James Henry Trotter Movie Quotes & Lines – 17 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Apr 23, 2026

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1 You were the spider in my window! -Mmm-hmm. -You were my first friend.

Paul Terry in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

2 This thing is a peach. All right. I'll buy that. Now, does somebody want to tell me how it got here? -We attached it to a hundred seagulls.

Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter; Mike Starr as New York City Cop in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

3 Well, maybe it started that way, as a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings, these lights, this whole city! Somebody had to dream about it first.

Paul Terry in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

4 Now wiggle. -No! -But they won't come if you don't wiggle. -Exactly! And you can't make me. -Oh, yeah? -Stop! Ah-ha-ha!

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Earthworm (David Thewlis) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

5 Sounds like a rhinoceros. -In the ocean? Scientifically impossible.

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Grasshopper (Simon Callow) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

6 Wiggle, Mr. Earthworm. Our lives depend on it. -I can't! I'm all wiggled out. Aw!

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Earthworm (David Thewlis) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

7 Come on, seagulls! -Put your backs into it! -Shake your bloomin' tail feathers!

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Grasshopper (Simon Callow) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

8 No-handedly. -Exactly. You're a hero. -I am? I'm Wonder Worm! -You are.

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Earthworm (David Thewlis) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

9 You're very kind to me. -Maybe this is because you are kind to me first.

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Miss Spider (Susan Sarandon) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

10 What? What? What was that? -The Centipede jumped in! -Good heavens! He's committed pesticide!

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry), Mr. Earthworm (David Thewlis), Mr. Grasshopper (Simon Callow) in James and the Giant Peach (1996)