Danny Kaye credited as playing...
Geppetto • Boris Stroganoff
- Geppetto: Hey, Little Bo Peep. Missy Bo Peep, how are you? Eh, you nice? No, no, don't be jealous. No, I love you too. I love you very much. Ma, he's a nice boy, you get to be friends. Heh.
- [turns to toy soldier]
- Geppetto: What are you looking with a sour puss like that, eh?
- [scowls back]
- Geppetto: You no like Pinocchio? You no like Pinocchio, you turn you head, eh?
- Geppetto: [singing] I'm-a talkin' to myself again. I'm-a talkin' to myself again. I pretend that the toys are like little girls and boys. And I'm-a talkin' to myself again.
- Boris Stroganoff: [tying Pinocchio up] Everything in life has strings attached to it.
- Pinocchio: Especially puppets.
- Boris Stroganoff: Especially puppets... Just a minute! I got sensational idea! You know what's going to happen? I have idea that will absolutely knock audience for cuckoo! You will come out like regular puppet, eh? And I will bring you out on the stage. You will be singing, dancing, yes?
- Pinocchio: Yes.
- Boris Stroganoff: I say magic words
- [yells in Russian]
- Boris Stroganoff: And then strings fall away! You dance and sing on your own. People will yell "Bravo, Stroganoff!" Absolutely fantastic, eh?
- Pinocchio: If you don't mind Mr. Stroganoff, for my performance today, I'll just take half of these gold coins to bring home to Papa. What's half of twenty-eight?
- Boris Stroganoff: Five!
- Fox: Come to think of it we, uh, we did see a little fella about so high.
- Cat: Oh I think a little higher.
- Geppetto: Where you see him?
- Fox: Who's giving the reward?
- Geppetto: You tell me where, I'll tell you who.
- Fox: You tell us who, we'll tell you where.
- Geppetto: I don't tell you who till you tell me where, and I tell you why. If I tell you who before you tell me where, you no tell me where. You'll go to who and tell him where.
- Cat: If we tell you where before you tell us who, you'll go to who and tell him where.
- Geppetto: I tell you what...
- Fox: Just tell us who.
- Geppetto: I'll tell you when I tell you who! I tell you who when you tell me where!
- Cat: We tell you where when you tell us who!
- Geppetto: What's happening to you Pinocchio is you told a lie. And when you lie, it's-a plain like the nose on you face.
- Boris Stroganoff: You're going to be a sensation! With you as my star singing and dancing, cavorting...
- Pinocchio: How can I cavort with a broken heart?
- Boris Stroganoff: You'd like better a broken arm?
- Pinocchio: No.