Little Shop of Horrors (film)

"On the twenty-third day in the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the most seemingly innocent, and unlikely, of places..."

"[singing] Poor! All my life I've been poor! I keep asking God what I'm for! [Mushnik glares at him the moment he stops work so he hastily resumes] And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure! Sweep that floor, kid!" Oh I started life as an orphan, child of the street, here on Skid Row. He took me in, gave me a shelter, a bed, a crust of bread and a job... treats me like dirt. Calls me a slob, which I am. [he walks dejectedly along the streets with the passers-by as his backup singers]] So I live... downtown... [all: "downtown"] That's my home address. So I live. [all: "Downtown."] Where my life's a mess. So I live [all: "Downtown."] Where depression's just status quo. Down on Skid Row.... [wanders into an alley] Someone show my the way to get outta here, [beggars slowly appear from nowhere and climb the gateway at the end of the alley] Cos I'm constantly praying I'll get out of here, someone give me one shot, or I'll rot here."

"Wait for me, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable!"

"[singing about Mr. Mushnik] And he calls me a slob, which I am …"

"[singing about her dream house] With a washer and a dryer, and an ironing machine…somewhere that's green."

"[repeated line] Feed me!"

"I'm starving!"

"[asking Seymour what he wants] Money? Girls? One par-ticu-lar girl! How 'bout that Aaaaauuuudrey? Think it over! There must be someone you can 86 real quiet-like, and get me some LUNCH!!!"

"DOES THIS LOOK "INANIMATE" TO YOU, PUNK?! If I can talk and I can move, who's to say I can't do anything I want?!"

"[after Seymour deduces that Audrey II wants to take over the planet] No SHIT, Sherlock!"

"[Seymour says he won't feed the plant, due to the guilt] Tough titty. [Seymour then tells him to watch his language.] Aw, cut the crap. Bring on the meat!"

"[singing] I'm just a mean, green mother from outer space and I'm bad!"

"Going back to the beginning, Howard and I were in David Geffen’s office and we both wanted to retain the original ending, with the plant winning and the key people dying, and David was against that. He said you can’t do that, but again he knew Howard and I wanted to, so David supported us. The film was completed two years later and we went to San Jose for the first preview and everyone was very excited about it. This was, I think, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had done at that time. For every musical number there was applause, they loved it, it was just fantastic…until we killed our two leads. And then the theater became a refrigerator, an ice box. It was awful and the cards were just awful. They were saying that they hated us killing them. You have to have a 55 percent “recommend” to really be released and we got a 13."

"Don't feed the plants."

"A Singing Plant. A Daring Hero. A Sweet Girl. A Demented Dentist."

"I'm a mean green mother from outer space... And I'm back!"

"Rick Moranis - Seymour Krelborn"

"Ellen Greene - Audrey"

"Vincent Gardenia - Mr. Mushnik"

"Steve Martin - Orin Scrivello, DDS"

"Levi Stubbs - the voice of Audrey II"

"Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, and Tisha Campbell - Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon"

"Jim Belushi - Patrick Martin"

"John Candy - Wink Wilkinson"

"Christopher Guest - The First Customer"

"Bill Murray - Arthur Denton"

"Miriam Margolyes - a Dental Nurse"

"Stanley Jones - the Narrator"