Archibald Snatcher Quotes in The Boxtrolls (2014)

Lord Portley-Rind: [after Learning that Snatcher was lying about the boxtrolls and the Trubshaws] He lied to us and to poor Madame Fru fru. Snatcher...

Archibald Snatcher: [Using fru-fru voice] We could have been something special, but you have broken our agreement.

Lord Portley-Rind: Why is he talking like Madame Fru... GASP, Oh my god! I reget so much.

Archibald Snatcher: You Really think Portly-Rind and His mob will help a nobody like you? In this town, you want, you gotta help yourself. That's what a man does.

Eggs: You're a liar, when I tell Winnie's father the truth, he'll...

[Snatcher pushes egg to a wall]

Archibald Snatcher: HE'LL THANK ME. Because... all your little boxtroll friends... are going to die. TONIGHT!

Eggs: WHAT?

Archibald Snatcher: THEY'LL MAKE THE MOST RESPECTED MAN IN THIS TOWN! They'll have no choice but to give me a white hat, they'll parade me, They'll take up on their shoulders. And I'm NOT gonna let that be ruined by some little boxtroll sewer rat!

Archibald Snatcher: I have been reasonable, and I can be unreasonable.

Mr. Pickles: [Noticing that Snatcher is having an allergic reaction to a piece of cheese he just ate. Whispering to Mr. Trout] Someone's got the cheese fits again.

Mr. Trout: [to Mr.Gristle] Oh, quickly, quietly get the leeches.

Mr. Gristle: [while silently sneaking around Snatcher] Quietly. Quietly.

Archibald Snatcher: [Noticing that Trout's leaving the table] Where's he going?

Mr. Gristle: Quietly.

Archibald Snatcher: Is he getting more cheese?

[Snatcher's lower lip swells up. Making Mr. Pickles and Mr. Trout shocked]

Archibald Snatcher: What?

Mr. Pickles: I think you've had enough for today, boss.

Archibald Snatcher: [eats a tiny bit of cheddar, and swallows] Mmmm!

Mr. Trout: [surprisingly] Oh!

Archibald Snatcher: I say, old chaps, it's quite, um

[pause]

Archibald Snatcher: It's, um

[pauses]

Archibald Snatcher: It's quite, um

Mr. Trout: [breaking in] Aromatic? Oaky? With an undertone of a mother's smile on a warm spring day? Hmmm

[smiling thoughtfully]

Archibald Snatcher: Yes! Those things. Etcetera, ectetera, big words, chummy banter.

[Said as he breaks into an allergic reaction to the cheese]

Archibald Snatcher: [first line, Snatcher to Butler at the front door] Wake his Lordship. The unspeakable has happened, We must speak of it immediately!

[struggles with Butler, trying to slam the door on him]

Lord Portley-Rind: [Frustrated] What is is, Snatcher?

Archibald Snatcher: BOXTROLLS HAVE COME AND STOLEN A CHILD!

Lord Portley-Rind: Gasp, no.

Archibald Snatcher: There no doubt, picking their teeth with his adorable baby bones, by now.

Lord Portley-Rind: Horribly tragedy.

[in a non-interested tone]

Lord Portley-Rind: Lets deal with it in the morning.

Archibald Snatcher: [while butler aggressively presses the door on Snatcher] STOP, that's not the worst of it. They'll come after...

[Butler slams the door in Snatcher's face, and is now talking through the mailslot of the mansion]

Archibald Snatcher: our cheeses!

Lord Portley-Rind: [SCARED] MY GOUDA?

Archibald Snatcher: They'll stop at nothing.

Lord Portley-Rind: Oh you're the town exterminator, I'll pay whatever it takes.

Archibald Snatcher: Oh I don't want money, I want one of those

[pointing at Portly Rind's hat]

Lord Portley-Rind: A white hat? you? ABSURD!

Archibald Snatcher: Alright then, by prepare to say bye bye to your brie, cheerio to your cheddar, good bye...

Lord Portley-Rind: Hey, Have every boxtrolls gone, with proof.

Archibald Snatcher: For a white hat? I WILL DESTROY EVERY LAST BOXTROLL IN THIS TOWN!