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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Quotes

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Willy Wonka &amp ended its run in 1970.

It features Plainlist, Stan Margulies, and David L. Wolper as producer, Plainlist, and Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley; Walter Scharf in charge of musical score, and Arthur Ibbetson as head of cinematography.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is 100 minutes long. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt, Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt, Ursula Reit as Mrs. Gloop, Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket, Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, David Battley as Mr. Turkentine, Tim Brook-Taylor as Computer Operator, Ed Peck as FBI Agent, Gloria Manon as Mrs. Curtis, Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregarde, Nora Denney as Mrs. Teevee, Leonard Stone as Sam Beauregarde, Paris Themmen as Mike Teevee, Leonard Stone as Mr. Beauregarde, Nora Denney as Mr. Teevee, Peter Stuart as Winkelmann, Peter Capell as Tinker, Michael Bollner as Augustus Gloop, Tim Brook-Taylor as Reporter, Leonard Stone as Mrs. Beauregarde, Diana Sowle as Mrs. Bucket, Günter Meisner as Mr. Slugworth, and Günter Meisner as Mr. Wilkinson.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Quotes

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

  • (Gene Wilder) "How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "I think it's the most wonderful place in the whole world."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I'm very pleased to hear you say that, because I'm giving it to you."
  • (Jack Albertson) "You're giving Charlie the?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I can't go on forever, and I don't really want to try. So who can I trust to run the factory when I leave and take care of the Oompa Loompas for me? Not a grown up. A grown up would want to do everything his own way, not mine. So that's why I decided a long time ago that I had to find a child. A very honest, loving child, to whom I could tell all my most precious candy making secrets."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "So that's why you sent out the golden tickets."
  • (Gene Wilder) "That's right. So the factory is yours, Charlie. You can move in immediately."
  • (Jack Albertson) "And me?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Absolutely."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "But what happens to the rest?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "The whole family. I want you to bring them all."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Try some more. The strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "Snozzberries? Who ever heard of a snozzberry?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "We are the music makers -- and we are the dreamers of dreams."
  • (Gene Wilder) "You can suck them and suck them and suck them and they'll never get any smaller. Never."
  • (Gene Wilder) "At least I don't think they do. A few more tests."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh. I wouldn't do that. I really wouldn't."
  • (Gene Wilder) "'Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way."
  • (Gene Wilder) "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I don't understand it. The children are dissappearing like rabbits. Well, we still have each other. Shall we press on?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "No other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall."
  • (Gene Wilder) "But it's the only way if you want it just right."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Swifter than eagles. Stronger than lions."
  • (Gene Wilder) "This is the great glass Wonkavator."
  • (Jack Albertson) "It's an elevator."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It's a Wonkavator. An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways, and slantways, and longways, and backways --"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "And frontways?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "-- and squareways, and front ways, and any other ways that you can think of. It can take you to any room in the whole factory just by pressing one of these buttons. Any of these buttons. Just press a button, and zing. You're off. And up until now, I've pressed them all -- except one."
  • (Gene Wilder) "This one. Go ahead, Charlie."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Me?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "What happened?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "He lived happily ever after."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It happens every time, they all become blueberries."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous. So don't be alarmed. As soon as your outer vestments are at hand, we'll begin."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Time is a precious thing. Never waste it."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I take very good care of my guests."
  • (Leonard Stone) "Yeah, you took real good care of that August kid."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. So I think we'll put him in my special taffy-pulling machine. That should do the trick."
  • (Gene Wilder) "To the taffy-pulling room. You'll find the boy in his mother's purse. But be extremely careful."
  • (Nora Denney) "Uh, T-T-Taffy? Wh-What's he saying?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, no. I won't hold you responsible."
  • (Gene Wilder) "And now, my dearest lady, it's time to say good-bye."
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, no, don't speak. For some moments in life, there are no words. Run along now."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Don't you know what this is?"
  • (Denise Nickerson) "By gum, it's gum."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Wrong. It's the most amazing, fabulous, sensational gum in the whole world."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "What's so fab about it?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "This little piece of gum is a three-course dinner."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Bull."
