Memorable quotes for
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) More at IMDbPro »

Audrey II: Does this look "inanimate" to you, punk? If I can move and I can talk, who's to say I can't do anything I want?

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Audrey II: [singing] If you wanna be profound, if you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die!

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Audrey II: [singing] I'm just a mean green mother from outer space and I'm bad!

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Audrey: [singing] I'd cook like Betty Crocker and I'd look like Donna Reed!

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[the masochistic patient meets the sadistic dentist]
Arthur Denton: I think I need a root canal. I definitely need a long, slow root canal.

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[Orin Scrivello, the sadistic dentist]
Orin: [singing] I thrill when I drill a bicuspid / It's swell though they tell me I'm mal-ad-just-ed.

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[repeated line]
Audrey II: Feed me, Seymour!

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Audrey II: Feed me!
Seymour: Does it have to be human?
Audrey II: Feed me!
Seymour: Does it have to be mine?
Audrey II: Feeeed me!
Seymour: Where am I supposed to get it?
Audrey II: [singing] Feed me, Seymour / Feed me all night long - That's right, boy! - You can do it! Feed me, Seymour / Feed me all night long / Ha ha ha ha ha! / Cause if you feed me, Seymour / I can grow up big and strong.

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Audrey II: [singing] Would you like a Cadillac car? / Or a guest shot on Jack Paar? / How about a date with Hedy Lamarr? / You can get it.

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Audrey II: [singing] I got killer buds / A power stem / Nasty pods / And I'm using them! / So better move 'em out / Nature calls / You got my pun? / I'm gonna bust your balls!

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Seymour: The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl.
Mr. Mushnik: Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One.

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Seymour: The guy sure looks like plant food to me.

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Audrey: Seymour's first radio broadcast! I wanted to hear it so bad. I tried to be on time, but...
Mr. Mushnik: Don't tell me. You got tied up.
Audrey: No. Just handcuffed a little.

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Audrey: [of Orin's disappearance] It wouldn't be terrible at all. It would be a miracle, not to mention the money I'd save on epsom salts and ace bandages.

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Orin: [holding a dentist's tool] Let me ask you something! Does this scare you? Would you like if I took this and headed right for your damn incisors?
Seymour: [looks terrified]
Orin: It'd hurt, right?
Seymour: Uh huh.
Orin: You'd scream, right?
Seymour: Uh huh.
Orin: Well get your ass in here!

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Ronette, Chiffon, Crystal: Oh, here it comes, baby. Tell your mom, baby. Oh oh no! Oh, hit the dirt, baby! Red alert baby! Oh oh no, oh oh no!

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Orin: I find a little giggle-gas before I begin increases my pleasure enormously.

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[in the Radio station]
Wink Wilkinson: Gee, I wish you folks could see this. Hey Seymour, where did you get this WEEEEEEEEEEIRD plant?

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Seymour: Wait for me, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable!

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Audrey: All I ever wanted was you and a sweet little house.
Seymour: Oh Audrey, you're the most wondeful person that ever lived. We're gonna get that little house and everything's gonna be alright, you'll see.

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Seymour: It's true! I chopped him up. But I didn't kill him!

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[his last lines]
Audrey II: Oh, shit!

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Seymour: Every household in America? Thousands of you eating... that's what you had in mind all along, isn't it?
Audrey II: No shit, Sherlock.

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Audrey: [singing about her dream home with Seymour] Between our frozen dinners, and our bedtime - 9:15 - we'd snuggle watching Lucy on a big, enormous, 12-inch screen!

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Audrey: I'm sorry doctor, I'm sorry.
Orin: Fall off the motorcycle my ass!

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Audrey: [singing] A matchbox of our own, a fence of real chain-link/A grill out on the patio, disposal in the sink/A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine/In a tract house that we share/Somewhere that's green

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Seymour: Wait a minute, Audrey II, that's not a very nice thing to say!
Audrey II: But it's true, isn't it?
Seymour: No! I don't know anybody who deserves to get chopped up and fed to a hungry plant!
Audrey II: Mmmmmm, sure you do!
[Turns Seymour around to look out the window. They see Orin and Audrey. Orin yells at Audrey and at last hits her]

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[Seymour is attempting to put a plant on a high shelf. The shelving unit falls and the plants crash to the floor]
Mr. Mushnik: Seymour, what's going on?
Seymour: Very little, Mr. Mushnik.

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Orin: Stupid woman! Christ, what a friggin' scatterbrain!

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Seymour: [singing] Suddenly Seymour / Is standing beside you
Audrey: [singing] Suddenly Seymour / Showed me I can...
Audrey: [singing over sustain] Yes you can...
Patrick Martin: Excuse me! Pardon me, beg your pardon, if you two kids would stop singing for just a moment I've got something I want to discuss with you.

