Earthworm Quotes in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

[James has discovered he has changed]

James: It's like he said: Marvelous things will happen.

Glowworm: Did he say, "Marvelous pigs in satin"?

Grasshopper: No, dear lady.

[He takes out a megaphone and speaks through it]

Grasshopper: Marvelous things will happen.

[to James]

Grasshopper: Poor Glowworm, she's a little deaf.

Earthworm: I, on the other hand, have exquisite hearing.

Centipede: Oh, yeah? Well, listen to this...

[He spits into his many hands and grabs the megaphone and yells into it]

Centipede: LET'S GET OUTTA HERE!

Centipede: I've sailed all the five seas. From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoli. Commodore Centipede, they used to call me.

Grasshopper: Seven.

Centipede: Huh?

Grasshopper: There are seven seas, and Tripoli is in the Sub-Tropics, Commodore!

Centipede: Trim the sails!

Ladybug: There are no sails.

Centipede: Start the engines!

Earthworm: There are no engines.

Centipede: I can't work with this miserable crew!

Spider: [eating the peach] Mmmmm. Better than ladybugs.

Ladybug: What?

Spider: Excuse me.

Earthworm: It's not dirt...

[takes a bite of the peach]

Earthworm: But it's not bad.

[Spiker and Sponge are outside the peach, looking for James]

Aunt Spiker: Where are you? You detestable little worm!

Earthworm: AAAHHHHHH!

James: Not you, ME!

James: When I had a problem, my mom and dad would tell me to look at it another way.

Earthworm: How? First, I was bird bait, then I was shark bait.

James: I suppose, but you could say you gave us wings to fly, and defeated a giant shark single-handedly.

Earthworm: No-handedly.

James: You're a hero.

Earthworm: I am? I'm Wonder Worm!

James: You are!

Earthworm: Remember what your parents said, James... Try looking at it another way!

[in the darkness]

Earthworm: [Centipede pinches him] Ow! What was that?

Centipede: Sorry, I thought you were the spider.

Grasshopper: [Miss Spider hits him] Ouch. What was *that*?

Miss Spider: Excuse, I thought you were the Centipede.

Old Green Grasshopper: Oh this is all my fault.

Earthworm: Hey don't take all the credit, I helped too!

Earthworm: The sun's so hot! I'm roasted!

Earthworm: She won't be coming down here with the spray. She'll be coming down here with a shovel. It happened to m' brother. Split him right down the middle. Now I have two half-brothers.

Earthworm: We gotta get out of here. We'll be turned into living statues.

Grasshopper: *Dead* living statues!

Earthworm: Great! We'll be stuck here until we starve and die.

The Grasshopper: Highly improbable.

Ladybug: Well, that's encouraging.

The Grasshopper: We are far more likely to drown.

The Grasshopper: No-one is going to squoosh you, old boy. You're six feet long now.

Earthworm: Bigger targets.