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, roast beef. But I haven't got it quite right yet."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It's a musical lock."
  • (Nora Denney) "Rachmaninoff."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Behold the Wonkamobile. A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Charlie? My boy. YOU'VE WON. YOU DID IT. I KNEW YOU WOULD, CHARLIE. I JUST KNEW YOU WOULD. Oh, Charlie. Forgive me for putting you through it."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Come here, Mr. Wilkinson. Charlie? Meet Mr. Wilkinson."
  • (Günter Meisner) "It's a pleasure."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "SLUGWORTH."
  • (Gene Wilder) "NO. NO. NO. That's not Slugworth, He works for me."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "For you?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I had to test you, Charlie. And you passed the test. You've won."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Won what?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "The Jackpot, My dear sir. The grand and glorious jackpot."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "You mean the chocolate?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "The chocolate? Oh, Yes. The chocolate. But's just the beginning. We have so much time and so little to do."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Wait a minute. Strike that, Reverse it. Thank You."
  • (Gene Wilder) "This way, Please. We will take the Wonkavator. Step in, Charlie. Grandpa Joe Sir."
  • (Gene Wilder) "This is the great glass Wonkavator."
  • (Jack Albertson) "It's an elevator."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It's a Wonkavator. Elevators can only go up and down. But the Wonkavator can go sideways frontways"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "And backways?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Yup roundways, and squareways. Just press the key and Zing. You are there. By now pressed all the keys. Except one. Go ahead, Charlie. Press it."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Me? Okay."
  • (Gene Wilder) "There it goes. Not sure where we will be going. Faster, Faster. If we don't get enough speed we will never get the day through."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "But where are we going?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Up and out."
  • (Jack Albertson) "You really mean it?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Yes I do."
  • (Jack Albertson) "But the roof is made out of glass. It's gonna smash into bits and pieces. And we will be cut to ribbons."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Probably."
  • (Gene Wilder) "HOLD ON, EVERYBODY. HERE IT COMES."
  • (Jack Albertson) "WOW. YOU DID IT, MR. WONKA. CONGRATULATIONS."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Get up, Charlie. Take a look."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "WOW. The town looks so nice from up here."
  • (Jack Albertson) "We can see our house from down here."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "And there's my school."
  • (Gene Wilder) "How did you like my chocolate factory, Charlie?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "I think it's the best place in the world."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I am glad you can say that. Because I am giving to you. Would you mind that?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "WHAT? YOU'RE GIVING THE FACTORY TO CHARLIE?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I can't go on forever, And I really don't want to try. Who can I trust someone to run the factory when I leave? Not a grown up. Can I?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world -- there's nothing to it."
  • (Gene Wilder) "She was a bad egg."
  • (Gene Wilder) "So shines a good deed in a weary world."
  • (Gene Wilder) "And who is this gentleman?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "My grandfather, Grandpa Joe."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Delighted to meet you, sir. Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced. Are we ready? Yes, good. In we go."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Ninety-nine, forty-four, one hundred percent pure. Just through the other door, please."
  • (Gene Wilder) "So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Faster, faster; if we don't pick up enough speed, we'll never get through."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Get through what?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Aha."
  • (Jack Albertson) "You mean we're going?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Up and out."
  • (Jack Albertson) "But this roof is made of glass. It'll shatter into a thousand pieces. We'll be cut to ribbons."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Probably."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Now over here, if you'll follow me, we have something rather special."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "It's special, all right. I only hope my Veruca doesn't want one."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Now over here, if you'll follow me, I have something rather special to show you."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "It's special all right, I only hope my Veruca doesn't want one."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Bubbles, bubbles everywhere, but not a drop to drink; yet."
  • (Gene Wilder) "In springtime, the only pretty ring time, birds sing hey ding -- a-ding, a-ding, sweet lovers love -- the spring."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh, yes. Well, I hope you enjoyed yourselves. Excuse me for not showing you out. Straight up the stairs. You'll find the way. I'm terribly busy. Whole day wasted. Goodbye to you both. Goodbye."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Well, well, well, two naughty, nasty little children gone. Three good, sweet little children left."
  • (Gene Wilder) "The suspense is terrible -- I hope it'll last."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh you can't get out backwards, you have to go forwards to go back."
  • (Gene Wilder) "They're laying overtime right now, for Easter."
  • (Paris Themmen) "But Easter's over."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Ssshhh."
  • (Gene Wilder) "They don't know that. I'm trying to get ahead for next year."

Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket

  • (Peter Ostrum) "How 'bout this?"
  • (Diana Sowle) "Charlie, where'd you get that?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "What difference does it make where he got it? Point is he got it."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "This is kind of strange."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Yes, it's strange, Charlie, but it's fun. Ha-ha."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Hey Grandpa, what was that we just went through?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Hsaw Aknow."
  • (Nora Denney) "Is that Japanese?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, that's Wonka wash, spelled backwards. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, the journey's over."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Finest bath I've had tin 20 years."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Hey, the room is getting smaller."
  • (Nora Denney) "No, it's not. He's getting bigger."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "He's at it again."
  • (Paris Themmen) "Where's the chocolate?"
  • (Leonard Stone) "I doubt if there is any."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "I doubt if any of us will get out of here alive."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about."
  • (Ursula Reit) "You're not squeezing me through that tiny door."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "You're off your bleeding nut, Wonka. No one can get through there."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Is this going to go fast, Grandpa?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "It should, Charlie; it's got more gas in it than a politician."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Hi, everybody."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Wake up. Wake up. Charlie's home."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Grandpa George. Grandma Georgina. Grandma Josephine. Grandpa Joe."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Is this your supper, Grandpa?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "Well, it's yours, too, Charlie."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "I'm fed up with cabbage water. It's not enough."
  • (Grandma Georgina) "Charlie."
  • (Grandma Josephine) "It's all we have."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Hey, you did it, Grandpa."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Ohhhh -- ohhhh, I think I hit an air pocket."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "You can fly to the moon this way."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Let's just fly south for the winter."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Why not? I'm a bird."
  • (Jack Albertson) "I'm a plaaaaaaane."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "I'm -- going too high."

David Battley as Mr. Turkentine

  • (David Battley) "I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pencils ready."
  • (David Battley) "You, Winkelmann, come here. What's happening?"
  • (Peter Stuart) "Mr. Wonka's opening his factory, he's gonna to let people in."
  • (David Battley) "You sure?"
  • (Peter Stuart) "It's on the radio. He's giving truckloads of chocolate away."
  • (David Battley) "Class dismissed."
  • (Peter Stuart) "No, no, it's only for five people."
  • (David Battley) "Class undismissed."
  • (Peter Stuart) "He sent out five Golden Tickets, and the people who find them will win the big prize."
  • (David Battley) "Where's he hidden the tickets?"
  • (Peter Stuart) "Inside five Wonka bars. You've got to buy Wonka bars to find them."
  • (David Battley) "Class re-dismissed."
  • (David Battley) "Charlie Bucket, how many did you open?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Two."
  • (David Battley) "That's easy. 200 is twice 100 --"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Not 200, just two."
  • (David Battley) "Two? What do you mean you only opened two?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "I don't care very much for chocolate."
  • (David Battley) "Well, I can't figure out just two. So let's pretend you opened 200. Now, if you opened 200 Wonka bars, apart from being dreadfully sick, you'd have used up 20% of 1,000, which is 15% half over again, 10% --"
  • (David Battley) "Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you; and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?"

Nora Denney as Mrs. Teevee

  • (Nora Denney) "I assume there's an accident indemnity clause."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Never between friends."
  • (Nora Denney) "I'm sending you the cleaning bill, Mr. Wonka."
  • (Nora Denney) "Somebody's touching me."
  • (Nora Denney) "Why is it taking so long?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "A million pieces take a long time to put together."
  • (Nora Denney) "I think I'm going to be sick."
  • (Nora Denney) "Now I AM going to be sick."
  • (Nora Denney) "I think I'm going to be seasick."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Here, take these."
  • (Nora Denney) "What are they?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Rainbow drops. Suck them and you can spit in seven different colors."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Spitting's a dirty habit."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I know a worse one."

Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt

  • (Roy Kinnear) "Who said that?"
  • (Leonard Stone) "What the heck is that?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "He's got a whistle."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Quite a nice little canoe you got there, Wonka."
  • (Gene Wilder) "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. All aboard, everybody."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Ladies first, and that means Veruca."
  • (Jack Albertson) "If she's a lady, I'm a Vermicious Knid."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Wonka. Butterscotch? Buttergin? Got a little something going on the side?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "What is this, Wonka? Some kind of funhouse?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Why? Are you having fun?"
  • (Roy Kinnear) "What's that for?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Gives it a little kick."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Where is she going?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Where all the other bad eggs go, down the garbage chute."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Oh, the garbage chute. Where does it lead to?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "To the furnace."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "The furnace. She'll be sizzled like a sausage."
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, not necessarily. She could be stuck just inside the tube."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Inside the --"
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Hold on. Veruca. Sweetheart. Daddy's coming."
  • (Gene Wilder) "There'll to be a lot of garbage today."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "You sure this thing'll float, eh, Wonka?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "With your buoyancy, sir, rest assured."

Paris Themmen as Mike Teevee

  • (Paris Themmen) "Wait till I get a real one. Colt 45. Pop won't let me have one yet, will ya, Pop?"
  • (Nora Denney) "Not till you're 12, son."
  • (Paris Themmen) "Look at me, I'm gonna be be the first person in the world to be sent by television."
  • (Nora Denney) "Mike, get away from that thing."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Stop. Don't. Come back."
  • (Paris Themmen) "Lights, camera, action."
  • (Paris Themmen) "Boy, what a great show."
  • (Nora Denney) "I serve all his TV dinners right here. He's never even been to the table."

Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt

  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "Daddy, I want a boat like this. A beautiful paddle boat is what I want."
  • (Jack Albertson) "What she wants is a good kick in the pants."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I wanted to be the first to find a Golden Ticket, Daddy."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "I know, angel. We're doing the best we can. I've got every girl in the place to start hunting for you."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "All right, where is it? Why haven't they found it?"
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Veruca, sweetheart, I'm not a magician. Give me time."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I want it now. What's the matter with those twerps down there?"
  • (Roy Kinnear) "For five days now, the entire flipping factory's been on the job. They haven't shelled a peanut in there since Monday. They've been shelling flaming chocolate bars from dawn till dusk."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "Make them work nights."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "Hey daddy, I want a golden goose."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Here we go again."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "They're not even trying. They don't want to find it. They're jealous of me."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Sweetheart, I can't push them no harder; 19,000 bars an hour they're shelling; 760,000 they've done so far."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "You promised, Daddy. You promised I'd have it the very first day."
  • (Mrs. Salt) "You're going to be very unpopular around here, Henry, if you don't deliver soon."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "It breaks my heart, Henrietta. I hate to see her unhappy."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I won't talk to you ever again. You're a mean father, you'll never give me anything I want. And I won't go to school till I have it."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Veruca, sweetheart, angel. Now, there are four tickets left in the whole world, and the whole ruddy world's hunting for them. What can I do?"
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I want a party with roomfuls of laughter, / Ten thousand tons of ice cream, / And if I don't get the things I am after, / I'm going to screeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEAM."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I'm Veruca Salt."
  • (Gene Wilder) "My dear Veruca, what a pleasure. And how pretty you look in that lovely mink coat."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I've got three others at home."

Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe

  • (Jack Albertson) "Mr. Wonka?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I am extraordinarily busy, sir."
  • (Jack Albertson) "I just wanted to ask about the chocolate. The-the lifetime supply of chocolate, for Charlie. Wh-When does he get it?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "He doesn't."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Why not?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Because he broke the rules."
  • (Jack Albertson) "What rules? We didn't see any rules, did we, Charlie?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Wrong, sir. Wrong. Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if; and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy:"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained, et cetera, et cetera -- Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum, et cetera, et cetera -- Memo bis punitor delicatum."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir."
  • (Jack Albertson) "You're a crook. You're a cheat and a swindler. That's what you are."
  • (Jack Albertson) "How could you do something like this, build up a little boy's hopes and then smash all his dreams to pieces? You're an inhuman monster."
  • (Gene Wilder) "I said good day."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Come on, Charlie, let's get out of here. I'll get even with him if it's the last thing I'll ever do. If Slugworth wants a Gobstopper, he'll get one."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Well, Mr. Salt finally got what he wanted."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "What's that?"
  • (Jack Albertson) "Veruca went first."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Good morning. Look at the sun."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Mr. Wonka? Uh, what's that they're filling it up with?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh ginger ale, ginger pop, ginger beer, beer bubbles, bubbleade, bubblecola, double cola, double-bubble-burple-cola, and all the crazy carbonated stuff that tickles your nose. Few people realize what tremendous power there is in one of those things."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Sorry I asked."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Our little group is getting smaller by the minute."

Ursula Reit as Mrs. Gloop

  • (Ursula Reit) "He's gone. He'll be made into marshmallows in five seconds."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Impossible, my dear lady. That's absurd. Unthinkable."
  • (Ursula Reit) "Why?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room, it goes to the fudge room."
  • (Ursula Reit) "You terrible man."
  • (Ursula Reit) "What a disgusting, dirty river."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Industrial waste, that. You've ruined your watershed Wonka: it's polluted."
  • (Gene Wilder) "It's chocolate."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "That's chocolate?"
  • (Peter Ostrum) "That's chocolate."
  • (Ursula Reit) "He can't swim."
  • (Gene Wilder) "There's no better time to learn."
  • (Ursula Reit) "You boiled him up, I know it."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Nil desperandum, my dear lady. Across the desert lies the promised land."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Goodbye, Mrs. Gloop. Adieu. Aufwiedersehen. Gesundheit. Farewell."
  • (Ursula Reit) "Help, Mr. Wonka, help. I'm getting squashed. Save me."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Is it my soul that calls upon my name?"
  • (Ursula Reit) "Don't just stand there, do something."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Help. Police, Murder."

