Oz the Great and Powerful Quotes

Oz: [whispers to Glinda] I might not actually be a wizard...

Glinda: Yes, but they don't know that.

[from trailer]

Finley: Did those crows just say we're gonna die?

[from trailer]

Glinda: [to Oz] You're capable of more than you know...

[from trailer]

Theodora: Aren't you the great man we've been waiting for?

[from trailer]

Oz: [to Theodora] Where's your broom?

Theodora: You don't know much about witches, do you?

[from trailer]

Oz: It's like no place I've ever seen.

Oz: Am I dreaming?

Theodora: You're in Oz.

Oz: Oz? But that's my name. Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs.

[from trailer]

Oz: How hard can it be to kill a Wicked Witch?

[from trailer]

Glinda: [to Oz] Can you save my people?

[Oz and Glinda are in bubbles flying towards a giant protective bubble wall around a city]

Oz: Does this thing have any brakes? I'm going too fast! I'm gonna die!

Glinda: You needn't worry, Wizard. It's a magic wall. And all good-hearted souls get to pass through.

Oz: [Panicking] I'm gonna die!

China Girl: Why don't you just use this?

Finley: It's got a knife.

Oz: You can have a nice pile of bananas!

Finley: Oh, I see. Because I'm a monkey, I must love bananas, right? That is a vicious stereotype!

Oz: You don't like bananas?

Finley: Of course I love bananas, I'm a monkey! Don't be ridiculous! I just don't like YOU saying it.

Oz: Theodora, I know your wickedness is not your doing! And should you ever find the goodness within you, you are welcome to return!

Theodora: NEVER!

[Evanora tries to flee]

Glinda: Not so fast! You and I aren't finished here.

Evanora: You have the throne, Glinda. What more could you want?

Glinda: You can't give me that. You took what mattered most from me: my father.

Evanora: What's the matter, Glinda, out of bubbles?

Glinda: I don't need them, bubbles are just for show!

Glinda: Well done, Tinker, your machine works beautifully!

Master Tinker: That's just workmanship. What you displayed was true courage.

Oz: Now, it's time for gifts!

[Knuck starts blowing his trumpet]

Master Tinker: Knuck, not now!

Oz: I'm afraid I can't give you what I know you want most of all. All I can offer you is this: us. I know it's not the family that you had in mind, but...

China Girl: It's perfect. Thank you, Oz.

[last lines]

[Oz and Glinda kiss]

Master Tinker: Now, Knuck.

[Knuck blows his trumpet]

[Oz has realized that he can pass off his stage magic as the real thing to defeat Evanora and Theodora]

Oz: Look, I know I'm not the wizard that you expected. But I might just be the wizard that you need.

Glinda: You said you were just a con man.

Oz: Precisely!

Glinda: Nothing but a trickster?

Oz: Yes!

Glinda: A terrible cheat!

Oz: The best there is.

Glinda: A carnival magician's going to put on a show.

Oz: I'll put on the show of a lifetime! The likes of which the land of Oz has never seen! Magic! Mystery! Prestidigitation! It'll be my greatest trick yet.

Glinda: For the record, I knew you had it in you all along.

Oz: Greatness?

Glinda: No. Better than that. Goodness.

[first lines]

Front Gate Barker: Hurry, hurry, step this way. Get your tickets now. Don't be shut out, friend. Step this way. See the most wondrous sights imaginable. pulled from the four corners of the Earth. Acts to delight, to thrill and to mystify! Walk through these gates and into the world of wonder.

Oz: I'm your wizard.

[big smile and a wink]

China Girl: What's going on?

Finley: I'm not sure, I sneezed the plan away.

Glinda: What they lack in stamina the Tinkers make up for in ingenuity. The can build anything.

[Tinkers all cheer]

Elder Tinker: And I tell ya what else. We can build anything!

Glinda: A con man couldn't have done all this. You're much more than that.

Oz: Well then, it looks like I've got you fooled, too.

Glinda: The only person you've got fooled is yourself.

Oz: [drawing on the ground] Here's the plan. The wicked witch is the triangle. Monkey, you're the X. I'm the O. China Girl, you're the squiggly line.

China Girl: I wanna be a heart. Can I be a heart?

Oz: Fine, fine. You're a heart. Now, heart stays here. As O makes his way over here, X counters thusly. Clear so far?

[Finley sneezes]

China Girl: Bless you.

Oz: Good work. You just sneezed away the plan.

Annie: I need to tell you something, Oscar.

Oz: That's never a good start to a conversation.

Annie: John Gale asked me to marry him. That's why I've come. I thought you should know.

Oz: I think that's wonderful, Annie.

Annie: I said I had to think about it.

Oz: Men love that answer.

Annie: I wondered what you thought I should do.

Oz: You could do a lot worse than John Gale. He's a good man.

Annie: So are you.

Oz: No. I'm not. I'm many things, but a good man is not one of them.

Annie: But you could be. If you wanted to.

Oz: That's just it. I don't want to. See, Kansas is full of good men. Church-going men that get married and raise families. Men like John Gale. Men like my father... who spent his whole life tilling the dirt... just to die face down in it. I don't want that, Annie. I don't want to be a good man, I want to be a great one. I want to be... Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison all rolled into one.

Annie: That's all I ever wanted for you, you know. Greatness.

Oz: Then you understand.

Annie: I do.