The best Quotes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

Willy Wonka: "I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!"

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.

I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.

Life is more fun if you play games.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always liked strange characters.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

Willy Wonka: "So you're the funny little man who's been following me."
Oompa Loompa: "I will have you know that I am a perfectly respectable size for an Oompa Loompa."

Every good thing in this world started with a dream.

I've spent the past seven years traveling the world, perfecting my craft. You see, I'm something of a magician, inventor and chocolate maker. So quiet up and listen down. Nope. Scratch that, reverse it.

You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Legos are like chocolate... there's always room for some more.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Matilda: "Do you want to heat about my first day at school?"
Mrs. Wormwood: "Yuck. I'd rather eat vegetables."

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.