Watto Quotes in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Watto Quotes:
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Watto: How are you going to pay for all this?
Qui-Gon Jinn: I have twenty thousand Republic dataries.
Watto: Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't have anything else...
[waves hand]
Qui-Gon Jinn: But credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a.
[Qui-Gon waves his hand more firmly]
Qui-Gon Jinn: Credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a! What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!
-- Watto -
Qui-Gon Jinn: I have... acquired a pod in a game of chance. The fastest ever built.
Watto: I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it.
-- Watto -
Watto: I want to see your spaceship the moment the race is over.
Qui-Gon Jinn: Patience, my blue friend.
-- Watto -
Watto: [to Anakin] Better stop your friend's betting or I'll end up owning him, too.
-- Watto -
[Anakin visits Watto's place on Tatooine. The following dialogue between Anakin and Watto is in Huttese]
Anakin Skywalker: Chut, chut, Watto.
[Excuse me, Watto]
Watto: Ke Booda?
[What?]
Watto: Di nova, "Chut, chut."
[I said, "Excuse me."]
Watto: [turns to his pit droids] Go ana bopa!
[Translation: "Shut Down". The pit droids obey]
Anakin Skywalker: Ding mi chasa hopa.
[Translation: "Let me help you with that". Anakin starts to fidget with a piece of equipment]
Watto: Ke booda? Yo baan pee hota. No wega mi condorta. Kin chasa du Jedi. No bata tu tu.
[What? I don't know you... What can I do for you? You look like a Jedi. Whatever it is... I didn't do it]
Anakin Skywalker: Mi boska di Shmi Skywalker.
[I'm looking for Shmi Skywalker]
Anakin Skywalker: [Watto eyes Anakin, and then Padme and starts speaking English]
Watto: Annie? Little Annie? Naaah!
[the piece of equipment Anakin has been tinkering with comes to life]
Watto: You are Annie! It is you! Ya sure sprouted! Weehoo! A Jedi! Waddya know? Hey, maybe you couldda help wit some deadbeats who owe me a lot of money...
Anakin Skywalker: My mother...
Watto: Oh, yeah. Shmi... she's not mine no more. I sold her.
Anakin Skywalker: Sold her?
Watto: Years ago. Sorry, Annie, but you know, business is business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her and married her. Can ya beat that?
Anakin Skywalker: Do you know where they are?
Watto: Long way from here... someplace over on the other side of Mos Eisley, I think...
Anakin Skywalker: I'd like to know.
Watto: Yeah... sure... absolutely. Let's go look in my records.
-- Watto -
Anakin: I'm a Jedi.
Watto: A Jedi. Whaddya know?
-- Watto -
Anakin: Mem boshka de Shmi Skywalker.
[I'm looking for Shmi Skywalker]
Watto: Ani? Little Ani? It is you!
-- Watto
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- Chancellor Valorum
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