Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Randall Duk Kim: Oogway

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Quotes 

• Po : Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.

  Oogway : Quit, don't quit... Noodles, don't noodles... You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

• Oogway : My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours, until you let go of the illusion of control.

  Shifu : Illusion?

  Oogway : Yes.

  [points at peach tree] 

  Oogway : Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time.

  Shifu : But there are things we *can* control.

  [kicks the tree so that peaches fall] 

  Shifu : I can control when the fruit will fall!

  [he slices a peach and throws the pit to the ground] 

  Shifu : I can control where to plant the seed! That is no illusion, Master!

  Oogway : Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.

  Shifu : But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung!

  Oogway : [folding dirt over the peach pit]  Maybe it *can*, if you are willing to guide it, to nurture it. To believe in it.

  Shifu : But how? How? I need your help, master!

  Oogway : No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu. Promise me you will believe.

  Shifu : I... I will try.

• Oogway : One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

• Oogway : There are no accidents.

  Shifu : [sighs]  Yes, I know. You said that already. Twice.

  Oogway : Well, that was no accident either.

  Shifu : Thrice.

• Oogway : Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

• Oogway : [walking towards Po]  Ah! I see that you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom!

  Po : [Po turns around with a lot of peaches stuffed in his mouth]  Is that what this is? I'm so sorry! I just thought it was a regular peach tree!

  Oogway : I understand. You eat when you are upset.

  Po : Upset? I'm not upset. Why, what makes you think I'm upset?

  Oogway : So why *are* you upset?

  Po : [sighs]  I probably sucked more today than anybody in the history of kung fu. In the history of China. In the history of sucking!

• Po : [dazed]  What are you pointing at? Oh! Okay. Sorry, I just wanted to see who the Dragon Warrior was.

  Oogway : How interesting.

  Tigress : Master, are you pointing at... me?

  Oogway : Him.

  Po : Who?

  [Moves around, Oogway's finger follows him] 

  Oogway : You.

  Po : What?

  Oogway : [Raising Po's arm with his stick]  The universe has brought us the Dragon Warrior!

  Po : What?

  Tigress , Crane , Monkey , Mantis , Viper : What?

  Shifu : WHAT?

  Mr. Ping : WHAT?

• Oogway : There are no accidents.

• Oogway : My time has come.

  [hands his staff to Shifu] 

  Shifu : What? What are you...?

  Oogway : You must now continue your journey without me.

  Shifu : No! WAIT! Master! You can't leave me!

  Oogway : You must believe...

  Shifu : MASTER!

  [in a haze of peach blossoms, Oogway ascends to the heavens] 

• Shifu : Master! I have... it's very bad news!

  Oogway : Ah, Shifu. There is just news. There is no good or bad.

  Shifu : Master, your vision. Your vision was right! Tai-Lung has broken out of prison! He's on his way!

  [pause] 

  Oogway : That IS bad news.

• Shifu : But who? Who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? To become the Dragon Warrior?

  Oogway : I don't know.