Coraline (film) Quotes

Coraline (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Coraline completed its run in 1970.

It features Bill Mechanic, Claire Jennings, Henry Selick, and Mary Sandell as producer, Bruno Coulais in charge of musical score, and Pete Kozachik as head of cinematography.

Coraline (film) is distributed by Focus Features.

The cast includes: Dakota Fanning as Coraline Jones, Keith David as Cat, John Linnell as Other Father, Robert Bailey Jr. as Wybie Lovat, Ian McShane as Mr. Bobinsky, Dawn French as Miss Forcible, Aankha Neal as Sweet Ghost Girl, George Selick as Ghost Boy, Hannah Kaiser as Tall Ghost Girl, John Linnell as Other Mother, John Linnell as Mother, John Hodgman as Charlie Jones, and Teri Hatcher as Mel Jones.

Coraline (film) Quotes

Dakota Fanning as Coraline Jones

• (Dakota Fanning) "Welcome, Miss Lovat."
• (Wybie's Grandmother) "Oh, hello."
• (Dakota Fanning) "I'm Coraline Jones. I've got so much to tell you."

• (Dakota Fanning) "uh, it didn't hurt did it, when she?"

• (Dakota Fanning) "I can't believe it. You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I want to be with my real Mom and Dad. I want you to let me go."
• (John Linnell) "Is that any way to talk to your Mother?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "You aren't my Mother."
• (John Linnell) "Apologize at once, Coraline."
• (Dakota Fanning) "No."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Why'd you lock the door again?"
• (Teri Hatcher) "Oh, I found some rat crap and I thought you might -- feel safer."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I can see you don't have button eyes, but -- if you're the same cat, how can you talk?"
• (Keith David) "I just can."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I think I heard someone calling you -- Wyborn."
• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "What? I didn't hear anything."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Oh, I definitely heard someone -- Why-were-you-born."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Evil witch. I'm not scared."

• (Dakota Fanning) "So, he can't talk AT ALL? I like it."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Wybie's got a cat like you at home. Not the quiet Wybie, the one that talks too much. You must be the Other Cat."
• (Keith David) "No -- I'm not the other anything. I'm me."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I already know where you've hidden them."
• (John Linnell) "Hmm -- Well, then produce them."
• (Dakota Fanning) "They're behind that door."
• (John Linnell) "Oh they are, are they?"
• (Keith David) "There."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Mom -- Dad --. Go on. Open it. They'll be there alright."
• (John Linnell) "You're wrong, Coraline -- they aren't there. Now, you're going to stay here forever."
• (Dakota Fanning) "NO, I'M, NOT."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I almost fell down a well yesterday, Mom."
• (John Linnell) "Uh-huh."
• (Dakota Fanning) "I would've died."
• (John Linnell) "That's nice."

• (Dakota Fanning) "He's not drunk, Mom, he's just eccentric."

• (Dakota Fanning) "She's practically naked."

• (Dakota Fanning) "M-my father doesn't play piano."
• (John Linnell) "No need to. This piano plays me --"

• (Dakota Fanning) "One boring blue boy, in a painfully-boring painting -- three boring windows -- and no more doors."

• (Other Mr. Bobinsky) "You think winning game is good thing? You just go home and be bored and neglected, same as always. Stay here with us. We will listen to you, and laugh with you. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want -- always."
• (Dakota Fanning) "You don't get it, do you?"
• (Other Mr. Bobinsky) "I don't understand."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Of course you don't understand. You're just a copy she made of the real Mr. B."
• (Other Mr. Bobinsky) "Not even that -- anymore --"

• (Dakota Fanning) "I didn't know I had another mother."
• (John Linnell) "Of course you do. Everyone does."

• (Dakota Fanning) "You think they're trying to poison me?"

• (Dakota Fanning) "Oh my twitchy, witchy girl. I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge. I give you bowls of ice -- cream. I give you lots of kisses. I give you lots of hugs. But I never give you sandwiches with grease and worms and mung -- beans."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Hello? Who's there?"

John Linnell as Other Mother

• (John Linnell) "You may come out -- when you've learned to be a loving daughter."

• (John Linnell) "They say even the proudest spirit can be broken -- with love."

• (John Linnell) "So sharp, you won't feel a thing --"

• (John Linnell) "How dare you disobey your mother."

• (John Linnell) "Black is traditional."

