Quotes About Elphaba

#1. Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba.

Gregory Maguire

#2. It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

#3. Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

Gregory Maguire

#4. Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

Gregory Maguire

#5. Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

Gregory Maguire

#6. Elphaba: "I just wish ..."
Fiyero: "What?"
Elphaba: "I wish I could be beautiful ... for you."
Fiyero: "Elphaba ..."
Elphaba: "Don't tell me that I am. You don't need to lie to me."
Fiyero: "It's not lying! It's looking at things another way.

Stephen Schwartz

#7. Both: "There's been some confusion for you see my roommate is ..."
Galinda: "Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe."
Elphaba: "... Blonde.

Stephen Schwartz

#8. Elphaba gave him a sidelong glance. "I think you enjoy going to school, Nick. Are you sure canoodling with teenage girls isn't your ulterior motive?"
"Perish the thought, Elphaba, perish the thought. I'm too old for that." Nick winked. "By about eight hundred years.

Abramelin Keldor

#9. [after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

Gregory Maguire

#10. You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.
Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.
I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Gregory Maguire

#11. I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

#12. Elphaba's already come back. I saw her last week on the stairs.

Gregory Maguire

#13. Give me something to go on, here. What kind of black magic are we talking? Elphaba,Wicked Witch of the West-type stuff or Slytherin-type stuff?

Chloe Neill

#14. Nick pulled a business card out of a pocket and handed it to Elphaba. It read Nicholas Lynch, Inspector, Ministry of Magick, next to a moving image of Nick, mugging for the camera. I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards!

Abramelin Keldor

#15. My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.

Beth Grant

#16. But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

Ariana Grande

#17. The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time.

Gregory Maguire

#18. You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Ana Gasteyer

#19. You are so vicious. (Tee)
Hence the nickname. (Syd)
You know it's bad when you make me look like Glinda the Good Witch, right? (Tee)
Just call me Elphaba. But don't drop a house on me, 'kay? (Syd)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

#21. I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

Gregory Maguire

#22. Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.

Gregory Maguire

#23. I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

Gregory Maguire

#24. I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.

Gregory Maguire

#25. Come what may and hell to pay.

Gregory Maguire

#26. Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Gregory Maguire

#27. They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other.

Gregory Maguire

#28. It's just life, so keep dancing through.

Stephen Schwartz

#29. Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Gregory Maguire

#30. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

L. Frank Baum