Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Alan Arkin: Bill

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Quotes 

• Bill : Soup's on!

  Edward : I thought this was shish kabob.

• Bill : Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies.

• Bill : So Edward, did you have a productive day?

  Edward : Mrs Monroe showed me where the salon's going to be.

  [turns to Peg] 

  Edward : You could have a cosmetics counter.

  Peg Boggs : Oh, wouldn't that be great!

  Bill : Great.

  Edward : And then she showed me the back room where she took all of her clothes off.

  [everyone stares, Kevin snickers] 

• Jim : [after seeing Edward accidentally cut Kim]  Hey! Now you've done it!

  Kim : It was just a scratch Jim, really!

  Peg Boggs : What's going on?

  Jim : Call a doctor, he skewered Kim!

  Kim : He didn't skewer me!

  Jim : [now bullying and shoving Edward]  You can't touch anything without destroying it! Who the hell do you think you are hanging around here, huh? Get the hell outta here! Go you freak!

  Jim : [to Kim]  He tried to hurt you.

  Kim : No he did not and you know it!

  Jim : Are you nuts? I just saw him!

  Kim : Jim, I don't love you anymore I just want you to go, ok? Just go!

  Jim : Are you serious? Losing me to a loser like that? He isn't even human!

  Kim : Just get out of here ok, just go!

  Kim : [after Jim has left]  Dad, did you see where Edward went?

  Bill : No, he just waltzed down the street.

• Bill : OK, everybody. Grab your plates. Soup's on.

  Edward : [with mouth full]  I thought this was shish-ka-bob.

  Bill : What?

  Edward : [a little clearer]  I thought this was shish-ka-bob.

  Bill : Yeah, it is shish-ka-bob. It's a figure of speech, Ed.

• Bill : Well, this must be quite a change for you, right, Ed?

  Peg Boggs : Edward, dear. I think he prefers Edward.

  Bill : Oh, sure.

• Bill : Well I'll be darned.