Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Mr. Sir: You girl scouts want to hear a story. Once apon a time there was a magical place that never rained... The end. The Warden Walker: I am surrounded by cow turds.
Mr. Sir: There ain`t nothing down there. We woulda found it by now.
Mr. Pendanski: I wouldn`t tell the queen bee that.
Mr. Sir: I ain`t on stupid pills!
Mr. Pendanski: Good morning, Theodore!
Armpit: Man, it`s Armpit! I don`t know no fool named Theodore.
Mr. Pendanski: Well, I don`t know no fool named Armpit.
[Hands him water]
Mr. Pendanski: Here`s your water, who-ever-you-are.
Magnet: [about the dog he stole] I would have made it out, too... if my pocket didn`t start barkin`.
Mr. Pendanski: D-I-G. What does that spell?
Zero: [takes shovel and whacks Mr. Pendanski across the face with it] DIG.
The Warden Walker: Are you trying to be funny, or do you think I`m stupid?
Armpit: I wasn`t trying to be funny.
Mr. Sir: Keep running, there ain`t gonna be no Yelnats the fifth!
Zig-Zag: Say, I didn`t know Marion was a man`s name.
Mr. Sir: It ain`t.
Mr. Sir: [his face has a huge scar] I think I look kinda purty, don`t you?
[repeated line]
The Warden Walker: Excuse me?
Young Warden: I`m tired of this, Grandpa...
Trout Walker: [shouts] Well, that`s too damn bad! You keep digging!
Young Warden: Well, excuse me.
The Warden Walker: Stanley, won`t you just open it? Just let me see what`s inside it, please!
Stanley: Excuse me?
Mr. Pendanski: Here, Theodore.
Armpit: Man, the name is Armpit.
Mr. Pendanski: They all have their little nicknames, however I prefer to use the names their parents gave them,the names society will recognize them by.
Mr. Pendanski: You are here on account of one person; do you know who that one person is?
Stanley: Yeah, my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, that`s who it is.
Mr. Pendanski: No, you.
Stanley: Man how did she know my name?
Zig-Zag: Oh, man, she`s got the whole place wired. Oh yeah, she has these little cameras and microphones all over the place. In the tent, in the rec room, in the showers.
Stanley: They`re not in the showers.
Squid: Oh don`t listen to him. I read his file. It said he suffers from, um, oh. acute paranoia.
Magnet: So I guess that means she watches me everyday, huh.
Armpit: Man, he said cameras and microphones, not microscopes.
Mr. Pendanski: No one cares about Hector Zeroni.
Stanley: I do.
[repeated line]
Sam: I can fix that.
Zero: I`m not stupid, I know everyone thinks I am, I just don`t like answering stupid questions.
Zig-Zag: [singing] You got to go and dig those holes. With broken hands and withered souls. Emancipated from all you know. You got to go and dig those holes.
Stanley: You know what I keep thinkin` of?
Zero: What?
Stanley: How fine this Mary Lou must`ve looked like in a bikini.
Zero: What do you thinks up there?
Stanley: I don`t know, a great big Frosty-Freeze?
Zero: Good, `cause I could use a hot fudge sundae.
[X-ray takes Stanley`s shovel]
Magnet: You picked up X-Ray`s shovel. It`s shorter than the rest of `em.
Squid: Smaller shovel, smaller hole.
Mr. Sir: I ain`t on stupid pills.
The Warden Walker: Is that all you jackasses can dig?
Magnet: Maybe he found Zero. Maybe they`re still alive.
X-Ray: Yeah, and maybe the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are still alive.
Squid: Maybe my mom`ll stop drinkin` and my dad`ll come back.
Twitch: Man when Caveman stole that truck... oh...
Zig-Zag: That was awesome.
Armpit: Yeah, Caveman did have style.
Zero: Did they have red X`s on them?
Squid: You got Zero to talk.
Armpit: Hey yo, what else can you do Zero?
[Zero looks at his food]
Stanley: Yeah. Yeah they did.
Stanley: [in the Court Room] Well, I`ve never been to camp before...
Judge: I could send you to jail and not lose one bit of sleep over it.
