Young Frankenstein Quotes

Young Frankenstein is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Young Frankenstein completed its run in 1970.

It features Michael Gruskoff as producer, John Morris (composer) in charge of musical score, and Gerald Hirschfeld as head of cinematography.

Young Frankenstein is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Young Frankenstein is 105 minutes long. Young Frankenstein is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Marty Feldman as Igor, Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Teri Garr as Inga, Peter Boyle as The Monster, Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth, Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher, Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp, Arthur Malet as Villagers, Danny Goldman as Medical Student, Gene Hackman as The Blindman, Anne Beesley as Little Girl, and Liam Dunn as Mr. Hilltop.

Young Frankenstein Quotes

Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth

• (Madeline Kahn) "No tongues."

• (Madeline Kahn) "How do you do?"
• (Madeline Kahn) "How do you do?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Uh, this is my financier, Elizabeth."
• (Teri Garr) "Oh, I'm so happy to meet you at last."
• (Gene Wilder) "My fi-nan-ce --"
• (Madeline Kahn) "Excuse me darling, what is exactly that you do do?"

• (Madeline Kahn) "Oh darling, how can I sum up in a few words what it's taken me a lifetime to say?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Try."
• (Madeline Kahn) "Oh alright"
• (Madeline Kahn) "You've got it, mister."

• (Madeline Kahn) "Oh. Where you going? -- Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh -- I think I love him."

• (Madeline Kahn) "Oh my God. Woof."

• (Madeline Kahn) "Taffeta, darling."
• (Gene Wilder) "Taffeta, sweetheart."
• (Madeline Kahn) "No, the dress is taffeta. It wrinkles so easily."

• (Madeline Kahn) "Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you. At last, I know the secret of it all."

Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

• (Gene Wilder) "Eyegor."
• (Marty Feldman) "Froadrick."

• (Gene Wilder) "If we look at the base of a brain, which has just been removed from the skull, there's very little of the mid-brain that we can actually see. Yet, as I demonstrated in my lecture last week, if the under aspects of the temporal lobes are gently pulled apart, the upper portion of the stem of the brain can be seen. The so-called "brain stem" consists of the mid-brain, a rounded protrusion called the pons, and a stalk tapering downwards called the medulla oblongata, which passes out of the skull through the foramen magnum, and becomes, of course, the spinal cord. Are there any questions before we proceed?"
• (Danny Goldman) "I have one question, Dr. Frankenstein."
• (Gene Wilder) "That's "Fronkensteen"."
• (Danny Goldman) "I beg your pardon?"
• (Gene Wilder) "My name; it's pronounced "Fronkensteen"."
• (Danny Goldman) "But aren't you the grandson of the famous Dr. Victor Frankenstein who went into graveyards, dug up freshly buried corpses, and transformed dead components into?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Yes. Yes, yes. We all know what he did; but I'd rather be remembered for my own small contributions to science, and not because of my accidental relationship -- to a famous -- cuckoo."
• (Gene Wilder) "Now if you don't mind, can we get on with your question?"
• (Danny Goldman) "Well, sir, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between reflexive and voluntary nerve impulses."
• (Gene Wilder) "Very good. Since our lab work today is a demonstration of just that distinction, why don't we proceed?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Mr. Hilltop here; with whom I have never worked, nor given any prior instructions to; has graciously offered his services for this afternoon's demonstration. Mr. Hilltop, would you hop up on your feet and stand beside this table?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Nice hopping. Mr. Hilltop, would you raise your left knee, please?"
• (Gene Wilder) "You have just witnessed a voluntary nerve impulse. It begins as a stimulus from the cerebral cortex, passes through the brain stem and to the particular muscles involved. Mr. Hilltop, you may lower your knee."
• (Gene Wilder) "Reflex movements are those which are made independently of the will, but are carried out along pathways which pass between the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system."
• (Gene Wilder) "You fithy, rotten yellow son of a bitch."
• (Gene Wilder) "We are not aware of these impulses, neither do we intend them to carry out our contraction of muscles; yet as you can see, they work by themselves. But what if we block the nerve impulse by simply applying local pressure? Which can be done with any ordinary metal clamp just at the swelling, on the posterior nerve roots -- for oh say, five or six seconds."
• (Gene Wilder) "Why, you mother-grabbing bastard."
• (Gene Wilder) "As you can see, all communication is shut off."
• (Gene Wilder) "In spite of our mechanical magnificence, if it were not for this continuous stream -- of motor impulses, we would collapse like a bunch of broccoli."
• (Liam Dunn) "Ohh, ohh."
• (Gene Wilder) "In conclusion, it should be noted --"
• (Gene Wilder) "Give him an extra dollar."
• (Orderly in Frankenstein's Class) "An extra dollar, yes sir."
• (Gene Wilder) "That any more than common injury to the nerve root is always serious."
• (Liam Dunn) "Ohh, ohh, ohhh."
• (Gene Wilder) "Because once a nerve fiber is severed, there is no way in heaven or on earth to regenerate life back into it."

