What's Eating Gilbert Grape Quotes

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Momma: You`re my knight in shimmering armor. Did you know that?
Gilbert: I think you mean shining.
Momma: No shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow.

Tucker: How`s momma?
Gilbert: She`s fat.
Tucker: Come on, man. She`s not all that big, Gilbert.
Gilbert: What?
Tucker: Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair who was... a little bit bigger.
Gilbert: A little bit bigger?
Tucker: Look, all I`m sayin` is that she`s not the biggest I ever seen, okay?
Gilbert: Tucker, she`s a whale!
Tucker: Well, take her out for a walk once in a while.
Gilbert: Take her out for a jog!
Arnie: She`s a whale! Tucker, she`s a whale!

Gilbert: You know what? You`re such a big boy.
Arnie: Yeah!
Gilbert: You`re such a big boy.
Arnie: I`m a big boy!
Gilbert: You know what? I bet you could do this all by yourself if you really wanted to. Could you do this by yourself?
Arnie: I`m a big boy!
Gilbert: Yeah, you`re a big boy. Now take this...
Arnie: Take this.
Gilbert: Wash everything, your towels are there.
Arnie: Okay!
Gilbert: And your robe is there.
Arnie: Okay! The big boy is gonna wash himself!

Becky: I love the sky. It`s so limitless.
Gilbert: It is big. It`s very big.
Becky: Big doesn`t even sum it up, right? That word big is so small.

Arnie: Match in the gas tank, *boom* *boom*!

Arnie: I`m having a birthday party, but you`re not invited, but you can come if you want.

Becky: Tell me what you want as fast as it comes to you.
Gilbert: I wanna be a good person.

Arnie Grape: Good night to you but not me.

(Arnie jumps onto Gilbert`s back)
Gilbert: God, Arnie, you`re getting so big. Pretty soon I ain`t gonna be able to carry you no more.
Arnie Grape: No, you`re getting littler, Gilbert. You`re getting littler, you`re shrinking! You`re shrinking, Gilbert, you`re shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

Gilbert: (to Becky) I don`t know what to say.
Arnie: Say "thank you," Gilbert. "Thank you."
Gilbert: (whispering) Thank you.

Arnie Grape: I killed him Gilbert , I killed him!

Gilbert: (climbing of the water tower) It`s not going to happen again. This is the last time. Right Arnie?
Arnie: It`s the last time.
Gilbert: Okay. Let`s go.
Arnie: But I want to go back up there again.

Arnie Grape: I could go at any time.

Gilbert: Bobby, how`s business?
Bobby: Oh, not good... nobody`s dying.

Gilbert: I know a boy whose name is Arnie... he`s, uh, `bout to turn 18 and have a big party. I know a boy whose name is Arnie. C`mon down, buddy.

Gilbert: Why will I take care of it?
Arnie: Gilbert...
Gilbert: Hmm?
Arnie: `Cause you`re Gilbert.
Gilbert: `Cause I`m Gilbert.

Gilbert: You don`t hurt Arnie, you just don`t.

Gilbert: I had a nice time tonight.
Becky: I know.
(smiles)

Arnie: Dad`s dead! Dad`s dead! Dad`s dead! Dad`s dead! Dad`s dead! Dad`s dead!

Arnie: We`re not going anywhere! We`re not going anywhere!
Arnie: (looks at Gilbert in the truck) Where`re you going?

Arnie: (In the middle of Mr. Carver`s funeral) Gilbert, it`s the Burger Barn! It`s the Burger Barn, Gilbert, the Burger Barn!

Gilbert: We don`t really move. I mean, we`d like to, but... my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She`s pretty much wedged in.

Gilbert: Ellen? Ellen?
Ellen Grape: What?
Gilbert: Could you not talk with your mouth full?
Ellen Grape: Excuse me?
Gilbert: You`re making me sick, I`m gonna throw up.
Ellen Grape: Oh, okay, dad. Sure thing, dad.

Mr. Lamson: What`s going on over there at "Food Land"?
Gilbert: (labeling price tags on cans) I wouldn`t know, I don`t shop there.
(puts a can up and looks at boss)
Gilbert: I`d rather die.
(smiles)

Becky: It`s a praying mantis. Do you know how they mate? The male will sneak up on the female and she`ll bite off his head and the rest of his body will keep on mating and when they`re done... She`ll eat him. She`ll eat the rest of him.

(about his upcoming birthday party)
Arnie: Momma, I want hot dogs!
Momma: We`re gonna have hot dogs, honey. I promise. We`re gonna have hot dogs.
Arnie: Momma, I want hot dogs!
Momma: We`re gonna have hot dogs.

Gilbert: Did you ever see a beached whale on television?
Becky: Yeah.
Gilbert: Yeah. That`s her. That`s my mom.
Becky: (pauses) What about your dad?
Gilbert: Uh, some other day. Some other day.

Becky: Tell me what you want, as fast as it comes to you.
Gilbert: Uhh...
Becky: Okay?
Gilbert: `Kay.
Becky: Okay. What do you want?
(He`s thinking about it)
Becky: Faster!
Gilbert: Okay. I want a new thing. House. I want a new house. And a family.
(He sighs heavily)
Gilbert: I want Momma to take aerobics classes. I want Ellen to grow up. I want a new brain for Arnie. I want...
Becky: What do you want for you? Just for you?
Gilbert: I want to be a good person.