Gravis Mushnik Quotes in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Gravis Mushnik: Oh, here are your carnations. Wait, I'll wrap them for you.

Burson Fouch: No, that's all right, I'll eat 'em here.

Burson Fouch: My name is Burson Fouch.

Gravis Mushnik: Excellent. I am Gravis Mushnik.

Burson Fouch: Oh, that's a good one.

Gravis Mushnik: It's a finger of speech!

Gravis Mushnik: All right, explain me more.

Burson Fouch: Well, I remember one place that had a whole wall covered with poison ivy. Now, people came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.

Gravis Mushnik: The owner got rich?

Burson Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.

[shouting at Seymour, who has been singing off-camera]

Gravis Mushnik: Shut up from the back!

Seymour Krelboin: You mean I'm fired?

Gravis Mushnik: No, I'm electing you President of the United States! *Yes*, you are fired!

Gravis Mushnik: Now that is what I call a salad. What do you call that salad?

Audry Fulquard: Caesarean.

Seymour Krelboin: I didn't mean it.

Gravis Mushnik: You didn't mean it. You never mean it. You didn't mean it the time when you put up the bouquet with the 'get well' card in the funeral parlor, and sent the black lilies to the old lady in the hospital, you didn't mean it. But this time, I, Gravis Mushnik, mean it!

Burson Fouch: [to Seymour] He means it.

Gravis Mushnik: Bring me whisky, rum, wine, gin, bourbon...

Waitress: What?

Gravis Mushnik: ...scotch, rye, tequila, sake, Manischewitz...

Waitress: Did you bring the money?

Gravis Mushnik: Don't work me with the money. I've got to get drunk, now!

Sgt. Joe Fink: We just want to ask you a few questions.

Gravis Mushnik: I didn't do it.

Officer Frank Stoolie: Do what?

Gravis Mushnik: Whatever.

Audry Fulquard: I wish you'd break out and tell me.

Gravis Mushnik: All right, I'll tell you tomorrow right after I am telling the police.

Sgt. Joe Fink: [voice-over] But Mushnik didn't come to the police. If he had, that might have been the finish of the unhappy story. It was not.

Gravis Mushnik: Who... I mean... what did it eat this time?

Seymour Krelboin: Uh... about a million Japanese beetles.

Gravis Mushnik: You have perhaps an explanation?

Seymour Krelboin: No, but if you give me a minute I'll think of one.

Audry Fulquard: [excited about the overnight growth of Audrey Jr] Isn't it empirical?

Gravis Mushnik: It grows like a cold sore from the lip.

[answering phone]

Gravis Mushnik: Flowers, fresh as the springtime, Mushnik's.

Seymour Krelboin: Did you call me, Mr. Mushnick?

Gravis Mushnik: No, I was calling John D. Rockefeller for to make a loan on my Rolls Royce!

Seymour Krelboin: Sorry I said it.

Audry Fulquard: Why don't you give him a chance to resurrect himself?

Gravis Mushnik: I give him chance to quit!

Seymour Krelboin: I ain't gonna quit!

Gravis Mushnik: You're a brave boy, you're fired.