Judge: There is a vacancy at Camp Green Lake.
Judge: The choice is yours: Camp Green Lake or Jail.
Stanley: Uh... well, um... I`ve never been to camp before.
Judge: Eighteen months - Camp Green Lake, son.
[bangs gavel]
Stanley: I stole a pair of shoes.
Squid: From a store or were they on someone`s feet?
Zig-Zag: No, he killed the guy first, just left out that little detail, huh?
The Warden Walker: How about you dig, and Caveman can fill the canteens? So what do you want to do?
Mr. Pendanski: I`ll fill the canteens.
Zig-Zag: Did you tell him about the lizards?
Magnet: Hey. Maybe it`ll rain for 40 days and 40 nights, like it did in the Bible.
Armpit: Yeah, maybe we`ll have to build an arc.
Squid: We`ll get two of every animal...
X-Ray: Yeah, two scorpions, two rattlesnakes, two yellow spotted lizards all that.
Twitch: I never mean to steal anything, but when I see a nice car, I just start twitching. You think I`m jumpy now, you should`ve seen me behind the wheel of that Mustang convertible. Whoo! Vroom!
Twitch: Jaguar, that`s a nice car.
Magnet: Don`t even think about it, Twitch.
Armpit: Look at the little fishes... I mean cave pictures.
Zig-Zag: He`s not going to take it. Come here - eat the cookie.
Stanley: Look, it says KB.
Zig-Zag: Yeah... yeah that`s Keith Barrenger.
Squid: Who?
Zig-Zag: He was in my math class.
Mr. Pendanski: I`ll have the chicken tenders, Warden.
[falls down again]
Mr. Pendanski: It smells like puke from a mule been `ruminating on asparagus for two weeks.
Texas Ranger #2: Marion Sevillo!
Mr. Sir: [freezes] Oh, crap.
Stanley`s Mother: I feel so sorry for the old lady who lived in the shoe, `cause it must`ve smelled real bad.
Mr. Sir: This ain`t a girl scout camp!
Mr. Sir: This ain`t no kindergarteners in the sandbox!
Mr. Sir: How did that get there? Did it fall from the sky?
Madame Zeroni: If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, / The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. / The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, / And cries to the moon, / If only if only.
The Warden Walker: This is my special nail polish. I make it myself. You Want to know my secret ingredient? Rattlesnake venom. I just love what it does to the coloring. It`s perfectly harmless... when it`s dry.
Mr. Sir: Stanley Yelnats... the Fourth?
Stanley: Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, `cause it`s Yelnats backwards. It`s this little... tradition.
Madame Zeroni: If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity!
Mr. Pendanski: Stanley, if you`ve got any questions, just ask Theodore. Theodore will be your mentor. Got that, Theodore?
Armpit: Yeah, man. Whatever, dude.
Mr. Pendanski: I`m depending on you. It should be no labor to be nice to your neighbor.
Mr. Pendanski: The early mole digs the deepest hole.
Stanley: Hector, I`m glad you stole those shoes and threw `em on my head.
Clyde `Sweetfeet` Livingston: I don`t understand what type of person steals from homeless children. You`re no fan of mine.
Mr. Sir: You take a bad boy, make him dig holes all day in the hot sun, it turns him into a good boy. That`s our philosophy here at camp green lake.
Madame Zeroni: You should go to America. That`s where my son is. That`s where your future is, not Myra Menke. Her head`s as empty as a flowerpot!
Madame Zeroni: Morris Menke is a shmuck!
Mr. Sir: Everything turns to callous eventually. That`s life!
Stanley: I feel really awkward with you reading over my shoulder like that, so...
Zero: I can`t read.
X-Ray: Hey Mom, who`s the neanderthal?
Zig-Zag: What color was it`s blood?
Stanley: I-I don`t know. I couldn`t tell.
Zig-Zag: I wish I`d a seen it. Bam!
Magnet: If Mr. Sir didn`t shoot it, Stanley, you`d be in the hole.
Zig-Zag: Don`t you know each one`s got exactly 11 spots?
Squid: Yeah, man, but if you ever get close enough to count `em, you`re dead.
