- [Oz has realized that he can pass off his stage magic as the real thing to defeat Evanora and Theodora]
- Oz: Look, I know I'm not the wizard that you expected. But I might just be the wizard that you need.
- Glinda: You said you were just a con man.
- Oz: Precisely!
- Glinda: Nothing but a trickster?
- Oz: Yes!
- Glinda: A terrible cheat!
- Oz: The best there is.
- Glinda: A carnival magician's going to put on a show.
- Oz: I'll put on the show of a lifetime! The likes of which the land of Oz has never seen! Magic! Mystery! Prestidigitation! It'll be my greatest trick yet.
- Oz: I'm afraid I can't give you what I know you want most of all. All I can offer you is this: us. I know it's not the family that you had in mind, but...
- China Girl: It's perfect. Thank you, Oz.
- Glinda: What they lack in stamina the Tinkers make up for in ingenuity. The can build anything.
- [Tinkers all cheer]
- Elder Tinker: And I tell ya what else. We can build anything!
- Glinda: Well done, Tinker, your machine works beautifully!
- Master Tinker: That's just workmanship. What you displayed was true courage.
- [first lines]
- Front Gate Barker: Hurry, hurry, step this way. Get your tickets now. Don't be shut out, friend. Step this way. See the most wondrous sights imaginable. pulled from the four corners of the Earth. Acts to delight, to thrill and to mystify! Walk through these gates and into the world of wonder.
- Annie: I need to tell you something, Oscar.
- Oz: That's never a good start to a conversation.
- Annie: John Gale asked me to marry him. That's why I've come. I thought you should know.
- Oz: I think that's wonderful, Annie.
- Annie: I said I had to think about it.
- Oz: Men love that answer.
- Annie: I wondered what you thought I should do.
- Oz: You could do a lot worse than John Gale. He's a good man.
- Annie: So are you.
- Oz: No. I'm not. I'm many things, but a good man is not one of them.
- Annie: But you could be. If you wanted to.
- Oz: That's just it. I don't want to. See, Kansas is full of good men. Church-going men that get married and raise families. Men like John Gale. Men like my father... who spent his whole life tilling the dirt... just to die face down in it. I don't want that, Annie. I don't want to be a good man, I want to be a great one. I want to be... Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison all rolled into one.
- Annie: That's all I ever wanted for you, you know. Greatness.
- Oz: Then you understand.
- Annie: I do.
- Oz: [drawing on the ground] Here's the plan. The wicked witch is the triangle. Monkey, you're the X. I'm the O. China Girl, you're the squiggly line.
- China Girl: I wanna be a heart. Can I be a heart?
- Oz: Fine, fine. You're a heart. Now, heart stays here. As O makes his way over here, X counters thusly. Clear so far?
- [Finley sneezes]
- China Girl: Bless you.
- Oz: Good work. You just sneezed away the plan.