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Chris Sarandon Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“My dearest friend, if you don't mind...I'd like to join you by your side. Where we can gaze into the stars...”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: romance, stargazing
“No, Zero. Down, boy....My, what a brilliant nose you have. The better to light my way! You're the head of the team, Zero!”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: leader, light the way
“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”
— Leon Shermer, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: crazy, Death Threats
“I mean, how do they expect you to get uncrazy if you're asleep all the time?”
— Leon Shermer, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: crazy, sedation
“Jack Skellington: Sally! I need your help most of all.

Sally: You certainly do, Jack. I've had the most horrible vision!

Jack Skellington: That's splendid!”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: help, Vision
“Jack Skellington: The job I have for you is top secret. It requires skill, craft, cunning, mis—

Shock: And we thought you didn't like us, Jack.”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: top secret, skill, Craft, Cunning
“And sit together, now and forever. For it is plain, as anyone can see. We're simply meant to be.”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: Together, Forever, Meant To Be
“Of course, I've been too close to see! The answer's right in front of me!”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: The Answer
“[singing] And on a dark cold night, under full moonlight, he flies into the fog like a vulture in the sky! [in a deeper tone] And they call him, Sandy... Clawssss...!”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: Santa Claus, cold dark night
“I couldn't explain why I did the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who explained to me I was a woman in a man's body. So Sonny right away wanted to get me money for a sex change operation: but where was he to get that? 2,500 dollars! My God, he's in hock up to his ears already.”
— Leon Shermer, Dog Day Afternoon
Tagged: Psychiatrist, Transgender, sex change
“Jack Skellington: And one more thing...
[stops Barrel from leaving] leave that no-account Oogie-Boogie out of this!

Barrel: Whatever you say, Jack.

Shock: Of course, Jack.

Lock: Wouldn't dream of it, Jack.
[a view from behind reveals their fingers are crossed]”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: No-Account
“Sally: I had the most terrible vision.

Jack Skellington: That's splendid!

Sally: No—it was about your Christmas. There was smoke... and fire!

Jack Skellington: That's not my Christmas! My Christmas is filled with laughter, and joy...and this: my Sandy Claws outfit. I want you to make it.

Sally: Jack, please listen to me. It's going to be a disaster!

Jack Skellington: How could it be? Just follow the pattern! [holds up design of outfit] This part's red, the trim is white...

Sally: It's a mistake, Jack!

Jack Skellington: Now don't be modest. Who else is clever enough to make my Sandy Claws outfit?

Mayor: Next!

Jack Skellington: I have every confidence in you.

Sally: But it seems wrong to me. Very wrong.”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: Christmas, Laughter, disaster
“Sally: [examining Jack in his newly finished Santa suit] You don't look like yourself, Jack. Not at all.

Jack Skellington: Isn't that wonderful? It couldn't be more wonderful!

Sally: [holds up the clipboard sketch of him] But you're the Pumpkin King!

Jack Skellington: Not anymore!
[breaks it over his knee] I feel SO much better now!

Sally: [pulling a loose thread from his cuff] Jack, I know you think something's missing, but—[accidentally catches his finger]

Jack Skellington: [lightly] Ow.

Sally: Sorry.

Jack Skellington: You're right. Something is missing. But what? I've got the beard...the coat...the boots...the belt...”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: Santa Claus, pumpkin king
“Lock, Barrel, Shock: Jack! Jack! We caught him. [catching themselves] We got him.

Jack Skellington: Perfect! Open it up. Quickly! [opens it up to reveal the Easter bunny] That's not Sandy Claws!

Shock: It isn't?

Barrel: Who is it?

Behemoth: [the Easter bunny hops up a set of steps and up to the Behemoth, sniffing him—he points at it] BUNNY! [it leaps back into the covered tub, terrified]

Jack Skellington: Not Sandy Claws... Take him back!

Lock: We followed your instructions...

Barrel: We went through the door...

Jack Skellington: Which door? There's more than one! Sandy Claws is behind the door shaped like this. [shows Christmas cookie in shape of tree]

Shock: I told you!

Jack Skellington: [Lock and Shock fight, Jack buries his face in his hand and after a moment stretches out his jaw and screams] AURR! [they stop fighting and gasp with Barrel…to the Easter bunny] I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, sir. [to the henchmen] Take him home first. And apologize again. Be careful with Sandy Claws when you fetch him. Treat him nicely.

Barrel: Got it.

Lock: We'll get it right...

Lock, Barrel, Shock: Next time”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: inept, bumbling
“Kid: Santa?

Jack Skellington: Merry Christmas! And what is your name?

Kid: Uh... uh...

Jack Skellington: That's all right. I have a present for you, anyway. There ya go, sonny! Ho ho ho! HEEHEEHEE! [slips out the chimney]

Mother: And what did Santa bring you, honey? [kid shows parents his present—a shrunken head; parents scream]

Jack Skellington: [flying away] Merry Christmas!”
— Jack Skellington (voice), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tagged: santa, Merry Christmas, ho ho ho
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