• (Gene Wilder) "I am a scientist, not a philosopher. You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system."
• (Danny Goldman) "But what about your grandfather's work, sir?"
• (Gene Wilder) "My grandfather's work was doodoo. I am not interested in death. The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life."
• (Gene Wilder) "Class -- is -- dismissed."

• (Gene Wilder) ""As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hinderance to my speed, I resolved therefore to make a being of a gigantic stature.""
• (Gene Wilder) "Of course. That would simplify everything."
• (Teri Garr) "In other vords: his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size."
• (Gene Wilder) "Exactly."
• (Teri Garr) "He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker."
• (Gene Wilder) "That goes without saying."
• (Teri Garr) "Voof."
• (Marty Feldman) "He's going to be very popular."

• (Gene Wilder) "SEDA-GIVE?"

• (Gene Wilder) "Have all the preperations been made for the transference?"
• (Teri Garr) "Yes, doctor."
• (Marty Feldman) "Are you sure you want to go through with this?"
• (Gene Wilder) "It's the only thing that can save him now."
• (Marty Feldman) "You realize you're risking both your lives?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Yes."

• (Gene Wilder) "Nice hopping."

• (Gene Wilder) "I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen. Don't give me that. I don't believe in fate. And I won't say it."
• (Gene Wilder) "All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY. DESTINY. NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME. DESTINY. DESTINY. NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME."

• (Gene Wilder) "Sit down, won't you?"
• (Gene Wilder) "No, no, up here."

• (Gene Wilder) "STAND BACK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. HE'S GOT A ROTTEN BRAIN."
• (Cloris Leachman) "It's not rotten. It's a good brain."
• (Gene Wilder) "IT'S ROTTEN, I TELL YOU. ROTTEN."
• (Peter Boyle) "RRAAAAAAAA."
• (Marty Feldman) "Ixnay on the ottenray."

• (Gene Wilder) "Well this explains the music."
• (Marty Feldman) "It's still warm."

• (Gene Wilder) "Hello handsome. You're a good looking fellow, do you know that? People laugh at you, people hate you, but why do they hate you? Because -- they are jealous. Look at that boyish face. Look at that sweet smile. Do you wanna talk about physical strength? Do you want to talk about sheer muscle? Do you want to talk about the Olympian ideal? You are a God. And listen to me, you are not evil. You -- are -- good."
• (Gene Wilder) "This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel. And I want the world to know once and for all, and without any shame, that we love him. I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you how to walk, how to speak, how to move, how to think. Together, you and I are going to make the greatest single contribution to science since the creation of fire."
• (Teri Garr) "Dr. Fronkensteen. Are you all right."
• (Gene Wilder) "MY NAME IS FRANKENSTEIN."