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Patrick Martin: Me and the guys at the home office have been following this plant of yours. We've come up with one incredible idea. We're very proud of it. Picture this: we take leaf cuttings, develop little Audrey IIs and sell them to florist shops across the nation. Pretty soon every household in America could have one.
Seymour: [concerned] Every household in America!
Patrick Martin: For starters, kid. Why, this thing could go... worldwide!
Seymour, Audrey: [to each other, panicked:] *Worldwide*?
Patrick Martin: With the right advertising, this thing could be bigger than Hula-Hoops.
Audrey: [to Seymour, intrigued:] Bigger than Hula-Hoops?

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Audrey II: [rapping] You know I don't come from no Black Lagoon.
Pods: No!
Audrey II: I'm from past the stars and beyond the moon.
Pods: Yes!
Audrey II: You can keep The Thing.
Pods: Thing!
Audrey II: Keep The It.
Pods: It!
Audrey II: Keep The Creature, they don't mean shit!

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Audrey: I don't believe it.
Audrey II: Believe it, baby. It talks.
Audrey: Am I dreaming this?
Audrey II: No, and you ain't in Kansas, neither.

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Audrey II: I need me some water in the worst way. Look at my branches. I'm dryin' up. I'm a *goner*, honey!
Audrey II: [singing] Come on and give me a drink!
Audrey: I don't know if I should.
Audrey II: [singing] Hey, little lady, be nice.
Audrey: Do you talk to Seymour like this?
Audrey II: [singing] Sure do. I'll take it straight.
Audrey: Your leaves *are* dry.
Audrey II: [singing] Don't need no glass or no ice.
Audrey: I'll get the can.
Audrey II: [singing] Don't need no twist of lime...
Audrey: [sing-song] Here we go!
Audrey II: And now it's *suppertime*!

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Patrick Martin: Whaddya say, Seymour? Do we have a deal?
Seymour: No! Keep your contract. Nobody's touchin' that plant, you hear?
Patrick Martin: Hey, we're offerin' a lotta money here!
Seymour: Forget the money. Take the money and leave!
Patrick Martin: Whaddya, nuts?
Seymour: Yeah, I'm nuts! Get outta here!
Patrick Martin: Hey, now, come on!
Seymour: Go on! Get outta here!
Patrick Martin: You're a loon!
Seymour: Go on and get out!
Patrick Martin: Look, I'll come back when you're in a better mood!
Seymour: Go on, get outta here now!
Patrick Martin: Alright!

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Orin: Look Seymour, this could happen to you. Unless I take immediate action.
Seymour: [helpless in dentist chair] What's that?
Orin: [enthusiastically] A drill.
Seymour: It's rusty!
Orin: It's an antique. They don't make 'em like this any more. Sturdy. Heavy. Dull!
Orin: I'm gonna want some gas fer this.
Seymour: Oh, thank God. I thought you weren't gonna use any.
Orin: Oh, the gas isn't for you Seymour, it's for me. You see, I wanna really enjoy this.

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Patrick Martin: Son, kid, boy are we gonna make a fortune.

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Audrey II: [singing] you know the kind'a eats, the kind'a red HOT sweets, the kind'a sticky licky treats I crave!

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Mr. Mushnik: Hey, urchins!
[bangs on window]
Mr. Mushnik: Shoo, get outta here!/ No loitering!
Ronette: Maan, I wasn't loitering/ Were you Crystal?
Crystal: Not me Ronette, were you Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik: You kids should be in school!
Chiffon: Yeah, but were on a split shift.
Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till the tenth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you’re from Skid Row/ Ain’t no such thing!

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Audrey: I got a date.
Mr. Mushnik: With that same no-goodnik? I'm telling you, Audrey, you don't need a date - you need major medical!

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Seymour: [singing] I don't know.
Audrey II: Come on, boy!
Seymour: [singing] I don't know!
Audrey II: Lighten up!
Seymour: [singing] I have so, so many strong reservations.
Audrey II: Tell it to the Marines!
Seymour: [singing] Should I go and perform mutilations?

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Mr. Mushnik: Move, move! Move! Stay away!
[gestures them away from inside his window]
Mr. Mushnik: No loitering!
Ronette: Man, I wasn't loitering! Were you, Crystal?
Crystal: Not me, Ronette! Were you, Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik: You oughta be in school!
Chiffon: Yeah, well, we're on a split shift.
Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till fifth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row, ain't no such thing!

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[while undergoing a torturous procedure by Orin Scrivello, DDS]
Arthur Denton: It's your professionalism that I respect.

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Mr. Mushnik: [to Seymour] You love her madly, don't you, schmuck?

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