Charlotte's Web (2006)

Steve Buscemi: Templeton the Rat

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Quotes 

• Templeton : Have you seen the pig next door? I think his mama was part hippo. If I had to name five of the fattest pigs I've ever seen, he'd be three of them.

• Templeton : You're a pig! Pig equals slop. The rat is happy!

  Wilbur : My name's Wilbur! Do you have a name or is it just 'The Rat'?

  Templeton : Did you say 'just the rat'? For your information, pig: The rat rules! We were here long before your kind and we'll be here long after. So, you just keep that in mind next time you feel like reducing me to just 'the rat'.

  Wilbur : You called yourself 'The Rat'.

  Templeton : I can call me that. You can't.

• Templeton : Look at her! Don't you think she's a little... uh... what's the word? EW!

  Wilbur : I think she's beautiful.

• [repeated line] 

  Templeton : The rat rules!

• Charlotte A. Cavatica : You're very kind.

  Templeton : Don't go spreading it around.

• Wilbur : Templeton, Charlotte is very sick.

  Templeton : Yeah, and twisted.

• Charlotte A. Cavatica : Templeton, haven't you ever heard that good things come to those who wait?

  Templeton : No. Good things come to those who find it and shove it in their mouth!

• [Templeton is being chased by two crows and finding shelter inside a tin can] 

  Templeton : The rat... is not... uh, uh, enjoying this! All this for slop? The rat is desperate. The rat is trapped. The rat needs to stop calling himself "the rat".

• Wilbur : [about Charlotte]  She's dying! She can't go home with us. So I need you to help me take her egg sac with us.

  Templeton : Did you say "eggs"?

  Wilbur : It's an egg *sac*, and it's right up there, and it has her children in it. And I can't just leave it here. What if something happened to them? Now, I can't reach it, so I need you to get it for me. And I need you to do it *now*!

  Templeton : I don't think I like your tone.

  Wilbur : Can't you just once in your life think of someone other than yourself?

  Templeton : Once? Once?

  Wilbur : Come on.

  Templeton : No, *you* come on! Who got his hindquarters pecked to make you "radiant," huh? Templeton, that's who. And who interrupted the gorging of a lifetime so you could be "humble"? Why, I think it was... Templeton! Templeton, Templeton, Tem-ple-ton! And do I get thanked? No! Well, has it ever occurred to you that even a rat might like a little appreciation? A little, dare I say, *love*?

  Wilbur : Do it and you'll get dibs on my slop for the rest of my life.

  Templeton : Done.

• Templeton : [after an egg has smashed over him]  Guess the yolk's on me!