Mr. Mushnik Quotes in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Seymour: The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl.

Mr. Mushnik: Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One.

Audrey: Seymour's first radio broadcast! I wanted to hear it so bad. I tried to be on time, but...

Mr. Mushnik: Don't tell me. You got tied up.

Audrey: No. Just handcuffed a little.

Audrey: I got a date.

Mr. Mushnik: With that same no-goodnik? I'm telling you, Audrey, you don't need a date - you need major medical!

Mr. Mushnik: [to Seymour] You love her madly, don't you, schmuck?

[Seymour is attempting to put a plant on a high shelf. The shelving unit falls and the plants crash to the floor]

Mr. Mushnik: Seymour, what's going on?

Seymour: Very little, Mr. Mushnik.

Mr. Mushnik: Hey, urchins!

[bangs on window]

Mr. Mushnik: Shoo, get outta here!/ No loitering!

Ronette: Maan, I wasn't loitering/ Were you Crystal?

Crystal: Not me Ronette, were you Chiffon?

Mr. Mushnik: You kids should be in school!

Chiffon: Yeah, but were on a split shift.

Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till the tenth grade, then we split!

Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?

Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row/ Ain't no such thing!

Mr. Mushnik: Move, move! Move! Stay away!

[gestures them away from inside his window]

Mr. Mushnik: No loitering!

Ronette: Man, I wasn't loitering! Were you, Crystal?

Crystal: Not me, Ronette! Were you, Chiffon?

Mr. Mushnik: You oughta be in school!

Chiffon: Yeah, well, we're on a split shift.

Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till fifth grade, then we split!

Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?

Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row, ain't no such thing!

Mr. Mushnik: [after Seymour asks why Mushnik is angry at him] Little red dots all over the linoleum, little red spots on the concrete outside - I'm talking blood, Krelborn! I'm talking under my own roof!

[grabs an axe]

Mr. Mushnik: An axe murderer!

[Seymour goes alarmed]

Audrey II: [sings off-screen] He's got your number now.

Mr. Mushnik: I saw everything!

Audrey II: He knows just what you've done.

Mr. Mushnik: Everything you did to her boyfriend!

Audrey II: You've got no place to hide.

Mr. Mushnik: [swings the axe] I saw you chopping him!

Audrey II: You've got nowhere to run.

Seymour: [innocently] It's true! I chopped him up, but I didn't kill him!

Audrey II: He knows your life of crime.

Mr. Mushnik: [points a gun at him] Tell it to the police!

Audrey II: I think it's suppertime!