Grasshopper Quotes in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Grasshopper: This is an outrage! You are a disgrace to your Phylum, Order, Class, Genus and Spe...

Centipede: Say it in English!

Grasshopper: YOU, sir, are an ASS!

[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!

[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.

[the compass is lost during a storm]

Grasshopper: We'll be blown off course!

Centipede: We'll wind up in Jersey!

[everyone is discussing how to get the peach to New York]

James: We could... No, it's stupid.

Grasshopper: Compared to what?

James: Well, I suppose we could fly out.

Centipede: He's right. It's stupid.

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

Grasshopper: *Dead* living statues!

Centipede: We're not lost.

Grasshopper: Then where are we?

Centipede: Somewhere up north. Or, possibly, very far south.

Grasshopper: What's your latitude? What's your longitude?

Centipede: Hey, hey, hey! That's personal, bud!

Grasshopper: [singing] For dinner on my birthday, shall I tell you what I chose? Hot noodles made from poodles on a slice of garden hose/And a rather smelly jelly made from armadillo's toes/The jelly is delicious, but you have to hold your nose!

Grasshopper: Hey there, you girl and boy! What were you doin' back there?

Lewellen: Nothin'.

Grasshopper: I saw you. You were stealin'. Do you confess to me that you were stealin'?

Lewellen: Yes.

Grasshopper: Mam.

Lewellen: Yes, mam.

Grasshopper: My grandmother and my grandfather said that while I'm here stayin' with them, I am not to play with you. But I've decided I will play with you. My name is Gwendolyn, but you may call me Grasshopper.

Lewellen, Buddy: [laughing] Grasshopper?

Grasshopper: What can you do?

Buddy: She can do Elvis.

Grasshopper: Show me.

Lewellen: [singing] Well, if your baby leaves you and you need a place to dwell, go down to the end of lonely street at heartbreak hotel.