Over the Hedge (2006)
William Shatner: Ozzie
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Quotes
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Ozzie : But this house is like a fortress. Walls, so high. Doors, impenetrable. How will we get in?
RJ : The collar is the key.
[Shows video on cell phone of Tiger entering door]
RJ : Literally, the collar is like a key that opens the door, and if...
Stella : And what? You think he's just gonna hand over his collar to you?
RJ : Not to me, my femme fatale. To you.
Verne : Her?
Stella : Me?
RJ : You, Stella, will get that cat to give you his collar by using...
Stella : My stink.
RJ : ...your feminine charms.
Hammy the Squirrel : Ha ha ha! - Was that out loud?
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Ozzie : [after Verne stumbles into the hedge] Steve ate Verne!
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RJ : Please don't think I'm prying, but I couldn't help overhearing, and I think I can shed a little light on what this whole hedge situation is about. You see, what was once mere wilderness is now 54 acres of man-made, manicured, air-conditioned paradise.
[Points at map]
RJ : Except for that little-bitty speck. You are here.
[All gasp]
RJ : No, no, that's a good thing. You're hibernators, right? You gather up a bunch of food, store it away for the winter?
Hammy the Squirrel : Aha! We fill the log!
Verne : Hammy.
RJ : Really? This log? This cave-like log?
Ozzie : All the way to the top.
Verne : Ozzie.
RJ : Let me ask ya, how long's it take, you know, to fill the log?
Heather : Two-hundred and seventy-four days.
RJ : Ooh! Ever done it in a week?
Verne : That's impossible.
RJ : Not if we work together. You see, you've got the food-gathering skills, I've got the know-how, and they have the food.
Heather : How much food?
RJ : Loads of food! Heaps of food! Food out the wazoo!
Verne : Well, you know, whatever kind of food comes out of a wazoo, I really don't think we're interested in eating.
Lou : I don't know. The guy's making a lot of sense to me. I think we should listen.
Penny : Yeah. I'm okay with wazoo food there.
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Ozzie : O great and powerful Steve! What do you want?
Verne : I-I don't think it can speak.
Debbie : [From other side of hedge] I heard that, young man!
[Others are shocked; Ozzie plays dead]
Debbie : You get over here right now!
Hammy the Squirrel : Okay.
Verne : Hammy, get back here.
Hammy the Squirrel : But Steve is angry.
Verne : I think it came from the other side of Steve - I mean, the bush. I mean... Geez!
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Ozzie : Mother, is that you? Beckoning me into the light? Must... move... toward... the light!
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Ozzie : Playing Possum is what we do. We die, so we live.
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Verne : Come on, you guys!
[Tries to be intimidating]
Verne : Don't make me come in there!
Stella : [Heard beneath the leaves] Y'all better listen... I've been holding something in all winter and I'm about to LET IT OUT!
Penny : [Animals scatter from under leaves] Whoa!
Ozzie : She means it!
[as the leaves and dust settles, Stella is shown in her "firing" position]
Verne : [Politely and grateful] Thank you, Stella!
Stella : [Nonchalantly] Oh, I can clear a room, Verne. That much I can do!
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Ozzie : [whispered] Rosebud.
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[while playing Possum]
Ozzie : Rosebud!
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Hammy the Squirrel : [energetic] Where's the food? It's there any food left? I'm really hungry, so it's there any food left there, huh?
Heather : We ate all the food, Hammy, during the winter? So we're just about get some more now.
Hammy the Squirrel : Oh, right! I buried my nuts in the woods. I know where they are. I'll be right back. Bye!
[Hammy zips off. A drop of snow from the branch falls on Ozzie's head. He gasps and plays dead. The triplets laughs at Ozzie]
Heather : [chuckles nervously] Dad, it's just snow.
Ozzie : But, it could've been a predator.
Heather : Isn't playing dead a little... weak?
Ozzie : Heather, how many times must I say it? Playing possum is what we do. We die, so that we live!