Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Quotes

“I’m not bad, Mr. Valiant. I’m just drawn that way.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when to quit. She lit her colored coffin nail, set it into an ashtray, and promptly forgot about it. It smoldered into eternity silently begging for one more touch from her gorgeous lips.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“Must have had a stronger union than the coffee machine.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“She lit a new cigarette off the butt of an old one, just like you’d see any ordinary B-girl do in any ordinary juke joint on any ordinary night of the week, except, when Jessica did it, she made it seem extraordinary, as exotic and exciting as watching a jeweler cutting diamonds or a gunsmith engraving steel. She wrapped her lips seductively around the filter tip and sucked rhythmically, making her cigarette darken and glow, darken and glow in a pattern that spelled out temptation in her seductive private code.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“It happened the first time we met after Jessica left me. I accused Rocco of somehow blackmailing her into it. Know what he did? He laughed at me. He didn’t even answer. He just laughed at me. Tell me, Mister Valiant, do you know how miserable it is to have a person laugh at you?”

It seemed an odd statement from someone whose main function in life was to make people laugh at him, but I didn’t feel up to tackling the philosophic implications.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“But, like I said, nobody ever accused me of having an overabundance of good sense.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“I’m constantly amazed how people kid themselves into believing love can conquer all.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“For the year Jessica and I were together, we were as in love as two people can be. There was no faking how she felt about me. She couldn’t possibly have reversed herself so quickly.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“I’ve tried to talk to her a couple of times, but she avoids me.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“I didn’t really expect her to accept, not with her being a humanoid and me a barnyard.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“You could see a long way, but not half as far as Roger had gone.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“I went back to my office and let my bottom desk drawer buy me a drink.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“A guy like Tracy could probably get elected chief of police on the basis of his dashing reflection in the fun-house mirror. In the comic business they call that the power of make believe. In our nation’s capital, they call it politics.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“Here I sit with a thirty-six-year-old lust, and a three-year-old dinky.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

“Hey detective," said Baby Herman as I shut the door. "I like you. You come back sometime, and we'll have us a party. I'll supply the funny hats, the cake, and the noisemakers. You supply the broads. Just make sure they go for younger men.”
― Gary K. Wolf, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?