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Donald Glover: Simba

The Lion King

Donald Glover credited as playing...

Simba

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Quotes20

  • Rafiki: Who are you?
  • Simba: I'm nobody.
  • Rafiki: Everybody is somebody. So I ask again, who are you?
  • Simba: My father once told me: protect everything the light touches, if I don't fight for it who will?
  • Rafiki: And so, I asked... who are you?
  • Simba: I am Simba, son of Mufasa.
  • Simba: You can't win, Scar!
  • Scar: This is my kingdom! My destiny!
  • Simba: [attacks Scar after Scar admitted in to killing Mufasa] My father, your own brother - how could you!
  • Scar: [to the hyenas and lionesses] First he kills Mufasa, and now he wants to kill me!
  • Simba: YOU killed him! Tell them the truth!
  • Scar: Don't believe his lies!
  • Sarabi: Scar? You told us you didn't get to the gorge in time.
  • Scar: That's true!
  • Sarabi: [outraged] Then how did you see the look in Mufasa's eyes?
  • [Scar growls]
  • Simba: MURDERER!
  • Scar: KILL THEM ALL!
  • Simba: It's over, Scar.
  • Scar: Have mercy on me.
  • Simba: Mercy? For what you did.
  • Scar: It was the hyenas. Those were the revolting, scavengers made me do it. I was planning on killing them all.
  • Simba: You fooled the hyenas? Just like you fooled me.
  • Scar: Simba, you wouldn't kill your only uncle.
  • Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
  • Scar: Oh, Simba. You are truly noble, and I will make it up to you. Just tell me how I can prove myself. Tell me what you want me to do.
  • Simba: Run... Run away, Scar. Run away, and never return.
  • Scar: Yes. Of course... As you wish.
  • [looking down and seeing a pile of hot coals, began to angry]
  • Scar: Your majesty!
  • [throws embers of fire at Simba's face]
  • Scar: Say it, Are you the king?
  • Simba: No, No-I...
  • Scar: Are you the king?
  • Simba: No.
  • Scar: You're what? Say it!
  • Simba: I'm nothing.
  • Scar: Then bow to your King!
  • [Simba falls and hangs over the ledge of Pride Rock]
  • Simba: Come on, what are you waiting for?
  • Simba: [singing Hakuna Matata] One more time.
  • Pumbaa: I think we got this one.
  • Simba: We're just getting into the groove.
  • Timon: Let's leave a morning roll.
  • Simba: [Simba belches] must be the termites.
  • Pumbaa: Or the crickets.
  • Scar: Simba... I'm so happy to see you
  • [Angrily glares at the hyenas behind him]
  • Scar: Alive.
  • Simba: [angry] Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart.
  • Scar: I can give you more than one. You see... they think I'm king.
  • Nala: Well, we don't. Your reign is over, Scar. Simba is the rightful king! If you wanna get him, you have to get through us. Are you with me, lions?
  • Simba: The choice is yours, Scar. Step down or fight.
  • Scar: Must this all end in violence? I'd hate to be responsible for the death of a family member. To feel the shame of knowing... I took the life of someone I love.
  • Simba: I put all that behind me.
  • Scar: But have they put it behind them? Do your faithful subjects know what you've done?
  • Nala: What is he talking about?
  • Scar: So you haven't told them your little secret? Well, Simba... now's your chance to confess. Tell them who's responsible for Mufasa's death.
  • Simba: It was me.
  • Sarabi: It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
  • Simba: It's true. I'm sorry.
  • Scar: He admits it. Murderer!
  • Simba: No, no. It was an accident.
  • Scar: If it weren't for you the king would be alive. It's your fault he's dead! Do you deny it?
  • Simba: I'm not a murderer.
  • Scar: We should believe a son who takes the life of a father? We should believe a son who takes the life of a king? A son who abandons his mother?
  • Timon: [about the hyenas] what's your plan for getting us past the slobbering guards?
  • Simba: Live bait.
  • [He, Nala and Zazu look at Pumbaa]
  • Pumbaa: That's a great idea. Those guys could never resist fresh meat! So all we need to do is find something that's like big, plump, and juicy, maybe like a gnu...
