Owen Wilson credited as playing...
Lightning McQueen
- Lightning McQueen: [to Minny and Van, who are leaving] I'm telling you, you gotta help me! Don't leave me here! I'm in hillbilly hell! My IQ's dropping by the second! I'm becoming one of them!
- Sally: Forty years ago, that interstate down there didn't exist.
- Lightning McQueen: Really?
- Sally: Yeah. Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way.
- Lightning McQueen: How do you mean?
- Sally: Well, the road didn't cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.
- [first lines]
- Lightning McQueen: Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning.
- Lightning McQueen: Doc, hold it! Seriously, your driving's incredible!
- Doc Hudson: Wonderful. Now go away.
- Lightning McQueen: Hey, I mean it. You've still got it!
- Doc Hudson: I'm asking you to leave.
- Lightning McQueen: Come on. I'm a racecar, you're... a much older racecar, but under the hood, you and I are the same.
- Doc Hudson: We are not the same! Understand? Now, get out!
- Lightning McQueen: How could a car like you quit at the top of your game?
- Doc Hudson: You think I quit?
- [Turns a light on a framed newspaper headline: "CRASH! Hudson Hornet out for season"]
- Lightning McQueen: Right. Your big wreck in '54.
- Doc Hudson: They quit on me. When I finally got put together, I went back expecting a big welcome. You know what they said? "You're history." Moved right on to the next rookie standing in line. There was a lot left in me. I never got a chance to show 'em. I keep that to remind me never to go back. I just never expected that that world would... would find me here.
- Lightning McQueen: Hey, look, Doc, I'm not them.
- Doc Hudson: Oh yeah?
- Lightning McQueen: No, I'm not.
- Doc Hudson: When was the last time you cared about something except yourself, hot rod? You name me one time and I will take it all back. Uhuh, Didn't think so. These are good folk around here, who care about one another. I don't want 'em depending on someone they can't count on.
- Lightning McQueen: Oh like you? You've been here how long and your friends don't even know who you are? Who's caring about only himself?
- Doc Hudson: Just finish that road and get outta here!
- The King: What are you doin', kid?
- Lightning McQueen: I think the King should finish his last race.
- The King: You just gave up the Piston Cup, you know that?
- Lightning McQueen: Ah. This grumpy old race car I know once told me somethin': it's just an empty cup.
- Doc Hudson: [Doc and Lightning are racing in the dirt] Yeeehaa! Well, you sure ain't no dirt boy.
- Lightning McQueen: Not today, old man. I know all your tricks.
- [Doc suddenly swerves off screen]
- Lightning McQueen: [looking for him] Doc! Doc?
- Doc Hudson: [Flies over Lightning] YEEEHAAAAA! Not ALL my tricks, rookie!
- Lightning McQueen: You know, I've really missed you Sally.
- Sally: Well, I create feelings in others that they themselves don't understand, and blah blah blah blah...
- [Both lean in to kiss]
- Mater: McQueen and Sally, parked beneath the tree, K-I-S-S- uh... I-N-T!
- Lightning McQueen: Great timing, Mater!
- Lightning McQueen: I'm a very famous race car!
- Luigi: You are famous race car? A real race car?
- Lightning McQueen: Yes, I'm a real race car, what do you think? Look at me.
- Luigi: I have followed racing my entire life, my whole life!
- Lightning McQueen: Then you know who I am. I am Lightning McQueen.
- Luigi: Lightning McQueen!
- Lightning McQueen: Yes! Yes!
- Luigi: I must scream it to the world, my excitement from the top of someplace very high. Do you know many Ferraris?
- Lightning McQueen: No, no, no, they race on the European circuit; I'm in the Piston cup.
- [Luigi and Guido frown at McQueen]
- Lightning McQueen: What?
- Luigi: Luigi follow only the Ferraris.
- [he and Guido drive away]
- Lightning McQueen: Oh, I am SO not taking you to dinner.
- Sally: That's OK, Stickers. You can take Bessie.
- Mater: Oh, man, you get to work with Bessie! I'd give my left two lugnuts for somethin' like that!
- Lightning McQueen: I thought you said you'd never come back.
- Doc Hudson: Well, I really didn't have a choice. Mater didn't get to say goodbye.
- Mater: GOODBYE! Okay, I'm good.
- Lightning McQueen: Will you stop that?
- Mater: Stop what?
- Lightning McQueen: That driving backwards. It's creeping me out. You're gonna wreck or something.
- Mater: Wreck? Shoot! I'm the world's best backwards driver! Just watch this right here, lover boy.
- Mater: [after Lightning loses the case and is sentenced to repair the road] Hey, I know this may be a bad time right now, but you owe me $32,000 in legal fees.
- Lightning McQueen: What?
- Lightning McQueen: In your dreams, Thunder.
- Chick Hicks: Yeah, right. Thunder? What's he talkin' about, Thunder?
- Lightning McQueen: Well, you know, because Thunder always comes after... Lightning!
- [reporters crowd around McQueen]
- Chick Hicks: [to his pitcrew] Who here knew about the Thunder thing?
- The King: Hey, buddy. You're one gutsy racer.
- Lightning McQueen: Oh, hey, Mr. The King.
- The King: You got more talent in one lugnut than a lot of cars has got on their whole body.
- Lightning McQueen: Really? Oh, that -...
- The King: But you're stupid.
- Lightning McQueen: Excuse me?
- Sally: Do you wanna stay at the Cozy Cone or what?
- Lightning McQueen: Huh?
- Sally: I mean, if ya do, you gotta be clean, because even here, in hillbilly hell, we have standards.