Quotes taken from Wicked: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, ACT II :
â Iâd almost forgotten about you. â
â I love you just the way you are! â
â In your homeland youâre a legend. â
â Iâve won scores of bloody wars and mopped the floors with my foes, but no one remembers me! â
â Say my name in these parts and youâll get a vacant stare. â
â So to restore my repute as a fierce fearsome brute, thereâs only one route I see, arrange the slaughter of millions of innocent civilians, then theyâll remember me! â
â Caked in mud, or drenched in blood you smell as fresh as a flower. â
â Iâm a god on earth but darn it, even deities incarnate now and then can feel a little insecure. â
â All I want is some affection this rejectionâs almost too much to endure! â
â Am I not a thing of beauty?! â
â Wouldnât you gladly give up all of your worldly possessions just to greet me when I come home from a one sided massacre, and bathe my sweaty, bloody body with your tongue? â
â She may not love me yet, but Iâm willing to bet that once I kill all her people she will! â
â Let them laugh, thatâs just fine, but the last laugh will be mine âcause they canât laugh when theyâre all dead. â
â Theyâll remember me! â
â Arenât you busy ruining my life? â
â I noticed you werenât at dinner, but I saw you tried to poison my wine. Usually when you do that it means you want to talk. â
â You ripped out my heart and smashed it into a million pieces! â
â I want to expect the unexpected! â
â Youâre young. You donât exactly get how things work yet. â
â And while I donât appreciate any of your ideas, I do appreciate the fact that you have ideas! Maybe one day youâll have some good ones! â
â How the fuck did you know it was me? â
â Donât you trust me? â
â Take off your clothes. â
â No, youâre a liar. â
â Theyâll kill me if Iâm lucky, theyâll torture me if not. â
â If my crime can help improve the world we all must live in, am I not bound by duty to the people of this nation? â
â Temptation may have beckoned but I always have resisted. â
â Which way do I turn when the roadâs become so twisted? â
â You think you know me as others think they know you, but there are two sides to every story. â
â The story lingers on, but the version that is drawn is twisted! â
â Fortune favours the beautiful. â
â My only crime was love. â
â But the heart wants what it wants. And sometimes what it wants is twisted! â
â I only wished to reclaim what was mine! â
â I only wished to give the people a voice! â
â Itâs an unfortunate situation, but you do have a choice. â
â What remains of a man when that man is dead and gone? â
â Why protect my reputation? Iâm a dead man either way. â
â The question then is whether 'tis nobler in the mind to be well liked but ineffectual, or moral but maligned? â
â Iâll never be a hero all the citizens adore, but if I hide to save my life what has my life been for? â
â The road ahead may twist, but I will never swerve! â
â Iâll give them all the unsung anti-hero they deserve! â
â Iâve nothing left to lose, so the only path to choose is twisted! â
â Let them twist my words let the people scorn me, who cares if no one will ever mourn me?! â
â Listen! I am a mortal man and donât understand your strange godlike tongue! â
â Iâve got to become a sorcerer! Can you do that? â
â I am not charmed by your crazy bullshit now. â
â You either need to back me the fuck up, or shut the fuck up. Got it? â
â Would you stop acting like an asshole for one minute? â
â Youâre trying to seduce me! â
â You have no idea how much that girl means to me. â
â I didnât want them to die! â
â It takes someone who believes they can change the world to actually do it. â
â When I was your age I thought I could accomplish anything I ever wanted, and more! But I didnât. Perhaps no one does. â
â Tomorrow always comes. â
â Do not be fooled by appearances, for though it may seem small, the power to love one another is the greatest power of all! â
â I wish you didnât have to go when our storyâs just begun. â
â I wish you every happiness. â
â Youâre forgetting the best part, when the two lovers are reunited and they live happily ever after. â