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Frances McDormand, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Martin Short, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Jessica Chastain, and Chris Miller in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

David Schwimmer: Melman

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

David Schwimmer credited as playing...

Melman

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  • Melman: How are a zebra, a hippo, a lion and a giraffe going to walk into a casino in Monte Carlo?
  • Marty: I don't know. Ask the rabbi.
  • [Gloria gets stuck after falling down an air shaft, nearly crushing Alex, Marty, and Melman]
  • Melman: [to Gloria, sweetly yet awkwardly] Hi, honey!
  • Gia: Alex? You are from a zoo?
  • [pause]
  • Alex: Yes. Yes. But wait, there's more.
  • Gia: More?
  • Alex: Or less. There's less.
  • Vitaly: You were never circus?
  • Gloria: We had to say we were circus.
  • Melman: Or you'd never let us on the train.
  • Gia: After all we have been through together, you want to go live in a zoo?
  • Alex: Gia, I...
  • Vitaly: You used us.
  • Alex: No, no, no. I mean - I mean yes but,
  • Gia: Trapeze americano, you make that up, too?
  • Alex: It didn't exactly exist when I taught it to you.
  • Gia: Jet packs and aquatic cobras! I should've known.
  • Stefano: Balloons to the children of the world was not real, either?
  • Alex: Yeah, that's not real. But look at what we did.
  • Stefano: I was shot out of a cannon! I could've died!
  • Marty: But I thought it was your lifelong dream.
  • Stefano: For all I know, your name is not even Alice.
  • Alex: No, Stefano, but it never really was.
  • Stefano: I don't feel safe!
  • Alex: Gia, I...
  • Gia: We trusted you.
  • Stefano: My tears are real! You are not!
  • Melman: I can't dance!
  • Gloria: Maybe that's because you've never tried it before.
  • Melman: I *have* tried it! I practice in private because you're so good at it...
  • Gloria: You practice? For me?
  • Melman: Yeah, but... It's no use! I never know what to do with my arms.
  • Gloria: That's the easy part.
  • [wraps Melman's arms around her neck]
  • Gloria: You just put your arms around your partner.
  • Alex: And Melman, you're the Brooklyn Bridge.
  • Melman: Actually, I'm the Triborough Bridge.

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