Tarzan (1999)

Rosie O'Donnell: Terk

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Quotes 

• Tantor : That sounded like Tarzan. It sounded like - like he was in trouble.

  Terk : Yeah? Well, why doesn't he get his new friends to help him? I don't care.

  [Terk starts to walk away, but Tantor grabs her with his trunk] 

  Tantor : Thaaaaat's IT! I've had it with you and your emotional constipation! Tarzan needs us, and we're gonna help him! You got that?

  [He places her on his back] 

  Tantor : Now pipe down, and hang on tight! We've got a boat to catch.

  [Tantor charges off a cliff and into the ocean] 

  Tantor : I've never felt so alive!

  Terk : Good, 'cause I'm gonna kill you!

• Terk : What kind of animal are you?

  Tantor : You know, I've been thinking lately that maybe Tarzan could be some sub-species of elephant.

  Terk : What are you... What do you mean? An elephant?

  Tantor : Listen to me, think about it. He enjoys a peanut, I enjoy a peanut...

  Terk : He looks nothing like you!

• Terk : Can you believe that guy? Drops us like a newborn giraffe - kerplop! - now waltzes in here and expects us to...

  Tarzan : Terk, I'm asking you as a friend.

  [Looks at Terk with big, soulful eyes] 

  Terk : Oh, with the face and the eyes and the... Ugh! All right! But don't make me do anything embarrassing.

  [Cut to Terk in Jane's dress] 

  Terk : I'm gonna kill him!

• Terk : What kind of primitive beasts are responsible for this mess?

• Tantor : [as Tarzan is leaving on the boat]  Tarzan!

  Terk : We're too late! I can't believe it! If you'd to pull over and asked for directions.

  Tantor : We didn't get to say goodbye.

  Terk : Yeah? Well, good riddance, alright? Who needs you? Huh? Go on, get out of here, bald boy! You ingrate! You bald ingrate!

  [She throws a rock at the water] 

  Terk : Go out and rot, for all I care! Go!

  [She sadly sits beside Tantor, and notices the elephant's expression] 

  Terk : What are you looking at?

  Tantor : I'm gonna miss him, too.

  [Terk smacks Tantor's foot away and walks back into the jungle] 

• Tantor : Oh, Terk, I've never seen him so happy.

  Terk : Eh, I give it a week.

• Tantor : [Terk is dressed in Jane's dress to lure Kerchak away]  Actually, I thought that dress was rather slimming on you.

  Terk : Oh, really? I thought it was a little revealing, and kinda...

• Tantor : What's everybody lookin' at?

  Tantor : [sees the camp]  Ooh! The horror! It's gruesome! Hide me!

  Terk : Pull yourself together. You're embarrasing me. These things aren't alive.

  Tantor : I knew that.

• Flynt : Hey, come on, Terk! Step on it!

  Mungo : Last one there's a dung beetle!

  Terk : Yeah, and first one's gonna eat it!

• [first lines] 

  Terk : Mama, look! Look over there!

• [Terk is dragging Tarzan out of the pool] 

  Terk : Tarzan, buddy! Buddy, come on, Tarzan! Don't die on me! Don't die on me! You weren't supposed to do it!

  [Tantor grabs Terk with his trunk] 

  Young Tantor : Get away from there! Don't you know a piranha can strip your flesh in seconds?

  [Terk pries herself free] 

  Terk : What? He's not a pirahna, he's-

  [Tarzan coughs up water] 

  Terk : He's alive!

  [Terk grabs Tarzan by the arm and then by the leg to show Tantor that Tarzan is indeed alive] 

  Terk : He's alive, he's alive!

  Young Tantor : He's alive!

  [Terk hugs Tarzan] 

  Terk : He's ali-

  [Her joy quickly turns to reproachfulness and she pushes Tarzan to the ground] 

  Terk : You idiot! You nearly gave me a heart attack! Ya happy?

• [Tarzan and Terk sit at the edge of the river following an elephant stampede; Kala rushes over and grabs Tarzan] 

  Kala : You scared me! What happened?

  Young Tarzan : Well, I--

  [Terk barges in between them] 

  Terk : Um, it's sort of a long-- It's involved because what happened-- It just--

  [Kerchak approaches] 

  Kerchak : *What happened*?

  [Terk smiles nervously; Tarzan looks guilty] 

  Young Tarzan : [crawls forward]  It was *my* fault, Kerchak.

  Kala : [shocked]  *Tarzan*.

  Young Tarzan : We were playing, and-- Well, I'm sorry, Kerchak.

  [slowly touches Kerchak's hand; Kerchak pulls his hand away] 

  Kerchak : You almost *killed* someone!

  Young Tarzan : But it was an accident.

  Kala : [holds Tarzan in her arms]  He's only a child!

  Kerchak : *That's* no excuse, Kala! You can't keep defending him!

  Kala : But he'll learn!

  Kerchak : He will *never* learn! You can't learn to be one of us!

  Kala : Because you never give him a chance!

  Kerchak : Give him a chance? Kala, look at him! He will *never* be one of us!

  Kala : Kerchak!

  [Tarzan shudders and runs away] 

  Kala : Tarzan!

  [Kala and Kerchak watch him leave; Kala sighs sadly]