Wicked has been one of the most talked about films in 2024. Directed by Jon M. Chu, who also directed Crazy Rich Asians, and In the Heights, even became a nominee for Best Director at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards. The film follows Elphaba, a girl who has been misunderstood for her green complexion, and Galinda, a popular girl, who become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. In the wake of their meeting with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship comes to an impasse.
Here are the most memorable quotes from Wicked.
- Wizard: The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.
- Elphaba: [singing] So if you care to find me, look to the western sky! As someone told me lately: “Everyone deserves a chance to fly!”
- Fiyero: Why is it you’re always causing some sort of commotion?
Elphaba: I don’t cause commotions, I am one. - Glinda: Let’s tell each other a secret that we’ve never told anyone else before. Okay, fine. I’ll go first: Fiyero and I are getting married.
Elphaba: He asked you already?
Glinda: Oh, he doesn’t know yet. - Elphaba: Fine, let’s get this over with: no, I am not seasick; no, I did not eat grass as a child; and yes, I’ve always been green.
- Madame Morrible: Citizens of Oz! There is an enemy who must be found and captured. Believe nothing she says. She has stolen our Grimmerie. She is evil, responsible for the mutilation of these poor innocent monkeys! Her green skin is but an outward manifestorium of her twisted nature. This distortion! This repulsion! This wicked witch!
Glinda: Don’t be afraid.
Elphaba: I’m not afraid. It’s the Wizard who should be afraid of me. - Glinda: Something is very wrong, I didn’t get my way… I need to lay down.
- Elphaba: You have no real power!
Wizard: Exactly. That’s why I need you. - Glinda: Elphaba Thropp, listen to me. You can do this. You can do anything.
- Glinda: [mocking Elphaba] It seems the artichoke is steamed.
- Glinda: Elphie, now that we’re friends, I’ve decided to make you my new project.
Elphaba: Oh, you really don’t have to do that.
Glinda: I know! That’s what makes me so nice. - Wizard: Follow the road. It’s gonna lead you right… to me.