Grandpa George Quotes in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Willy Wonka: You can't run a chocolate factory with a family hanging over you like an old, dead goose. No offense.

Grandpa George: None taken. Jerk.

Grandpa George: There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common as money. Are you a dummy?

Grandpa George: The kids who are going to find the golden tickets are the ones who can afford to buy candy bars every day! Our Charlie gets only one a year. He doesn't have a chance.

Grandma Josephine: Everyone has a chance, Charlie.

Grandpa George: Mark my words. The kid who finds the first ticket will be fat, fat, fat.

[Cuts to Augustus Gloop holding up the winning ticket]

German Reporter: Augustus!

Augustus Gloop: [as cameras flash] I'm eating the Wonka bar and I taste something that is not chocolate. Or coconut, or walnut, or peanut butter, or nougat, or butter brittle, or caramel, or sprinkles. So I look and I find the golden ticket.

Grandpa Joe: I saw Willy Wonka with my own two eyes. I used to work for him, you know.

Charlie Bucket: You did?

Grandpa Joe: I did.

Grandma Josephine: He did.

Grandpa George: He did.

Grandma Georgina: I love grapes.

Charlie Bucket: Sorry we're late. We were brainstorming.

Grandpa George: Thought I heard thunder.

Mike Teavee: In the end, I only had to buy one candy bar.

TV Reporter: And how did it taste?

Mike Teavee: I don't know. I hate chocolate.

Grandpa George: Well, it's a good thing you're going to a chocolate factory, you ungrateful little bu-

[Mr. Bucket claps his hands over Charlie's ears so he can't hear what's being said]

Grandpa George: [sees the TV with Augustus on the screen] Told you he'd be a porker.

Grandma Josephine: [watching Violet Beauregarde on TV] What a beastly girl.

Grandma Georgina: Despicable.

Grandpa George: You don't know what we're talking about.

Grandma Georgina: [pause] Dragonflies?

Charlie Bucket: But it didn't close forever, it's open right now.

Mrs. Bucket: Ah, yes, well sometimes, when grown ups say "forever," they mean, "a very long time."

Grandpa George: Such as, I feel like I've eaten nothing but cabbage soup forever.

Mr. Bucket: Now pops...

Grandma Josephine: The factory did close, Charlie.

Grandpa Joe: And it seemed like it was going to be closed forever. Then, one day, we saw smoke rising from the chimneys. The factory was back in business!

Charlie Bucket: Did you get your job back?

Grandpa Joe: No. No one did.

Charlie Bucket: But there must be people working there.

Grandma Josephine: Think about it, Charlie. Have you ever seen a single person going into that factory? Or coming out of it?

Charlie Bucket: No. The gates are always closed.

Grandpa Joe: Exactly.

Charlie Bucket: But then, who's running the machines?

Mrs. Bucket: Nobody knows, Charlie.

Mr. Bucket: Your mum and I thought, maybe you want to open your birthday present, tonight.

Mrs. Bucket: Here you are.

Charlie Bucket: Maybe I should wait till morning.

Grandpa George: Like hell.

Mr. Bucket: Pop.

Grandpa Joe: All together we're 381 years old. We don't wait.

[about Veruca Salt winning a golden ticket]

Grandpa George: She's even worse than the fat boy!