penguin behavior Quotes

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

the answer to every problem involved penguins

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

No problem, I'll get a penguin to show us

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

She smiled with the warmth of a penguin.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.