Armpit: Look, it`s the lizards we`re workin` for, man. We build their houses for `em. I mean, yesterday I saw 10 of `em in one hole.
Squid: We ain`t diggin` for no lizards
Armpit: What we diggin` for then man?
X-Ray: Like Mr. Sir said, we diggin` to build some character.
Stanley: Where`s a person go to the bathroom around here?
Magnet: Pick a hole, any hole
Magnet: Nobody messes with the Caveman.
X-Ray: Did you see the Caveman back there?
Stanley: I don`t wanna mess with anybody.
Zig-Zag: Come on, Caveman.
Stanley: ...I`m Caveman?
Zero: Better than Barfbag.
Mr. Sir: All life begins with water. So think of it this way, I`m givin` you life. Say thank you.
Stanley: Thank you, Mr. Sir.
Stanley`s Mother: I don`t smell anythin`!
Mr. Sir: What`re we gonna do?
The Warden Walker: You`ll do as I say.
[puts her hat on and leaves]
Mr. Pendanski: What did she say?
Mr. Sir: Not much.
Mr. Pendanski: What do we do?
Mr. Sir: You`ll do as I say.
[puts his hat on and leaves]
Mr. Pendanski: But you didn`t say anything either.
Zero: You know, those stars look like a shovel to me.
Stanley: Exactly... Hector, I feel lucky.
Zero: [laughing] The onions have gone to your head.
Stanley: What do you say we dig one more hole?
Stanley: [looking at "God`s Thumb"] Say, what does that look like to you?
[he and Zero hold out their thumbs, and look at each other]
Trout Walker: [Trout appears, pointing a rifle at Kate] You got five seconds to tell me where you buried the lout!
Kissin` Kate Barlow: I`ve been waitin` for you, Trout...
[she draws her pistol and aims. Trout hesitates, but then she lowers it]
Kissin` Kate Barlow: I ain`t gonna kill you.
[she throws the gun down, and Trout`s wife picks it up]
Trout Walker: Where`s the loot?
Kissin` Kate Barlow: There ain`t no loot.
Trout Walker: Don`t give me that! You robbed every bank from Hell to Houston!
Linda Walker: We saw you heading back with a shovel, Miss Katherine!
Kissin` Kate Barlow: Linda Miller? Is that you?
Linda Walker: I`ve been Linda Walker for the past thirteen years!
Trout Walker: One!
Kissin` Kate Barlow: Aw, Linda, you were such a good student... you must have married him for his money.
Trout Walker: Two!
Linda Walker: Well, it`s all gone now! It dried up with the lake. Hasn`t rained here since the day they killed Sam! Now you better tell him what he wants, he`s a desperate man!
Trout Walker: Three!
Kissin` Kate Barlow: Go on, kill me.
Trout Walker: [smiles crookedly] I ain`t gonna kill you. But by the time I`m finished with you, you gonna wish you was dead.
Mr. Sir: Yeah, keep running! There ain`t gonna be no Yelnats the fifth!
[first lines]
[Barfbag walks towards a rattlesnake]
X-Ray: Hey, Barfbag. What are you doing?
[Barfbag takes his shoe and sock off and steps on the snake, which bites him]
Barfbag: [yells] Aaaaaah!
[Stanley arriving in the desert]
Stanley: So. Where`s the lake?
Guard: Hey. What did I just tell you? Don`t be a wise guy!
[after Mr. Pendanski introduced everyone]
Squid: And that`s Mom!
[when Stanley gets into the truck and he can start it]
Twitch: Come on! Come on! Put it in gear!
Squid: Hey look! A cloud!
[points to it]
Squid: Right there!
Stanley: It`s destiny.
Kissin` Kate Barlow: The lake goes around for miles. You, and your children, and your children`s children, will dig for a hundred years, and you will never find it.
[she picks up a yellow lizard]
Kissin` Kate Barlow: Start digging, Trout.
[She puts the lizard to her arm. It bites her, and she dies, laughing softly]
[last lines]
Stanley: I guess you have to fill in the rest of the holes yourself.
Stanley Yelnats III: I learn from failure.
Stanley: [Hands Zero an onion] Here, eat this.
Zero: What is it?
