How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Finding Nemo.
Quote #1
NEMO: Can you help me?
GILL: No. You got yourself in there, you can get yourself out.
DEB: Ah, Gill...
GILL: I just want to see him do it, okay? Keep calm. Alternate wriggling your fins and your tail.
NEMO: I can't. I have a bad fin.
GILL: Never stopped me. Just think about what you have to do.
Poor little Nemo. His dad's always protected him, so he never learned to get out of sticky situations using his own moxie. Here, Nemo finds out that he can do things if he just tries. And that lucky fin? It's not holding him back either.
Quote #2
DORY: Hey, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do?
MARLIN: I don't wanna know what you gotta do when life gets you down.
DORY: Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
MARLIN: Dory, no singing.
DORY: Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! I love to swim! When you want to swim—
MARLIN: See, I'm going to get stuck now with that song now it's in my head!
DORY: Sorry.
This is probably reason #9,478 that we love Dory—she doesn't give up. Her motto is just keep swimming which makes a whole lot of sense when you're a fish who can't remember where she's going and doesn't know where she's been. The only way to get a clue is to keep on pressing on.
Quote #3
GILL: You see that filter?
NEMO: Yeah?
GILL: You're the only one who can get in and out of that thing. What we need you to do is take a pebble inside and jam the gears. You do that and this tank's gonna get filthier and filthier by the minute. Pretty soon, the dentist'll have to clean the tank himself. And when he does, he'll take us out of the tank, put us in the individual baggies, then we roll ourselves down the counter, out of the window, off the awning, into the bushes, across the street and into the harbor! It's foolproof!
Gill is one determined fish. He hasn't let a few escape attempts gone wrong stop him from coming up with new ideas. This plan isn't quite foolproof, but we like its chances.