Gift quotes

“- Boots: We got you a television if you're real good tomorrow, you can watch 'Wonder Woman'. What do you want for breakfast?
- Savannah: Chocolate milk, cocoa puff, buttermilk, chocolate strawberries, peaches, wheaties, chocolate bananas, pancakes, sausage, toast, oatmeal - apple, and bacon.
- Alvie: Tomorrow we're getting rid of this kid, lets...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donovan Scott - Boots
Bridgette Andersen - Savannah
Mark Miller - Alvie

“Listen, I didn't expect you to rush out and buy me a corsage this morning, you know. Your high school ring is safe.”

Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond

“- April: What do you want for Christmas?
- Ray: You.
- April: What?
- Ray: I want you for Christmas.
- April: Good, because then I don't have to shop... and I'll be fun to unwrap.”
Katrin Cartlidge - April
Campbell Scott - Ray

“I got you a $40,000 car and a $2 mutt. Go figure.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Willy Wonka: How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie?
- Charlie: I think it's the most wonderful place in the whole world!
- Willy Wonka: I'm very pleased to hear you say that, because I'm giving it to you.”
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Peter Ostrum - Charlie

“- Michael Brace: I made that for you. It's a gift.
- Karen Brace: What is it?
- Michael Brace: It's me.”

Christopher Walken - Michael Brace
Natalie Wood - Karen Brace

“On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outta you.”

Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“- Parry: What do you think of the death penalty?
- John the Bum: Death is definitely a penalty! It ain't no fuckin' gift!”
Robin Williams - Parry
William Preston - John the Bum

“- Emily 'Ma' Bear: There. Fozzie's stocking is hung by the mantle so Santa will bring him a present.
- Fozzie Bear: Aw, Ma, this is embarrassing. I mean, I'm not a cub anymore, I'm a grown bear.
- Emily 'Ma' Bear: Oh. Well, I'll take it down.
- Fozzie Bear: Oh no, I didn't say that.”
Jerry Nelson - Emily 'Ma' Bear
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear

“- Maj. Benson Payne: Here I got somethin' for ya. [puts a piece of metal in Emily Walburn's hand]
- Emily Walburn: What is it?
- Maj. Benson Payne: A bullet. It's somethin' special. It's from my heart.
- Emily Walburn: Really? Well, where did you get it?
- Maj. Benson Payne: From my heart, left ventricle; took it out myself with a field knife.”
Damon Wayans - Maj. Benson Payne
Karyn Parsons - Emily Walburn

“- Paul Varjak: [reaches into his pocket at the Tiffany's counter] We could have something engraved, couldn't we?
- Tiffany's salesman: Yes, I suppose so, yes indeed... the only problem is you would more or less have to buy something first if only in order to have some object upon which to place the engraving... You see the difficulty...
- Paul...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Peppard - Paul Varjak
John McGiver - Tiffany's Salesman

“- Gus: Caroline and Loyd, will get the coffee and deserts then we'll be opening presents.
- Connie: We can't open presents til midnight.
- Gus: Why not?
- Connie: Because it's not Christmas until midnight!
- Gus: We'll be changing the rules, a little bit. We are opening the presents now. Not later, now. Why? We're adults, and we can open our...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denis Colin Leary - Gus
Christine Baranski - Connie

“- Santa Claus: What would you like for Christmas?
- Little girl on his lap: My own credit card.”

“- Austin Millbarge: The Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I broke it with this...
[holds up a kid's cipher disk]
- Captain Hefling: A drogan's decoder wheel? They put these into cereal boxes for kids.
- Austin Millbarge: Yeah, I found it in a box...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dan Aykroyd - Austin Millbarge
Stephen Hoye - Captain Hefling

“- Shirley Blake: I asked Santa Claus to bring me a doll.
- Joy Smythe: There ain't any Santa Claus!
- Shirley Blake: There is too!”
Shirley Temple - Shirley Blake
Jane Withers - Joy Smythe

“- Coach Wally Rig: I brought these for you. - Coach Ed Gennero: Thank you. They're lovely.
- Coach Wally Rig: I hope you don't mind - I had to charge them to your room. I'm a little short this week.”

Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero

“In 1539, these crusading knights persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them the island of Malta. He made them but one condition: they were to pay him, each year, the tribute of one falcon, in acknowledgment that Malta was still under Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“- Cindy Jo: I wish I'd known it was your birthday, I would have gotten you something.
- Larry Burrows: Well, Cindy Jo, you've already given me more than you could possibly know. Really.”
Rene Russo - Cindy Jo
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows