The film tells the story of Danny, an optimistic cat who moves to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, only to find the path isn’t easy for animals. The following Cats Don’t Dance Movie Quotes capture the humor, heartbreak, ambition, and realities faced by the characters.
Inspirational and Motivational Quotes
- Narrator: On the other hand, in a humble village far away, the peasant had none of her luxuries, but he had a dream.
- Danny: It’s gonna happen for me. It could happen for you.
- Danny: You can do anything if you try, The most impossible dreams can come true, If you believe it!
- Danny: All I wanna do is the thing I love. Doesn’t everyone?
- Woolie: Yeah, foolish. Unless… We could remind them! Why they came here in the first place.
- Danny: If we all work together we can make our dreams come true! Let’s show the world what we can do.
- Danny: Well maybe I am. But so were you. Just a few minutes ago.
- Danny: Hey it’s worth a try.
- Sawyer: This time I’ve got to believe in his dream…
- Danny: Stop the bus!
- Danny: Exactly. See you in the movies!
Funny and Sarcastic Quotes
- Danny: This is my kind of town, It’s clear as the nose on your face!
- Frances: Poor.
- Frances: If you call hanging from a hook a good part.
- T.W.: There’s no use trying, Miss Tillie. My fortune cookie last night said, “Give it up, you loser.”
- Frances: For the glamour.
- Sawyer: Unless you’re referring to the glamour of filing. The romance of typing.
- Sawyer: Frankly, Clark, I don’t give a….
- Sawyer: No chow, no meow.
- Sawyer: So much for preserving the species.
- Max: How does the kitty-cat gooooo?
- Max: Very gooooood!
- Pudge: Oh I was gonna slug that big dumb Max for you but I don’t wanna hurt the guy.
- Woolie: Why, you have a natural rear for music, little fellow.
- Woolie: Did you know that a peanut is not a nut at all? And, it’s not a pea for that matter either.
- Woolie: It’s rather odd that they call it a nut, because it isn’t a nut, you see, It’s-it’s… It’s a member of the legume family.
- Frances: I know a divine taxidermist darling. Did my first husband.
- Cranston: Look at them! I’m ashamed to be an animal.
- Sawyer: Rusty? I’ll give you rusty!
- Cranston: After nothing but Darla he’s gonna be starving for it.
- Danny: Uhh…. Indiana, Miss Dimple.
- Darla: Whatever.
- Darla: Shut up, Max.
- Frances: I beg your pardon!
- Male rat: Excuse me?
- Flanigan: Mommy!
- Tillie: Oh, it’s L.B.! We’re on! Pack up your troubles in the old kit bag and smile, smile, smile!
- Sawyer: And, your driving stinks!
- Cranston: Well this can’t get any worse. I was wrong. It’s worse.
- Danny & Sawyer: Will you just stay out of this?!
- Tilly: I think they liked it.
- Frances: Their big everywhere darling.
- Bus driver: Geez! What do you wanna stop for? We just barely got started!
Quotes About Hollywood and Dreams
- Danny: My name in lights: Danny the Song and Dance Cat!
- Danny: I got on a bus and came to the town, where dreams can come true.
- Danny: Hollywood! Where the streets are paid with gold. Where the kitties never grow old, In Hollywood!
- Danny: Hollywood! Where the stars don’t shine at night, They walk around in the broad daylight, In Hollywood!
- Danny: I’m going down in history, Just watch me!
- Danny: Hollywood! Where dreams can never grow old, Right here in Hollywood!
- Danny: Well, I was hoping if I work really hard by Friday, I’ll land my first big part.
- Farley: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But don’t forget: 10% of that dream is mine! Welcome to Hollywood!
- Woolie: I used to hope that one day, I’d write music for the motion pictures. But, all they want me for was to put on those beastly tusks and go (trumpets loudly) at the beginning of every film.
- Woolie: Oh, it’s the same for everyone. Look behind you. So many broken dreams.
