night, Alice! Good night, Agrabah! Adios, amigos!"

"[eyes the giant tiger head rising from the sand] At last, after all my years of searching, the Cave of Wonders."

"[after the cave closes; he chuckles and rips off the old man mask searching the disguise for the lamp] It's mine. It's all mine. I-- Where is it? No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

"[after Aladdin has returned with Abu and Carpet] That was... YOU!! How many times do I have to kill you, boy?!"

"I think that it's time to say goodbye to Prince A-Boo-Boo."

"Oh, Prince Achmed. You're, you're not leaving so soon, are you?"

"Oh, Jasmine. Jasmine. Jasmine. Confound it, Rajah. So this is why Prince Achmed stormed out."

"[first words] I'll have your hands for a trophy, street rat."

"[last words] I would, Princess. Except my orders come from Jafar. You'll have to take it up with him."

"[repeated line] Who disturbs my slumber?"

"Know this. Only one may enter here, one whose worth lies far within. A diamond in the rough."

"Seek thee out...the diamond...the diamond in the rough. [echoes]"

"Proceed. Touch nothing but the lamp."

"INFIDELS! YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE FORBIDDEN TREASURE! NOW YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAAAAAY!!!!!!"

"[singing] Oh I come from a land from a faraway place / Where the caravan camels roam / Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense (soundtrack version: Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face) / It's barbaric, but hey...it's home! / When the wind's from the east / And the sun's from the west / And the sand in the glass is right / Come on down, stop on by / Hop a carpet and fly / To another Arabian night! / Arabian nights / Like Arabian days / More often than not / Are hotter than hot / In a lot of good ways / Arabian nights / 'Neath Arabian moons / A fool off his guard / Could fall-and-fall hard / Out there on the dunes. [first lines] Ah, salaam and good evening to you worthy friend. Please, please, come closer... [camera pushes in on his face squishing it] Ah uh, too close, a little too close. [Camera pulls out] There. Welcome to Agrabah. City of mystery, of enchantment, [pulls a bag off of the camel and unrolls it to reveal a merchant's stand] and the finest merchandise this side of the river Jordan, on sale today, come on down! [chuckles] Look at this! Yes! Combination hookah and coffee maker, also makes Julienne fries. Will not break, will not... [breaks apart] it broke. [toss it away] Ooh! Look at this! I have never seen one of these intact before. This is the famous Dead Sea Tupperware. Listen. [lifts cover slightly and blows a raspberry] Ah, still good. [the camera pans to the right] Wait, don't go! I can see that you're only interested in the exceptionally rare. I think then, you would be most rewarded to consider...this. [pulls out an oil lamp] Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts. This is no ordinary lamp! It once changed the course of a young man's life. A young man who liked this lamp was more than what he seemed: a diamond in the rough. Perhaps you would like to hear the tale? [pours sand from the lamp into his hand, and throws it into the air which form into stars which transition into the next scene] It begins on a dark night, where a dark man waits, with a dark purpose."

"Gazeem: [last words] Uh, it is I, Gazeem, a humble thief."

"Portly Agrabah Woman: I'd blame parents, except he hasn't got 'em."

"Guard: He's got a sword!"

"Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams, and they all could come true."

"It is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts."

"A diamond in the rough."

"Scott Weinger - Aladdin"

"Robin Williams - The Genie/The Peddler"

"Jonathan Freeman - Jafar"

"Linda Larkin - Princess Jasmine"

"Frank Welker - Abu/Rajah/Cave of Wonders"

"Gilbert Gottfried - Iago"

"Douglas Seale - Sultan"

"Jim Cummings - Razoul/Farouk"

"Corey Burton - Prince Achmed/Necklace Merchant/Fish Merchant/Camel/Sheep"

"Charlie Adler - Gazeem/Melon Merchant/Nut Merchant"

"Carole Jeghers - Gazeem's horse"

"Phil Proctor - Royal Guards"

"The supporting characters are all depicted as nasty mean, people. While the Aladdin character, Jasmine and her father speak unaccented, standard Americanized English all the bad guys speak in foreign accents. The lesson is that anyone with a foreign accent is bad. This is horrendous racism."

"I saw something that speculates that the peddler at the beginning of 'Aladdin' is the Genie. That's true!""

"One of the things [directors] Ron [Clements], John [Musker], and I were talking about was that, originally, when he came in to the first session, he said, “Do you want me to do kind of an ethnic voice for the Genie?” And we said, “No, no, just be yourself.” And we realized later that “being yourself” for Robin Williams is like being 98 different characters at once. [Laughs]."

"What I'm asking is... are we happier, as a human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web, and at the same time we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history..."

"Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss"

"John Hurt - S.R. Hadden"

"I've had a long time to make enemies, doctor. So many governments, business interests, even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this Earth. I'll grant them their wish soon enough. But before I do, I wish to make a small contribution. A final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet who have given—from whom I have taken—so much."

"First rule of government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"

"Jay Leno: So it turns out there's life on other planets. Boy, this is really going to change the Miss Universe contest, you know what I mean?"

"Alien: You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."

"So what's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious god created the universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that he simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?"

"Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway"

"Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin"

"Jena Malone - Young Ellie"

"David Morse - Ted Arroway"

"William Fichtner - Kent"

"James Woods - US National Security Advisor Michael Kitz"