• (John Linnell) "You know, you could stay forever, if you want to. There's one tiny thing we have to do first --"

• (John Linnell) "Makin' up a song about Coraline/ She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine/ She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who's ever laid their eyes on Coraline/ When she comes around exploring/ Mom and I will never ever make it boring/ Our eyes will be on Coraline."

George Selick as Ghost Boy

• (George Selick) "Thou art alive -- thou art still living."

• (George Selick) "Don't remember our names, but I 'member my true mommy."

Robert Bailey Jr. as Wybie Lovat

• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "Whoa. Check out Slugzilla."

• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "I'm Wybie. Wybie Lovat."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Wybie?"
• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "Short for Wyborn. Not my idea, of course. What'd you get saddled with?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "I wasn't 'saddled' with anything. It's Coraline."
• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "Caroline what?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "Coraline. Coraline Jones."
• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "Hm. It's not real scientific, but I heard an ordinary name like Caroline can lead people to have ordinary expectations about a person."

• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "The -- the doll is my grandma's -- spy?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "She has this other world where everything is better, the food, the garden the --"
• (Dakota Fanning) "the NEIGHBORS. But it's all a trap."
• (Robert Bailey Jr.) "Yeah, uh, listen Jonesy, I think someone's calling me --"
• (Dakota Fanning) "Don't believe me? You can ask the cat."

Keith David as Cat

• (Keith David) "You realize you're walking right into her trap."
• (Dakota Fanning) "I have to go back. They are my parents."
• (Keith David) "Challenge her, then. She may not play fair, but she won't refuse. She's got a thing for games."

• (Keith David) "You probably think this world is a dream come true. But you're wrong. The other Wybie told me so."
• (Dakota Fanning) "That's nonsense. He can't talk."
• (Keith David) "Perhaps not to you. We cats, however, have far superior senses than humans, and can see and smell and -- Shh. I hear something. Right over --"

• (Keith David) "I don't like rats at the best of times, but this one was sounding an alarm."

Ian McShane as Mr. Bobinsky

• (Ian McShane) "Have beet, make you strong."

• (Ian McShane) "Caroline, wait. The mice asked me to give you message."
• (Dakota Fanning) "The jumping mice?"
• (Ian McShane) "They are saying, "Do not go through little door." Do you know such a thing?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "The one behind the wallpaper? But it's all bricked up."
• (Ian McShane) "Ah. So sorry, is nothing. Sometimes the mice are little mixed up. They even get your name wrong, you know? They call you "Coraline" instead of "Caroline." Not "Caroline" at all. Maybe I work them too hard."

• (Ian McShane) "I am the Amazing Bobinsky. But you- call me Mr. B. Because, amazing, I already know that I am."

Hannah Kaiser as Tall Ghost Girl

• (Hannah Kaiser) "Hush, and shush, for the beldam might be listening."

• (Hannah Kaiser) "You're in terrible danger, girl."

Aankha Neal as Sweet Ghost Girl

• (Aankha Neal) "Be clever, Miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go."

• (Aankha Neal) "She spied on our lives through the little doll's eyes --"
• (George Selick) "-- and saw that we weren't happy."
• (Hannah Kaiser) "So she lured us away with treasures and treats --"
• (Aankha Neal) "And games to play."
• (George Selick) "Gave all that we asked --"
• (Aankha Neal) "Yet we still wanted more."
• (Hannah Kaiser) "So we let her sew the buttons."
• (George Selick) "She said she loved us."
• (Hannah Kaiser) "But she locked us here --"
• (George Selick) "And ate up our lives."

John Hodgman as Charlie Jones

• (John Hodgman) "Ooh, here comes a burp."
• (Teri Hatcher) "Charlie."
• (John Hodgman) "Excusez-moi but that pizza I had was delicious."

Dawn French as Miss Forcible

• (Dawn French) "Well, not to worry, child: It's good news. There's a tall, handsome beast in your future."
• (Dakota Fanning) "A what?"
• (Miss Spink) "Miriam, really, you're holding it wrong. See? Danger."
• (Dakota Fanning) "What do you see?"
• (Miss Spink) "I see a very peculiar hand."
• (Dawn French) "I see a giraffe."
• (Miss Spink) "Giraffes don't just fall from the sky, Miriam."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Well, what should I do?"
• (Miss Spink) "Never wear green in your dressing room."
• (Dawn French) "Acquire a very tall step-ladder."

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