• (Gene Wilder) "What knockers."
• (Teri Garr) "Oh, thank you doctor."

• (Gene Wilder) "If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits --"
• (Peter Boyle) "'UTTIN' ON THE 'IIIIITZ."

• (Gene Wilder) "Please. Remain in your seats, I beg you. We are not children here, we are scientists. I assure you there is nothing to fear."

• (Gene Wilder) "Put -- the candle -- back."

• (Gene Wilder) "You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump."
• (Marty Feldman) "What hump?"

• (Gene Wilder) "With such a specimen for a body, all we need now is an equally magnificant brain. You know what to do?"
• (Marty Feldman) "I have a pretty good idea."
• (Gene Wilder) "Good man. Didn't you, didn't you use to have that on the other side?"
• (Marty Feldman) "What?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Your, uh, oh nevermind."

• (Gene Wilder) "My fellow scienti --"
• (Unnamed) "Ssssssssssssssss."
• (Gene Wilder) "-- tists; and neurosurgeons, ladies and gentlemen. A few short weeks ago, coming from a background, believe me, as conservative and traditionally grounded in scientific fact as any of you, I began an experiment in, incredulous as it may sound, the reanimation of dead tissue."

• (Gene Wilder) "Well it seems as if our mysterious violinist has disa --"
• (Gene Wilder) "puh."
• (Teri Garr) "Disa what?"
• (Marty Feldman) "-ppeared."
• (Gene Wilder) "Shh."

• (Gene Wilder) "Pardon me, boy. Is this the Transylvania station?"
• (Unnamed) "Ja, ja. Track 29. Can I give you a shine?"

• (Gene Wilder) "Love is the only thing that can save this poor creature, and I am going to convince him that he is loved even at the cost of my own life. No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for. Do you understand? Do not open this door."
• (Teri Garr) "Yes, Doctor."
• (Marty Feldman) "Nice working with ya."
• (Gene Wilder) "Let me out. Let me out of here. Get me the hell out of here. What's the matter with you people? I was joking. Don't you know a joke when you hear one? HA-HA-HA-HA. Jesus Christ, get me out of here. Open this god**** door or I'll kick your rotten heads in. Mommy."

• (Gene Wilder) "IT -- COULD -- WORK."

• (Gene Wilder) "What a filthy job."
• (Marty Feldman) "Could be worse."
• (Gene Wilder) "How?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Could be raining."

• (Gene Wilder) "For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius."

• (Gene Wilder) "That music --"
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes. It's in your blood; it's in the blood of ALL Frankensteins. It reaches the soul when words are useless. Your grandfather used to play it to the creature HE vas making."
• (Gene Wilder) "Then it was you all the time."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "You played that music in the middle of the night --"
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "-- to get us to the laboratory."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "That was YOUR cigar smoldering in the ashtray."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "And it was you -- who left my grandfather's book out for me to find."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "So that I would --"
• (Cloris Leachman) "Yes."
• (Gene Wilder) "Then you and Victor were --"
• (Cloris Leachman) "YES. YES. Say it. He vas my -- BOYFRIEND."

• (Gene Wilder) "Nothing."
• (Teri Garr) "Oh, Doctor, I'm sorry."
• (Gene Wilder) "No. No. Be of good cheer. If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace."
• (Gene Wilder) "Son of a bitch. Bastard. I'll get you for this. What did you do to me? What did you do to me."
• (Teri Garr) "Stop it. Stop that. Stop it. You'll kill him."
• (Gene Wilder) "I don't want to live. I do not want to live."
• (Marty Feldman) "Quiet dignity and grace"
• (Gene Wilder) "Oh -- mama --"

• (Gene Wilder) "Alive. It's alive. It's alive."

• (Gene Wilder) "My grandfather -- was a very -- SICK -- man."