- Sawyer: L.B. Mammoth? Head of Mammoth Studios.
- Danny: I’m sure he’d appreciate real talent.
- Darla: You gotta give the people what they want, Or you’ll wind up back in Kokomo Nebraska!
- Darla: They like it big, They like it loud, Maybe a little bit jazzy sometimes.
- Darla: You don’t have to be good, But you had better be…… BIG AND LOUD!!
- L.B. Mammoth: Simple. It’s Dimple.
- Cranston: Goodbye, show biz. Hello, farm work.
- Announcer: America’s Sweetheart Lover of Children and Animals.
Quotes About Life and Reality
- Narrator: Once upon a time, there was a princess and a peasant.
- Narrator: She had fame. She had fortune. She had product endorsements. But she was not what she seemed.
- Tillie: Well at least it’s part huh?
- Sawyer: Sorry fresh out. Everyday I ask myself, “Why do I put up with this?”
- Bull: So aggravatin’ and humiliatin’. I’m outta this picture business.
- Toto: There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like… home.
- Sawyer: Listen, Tiger, this town has rules and around here, cats say “meow”.
- Sawyer: Ok, learn it the hard way.
- Sawyer: It’s not that simple.
- Danny: It is in Kokomo.
- Sawyer: Then maybe that’s where you should of stayed.
- Woolie: That’s what this town does to you, my boy. It wears you down.
- Woolie: Ah, ah, ah. Talented people, not animals. The spotlight will never be on fellows like you and me, and it’s foolish to think otherwise, Danny.
- Sawyer: Like I said dancing’s a waste of time.
- Sawyer: Your dreaming Danny.
- Danny: Your life isn’t back there in that office. It’s here with me.
- T.W.: Fortune says ‘Rough waters ahead’.
- L.B. Mammoth: You animals will never…
- Flanigan: Nibble kibble in this town again!
- Woolie: The spotlight will never be on fellows like you and me. Go home, son. Go home.
- Tillie: Well, I have to admit, we were better off before.
- Cranston: Well, let’s face it. That cat ruined our already miserable lives.
- Sawyer: Seems like everyone’s sailing, way out on the sea, and I’m stuck here on shore, sun’s always shining, but it’s never on me, why should I try anymore?
- Bus driver: What were those animals thinking? I mean, what a bunch of noodle-heads.
- Bus driver: They don’t belong in pictures, do you know what I mean. They belong back on the farm.
- Bus driver: Poor fools. They ain’t got no future.
- Bus driver: You’re not trying to be something you ain’t. You’re leaving this mess all behind. You know your place.
Character Defining Quotes
- Danny: Oh, that’s so old hat! I’m sure nobody would mind if I jazz it up a bit.
- Farley: One and the same, kid. One and the same.
- Sawyer: I’m a secretary, not an actress.
- Darla: I AM an angel!! I… AM… AN… ADORABLE LITTLE ANGEL!!!!!
- Darla: I… HATE… ANIMALS!!! Especially that one!
- Woolie: Oh… poor Sawyer. I thought she’d be the one who would make it. Such a dancer with the voice of an angel.
- Danny: What a waste of your talent.
- Darla: No no no it was terrible, awful, cruel! Inapprotilaly violent. And I want to make it all up to you.
- Darla: I didn’t get where I am today! By letting myself get pushed around!
- Darla: No man or beast or kitty-cat or doggie! Is going to drag me down!
- Danny: Well let’s just say a little angel’s looking out for us.
- Darla: Sorry, penguin; but in each life, a little rain must fall.
- Sawyer: You know what your problem is?! You’re pushy, self centered, pig-headed-
- Darla: Nice working with you, Danny. Singing and dancing animals!
- Sawyer: She was your little angel?
- Danny: She said she wanted to help us.
- Tilly: And you believed her?
- Frances: I never trusted him. Too happy.
- Sawyer: Tell me lies, and I’ll come running, I must have lost my mind!