The Emperor's New Clothes (1987)
Sid Caesar: The Emperor
Quotes
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The Emperor : [the Emperor doesn't want to be overdressed] I don't want to blind them, I just want them to blink a little.
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Prime Minister : The people are clamoring for you, Your Majesty.
The Emperor : They're not clamoring very loud.
Prime Minister : But they're our best clamorers...
The Emperor : Tell them I want more clamoring. I want more clamor!
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The Emperor : The collar's always around the neck, the sleeves always come off the shoulders, the waist always goes around the middle! When will they invent something original?
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The Emperor : Why does everyone argue with me? I'm the Emperor!
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The Emperor : Would the pants have two legs?
Henry Dispenser : How many would Your Majesty like?
The Emperor : Five! Then when you're walking around, you can go jumping from leg to leg to leg to leg to leg to leg to leg to leg to leg to leg...
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The Emperor : How do you spin a thread out of a solid diamond?
Henry Dispenser : Ah! That is a family secret!
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The Emperor : I think this will be very good for the kingdom. It will weed out all those people who try to bluff their way through life.
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Prime Minister : [Prince Nino is no match for Princess Gilda] The marriage contract has already been agreed.
The Emperor : They better have a lotta money. And I mean, a lotta money!
Prime Minister : Unfortunately, they have.
The Emperor : No, I mean a LOTTA money! And I wanna count it!
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The Emperor : [the tailors use strange measurements] Duke, you realize I have bigger whoopets than the Maharajah?
Duke : Oh, congratulations, Your Majesty.
The Emperor : Thank you. I wonder what they are. I hope it's nice.
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The Emperor : Blue? Red? There's only one way to settle this. I'll have to see the cloth myself.
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The Emperor : [the invisible cloth] Everybody'll think I'm stupid. I can't be, I'm the Emperor.
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The Emperor : It's diamond thread! Diamond makes a spectrum, and blue and red make...
Duke : Uh... reddy-blue?
Prime Minister : Uh... bluey-red?
The Emperor : Blue and red make PURPLE!
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The Emperor : We'll have your wedding dress made out of the same material.
Princess Gilda : No!
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The Emperor : You don't have to baloney me any more, Wenceslas.
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Prime Minister : Your Majesty, I take it this is one suit of clothes that will not be in the museum.
The Emperor : Wrong! This suit of clothes will have a place of honor in the museum, to show that even an Emperor can be wrong.
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The Emperor : [the Prime Minister and the Duke admit their stupidity] But I, as Emperor, was OVERPOWERINGLY stupid... I, as Emperor, was more stupid than you all, because I was responsible for all this stupidity!