Alan Arkin movie quotes

“- Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?
- Schmendrick: Men don't always know when they're happy. But I think so. And you?”
Mia Farrow - Unicorn
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“- Vince Ricardo: I was in the jungle - the bush we called it - for approximately nine months...
- Sheldon Kornpett: Nine months! That must have really been something!
- Vince Ricardo: It was. I saw things... They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles.”
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett

“Be rary of wousing a rizard's wrath - rousing a rizard's. Be wary of making a magician angry!”
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“Please don't leave the premises. I said please don't leave the premises. Am I speaking in some kind of strange foreign language?”
Alan Arkin - Det. Hugo

“- Captain Invincible: You'll never change.
- Mr. Midnight: And you will never win.”
Alan Arkin - Captain Invincible
Sir Christopher Lee - Mr. Midnight

“- Tony's Boss: Well, here's the news! It seems that the old lady that confessed to the murder of Ralph Elliot has also confessed to a couple of other murders.
- Tony Giardino: I knew she would! I knew it!
- Tony's Boss: Yeah! Right! Well, she's confessed to the murders of Abraham Lincoln, Warren G. Harding and Julius Caesar. She's a nutcase! A...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Arkin - Tony's Boss
Anthony LaPaglia - Tony Giardino

“Together, we're not alone. We're not helpless. Together, we're part of the roughest, toughest, biggest, kindest, fairest, bestest darn gang in the whole world!”
Alan Arkin - Captain Invincible

“- Sheldon Kornpett: Did we hit the little boy on Sixth Avenue?
- Vince Ricardo: No, we missed him by a good foot and a half.”
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“There's no reason to shoot at me, I'm a dentist.”
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett

“- Vince Ricardo: Just go with the flow, Shel, just go with the flow.
- Sheldon Kornpett: What flow? There isn’t any flow.”
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett

“Well, we are going to try to help you find a way to replace the drapes and the towels, but our confidence in you, Edward, is not going to be so easy to replace.”
Alan Arkin - Bill

"Film fans were saddened by the news that actor Neville Sinclair was killed in a tragedy when flaming debris fell on his touring car". That's terrible! That was a nice car.

Alan Arkin - Peevy

“- Unicorn: You may come if you like. But I wish you had asked some other reward for setting me free.
- Schmendrick the Magician: I thought about it. But you couldn't give me what I really wanted.
- Unicorn: No. I cannot change you into something you are not. I cannot make you a real magician.
- Schmendrick the Magician: Ah it's ok. Don't worry...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mia Farrow - Unicorn
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“- Bill: So Edward, did you have a productive day?
- Edward: Mrs Monroe showed me where the salon's going to be.
- Edward: [turns to Peg] You could have a cosmetics counter.
- Peg Boggs: Oh, wouldn't that be great!
- Bill: Great.
- Edward: And then she showed me the back room where she took all of her clothes off.”
Alan Arkin - Bill
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Samuel: I want a chance to escape. To be free or at least a chance to die trying.
- Leon Feldhendler: Better to escape and live.”
Emil Wolk - Samuel
Alan Arkin - Leon Feldhendler

“- Molly Grue: What is the use of wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?
- Schmendrick: That is what heroes are for.”
Tammy Grimes - Molly Grue
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“- The Tree: I love you. I love you. Love love love love love.
- Schmendrick: What have I done?
- The Tree: Always. Always. Faithfulness beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color in your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.”

Paul Frees - The Tree
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“- Unicorn: I'm looking for others like me. Have you seen them, Magician?
- Schmendrick: No, I've never seen anyone like you. Not while I was awake, anyway.”
Mia Farrow - Unicorn
Alan Arkin - Schmendrick