30 Classic Ratatouille Quotes to Use as Your Next Instagram Caption
All these year's later, Disney and Pixar's Ratatouille never fails to make us laugh, gasp and maybe shed a year or two.
The beautifully animated film truly is the ultimate underdog story, following Remy, a rat who dreams of becoming a chef, and Linguini, the new garbage boy at the restaurant of Remy's late culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Guided by Gusteau's principles that "anyone can cook," the two become unlikely allies as Remy pursues his dream and Linguini clings to his job, with the stakes for both being higher than they could ever imagine. It's a wonderful story about defying expectations, rejecting snobbery and honing the best version of yourself, and we truly can't get enough. If you've also watched it more times than you can count, keep scrolling to discover 30 of its very best quotes to use as your next Instagram caption.
For enjoying some decadent French food:
"Although each of the world's countries would like to dispute this fact, we French know the truth; the best food in the world is made in France"
-Narrator
For when it's been a rough start, but you're finally finding your way around the kitchen:
"Anyone can cook!"
-Chef Auguste Gusteau
For wondering how you got yourself in the current situation:
"This is me. I think it's apparent I need to rethink my life a little bit. What's my problem?"
-Remy
(Ratatouille via Walt Disney Studios Moti0n Pictures)
For sharing that you were born during the year of the rat:
"First of all, I'm a rat, which means life is hard."
-Remy
For 'borrowing' your mom's top she never wears anyway:
"It isn't stealing if no one wants it."
-Django
For when you haven't been particular about your diet lately:
"Food is fuel. You get picky about what you put in the tank, your engine is gonna die. Now shut up and eat your garbage."
-Django
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For going against your usually antisocial nature:
"I know I'm supposed to hate humans, but…"
-Remy
For when your food is particularly beautiful:
"Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it."
-Chef Auguste Gusteau
For experimenting in the kitchen:
"Great cooking is not for the faint of heart. You must be imaginative, strong-hearted, you must try things that may not work. And you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. What I say is true, anyone can cook… but only the fearless can be great."
-Chef Auguste Gusteau
For when you start talking to the pictures on your phone:
"You… are an illustration. Why am I talking to you?"
-Remy
For setting your sights on the future:
"If you focus on what you've left behind you will never be able to see what lies ahead."
-Chef Auguste Gusteau
For when you've outdone yourself with a new recipe:
"Food always comes to those who love to cook… "
-Chef Auguste Gusteau
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For when you're done trying to save people:
"If he wishes to swim in dangerous waters who are we to deny him?"
-Skinner
For realizing the importance of teamwork:
"Look, I know it's weird and stupid, but neither of us can do this alone. So we gotta do it together, right? You with me?"
-Alfredo Linguini
(Ratatouille via Walt Disney Studios Moti0n Pictures)
For wishing you could be more in tune with someone:
"We just need to work out a system so that I do what you want in a way that doesn't look like I'm being controlled by a tiny rat chef."
-Alfredo Linguini
For when you know absolutely nothing about cooking ingredients:
"I'm just familiarizing myself with, y'know, the vegetables… and such."
-Alfredo Linguini
When you're coasting on good luck:
"Congratulations. You were able to repeat your accidental success."
-Skinner
For showing proper cooking etiquette:
"Mark of a chef; messy apron, clean sleeves."
-Colette Tatou
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For showing off your beautiful, musical loaf of bread:
"How do you tell how good bread is without tasting it? Not the smell, not the look, but the sound… of the crust."
-Colette Tatou
(Ratatouille via Walt Disney Studios Moti0n Pictures)
For being more than a simple cook:
"So you see, we are artists. Pirates. More than cooks are we."
-Colette Tatou
For whipping up a scrumptious-looking ratatouille:
"If you're gonna name a food you should give it a name that sounds delicious. Ratatouille doesn't sound delicious. It sounds like rat. And patooty. Rat patooty! Which does not sound delicious."
-Alfredo Linguini
For evolving into the person you were always meant to be:
"Change is nature … The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide."
-Remy
For when they keep underplaying their accomplishments:
"I hate false modesty. It's just another way to lie."
-Colette Tatou
For considering yourself a real foodie:
"I don't like food, I love it."
-Anton Ego
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For making something of yourself for the first time:
"I've never disappointed anyone before because nobody's ever expected anything of me."
-Alfredo Linguini
For deciding who you are for yourself:
"I know who I am! Why do I need you to tell me? Why do I need to pretend?"
-Remy
For when reality is stranger than fiction:
"I know this sounds insane. But, well, the truth sounds insane sometimes, but that doesn't mean it's not. The truth."
-Alfredo Linguini
(Ratatouille via Walt Disney Studios Moti0n Pictures)
For staying authentic to the different aspects of your personality:
"I can't choose between two halves of myself."
-Remy
For when there's value in the simplest of things:
"But, the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."
-Anton Ego
For being open to new things:
"The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends."
-Anton Ego
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