Roat: If you'd only said please.


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark

Roat: May we have weapons on the table?
Mike Talman: We'll have explinations first.
Roat: Well, it goes back a little.
Mike Talman: So, go back a little.
Roat: All right. Once upon a time, there was a fairy princess named Lisa.


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark

Roat: Now all the children have gone to bed, and we can talk.
Susy Hendrix: What are you going to do with that gasoline?
Roat: Well you just guess.
[lights newspaper on fire]
Roat: Now guess!
Susy Hendrix: No! Please, no! Alright!
Roat: I thought that would save time.
Susy Hendrix: I'll get you the doll!
Roat: Oh that's a good girl, go right to the head of the class.
Susy Hendrix: [trips and falls on top of Mike's body] Mike!
[Roat pulls a chair up from behind, startling her]
Roat: It's just a chair, Susy, so you can sit down.


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark

Roat: Well, if you -
[pulls the knife out at Carlino]
Roat: All right, fat man, over there. Now both of you through the door, backwards!


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman: And you? What's your favorite toy?
Roat: [pulls out a mini statue] Geraldine.
Carlino: What does she do?
[a large blade comes out horizontally from the feet of the statue]
Mike Talman: And may we have Geraldine on the table too?
Roat: No, we may not.
Carlino: Why the hell not?
Roat: Because she's the referee.


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark

Mike Talman: You want something?
Roat: You, Mr Talman and you too, Sgt Carlino.


--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark