“The Wizard of Oz” quotes

(1939)
Movie The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor directed this movie in 1939
Title The Wizard of Oz
Year 1939
Directors Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, King Vidor
Genre Musical, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Plot – Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas, but suddenly a terrible tornado hits her home, dragging her, along with her house and her dog, to the magical world of Oz. Here everything is strange and beautiful, but Dorothy wants to return home soon.
All actors – Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, Terry, Midgets The Singer, Dorothy Barrett, Amelia Batchelor, Charles Becker, Billy Bletcher, Lorraine Bridges, Buster Brodie, Tyler Brooke, Candy Candido, Mickey Carroll, Adriana Caselotti, Harry Cogg, Pinto Colvig, Tommy Cottonaro, Jimmy the Crow, Billy Curtis, Paul Dale, Ken Darby, Sid Dawson, Abe Dinovitch, Jon Dodson, Gracie Doll, Tiny Doll, Daisy Earles, Harry Earles, Fern Formica, Sig Frohlich, Jackie Gerlich, Phil Harron, Charles Irwin, Lois January, Eleanor Keaton, Men The King's, Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky, Nita Krebs, Ethelreda Leopold, Mitchell Lewis, Bud Linn, Jerry Maren, Dona Massin, George Ministeri, Yvonne Moray, Lee Murray, Olga Nardone, George Noisom, Jack Paul, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Freddie Retter, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, The Rhythmettes, Elvida Rizzo, Rad Robinson, Ruth L. Robinson, Ambrose Schindler, Helen Seamon, Rolfe Sedan, Oliver Smith, Robert St. Angelo, Parnell St. Aubin, Ralph Sudam, August Clarence Swenson, Harry Wilson, Johnny Winters
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  • “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
     
  • “Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.”

    Bert Lahr - Zeke'
    [Tag:threat]
  • “- The Cowardly Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks!
    - The Tin Man: Why don't you try counting sheep?
    - The Cowardly Lion: That doesn't do any good, I'm afraid of 'em.”

    Bert Lahr - The Cowardly Lion
    Jack Haley - The Tin Man
  • “- The Tin Man: Well, what happened to you?
    - The Scarecrow: They tore my legs off and they threw it over there! Then, they took my chest off and they threw it over there!
    - The Tin Man: Well, that's you all over.
    - The Cowardly Lion: They sure knocked the stuffings out of you, didn't they?”

    Jack Haley - The Tin Man
    Ray Bolger - The Scarecrow
    Bert Lahr - The Cowardly Lion
    [Tag:fighting]
  • “There's no place like home.”
    Judy Garland - Dorothy
    [Tag:home]
  • “Back where I come from there are men who do nothing all day but good deeds. They are called phila... er, phila... er, yes, er, Good Deed Doers.”
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
  • “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
    [Tag:heart, love, people]
  • “You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom.”
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
  • “- Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
    - The Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.”

    Judy Garland - Dorothy
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
    [Tag:fear]
  • “What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage!”
    Bert Lahr - The Cowardly Lion
    [Tag:courage]
  • “- Dorothy: How do you talk if you don't have a brain?
    - The Scarecrow: Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?”

    Judy Garland - Dorothy
    Ray Bolger - The Scarecrow
    [Tag:brain, talking]
  • “As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”

    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
  • “Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!”
    Clara Blandick - Auntie Em
  • “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
    [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow!”

    Judy Garland - Dorothy
    [Tag:feeling, wonder]
  • “- Uncle Henry: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
    - Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
    - Uncle Henry: You mean she bit you?
    - Miss Gulch: No, her dog.
    - Uncle Henry: Oh. She bit her dog, eh?
    - Miss Gulch: ...No!”

    Charley Grapewin - Uncle Henry
    Margaret Hamilton - Miss Gulch
  • “Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.”
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
  • “- The Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
    - The Wizard of Oz: You can't.”

    Ray Bolger - The Scarecrow
    Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
  • “- Angry Apple Tree: Well, how would you like to have someone come along and pick something off of you?
    - Dorothy: Oh dear! I keep forgetting I'm not in Kansas!”

    Candy Candido - Angry Apple Tree
    Judy Garland - Dorothy
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