The Book of Life Quotes

  • Pepe Rodriguez: I'm allergic to dying!

    Pancho Rodriguez: Especially in the face!

  • Carlos Sanchez: All of the Sanchezes have been bullfighters. All of them.

    Grandma: I was a beast in the ring. A beast!

  • Skeleton Jorge: [Repeated line] Savage.

  • Carlos Sanchez: Mama, how did you get here?

    Grandma: Eh. Cholesterol.

  • [Last lines]

    Candle Maker: Go write your own stories.

  • Grandma: Kids these days, with their long hair and not killing stuff.

  • Goth Kid: What's with Mexicans and death!

  • Land of the Remembered Captain: You know, I've been down here for years awaiting my beloved honey bunny.

    Land of the Remembered Captain's Wife: [older ugly woman appears] Hi honey!

    Land of the Remembered Captain: AH! TOO SOON!

  • Joaquin: Hey, Chakal! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?

    Bandit: 'Cause no one's that big, man.

  • Manolo: I know about the wager. Xibalba cheated!

    La Muerte: He did what?

    Manolo: Yeah! With a two-headed snake!

    [La Muerte starts to boil with rage]

    Candle Maker: [to Manolo, Carmen and Luis] You might wanna cover your ears right now.

    La Muerte: [yelling with rage as her candles brightens the Land of the Forgotten] XIIIII... BAAAAL... BAAAAAAAA!

  • La Muerte: The world keeps spinning, and the tales keep turning, and people come and people go, but they're never forgotten. And the one truth we know, it held true one more time... That love, true love, the really, really good kind of love never dies.

  • Carlos Sanchez: All of these families have lost someone, but as long as we remember them, we can feel their presence with us for one night each year.

  • Grandma: Kids today, with their long hair and their no killing stuff.

  • Manolo: So, my father tells me you hate bull fighters.

  • Chakal: I hate everybody.

    [Spits]

  • Manolo: [Draws his swords] Well then, let's do this.

  • Chakal: [laughs] You and what army?

    [Manolo's deceased family member suddenly appear]

  • Manolo: [Confronting Chakal] So, my father tells me you hate bullfighters.

    Chakal: I hate everybody.

    [Spits]

    Manolo: [Draws his swords] Well then, let's do this.

    Chakal: [laughs] You and what army?

    [Manolo's decreased family suddenly appears]

  • Maria: [Revealing her skill with fencing] Did I mention I also studied fencing?

  • [first lines]

    Thomas: Last tour of the day. I wonder why nobody wants them.

Extended Reading
  • Israel 2022-01-04 08:01:49

    Mexico's exquisite and bright art decoration style + dizzying full of details + woodcarving style character modeling + personalized cute skull theme dubbing and lines are also playful Mexican style, the music is even more so! I feel that this is called national pride. A creep is interspersed with tears on the spot, and De Toro also contributed a voice dubbing :)

  • Daron 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    The graphics are gorgeous, but the plot is too weak. But for the seriousness of preparing an animated film in 2014, I still have to praise it.

The Book of Life

Director: Jorge R. Gutiérrez

Language: English,Spanish Release date: October 17, 2014