• (Gene Wilder) "Are you ready?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Are you sure this is how they did it?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Yes. It's all written down in the notes. Now tie off the kites and hurry down as fast as you can."
• (Marty Feldman) "What's the hurry?"
• (Gene Wilder) "There's a possibility of electrocution. Do you understand?"
• (Gene Wilder) "I said, there is a possibility of electrocution. Do you understand?"
• (Marty Feldman) "I understand. I understand. Why are you shouting?"

• (Gene Wilder) "I thought I told you never to interrupt me while I'm working."

• (Gene Wilder) "Please, I beg you. For safety's sake, don't humiliate him."

• (Gene Wilder) "LIFE. DO YOU HEAR ME? GIVE MY CREATION -- LIFE."

• (Gene Wilder) "What is this place?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Music room?"

• (Gene Wilder) "Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?"
• (Marty Feldman) "No."
• (Gene Wilder) "Ah. Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Then you won't be angry?"
• (Gene Wilder) "I will NOT be angry."
• (Marty Feldman) "Abby someone."
• (Gene Wilder) "Abby someone. Abby who?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Abby -- Normal."
• (Gene Wilder) "Abby Normal?"
• (Marty Feldman) "I'm almost sure that was the name."
• (Gene Wilder) "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Is that what you're telling me?"

• (Gene Wilder) "Igor, help me with the bags."
• (Marty Feldman) "Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the toiben."
• (Gene Wilder) "I was talking about the luggage."

• (Gene Wilder) "Gone. Gone. We've got to find him, you understand? We've got to find him before he kills someone. What have I done? Oh God in Heaven. What have I done?"

• (Gene Wilder) "Well, dear, are you ready?"
• (Teri Garr) "Yes, Doctor."
• (Gene Wilder) "Elevate me."
• (Teri Garr) "Now? Right here?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Yes, yes, raise the platform."
• (Teri Garr) "Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah -- yes."

• (Gene Wilder) "Damn your eyes."
• (Marty Feldman) "Too late."

• (Gene Wilder) "Nice grouping."

Marty Feldman as Igor

• (Marty Feldman) "I ain't got no body, and nobody cares for me. Yakka tak ta a yakka tak ta ha."
• (Gene Wilder) "Igor."
• (Marty Feldman) "Froedrick."
• (Gene Wilder) "How did you get here?"
• (Marty Feldman) "Through the dumbwaiter."

• (Marty Feldman) "Sed-a --"
• (Teri Garr) "Sed-a --"
• (Marty Feldman) "Dirty word. He said a dirty word."

• (Marty Feldman) "My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up."

• (Marty Feldman) "You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him -- the things he'd say to me."
• (Gene Wilder) "What did he say?"
• (Marty Feldman) ""What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?""

• (Marty Feldman) "Blucher."

• (Marty Feldman) "Where are you going?"
• (Gene Wilder) "To wash up. I've got to look normal."
• (Gene Wilder) "We've all of us got to behave normally."

• (Marty Feldman) "Wait Master, it might be dangerous -- you go first."

• (Marty Feldman) "It's gonna be a long night. If you need any help with the girls, I'll be --"

• (Marty Feldman) "Two nasty lookin' switches over there, but I'm not going to be the first."

• (Marty Feldman) "I heard the strangest music from the upstairs kitchen and I just -- followed it down. Call it -- a hunch. Ba-dum chi."

Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher

• (Cloris Leachman) "Would the doctor care for a -- brandy before retiring?"
• (Gene Wilder) "No. Thank you."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Some varm milk -- perhaps?"
• (Gene Wilder) "No -- thank you very much. No thanks."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Ovaltine?"
• (Gene Wilder) "NOTHING. Thank you. I'm a little; tired."
• (Cloris Leachman) "Then I vill say -- goodnight, Herr Doctor."
• (Gene Wilder) "Goodnight, Frau Blücher."

• (Cloris Leachman) "Good night, Herr Doktor."
• (Gene Wilder) "Good night, Frau Blücher."

• (Cloris Leachman) "I am Frau Blücher."