Leonard Stone as Sam Beauregarde

  • (Leonard Stone) "Don't talk to me about contracts, Wonka, I use them myself. They're strictly for suckers."
  • (Leonard Stone) "I'm getting even with you for this, Wonka, if it's the last thing I ever do."
  • (Leonard Stone) "I've got a blueberry for a daughter --"
  • (Leonard Stone) "Violet, what are you doing now? You're blowing up."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "I feel funny."
  • (Jack Albertson) "I'm not surprised."
  • (Leonard Stone) "Violet. You're turning violet, Violet."

Peter Capell as Tinker

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Michael Bollner as Augustus Gloop

  • (Michael Bollner) "Let me in, I'm starving."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Now, don't get excited. Don't lose your head, Augustus. We don't want anybody to lose that."
  • (Michael Bollner) "I feel very sorry for Wonka. It's gonna cost him a fortune in fudge."

Günter Meisner as Mr. Wilkinson

  • (Günter Meisner) "I congratulate you, little boy. Well done. You've found the fifth Golden Ticket. May I introduce myself. Arthur Slugworth: President of Slugworth Chocolates, Incorporated. Now, listen carefully because I'm going to make you very rich indeed. Mr. Wonka is at this moment working on a fantastic invention: the Everlasting Gobstopper. If he succeeds, he'll ruin me. So, all I want you to do is to get hold of just one Everlasting Gobstopper and bring it to me so that I can find the secret formula. Your reward will be ten thousand of these."
  • (Günter Meisner) "Think it over, will you. A new house for your family, and good food and comfort for the rest of their lives. And don't forget the name: Everlasting Gobstopper."

Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregarde

  • (Denise Nickerson) "What is this, a freak out?"
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Well, I'm a gum chewer, normally. But when I heard about these ticket things of Wonka's, I laid off the gum and switched to candy bars, instead. Now, of course, I'm right back on gum. I chew it all day, except at mealtimes when I stick it behind my ear."
  • (Leonard Stone) "Violet --"
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Cool it, Mother."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Now, this little piece of gum here is one I've been chewing on for three months solid, and that's a world record. It's beaten the record held by my best friend, Miss Cornelia Prince Medal. And, WAS she mad."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Hi, Cornelia. How are ya, sweetie?"
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Well, they can't be real people."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Why, of course they're real people."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Stuff and nonsense."
  • (Gene Wilder) "No, Oompa Loompas."
  • (Unnamed) "Oompa Loompas?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "From Loompaland."
  • (Nora Denney) "Loompaland? There's no such place."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Excuse me, dear lady, but --"
  • (Nora Denney) "Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of geography."
  • (Gene Wilder) "Oh, well, then you know all about it and what a terrible country it is. Nothing but desolate wastes and fierce beasts. And the poor little Oompa Loompas were so small and helpless, they would get gobbled up right and left. A Wangdoodle would eat ten of them for breakfast and think nothing of it. And so, I said, "Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Wangdoodles, and Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers, and rotten, Vermicious Knids.""
  • (Roy Kinnear) "Snozzwangers? Vermicious Knids? What kind of rubbish is that?"
  • (Gene Wilder) "I'm sorry, but all questions must be submitted in writing. And so, in the greatest of secrecy, I transported the entire population of Oompa Loompas to my factory here."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "Hey, Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa. I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away."
  • (Roy Kinnear) "All right, Veruca, all right. I'll get you one before the day is out."
  • (Julie Dawn Cole) "I want an Oompa Loompa now."
  • (Denise Nickerson) "Can it, you nit."

Ed Peck as FBI Agent

  • (Ed Peck) "Mrs. Curtis, did you hear me? It's your husband's life, or your case of Wonka bars."
  • (Gloria Manon) "How long will they give me to think it over?"

Tim Brook-Taylor as Reporter

  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the 3 remaining golden tickets."
  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "It says: "I won't tell. That would be cheating.""
  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "I am now telling the computer that if it will tell me the correct answer, I will gladly share with it the grand prize."
  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "He says: "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?""
  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "I am now telling the computer exactly what he can do with the lifetime supply of chocolate."
  • (Tim Brook-Taylor) "So, ya like the killings, huh?"
  • (Paris Themmen) "What do you think life's all about?"

Diana Sowle as Mrs. Bucket

  • (Diana Sowle) "Wait, stop. It says the first of October, that's tomorrow."
  • (Jack Albertson) "Jumping crocodiles, Charlie. We've got a lot to do; Comb your hair, wash your face, polish your shoes and brush your teeth."
  • (Diana Sowle) "I'll take care of everything, dad."
  • (Jack Albertson) "We don't have too much time."
  • (Peter Ostrum) "Grandpa? On the way home today, I ran into Mr. Slugworth."

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