
Into the Woods
84 quotes
Biography
Into the Woods is a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.
"Slotted spoons don't hold much soup."
"The slotted spoon can catch the potato!"
"[to Baker's wife] Have you seen a boy with carrot-topped hair and a sunny, though occasionally vague, disposition, answering to the name of Jack?"
"There's a dead giant in my back yard!"
"[to female giant] We’ve suffered too! Do you think it was a picnic disposing of your husband's remains?"
"[to baker] No one cared when there was a dead giant in my backyard! I don't remember you volunteering to come to my aid."
"Milky-White! Now I have two friends: a cow and a harp!"
"I buried her in a footprint."
"The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure!"
"I don't want another mother, I want a friend... And a pet."
"[After his mother says someday he will have a real pet] A piggy?"
"I miss my kingdom up in the sky."
"I wish my cow would give us some milk."
"Please pal, squeeze pal."
"But where am I to go? I have no one to take care of me."
"I'm going to KILL him."
"Maybe I shouldn't have stolen from the Giant."
"(incredulously, to Cinderella) You can talk to birds?"
"The prettier the flower, the farther from the path."
"[Referring to her sick grandmother] For all that I know, she's already dead."
"Nice is different than good."
"Stay away from my cape or I'll slice you into a thousand bits!"
"Maybe I shouldn't have strayed from the path."
"(appearing during an argument between the Baker and his wife) WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cares?!?!?! The cow is gone! Get it back! Get it back!"
"(hearing Rapunzel sing) Oh, my precious calls to me."