Stanley: It`s a hot-fudge sundae, just eat it.
Trivia
The poem that Miss Katherine reads to the young Linda and Sam finished is "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe.
The animals shown in the movie and referred to as yellow spotted lizards are in fact Bearded dragons with good makeup and CGI fangs. The Beardies were provided by the Sandfire Dragon Ranch.
Nathan Davis, the actor who plays Stanley Yelnats II (Stanley`s grandfather), is director Andrew Davis`s father.
The car the warden drives is a 1957 Chrysler. This car did not have a gear shift to change gears. Instead, it had push buttons to change from drive, reverse, park, etc.
Frankie Muniz was originally cast as Stanley.
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# Both the book and the movie mention that Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston had hit four triples in a baseball game. In fact, the Major League record is three.
The "yellow spotted lizards" mentioned in the movie do not exist. There are only two poisonous lizards in North America: the Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard, which live in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Alex D. Linz was offered the role of Stanley.
The townsman in the school room is Brian Peck, the acting coach for the boys.
Sigourney Weaver wanted to be in this film because "Holes" is her daughter`s favorite book.
# In the Warden`s house, there is a framed newspaper cutting, with the words, "Kate Barlow Robs Chicago Pacific." Chicago Pacific is the name of director Andrew Davis`s company.
Before shooting the film, Patricia Arquette did not know how to ride a horse. She had to learn for her role as Kissing Kate Barlow.
Cameo: [Louis Sachar] the author of both the novel and the screenplay for this movie appears with his wife and daughter in the scene where Sam is selling onion juice.
This movie is dedicated in loving memory of Scott Plank. Scott Plank played Trout Walker.
A screenplay was initially written by Richard Kelly, who greatly departed from the source material by writing a dark, violent adaptation of the story set in a post-apocalyptic world. The studio reportedly found the script far too disturbing for a children`s movie, rejecting it in favor of the final script written by the novel`s author, Louis Sachar.
A donkey named Shadow played the part of Mary Lou.
During one scene, we see a young man carrying a baby pig. Then the pig is drinking from a steam and then the young man is pulling a full-grown pig by a rope. The pigs were not babies, but older pigs that were small. A very large pig acted as the full-grown pig being led by a rope at the end of this scene. The young actor was shown how to handle the pig ahead of time by the trainer. The stream was very shallow and was checked out ahead of time by the trainer to make sure it was safe for the pig and the young actor to walk in and drink from. Another grown pig appeared at the end of the scene to make it appear as if the piglet was now grown. A trainer attached a halter that fit around the pigs` front legs and neck. The young actor was given the end of the rope, which he held while delivering his dialogue. The actor then gently tugged on the rope to get the pig to walk with him. A trainer stood off camera holding a bucket of grain and calling to the pig to encourage it to walk in that direction. The sounds of the pig squealing and grunting were sound effects added in during post-production.
Nine "Bearded Dragon" lizards were on call for the parts of the lizards in the film. A non-toxic children`s finger paint was used on the lizards to make them appear bright in color. Computers helped create some of the lizard action and production created fake life-like lizards for some of the other scenes.
Caveman finds a scorpion crawling on his bed. A trainer set the scorpion on the bed and stood just off camera. The trainer touched the scorpion lightly with the end of a straw and it lifted its tail up. Then the trainer blew some air through the straw and the scorpion began to crawl.
In the beginning of the film, there is a rattlesnake near the holes the boys are digging. One of the young men walks up to the snake, puts out his bare foot, and the snake bites him. A trainer put a bull snake, which is a non-venomous snake, down on the ground and put a box over it to contain it before filming began. The trainer removed the box and the actor walked over near the snake and put his foot out. The director yelled, "cut" and a trainer replaced the Bull snake with a real rattlesnake and doubled as the actor, putting his bare foot near the snake. Several trainers stood just off camera holding nets and snake hooks just in case the snake decided to wander. The snake was immediately retrieved by a trainer and removed from the set.
Khleo Thomas celebrated his Bar Mitzvah (the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish teens) while making Holes (2003).
SPOILER: The onions that Stanley and Zero eat towards the end of the movie are actually apples wrapped in an edible cover.
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