117 Movie Quotes about Rats (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about rats, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Light the lamp, not the rat! Light the lamp, not the rat!

Steve Whitmire as Rizzo The Rat in The Muppet Christmas Carol

2 You are a worthless street rat. You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat, and only your fleas will mourn you.

Scott Weinger as Aladdin in Aladdin (1992)

3 I am not a rat! -'Course you're not. You're a mouse! -That's right. A mouse. -Yeah, a big mouse.

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

4 No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have, and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat.

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

5 In America, there are mouse holes in every wall. -Who says? -Everyone!

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail

6 Mmm. You dirty rat. You killed my brother. You dirty rat. Mmm.

Judith Hoag as April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

7 Have you had a pet rat? -No.

Ian Holm as Chef Skinner in Ratatouille

8 There's a dead mouse on that table. -It's an Irish custom. The cats got him today.

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

9 You know what I think? I think you are a sneaky, overreaching little... Rat!

Ian Holm as Chef Skinner in Ratatouille

10 Get out! You and all your rat buddies! And don't come back or I'll treat you the way restaurants are supposed to treat pests!

Patton Oswalt as Remy The Rat in Ratatouille

117 Movie Quotes about Rats (+ Sound Clips)

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