The BFG Quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Sophie: It was the Witching Hour, when the Boogeyman comes out... when people go missing. The girls say the Witching Hour arrives at midnight. I think it comes at three in the morning, when I'm the only one awake. Like always. Like now.

    [hears a noise]

  • [from trailer]

    Sophie: Never get out of the bed. Never go to the window. Never look behind the curtain.

    [Sophie does so, and spots a giant. She rushes back to bed, but the giant comes for her...]

    Sophie: And that is where our story begins...

  • Sophie: Where am I?

    The BFG: Giant Country!

  • Sophie: Why did you take me?

    The BFG: Because I hears your lonely heart, in all the secret whisperings of the world.

  • The BFG: [from the trailer] Run, Sophie! Hide!

    [Sophie gets out of sight just in time, as the Man-Eating Giants surround the BFG]

    Fleshlumpeater: Does you have a little pet?

  • Sophie: What's in those jars?

    The BFG: Dreams.

    Sophie: Dreams aren't things!

    The BFG: Is that right?

  • Sophie: Why are you giving me a dream?

  • The BFG: [to the Queen of England; awkwardly yet politely] Your madjester, I am your most humbug servant.

    [Sophie puts her hands to her face, embarrassed]

  • Fleshlumpeater: I has a boo boo

  • Butcher Boy: [after Gizzardgulper tosses BFG toward him] Why you not hunt with us Runt?

  • Sophie: Dreams are so quick!

    The BFG: Yeah, on the outside. They's long on the inside.