Eggs Quotes in The Boxtrolls (2014)

Eggs: Don't do it. You won't change who you are. Cheese, Hats, Boxes. They don't make you. "You" make you.

Winnie: BoxTroll Exterminators? They live down in Curds Way.

Eggs: How do I get there?

Winnie: Curds Way?

[pointing at street sign]

Winnie: Milk turns into it.

[rimshot is heard]

Winnie: [When Eggs states his a boxtroll] Oh... really? Then lets see you fit into your box!

Eggs: Err... I can't right now

Winnie: [nods head] Ummhmm

Eggs: I'm long boned

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!

Eggs: It won't change who you are. Cheese, hats, boxes-they don't make you who you are. You make you.

Eggs: [when Winnie tells him to get in his box] Err... I can't right now

[Winnie clears her throat]

Eggs: I'm big boned

Winnie: [Eggs keeps denying he's not a boxtroll] Oh for goodness sake... give me your hand

[Eggs flinches]

Winnie: I... don't bite

Eggs: [as Winnie removes the bandages to his hands] Hey

Winnie: [compares Eggs' hand to a boxtrolls] SEE! You're not one of them

[places her hand against his softly]

Winnie: You're one of us... you're a boy eggs

Winnie: [Eggs is examining himself, having been dressed in fancy clothes] There... you look more like a proper boy now

Eggs: [thrilled] ME... A proper boy!

Eggs: [practicing his manners] It's a pleasure too meet you! It's a pleasure too meet you