Carl is the 78 year old man in the Disney Pixar movie Up from 2009. These Carl Fredricksen quotes are funny, cute, inspirational, emotional, and sad.
Carl is married to Ellie and they have the cutest love story in the first few minutes of the film. Sadly, Ellie passes away leaving Carl alone, grumpy, and cranky. It’s hard to not shed a tear watching these scenes!
He’s been saving for a vacation to Paradise Falls for years, but has never been able to go. He is also frustrated by a construction company that wants to buy his house so they can build skyscrapers on his land.
He decides to attach thousands of balloons to his house so he can then fly to South America. He soon finds out that a little boy named Russell was on his porch though, so they unfortunately have to take on the adventure together.
Russell is a junior wilderness explorer training to earn all of his badges, including an Assisting The Elderly badge.
You’re going to have so much fun reading these Up movie quotes!
Carl Fredricksen Quotes
1. I’ll meet you at the van in just a minute. I, uh, wanna say one last goodbye to the old place. – Carl Fredricksen
2. So long, boys! I’ll send you a postcard from Paradise Falls! – Carl Fredricksen
3. This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he’s trying to kill us. What a joke. – Carl Fredricksen
4. True love is hard to find. When you find it, take good care of it while you still have time. – Carl Fredricksen (This is my favorite of the Carl Fredricksen quotes!)
5. Tell your boss he can have my house. – Carl Fredricksen
Really? – Construction Foreman Tom
Yeah. When I’m dead! – Carl Fredricksen
6. Look, why don’t we play a game I know? Whoever is quietest for the longest time wins. – Carl Fredricksen
Oh great! My mom loves that game! – Carl Fredricksen
7. You’d better get up, Russell. Or else, the tigers will come and eat you. – Carl Fredrickson
There are no Tigers in South America. Zoology. – Russell
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8. I can’t tell where we are. – Carl Fredricksen
Oh, we’re in South America, all right. It was a cinch with my Wilderness Explorer GPS. – Russell
GP what? – Carl Fredricksen
My dad gave it to me; it shows exactly where we are on the planet! (runs to the window making beeping sounds) With this baby, we’ll never be lost! (gestures and accidentally throws it out the window) Oops. – Russell
9. A wilderness explorer is a friend to all, be a plant or fish or tiny mole! – Russell
That doesn’t even rhyme! – Carl Fredricksen
Yeah it does. – Russell (offended)
10. Can we keep him, please? – Russell
No. – Carl Fredricksen
But it’s a TALKING DOG! – Russell
11. It’s just a house. – Carl Fredricksen
12. You got a ‘run away in terror’ badge? – Carl Fredricksen
13. But I want to help! – Russell
I don’t want your help; I want you safe. – Carl Fredricksen
14. You, in the suit… yes, you! Take a bath, hippie! – Carl Fredricksen
15. Quite a sight, huh, Ellie? – Carl Fredricksen
16. Tell your boss over there that you boys are ruining our house. – Carl Fredricksen
17. There it is. Ellie, it’s so beautiful. – Carl Fredricksen
18. What have I got myself into, Ellie? – Carl Fredricksen
19. We’re on our way, Ellie. – Carl Fredricksen
20. You will always be my greatest adventure. – Carl Fredricksen
21. Russell, for assisting the elderly, and for performing above and beyond the call of duty, I would like to award you the highest honor I can bestow: The Ellie Badge. – Carl Fredricksen
22. Now, we’re gonna walk to the falls quickly and quietly with no rap music or flash dancing. – Carl Fredricksen
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Other Up Movie Quotes
A lot of these quotes are said to Karl Fredricksen from other characters in the Up movie.
1. See these? These are my Wilderness Explorer badges. You may notice one is missing. It’s my ‘assisting the elderly’ badge. If I get it, I will become a Senior Wilderness Explorer! – Russell
2. That one looks like a turtle! And that one looks like a dog!…It IS a dog! – Russell
3. That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most. – Russell
4. Oh! Mr. Fredricksen! If we happen to get separated, use the wilderness explorer call: CA – CA! RAWRRR! – Russell
5. We have to protect him. – Russell (protecting the bird he found)
6. I’ll unleash all my Wilderness Explorer training. – Russell
7. Any last words Fredricksen? Come on, spit it out! (Carl spits out his dentures). – Charles Muntz
8. You know Carl, these people who come here, they all tell pretty good stories. A surveyor making a map, a botanist cataloging plants, an old man taking his house to Paradise Falls. And that’s the best one yet. I can’t wait to hear how it ends. – Charles Muntz
9. Adventure is out there! – Charles Muntz
10. You poured prune juice in his gas tank. – Construction Foreman Tom
11. Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, ‘I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.’ Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead! – Dug
12. My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel! – Dug
13. (Opens her adventure book to reveal a Life magazine with Charles Muntz on the cover to Carl) Charles Muntz, explorer. When I get big, I’m going where he’s going [pulls away magazine to reveal a map of…] South America. It’s like America, but south. – Young Ellie
14. You don’t talk much… I like you! – Young Ellie (speaking to Carl)
15. Don’t you know this is an exclusive club? Only explorers get in here. Not just any kid off the street with a helmet and a pair of goggles. Do you think you got what it takes? Well, do you? – Young Ellie (when she first meets Carl)
16. Paradise Falls, a land lost in time. I ripped this right out of a library book. I’m gonna move my clubhouse there, and park it right next to the falls. Who knows what lives up there? – Ellie
17. Imagine all the wonderful things that will never happen if you do not let them. – Ellie
18. You and me, we are in a club now. I saw where your balloon went. Come on, let’s go get it. – Ellie
19. Thanks for the adventure—now go have a new one! – Ellie (this is Ellie’s last message to Carl)
20. Soon enough, the bird will be ours yet again. Find the scent, my compadres, and you too shall have much rewarding from Master for the toil factor you wage. – Alpha
21. Yeah, your voice sounds funny! – Gamma
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