  • [They all continue to stare blankly at him]
  • Pumbaa: why's everyone looking at me?
  • Timon: [Shenzi's clan are paying attention to Timon and Pumbaa who is set up like a roast pig] Ma chère, mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we proudly present your dinner! Be... our - GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
  • [they flew before the clan of hunger mad hyenas]
  • Pumbaa: [referring to the stars] Hey, Timon. Do you ever look up there and wonder what those sparkly dots are?
  • Timon: Oh, Pumbaa. I don't wonder. I know.
  • Pumbaa: Really? What are they?
  • Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck on that big bluish-black thing.
  • Pumbaa: Oh, I guess that makes sense. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
  • Timon: Oh, Pumbaa, why is everything always gas with you?
  • Pumbaa: I know.
  • Timon: What do you think, Simba?
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Simba: Oh, I don't know. But somebody once told me, the great kings of the past are up there. And they're all watching over us.
  • [Timon and Pumbaa start laughing]
  • Pumbaa: That's a good one! That's insane! That's insane!
  • Timon: Royal dead guys watching over us! Well, I hope they don't fall out of the sky!
  • Pumbaa: Hang on, your majesty! Don't let go!
  • Timon: Oh, that would be a mess.
  • Pumbaa: Oh, man!
  • Timon: I mean, Simba, think about it. Why would a bunch of kings be looking out for us? We're outcasts.
  • Pumbaa: Royal warthogs.
  • Timon: I can't!
  • Timon: I can't!
  • Pumbaa: I actually can't.
  • Timon: I can't.
  • Pumbaa: No, you can. I can't.
  • [Timon laughs again]
  • Simba: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's stupid I'm going to go get some grubs or something
  • [looking sad, Simba gets up and leaves]
  • Timon: What did you say to him?
  • Pumbaa: I don't know.
  • Timon: As you were saying it, I thought, "This won't end well" you just start laughing.
  • Pumbaa: You laughed too.
  • Timon: I did not. I would never.
  • Pumbaa: Man, I blew it.
  • Simba: [referring to the impala running away from him] What's up with that guy?
  • Timon: Uh, Simba, How can I say this? He's prey.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah
  • Timon: And he is never going to want to frolic with a carnivore.
  • Pumbaa: No. You two will never frolic.
  • Simba: Why not?
  • Timon: You see in nature, there's a delicate balance.
  • Simba: Oh yeah. The circle of life. I know that.
  • Pumbaa: No.
  • Timon: No, no, no. I don't know where you're getting "circle" from
  • Pumbaa: No, yeah. There's no circle of life.
  • Timon: No, it's no Circle.
  • Pumbaa: No, not at all.
  • Timon: In fact, it's the opposite.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Timon: It's a line.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Timon: It's a meaningless line of indifference.
  • Pumbaa: And we're all just running towards the end of that line. Then one day we'll reach the end and that'll be it. That's it. Line over.
  • Timon: Nothing.
  • Pumbaa: Nada. And you can really just kind of Do Your own thing and fend for yourself, because you're line doesn't affect anyone else's line.
  • Timon: You're alive and then you're not
  • [eats an insect]
  • Timon: like this guy. Mmm.
  • Simba: You sure it's not a circle? that we're all connected?
  • Pumbaa: A circle would mean we're all this. That would mean what I do affects him. affects that thing affects that thing.
  • Timon: Yeah. No, that's not how it goes.
  • Pumbaa: Which would make doing whatever we wanted not that cool.
  • Timon: Let me simplify this for you. Life is meaningless.
  • Pumbaa: Yes. that's why you just got to look out for yourself. That's why you do you, Simba.
  • Timon: Yes Simba, for the first time, we're enrusting you to make a plan for us today
  • Pumbaa: This is important, think about all you've been taught.
  • Timon: What do you want to do?
  • Simba: Absolutely nothing.
