James Fox: Mr. Salt
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Quotes
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Veruca Salt : Daddy, I want a squirrel. Get me one of those squirrels, I want one!
Mr. Salt : Veruca dear, you have many marvelous pets.
Veruca Salt : All I've got at home is one pony and two dogs and four cats and six bunny rabbits and two parakeets and three canaries and a green parrot and a turtle, and a silly old hamster! I WANT a SQUIRREL!
Mr. Salt : All right, pet. Daddy'll get you a squirrel just as soon as he possibly can.
Veruca Salt : But I don't want any old squirrel! I want a *trained* squirrel!
Mr. Salt : [wearily] Very well. Mr. Wonka? How much do you want for one of these squirrels? Name your price.
Willy Wonka : Oh they're not for sale. She can't have one.
Veruca Salt : Daddy!
Willy Wonka : [imitating Mr. Salt] I'm sorry, darling. Mr. Wonka's being unreasonable.
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Mr. Salt : [as the squirrels take Veruca] Where are they taking her?
Willy Wonka : Where all the other bad nuts go, to the garbage chute.
Mr. Salt : Where does the chute go?
Willy Wonka : To the incinerator. But don't worry, we only light it on Tuesdays.
Mike Teavee : Today *is* Tuesday.
Willy Wonka : [after a pause] Well, there's always a chance they decided not to light it today.
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Willy Wonka : [about Violet grabbing the gum] I'd rather you didn't. There's still one or two things that are a...
Violet Beauregarde : I'm the World Record holder in chewing gum. I'm not afraid of anything!
[pops the gum in her mouth]
Mrs. Beauregarde : How is it, honey?
Violet Beauregarde : It's amazing! Tomato soup, I can feel it running down my throat!
Willy Wonka : Yeah! Spit it out.
Grandpa Joe : Young lady, I think you'd better...
Violet Beauregarde : It's changing... roast beef and baked potato. Crispy skin and butter!
Mrs. Beauregarde : Keep chewin' kiddo! My little girl's gonna be the first person in the world to have a chewing gum meal!
Willy Wonka : Yeah. I'm just a little concerned about the...
Violet Beauregarde : Blueberry pie and ice cream!
Willy Wonka : That part.
Veruca Salt : [staring at Violet] What's happening to her nose?
[Violet keeps chewing and her nose starts turning blue]
Mr. Salt : You're turning blue!
Mrs. Beauregarde : Your whole nose has gone purple!
Violet Beauregarde : [touching her nose] W-What do you mean?
Mrs. Beauregarde : Violet, you're turning violet!
[to Wonka; concerned]
Mrs. Beauregarde : What's happening?
Willy Wonka : Well, I told you I hadn't quite got it right, 'cause it goes a little funny when it gets to the dessert. It's the Blueberry Pie that does it. I'm terribly sorry!
Violet Beauregarde : Mother, what's happening to me?
[continues to turn blue and starts to grow]
Grandpa Joe : She's swelling up!
Charlie Bucket : Like a blueberry!
Willy Wonka : [to Mrs. Beauregarde] I've tried it on, like, twenty Oompa-Loompas and each one ended up as a blueberry. It's just weird!
Mrs. Beauregarde : But I can't have a blueberry as a daughter. How is she supposed to compete?
Veruca Salt : You could put her in a county fair!
[Wonka laughs]
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Veruca Salt : Daddy, I want a flying glass elevator!
Mr. Salt : Veruca, the only thing you're getting today is a bath, and that's final!
Veruca Salt : But I want it!
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Willy Wonka : And the rest of you must be their p-p-...
Mr. Salt : Parents?
Willy Wonka : Yeah! Moms and dads!
[expression darkens]
Willy Wonka : Dad? Papa?
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Mike Teavee : [seeing the Oompa-Loompas for the first time] Are they real people?
Willy Wonka : Of course they're real people. They're Oompa Loompas.
Mr. Salt : Oompa Loompas?
Willy Wonka : Imported. Direct from Loompaland.
Mr. Teavee : There's no such place.
Willy Wonka : What?
Mr. Teavee : Mr. Wonka, I teach high school geography, and I'm here to tell you...
Willy Wonka : Well, then, you'll know all about it and, oh, what a terrible country it is.
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Willy Wonka : I'm sorry, I was having a flashback.
Mr. Salt : I see.
Mr. Teavee : These flashbacks happen often?
Willy Wonka : Increasingly... today.
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Veruca Salt : [outside the Chocolate Factory] Daddy, I want to go in.
Mr. Salt : It's 9:59, sweetheart.
Veruca Salt : Make time go faster.
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Mr. Salt : Are you using the Havermax 4000 to do your sorting?
Willy Wonka : No.
[laughs]
Willy Wonka : You're really weird.
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Mr. Salt : [after the Oompa Loompas sing and dance] I do say, that all seemed rather rehearsed.
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Mr. Salt : [at the nut sorting room] Ah, this is a room I know all about. For you see, Mr. Wonka, I myself am in the nut business.
[hands Willy Wonka his business card, and Willy flings it away without looking at it]
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Mr. Teavee : Is it just me, or does Wonka seem a few quarters short of a buck?
Mr. Salt : I'm sorry, I don't speak American.
