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Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)

Quotes

Spy Kids

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  • Gregorio Cortez: [sees Ms. Gradenko's hair; half of it is burned off due to a previous encounter she had with Carmen and Juni] Ms. Gradenko... I think.
  • Ms. Gradenko: Oh, it's me all right. I owe my new look to your children.
  • Gregorio Cortez: Remind me to raise their allowance.
  • Carmen Cortez: Oh shiitake mushrooms.
  • Felix Gumm: Your parents are international spies. Good ones, but they've been mostly inactive for the last nine years.
  • Carmen Cortez: What are you talking about?
  • Felix Gumm: I was assigned to protect your family, but something's gone wrong. I have to take you to the safe house.
  • Carmen Cortez: My parents can't be spies! They're not cool enough!
  • Juni Cortez: Our real uncle? Because we've already got a fake uncle.
  • Juni Cortez: Eew, gross!
  • Carmen Cortez: What do you see?
  • Juni Cortez: You.
  • Carmen Cortez: Very funny.
  • Carmen Cortez: You skipped a chapter, meathead!
  • Juni Cortez: Better stop calling me names!
  • Carmen Cortez: Pull up, booger breath!
  • Juni Cortez: Stop it, or I'll call you names!
  • Carmen Cortez: Go ahead! You've got nothing on me, warthog!
  • Juni Cortez: Sure I do... diaper lady.
  • Carmen Cortez: Spy work, that's easy. Keeping a family together, that's difficult. And that's the mission worth fighting for.
  • Carmen Cortez: Mom, I've been skipping school, going places, taking ferry rides in the city...
  • Ingrid Cortez: It's OK. It's OK. I know. We'll talk about it when we get home.
  • Carmen Cortez: ...running off to Belize.
  • Ingrid Cortez: What? You went where?
  • Carmen Cortez: You're right. Let's just talk about this when we get home.
  • Ingrid Cortez: No, no, no, no. You can tell me everything now, OK? Is that what you want to be, free from your family? Hey!
  • Carmen Cortez: I used to. Not anymore.
  • [Carmen and Juni's robot doubles lift off the ground with fire streaming from the bottom of their feet]
  • Boy on Playground: ¡Yo quiero los zapatos como esos! (I want shoes like that!)
  • Gregorio Cortez: Juni. Juni. Hey. Anybody gives you a hard time in there, remember, you are a Cortez.
  • Juni Cortez: What's so special about being a Cortez?
  • Gregorio Cortez: Lots of things!
  • Gregorio Cortez: What was the story tonight?
  • Ingrid Cortez: [kisses his head] Ours.
  • Carmen Cortez: Wow. We are definitely gonna be late for school.
  • Juni Cortez: What did you do to him?
  • Carmen Cortez: Machete Electroshock Gumballs. It says long lasting. But I don't trust wrappers.
  • Ingrid Cortez: Remember when we could sense danger a mile away?
  • Gregorio Cortez: Those were the days.
  • Ingrid Cortez: Yeah.
  • Fegan Floop: [sings] It's a cruel, cruel world, all you little boys and girls / And some mean, nasty people want to have you for their supper!
  • Fegan Floop: We have to keep the army from leaving the castle. Our only chance is to get to the control room and hope that their missions have not been programmed.
  • Ingrid Cortez: And what if they have?
  • Fegan Floop: Then there's no one on Earth who can stop them.
  • Carmen Cortez: Never send an adult to do a kid's job.
  • Carmen Cortez: We'll be back for you, fellow agents.
  • Juni Cortez: Sknaht!
  • Juni Cortez: It needs... children.
  • "Uncle" Felix Gumm: Hey churros! Last time I saw you, you were *this* big
  • [motions his hand above Juni's head]
  • "Uncle" Felix Gumm: You're shrinking."
  • Fegan Floop: But it's not that simple!
  • Carmen Cortez: Figure it out. We'll be back for you.
  • Juni Cortez: Teach them to be good!
  • Brat's Dad: Can I help you with something, macho?
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: What do you think you're doing? You're supposed to be in line with the others.
  • Juni Cortez: [mimicking] You're supposed to be in line with the others.
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: Stop that.
  • Juni Cortez: Stop that!
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: Stop that this instance!
  • Juni Cortez: Stop that this instance!
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: STOP THAT, right now!
  • Juni Cortez: Or what?
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: Floop, you're spending too much time on this program when you should be more concerned with our grand diabolical plan.
  • Fegan Floop: Syndication?
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: The army of robot children, sir.
  • Carmen Cortez: Oh, now you've done it!
  • Juni Cortez: I knew this was gonna happen!
  • Carmen Cortez: We're gonna crash if you don't do something!
  • Carmen Cortez: You did this on purpose, you kamikazee!
  • Juni Cortez: But now it's balanced!
  • Carmen Cortez: [Carmen holds Juni's Fooglie picture and taunts him] What's this supposed to be? A self-portrait?
  • Juni Cortez: [imitating Carmen] What's this supposed to be? A self-portrait?
  • Carmen Cortez: [Gregorio takes the picture off Carmen, and Carmen tells on Juni] Mom! He's mimicking me!
  • Juni Cortez: [imitating Carmen] Mom! He's mimicking me!
  • Carmen Cortez: Com systems check. Can you hear me?
  • Juni Cortez: Yeah.
  • Carmen Cortez: Let's try that cave over there.
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: [after the Cortezes transformed him into an alien; Puts his hand on Lisp's shoulder] They're on their way now, sir.
  • Mr. Lisp: [Shocked] Minion? What happened to your head?
  • Mr. Alexander Minion: Oh, don't worry. I think it's reversible.
  • Juni Cortez: It needs monsters.

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