Miss Trunchbull kept the whole school late because a boy ate some chocolate cake.
Matilda
Mara Wilson · 33 quotes
Trunchbull
Pam Ferris · 24 quotes
Harry Wormwood
21 quotes
Zinnia Wormwood
16 quotes
Michael "Mikey" Wormwood
Brian Levinson · 15 quotes
Miss Honey
Embeth Davidtz · 15 quotes
Narrator
Danny DeVito · 14 quotes
Boy
6 quotes
Lavender
Kiami Davael · 6 quotes
Amanda
Jacqueline Steiger · 5 quotes
Bruce Bogtrotter
Jimmy Karz · 5 quotes
Hortensia
Kira Spencer Hesser · 5 quotes
FBI Agent Bill
4 quotes
FBI Agent Bob
4 quotes
Miss Jennifer "Jenny" Honey
Embeth Davidtz · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Matilda & Miss Honey (14), Matilda & Narrator (13), Matilda & Harry Wormwood (12)
Matilda quotes
Page 5 of 5Miss Trunchbull, I was the one who was at your house last night. I know that I-- [Miss Trunchbull: I broke your arm once before, I can do it again, Jenny.] I am not seven years old anymore, Aunt Trunchbull.
No more Ms. Nice Girl.
Okay, listen up, everybody. Have a new student with us today. This is Matilda Wormwood. I'd like you to sit here with Lavender.
Shut up! The entire school will stay another FIVE HOURS after school and copy from the dictionary! Any child who object will go straight into the Chokey... TOGETHER!
The distance the shot put goes depends upon the effort you put into it! PERSPIRATION!
The library? You've never set foot in a library. You're only four years old.
The Trunchbull used to be in the Olympics: Shot-put, javelin, hammer throw. The hammer throw was her specialty.
Useless flaming CAR! [storms towards Matilda] Wormwood! Sell me a lemon? [drags her through the hallways] You're heading for the Chokey, young lady! [Matilda: The Chokey?!] Teach you a lesson! [Matilda: What lesson?!] You and your father think you can make a fool out of me! [Matilda: My father?] The guy with the stupid haircut! [Matilda: I'm nothing like my father!] You're the spitting image! The apple never rots far from the tree!
Well, it's hard for me to remember a specific cake.
What're they gonna do? Repossess the kid?
You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Sit up and look at the TV!