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Quotes About Willy Wonka

Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful.
~ Phillip Tomasso III
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.
~ Corey Feldman
I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
~ Jimmy Iovine
I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn't like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he's brilliant.
~ Martellus Bennett
I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.
~ Roald Dahl
I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl's morality story wasn't embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don't have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.
~ Gene Wilder
In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'
~ Jidenna
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.
~ Sloane Crosley
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.
~ Sloane Crosley
the chocolate bar I had a Willy Wonka moment.' 'Is that secret code
~ Cecelia Ahern
Mr. Lemoncello is a lot like Willy Wonka," said Kyle. "You mean crazy?" said Akimi. "I prefer the term 'eccentric'." "And Dr. Zinchenko is his Oompa-Loompa," said Sierra. Everybody started giggling. "Nah," Akimi joked, "she's too tall." "And not nearly orange enough," added Miguel.
~ Chris Grabenstein
French pharmacies probably feel like CVS to French people, but to me, they feel like a real-life version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.'
~ Emily Weiss