The Best Dean Hardscrabble Quotes

[Sulley rushes to the Door Making Lab, where Dean Hardscrabble is with some Campus Security Guards]
Dean: No-one goes near this door until the authorities arrive!
Squishy: [Sulley gets approached by the Rest of his Team] James wait, we can help.
Sulley: Look, it's my fault Mike got into this, so it's up to me to get him out of it.
Don: Leave it to the old master of sales.
[Walks up to to Dean Hardscrabble and the Security Guards]
Don: Hi there. Don Carlton, Sales Person. How often have you asked yourselves the following question?
Dean: Arrest him.
[the Security Guards press Don up against the wall, allowing the coast to be clear for Sulley to get to the door]
MU: [to Don] Up against the wall *Pops*.
Dean: [Noticing Sulley] Sullivan, don't you dare.
[desperate, Sully enters the door that Mike went through into the Human World]

Dean: Mr. Sullivan. I am a seven year old boy...
[Sulley roars before Dean Hardscrabble can finish]
Dean: I wasn't finished.
Sulley: I don't need to know any of that stuff to scare.
Dean: That 'stuff' would've informed you that this particular child is afraid of snakes. So a Roar wouldn't make him scream, it would make him cry, alerting his parents, exposing the monster world, destroying life as we know it. And of course we can't have that. So I cannot recommend that you continue in the Scare Program. Good day.
Sulley: [confused] But I'm a Sullivan.
Dean: Well then, I'm sure your family will be very disappointed.
[Johnny and the Rest of the RORs, having been watching nearby, leave the gallery, taking Sulley's ROR Jacket with him]

Dean: Scariness is the true measure of a monster. If you're not scary, what kind of a monster are you?

[In the First Challenge of the Scare Games, Mike and Sulley arrive badly stung from the Glowing Purple Urchins at the finish line, just behind the RORs]
Chet: Way to blow it, Oozmas!
Mike: Hey, 2nd place ain't bad.
Greek: [Jaws Theta Chi arrive behind them, unharmed] 2nd place, Jaws Theta Chi!
Mike: *What*?
Johnny: Your whole team has to cross the finish line.
Greek: 3rd place, EEKs. 4th place, PNKs. 5th place, HSS. And in last place...
[the rest of Mike and Sulley's team arrive, even more badly stung from the urchins than they are]
Greek: ...Oozma Kappa!
Greek: [Removing Oozma Kappa's name from the Leaderboard] Oozma Kappa have been eliminated!
[Dean Hardscrabble approaches a surprised and upset Mike, smiling]
Dean: Don't look so surprised Mr. Wazowski. It would've taken a miracle for...
Greek: Attention everyone, we have an announcement. Jaws Theta Chi have been disqualified.
[Holds up a tin of Protective Gel that they've been using]
Greek: The use of illegal protective gel is cause for elimination.
Big: What?
[the referee removes the moisture from George Sanderson's leg, then stabs it with an Urchin, causing it to swell up like a balloon, with George screaming in pain]
Greek: [Removing Jaws Theta Chi from the Leaderboard and adding Oozma Kappa back on] Which means that Oozma Kappa's back in the games - it's a miracle!
Dean: Your luck will run out eventually.
[Walks away]
Mike: This is gonna be harder than I thought.

Sulley: [to Mike, as he leaves the Campus] You're not scary. Not even a little bit. But you are fearless, and if Dean Hardscrabble can't see that, then she can just...
Dean: [Interrupting] I can just... what? Careful, Mister Sullivan, I was just starting to warm up to you.
Sulley: ...sorry.

[Dean Hardscrabble has turned off the door to the Human World that Mike and Sulley went into, before they could even get back out]
Don: They're still in there.
Dean: Until the Authorities arrives, this door stays off.
Squishy: *No*! You can't do this.
[he and the others begin to walk over, only to be held back]
Dean: [Raising her wings] ENOUGH! I WANT THIS ROOM CLEARED NOW!
[Everyone begins to back away out of the room slowly]

Dean: [after kicking Sulley off the Program] And, Mr. Wazowski, what you lack is something that cannot be taught. You're not scary. You will not be continuing in the Scare Program.
Mike: Please, let me try the Simulator. I'll surprise you.
Dean: Surprise me? I doubt that very much.

[as Sully and Mikey leave to Compete in the Scare Games with the rest of their team]
Dean: Good luck.

Dean: [Sulley tells Dean Hardscrabble and Professor Knight of how he rigged the Scare Simulator] You did what?
Sulley: My team had nothing to do with it. It was all me. I cheated.
Dean: I expect you off campus by tomorrow.
Sulley: [in dismay] Yes ma'am.
Dean: You're a disgrace to this university... and your family name.

Dean: You two have managed to accomplish something together no one ever has: you surprised me.

Dean: It's my job to make great students greater, not make mediocre students less mediocre.