Roland Tembo Quotes

This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivors hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?

Roland Tembo : Dieter, get in the outrigger. You're closing in on a parasauro...
Dieter Say that again, Roland. A what?
Roland Tembo : The one with the big red horn! The pompadour! Elvis!

That's the last time I leave you in charge.

Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: firstly, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job, and open your case of Scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee? You can keep it. All I want in exchange for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and why are my business. Now if you don't like either of those two conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, or in a swamp, or in the middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas, OK?

Nick Van Owen : You seem like you have a shred of common sense, what the hell are you doing here?
Roland Tembo : Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator there ever lived. The second greatest predator must take him down.
Nick Van Owen : You gonna use that?
Roland Tembo : If he doesn't surrender, yes.
Nick Van Owen : The animal exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.
Roland Tembo : Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn't, I went up there to live.

Roland Tembo : You're coming up on a...
Roland Tembo : A Pachy... a pachy... oh, hell. Uh, the fathead with the bald spot. Friar Tuck!

Roland Tembo : I'm sorry, Ajay, you were saying?
Ajay Sidhu : You broke that man's jaw for no other reason than your own boredom. Tell me the truth, Roland, are you not even interested in this expedition's quarry?
Roland Tembo : Ajay, go up to my ranch, take a look around the trophy room, and tell me what kind of quarry you think could possibly be of any interest to me?