The Best Groot Quotes

Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: Asleep for the danger, awake for the money, as per frickin' usual.

[repeated line]
Groot: I am Groot.

Groot: We are Groot.

[Groot is playing a video game called Defender. Peter Quill turns to Groot]
Peter: Groot, put that thing away. Now, I don't wanna tell you again... Groot?
Groot: [in a mocking tone] I am Groot!
Peter: Whoa!
Rocket: Language!
Mantis: Hey!
Drax: Wow.
Peter: You got some acorns on you, kid.
Rocket: Ever since you got a little sap, you're a total D-hole.
[turns to Groot, angrily]
Rocket: Now, keep it up and I'm gonna smash that thing to pieces!

[repeated line]
Groot: I am Groot.

Rocket: But Quill, beating Ronan... it can't be done. You're asking us to die.
Peter: Yeah... I guess I am.
[pause]
Gamora: [stands up] Quill, I have lived most of my life surrounded my enemies. I will be grateful to die among my friends.
Drax the Destroyer: [stands up] You're an honorable man, Quill. I will fight beside you. And in the end, I will see my wife and daughter.
Groot: [stands up] I am Groot.
Rocket: Aww, what the hell, I don't got that long a lifespan anyway...
[stands up]
Rocket: Well now I'm standing. Happy? We're all standing now. Bunch of jackasses, standing in a circle.

Groot: I am Groot.
Peter: Well that's just as fascinating as the first 89 times you told me that. What is wrong with Giving Tree here?
Rocket: Well he don't know talkin' good like me and you, so his vocabulistics is limited to "I" and "am" and "Groot," exclusively in that order.
Peter: Well I tell you what, that's gonna wear real thin, real fast, bud.

Drax the Destroyer: I can barely see.
Groot: [Groot releases glowing spores from his body to light up the way ahead]
Drax the Destroyer: Where did you learn to do that?
Peter: I'm pretty sure the answer is: "I am Groot".
Groot: [Groot nods "yes" to Peter]

Peter: I have a plan.
Rocket: You've got a plan? Okay, first of all, you're copying me from when I said I had a plan.
Peter: I'm not copying you, I have a plan, that's not that unique of a thing to say.
Rocket: And secondly, I don't think you even have a plan.
Peter: I have part of a plan.
Drax the Destroyer: What percentage of a plan do you have?
Gamora: You don't get to ask questions after the nonsense you pulled on Knowhere!
Drax the Destroyer: I just saved Quill!
Peter: We've already established that you destroying the ship I'm on is not saving me!
Drax the Destroyer: When did we establish that?
Peter: Like three seconds ago!
Drax the Destroyer: Well I wasn't listening then, I was thinking of something else...
Rocket: She's right, you don't get an opinion... What percentage?
Peter: I dunno... Twelve percent?
Rocket: Twelve percent?
[starts laughing]
Peter: That's a fake laugh.
Rocket: It's real!
Peter: Totally fake!
Rocket: That is the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life because THAT IS NOT A PLAN!
Gamora: It's barely a concept.
Peter: [to Gamora] You're taking their side?
Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: So what, "It's better than eleven percent!" What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Peter: [to Groot] Thank you Groot, thank you. See? Groot's the only one of you who has a clue.
Groot: [Groot begins to chew on a leaf protruding from his shoulder]

[Groot grows a cocoon of branches to cover his friends]
Rocket: No, Groot! You can't! You'll die! Why are you doing this? Why?
[Groot uses a thin branch to wipe away Rocket's tears]
Groot: We are Groot.