Johnny Depp credited as playing...
Gilbert Grape
- Becky: Tell me what you want, as fast as it comes to you.
- Gilbert: Uhh...
- Becky: Okay?
- Gilbert: 'Kay.
- Becky: Okay. What do you want?
- [He's thinking about it]
- Becky: Faster!
- Gilbert: Okay. I want a new thing. House. I want a new house. And a family.
- [He sighs heavily]
- Gilbert: I want Momma to take aerobics classes. I want Ellen to grow up. I want a new brain for Arnie. I want...
- Becky: What do you want for you? Just for you?
- Gilbert: I want to be a good person.
- [Arnie jumps onto Gilbert's back]
- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!
- Gilbert: You know what? You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: Yeah!
- Gilbert: You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: You know what? I bet you could do this all by yourself if you really wanted to. Could you do this by yourself?
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: Yeah, you're a big boy. Now take this...
- Arnie: Take this.
- Gilbert: Wash everything, your towels are there.
- Arnie: Okay!
- Gilbert: And your robe is there.
- Arnie: Okay! The big boy is gonna wash himself!
- Gilbert: We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but... my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.
- Tucker: How's momma?
- Gilbert: She's fat.
- Tucker: Come on, man. She's not all that big, Gilbert.
- Gilbert: What?
- Tucker: Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair who was... a little bit bigger.
- Gilbert: A little bit bigger?
- Tucker: Look, all I'm sayin' is that she's not the biggest I ever seen, okay?
- Gilbert: Tucker, she's a whale!
- Tucker: Well, take her out for a walk once in a while.
- Gilbert: Take her out for a jog!
- Arnie: She's a whale! Tucker, she's a whale!
- Mr. Lamson: What's going on over there at "Food Land"?
- Gilbert: [labeling price tags on cans] I wouldn't know, I don't shop there.
- [puts a can up and looks at boss]
- Gilbert: I'd rather die.
- [smiles]
- Gilbert: I know a boy whose name is Arnie... he's, uh, 'bout to turn 18 and have a big party. I know a boy whose name is Arnie. C'mon down, buddy.
- Gilbert: Ellen? Ellen?
- Ellen Grape: What?
- Gilbert: Could you not talk with your mouth full?
- Ellen Grape: Excuse me?
- Gilbert: You're making me sick, I'm gonna throw up.
- Ellen Grape: Oh, okay, dad. Sure thing, dad.
- Betty Carver: Hey. I could have had any guy, any guy, but I chose you. I chose you.
- Gilbert: Why did you?
- Betty Carver: [pause] Because... I knew you'd always be there. Because I knew you'd never leave.