• (Cloris Leachman) "Stay close to the candles. The stairway can be -- treacherous."

• (Cloris Leachman) "I came to tell you that your fiance should be arriving any second."
• (Gene Wilder) "Elizabeth. Here, tonight?"
• (Cloris Leachman) "I suggest you put on a tie."

Teri Garr as Inga

• (Teri Garr) "Put -- ze candle -- beck."

• (Teri Garr) "Werewolf."
• (Gene Wilder) "Werewolf?"
• (Marty Feldman) "There."
• (Gene Wilder) "What?"
• (Marty Feldman) "There, wolf. There, castle."
• (Gene Wilder) "Why are you talking that way?"
• (Marty Feldman) "I thought you wanted to."
• (Gene Wilder) "No, I don't want to."
• (Marty Feldman) "Suit yourself. I'm easy."

• (Teri Garr) "You haven't even touched your food."
• (Gene Wilder) "There. Now I've touched it. Happy?"

• (Teri Garr) "Hallo. Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay?"
• (Teri Garr) "It's fun."
• (Teri Garr) "Roll, roll, roll in ze hay."

• (Teri Garr) "Hold on to your hat. I'll be right back."
• (Gene Wilder) "I'm holding onto it, Darling."
• (Teri Garr) "Just a few more seconds."

• (Teri Garr) "You know, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. In the transference, the monster got part of your wonderful brain. But what did you ever get from him?"
• (Teri Garr) "Oh my goodness, I don't believe --"
• (Teri Garr) "Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you."

Gene Hackman as The Blindman

• (Gene Hackman) "Wait. Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso."

Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp

• (Kenneth Mars) "To the lumber yard."

• (Kenneth Mars) "A riot is an ungly thing -- undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun."

• (Kenneth Mars) "Let's all go have some sponge cake and a little wine --"
• (Kenneth Mars) "Oh, s***."

• (Kenneth Mars) "Vee had better confeerm de fect dat Yunk Frankenshtein iss indeed VALLOWING EEN EES GANDFADDA'S VOOTSHTAPS."
• (Arthur Malet) "What?"
• (Kenneth Mars) "Following in his grandfather's footsteps."
• (Kenneth Mars) "Footsteps. Footsteps."
• (Arthur Malet) "Ohhh. Footsteps."

Peter Boyle as The Monster

• (Peter Boyle) "For as long as I can remember people have hated me. They looked at my face and my body and they ran away in horror. In my loneliness I decided that if I could not inspire love, which is my deepest hope, I would instead cause fear. I live because this poor half-crazed genius, has given me life. He alone held an image of me as something beautiful and then, when it would have been easy enough to stay out of danger, he used his own body as a guinea pig to give me a calmer brain and a somewhat more sophisticated way of expressing myself."

• (Anne Beesley) "Now throw a kiss and say "Bye bye.""
• (Anne Beesley) "Oh dear. Nothing left. What shall we throw in now?"

Danny Goldman as Medical Student

• (Danny Goldman) "Isn't it true that Darwin preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case until, by some extrordinary means, it actually began to move with voluntary motion?"
• (Gene Wilder) "Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?"
• (Danny Goldman) "Why, the worm, sir."
• (Gene Wilder) "Yes, I did read something of that incident when I was a student, but you have to remember that a worm -- with very few exceptions -- is not a human being."
• (Danny Goldman) "But wasn't that the whole basis of your grandfather's work? The reanimation of dead tissue?"
• (Gene Wilder) "My grandfather was a very sick man."
• (Danny Goldman) "But as a Fronkensteen, aren't you the least bit curious about it? Doesn't the bringing back to life what was once dead hold any intrigue to you?"
• (Gene Wilder) "You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind. Dead is dead."
• (Danny Goldman) "But look at what has been done with hearts and kidneys --"
• (Gene Wilder) "Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys. I am talking about the central nervous system."

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