“Scrooged” quotes

“It's Christmas Eve! It's... it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we... we... we smile a little easier, we... w-w-we... we... we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Lew Hayward: I was a captain of industry; feared by men, adored by women.
- Frank Cross: Adored! Come on, let's be honest, Lew. You paid for the women!”
John Forsythe - Lew Hayward
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“We're gonna need champagne for 250 people, and send the stuff that you send to me. Don't send the stuff that I send to other people.”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Frank Cross: Quick! What time is it?
- Eliot Loudermilk: Somebody stole my watch!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
Bobcat Goldthwait - Eliot Loudermilk

“I never liked a girl well enough to give her twelve sharp knives.”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“Look, it don't matter a hill of beans what happens to me but the world couldn't afford it if anything happened to you. Now stay put.”

Lee Majors - Himself

“That's the one good thing about regret: it's never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to.”
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips

“I don't mind you shooting at me, Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi!”
John Forsythe - Lew Hayward

“- James Cross: You know what they say about people who treat other people bad on the way up?
- Frank Cross: Yeah, you get to treat 'em bad on the way back down too. It's great, you get two chances to rough 'em up.”
John Murray - James Cross
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“There are people who are having trouble making their miracle happen; there are people who don't have enough to eat, there are people who are cold, you can go out and say hello to these people. You can take an old blanket out of the closet and go to them and say 'Here!', you can make them a sandwich and say 'oh by the way, here!'.”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Claire Phillips: Why are you so angry?
- Frank Cross: Why haven't you learned how to button a coat?”
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Daughter: Mom, when are we gonna get a real Christmas tree?
- Grace Cooley: When they're free!”
Alfre Woodard - Grace Cooley

“- Claire Phillips: Taxi! Can you get me to the IBC building in three minutes?
- Ghost of Christmas Past: Which floor?”
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips
David Johansen - Ghost of Christmas Past

“You are a hallucination brought on by alcohol... Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl!”

Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“Sometimes the truth is painful, Frank. But it's made your cheeks rosy and your eyes bright!”
Carol Kane - Ghost of Christmas Present

“- Frank Cross: I get it. You're taking me back in time to show me my mother and father, and I'm supposed to get all goosey and blubbery. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy!
- Ghost of Christmas Past: That's exactly what Attila the Hun said. But when he saw his mother... Niagara Falls!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
David Johansen - Ghost of Christmas Past

“- Frank Cross: Same old Claire... still trying to save the world.
- Claire Phillips: You still trying to run it?”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips

- Herman: Boy, that Dick sure knows how to drink, huh?
- Frank Cross: Why do you keep calling me "Dick"?
- Herman: I'm sorry, Mr. Burton, I guess we don't know you well enough yet to call you Dick.
Michael J. Pollard - Herman
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“All day long, I listen to people give me excuses why they can't work... 'My back hurts', 'my legs ache', 'I'm only four!'. The sooner he learns life isn't handed to him on a silver platter, the better!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“The Jews taught me this great word: Schmuck. I was a schmuck, and now I'm not a schmuck!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“Would you please, for the love of god, and your own body, stop the damn hammering?”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Frank Cross: I didn't know Grace's husband died.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Oh Frank, don't you remember the time she wore black for a year?
- Frank Cross: I remember her wearing black... I thought it was a fashion thing. Everybody was wearing black!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
Carol Kane - Ghost of Christmas Present

“- Frank Cross: Do you think I'm way off base here?
- Eliot Loudermilk: Yes. You're, well, you're a tad off base, sir. That thing looked like The Manson Family Christmas Special!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross
Bobcat Goldthwait - Eliot Loudermilk

“- Ghost of Christmas Past: You left Claire for Frisbee the dog? Frank, let me sum this up for you: you don't know who you are, you don't know what you want, and you don't know what the hell is going on!
- Frank Cross: I've made a few mistakes. I gotta live with that. But I do know who I am, I know what I want, and I know what's going on!”
David Johansen - Ghost of Christmas Past
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“Don't vex me Frank, or I'll fix your mouth so it won't hold soup.”
Carol Kane - Ghost of Christmas Present