  • Pumbaa: Exactly!
  • Timon: Woo-hoo!
  • Pumbaa: He gets it!
  • Simba: Who are you?
  • Rafiki: I know exactly who I am. The question is, who are you?
  • Simba: I'm nobody. So leave me alone, alright?
  • Rafiki: Everybody is somebody. Even a nobody.
  • Simba: Yeah, I think you're confused.
  • Rafiki: I am confused? You don't even know who you are.
  • Simba: Oh? And I suppose you do?
  • Rafiki: I held the son of Mufasa.
  • Simba: You knew my father?
  • Rafiki: Correction, I know you're father.
  • Simba: He died a long time ago.
  • Rafiki: He's alive. And I can take you to him. Follow me. I will show you! Your father is waiting.
  • [Simba just sees his reflection in the water]
  • Rafiki: Do you see him?
  • Simba: I don't see anything.
  • Rafiki: Look closer.
  • [Simba looks closer at his reflection and sees his father]
  • Rafiki: You see, he lives in you.
  • Scar: Sarabi why put yourself through this, all you have to do is be my queen. Your suffering from what a memory of a life you once knew, a king you once loved. I tried to make you understand what a true king can be.
  • Sarabi: Scar, a true kings power is his compassion.
  • Scar: [angered] I AM TEN TIMES THE KING, MUFASA WAS!
  • Sarabi: You are nothing compared to Mufasa.
  • [Scar attacks Sarabi]
  • Scar: [notices a roaring Simba] Mufasa, that can't be.
  • Simba: Get away from my mother!
  • Simba: I told you, isnt it great here? You know maybe it will be like this forever.
  • Nala: It's amazing. But there's... there's something I don't understand, if you been alive all this time why haven't you come home? We really needed you.
  • Simba: There fine... alright, nobody needs me.
  • Nala: Your the king.
  • Simba: Nala, Scar is the king.
  • Nala: Simba he's decimated the pridelands, there's no food, no water.
  • Simba: There's nothing I can do.
  • Nala: What about your mother? This is your responsibility. You need to challenge Scar.
  • Simba: I can't go back, ever.
  • Nala: Why? Because of what happened at the gorge? Scar told us that...
  • Simba: You wouldn't understand, none of it matters okay, Hakuna Matata.
  • Nala: [confused] What?
  • Simba: It's something, I learned out here okay. You see sometimes bad things happen and there's nothing you can do about it, so why worry?
  • Nala: Why worry? What happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
  • Simba: And I never will be, are you satisfied?
  • Nala: No, I'm disappointed.
  • Simba: You know, now you're starting to sound like my father.
  • Nala: Good, I'm glad one of us does.
  • Simba: [angry] You have no idea what I've been through.
  • Nala: I came here looking for help, I guess I made a mistake. Goodbye Simba.
  • Pumbaa: [Timon and Pumbaa meet Zazu for the first time] Hey, hey, look. A bird!
  • Simba: Timon. Pumbaa. This is Zazu.
  • Timon: Oh, wow... it's a puppet.
  • Zazu: Charming. Simba, we are with you until the end.
  • Pumbaa: We are at your service, my liege.
  • Simba: Follow me.
  • Simba: Timon, Pumbaa, I want you to meet my best friend, Nala.
  • Timon: Best friend? Well, that hurts.
  • Simba: Nala, you're going to love it here. This place is amazing. It's everything you could ever want.
  • Nala: Simba, we need to leave. Scar has taken over with the hyenas. You have to take your place as king.
  • Timon: King? Simba?
  • Pumbaa: We kneel before you as humble servants.
  • [They both laugh]
  • Simba: Pumbaa, relax. She's wrong.
  • Timon: Lady, you've got your lions crossed
  • Pumbaa: Nice.
  • Nala: Seeing you again, you don't know what this will mean everyone. What this means to me. You have to come home
  • Simba: This is my home. Please stay. This place is incredible. I know you'll love it.
  • Nala: I can't.
  • Timon: [as Simba burps] Oh.
  • Pumbaa: Hello!
  • [Timon and Pumbaa laugh]
  • Timon: Nice one, Simba.
  • Simba: Oh, thanks. Must've been the termites.
  • Pumbaa: [farts] Or the crickets.
  • Timon: And you wonder why I prefer to sleep underground.

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