The Nightmare Before Christmas quotes

View Quote You can come out now if you promise to behave. Sally? Sally? Oooooh! Gone again!

View Quote [Singing] Well, well, well. What have we here? / Sandy Claws, huh? Ooooh, I'm really scared (!) / So YOU'RE the one everybody's talkin' about, HA HA HA HA! / You're jokin'! You're jokin'! I can't believe my eyes! / You're jokin' me! You gotta be! This CAN'T be the right guy! / He's ancient. He's UGLY. I don't know which is worse! / I might just split a seam, now, if I don't die laughin' first! / Mister Oogie Boogie says there's trouble close at hand. / You'd better pay attention, now, 'cause I'm the Boogie Man, / And if you aren't SHAKIN', there's somethin' very wrong, / 'Cause this may be the last time you hear the Boogie Song!/ You're crazy! You're joking! I can't believe my ears!/ Will SOMEONE shut this fellow up? I'm drownin' in my tears.

View Quote [Singing] The sound of rolling dice, to me, is music in the air, / 'Cause I'm a gamblin' Boogie Man, although I don't play fair! / It's much more fun, I must confess, with lives on the line! / Not mine, of course, but YOURS, old boy! Now that'd be just fine!

View Quote You a gamblin' man, Sandy?

View Quote Jack! But they said you were dead. You must be... DOUBLE DEAD!

View Quote My bugs! My bugs!

View Quote [as he's about to drop Sally and Santa in his snake and spider stew] Bye bye, doll face, and sand-man.

View Quote Narrator: Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, / In a place perhaps you've seen in your dreams; / For the story that you are about to be told / Took place in the holiday worlds of old. / Now you've probably wondered where holidays come from. / If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun.
Police Officer: Attacked by Christmas toys? That's strange, that's the second toy complaint we've had.

View Quote Jack: Forgive me, Mr. Claws. I'm afraid I've made a terrible mess of your holiday.
Santa: Bumpy sleigh ride, Jack?! The next time you get the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd listen to HER. [points to Sally] She's the only one who makes any SENSE around this insane asylum! [mutters to himself] Skeletons, boogie-men...
Jack: I hope there's still time.
Santa: To save Christmas? Of course there is! I'm Santa Claus!

View Quote Jack: [Singing] We take an oversized sock, and hang it like this on a wall.
Mr. Hyde: [eagerly] [Singing] Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?
Smaller Mr. Hyde: [Singing] Let me see, let me look!
Smallest Mr. Hyde: [Singing] Is it rotted and covered with gook?!

View Quote Dr. Finkelstein: That's twice this month you've slipped deadly nightshade into my tea and run off.
Sally: [correcting] Three times.

View Quote Jack: And one more thing... leave that no-account Oogie Boogie out of this!
Barrel: Whatever you say, Jack.
Shock: Of course, Jack.
Lock: Wouldn't dream of it, Jack.
[They cross their fingers behind their backs.]

View Quote Shock: [singing] I wish my cohorts weren't so dumb.
Barrel: [singing] I'm not the dumb one.
Lock: [singing] You're no fun!
Shock: [singing] Shut up!
Lock: [singing] Make me!

View Quote Lock, Shock, Barrel: [singing] Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws! / Beat him with a stick! / Lock him up for ninety years! / See what makes him tick!

View Quote Clown: I looked in every mausoleum.
Witches: We opened the sarcophagi!
Mr. Hyde: I tromped through the Pumpkin Patch.
Vampire: I peeked behind the Cyclops' Eye. I did, but he wasn't there!