Catherine O'Hara movie quotes

View Quote [Singing] I sense there's something in the wind/ that feels like tragedy at hand./ And though I'd like to stand by him/ can't shake this feeling that I have.

View Quote [singing] And will we ever / End up together? / No, I think not / It's never to become / For I am not the one.

View Quote I thought you liked frog's breath!

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: [pushing Santa down the pipe] I think he might be too big!
Lock: No he's not. If he can fit down a chimney, he can fit down here.

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 Kate McCallister: This is Christmas, the season of perpetual hope. And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike. If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.

View Quote Kate McCallister: Kevin, get upstairs right now.
Kevin McCallister: Why?
Jeff McCallister: Kevin, you're such a disease.
Kevin McCallister: Shut up.
Peter McCallister: Kevin, upstairs.
Kate McCallister: Say good night, Kevin.
Kevin McCallister: "Good night, Kevin."

View Quote Kate: No, he's just home alone.

View Quote Kate: Where's Kevin?
Kevin: [He grabs the ticket.] Fourteen. It's a good thing I have my own ticket, just in case you guys try to ditch me.

View Quote Kate: Honey, are you packed yet?
Kevin: Yes.
Kevin on Recorder: Yes.
Kate: Everything I put out?
Kevin: Yes.
Kevin on Recorder: Yes.
Kate: Did you see what Grandma Penelope sent you for the trip?
Kevin: Let me guess. Donald Duck slippers?
Kate: Close. An inflatable clown to play with in the pool.
Kevin: [sarcastically] How exciting. Why do we have to go to Florida? There's no Christmas trees in Florida.
Kate: Kevin, what is it with you and Christmas trees?
Kevin: How can you have Christmas without a Christmas tree, Mom?
Kate: We'll find a nice fake silver one. Or decorate a palm tree.
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Peter: Where's the camcorder battery?
Kate: I put it in the charger. How's this? Oh, much better.
Peter: Hey, Kevin, you'd better go put your tie on. We don't wanna be late for the Christmas pageant.
Kevin: My tie's in the bathroom and I can't go in because Uncle Frank's taking a shower. He says that if I walked in there and saw him naked, I'd grow up never feeling like a real man. [Peter and Kate stare] Whatever that means.
Peter: [after a pause, chuckles] I'm sure he was kidding. Just run in there, get your tie, get out, and don't look at anything.

View Quote [In Miami, Peter picks Kevin's bag off the baggage claim carousel; it is passed from one family member to another]
Peter: This Kevin's? Give this to Kevin.
Kate: Give this... [tries to pass it to Frank, who waves her off; she passes it to Leslie instead] Give this to Kevin.
Leslie: Give this to Kevin.
Tracy: Give this to Kevin.
Linnie: Kevin.
Buzz: Give this to Kevin.
Rod: Give this to Kevin.
Sondra: Give this to Kevin.
Megan: Give this to Kevin.
Jeff: Give this to Kevin.
Brooke: Give this to Kevin.
Fuller: Here you go, Kevin. [notices the elderly couples are standing next to him instead of Kevin. He passes bag up the line] Kevin's not here.
Brooke: Kevin's not here.
Jeff: Kevin's not here.
Megan: Kevin's not here.
Sondra: Kevin's not here.
Rod: Kevin's not here. [he passes the bag to Linnie, and he decided to skip Buzz]
Linnie: Kevin's not here.
Tracy: Kevin's not here.
Leslie: Kevin's not here. [passes bag to Kate, skipping Frank]
Kate: [she gives the bag to Peter] Kevin's not here.
Peter: [incredulously] What?!
Kate: [laughs, but immediately gasps in shock, then screams at the top of her lungs in alarm] KEVIN!!!!!!!!! [faints]

View Quote You know what I say. If you got a problem, eat it.

View Quote Happiness isn't always the best way to be happy.

View Quote Ah, you don’t really need to know me. I’m kind of a downer.

View Quote Why didn't somebody follow him? Is there a cockfight arena near here?

View Quote Then there's the kids - we're hearing: "You rock... you rock me... you rock my world!" What?

View Quote [No one can find Mitch] He could be lying face down in a ditch! Wouldn't be the first time!

View Quote [To Charles] I'm here with you. I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will GO INSANE AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!

View Quote Lydia: They don't wanna come down.
Delia: Charles...
Otho: Why not?
Lydia: I think the reason is, is that they were trying to scare you away, and you didn't get scared.
Delia: Please, they're dead. It's a little late to be neurotic.

View Quote Delia: I can't believe we're eating Cantonese. Is there no Szechuan up here?
Lydia: I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.
Delia: This is our first meal in this house, so why don't we all do our little private parts to make it a pleasant one?
Charles: Don't bait your mother, Pumpkin. As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a darkroom in the basement.
Lydia: My whole life is a darkroom. One. Big. Dark. Room.
Delia: So you were miserable in New York City, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.

View Quote Gerry Fleck: [after Scott introduces himself as Mary and shows them the pants he hand-stitched] Well you must be very "proud Mary".
Scott Donlan: Oh my goodness. Who are you all of a sudden?
Stefan Vanderhoof: Good baby boomer gag.
Cookie Fleck: Who's that in the burgundy jacket? Mr Hip.

View Quote Gerry Fleck: [On why he can't dance] I can't dance, I can't dance, I've got two left feet!
Cookie Fleck: I thought he was kidding.
Gerry Fleck: But I wasn't. I was born with two left feet.

View Quote Gerry Fleck: She had dozens of boyfriends.
Cookie Fleck': Hundreds.
Gerry Fleck: Hundreds?
Cookie Fleck: Yeah, hundreds.
Gerry Fleck: Well, I did not know that.

View Quote I'm trying to capture the perfect primal scream. I'm going to blow it up, mount it on the wall, and I invite all of you to do the same.

View Quote Astrid! Stop torturing your mother!