Summary

  • "We're friends 'til the end!" is Chucky's iconic catchphrase with a sinister meaning.
  • Chucky has a particular fixation on children and innocence and getting kids to help him with his schemes.
  • Chucky's seemingly innocent phrases can take a creepy turn when they're accompanied by death.

The following contains discussions of graphic violence and death.

There are a lot of faces of slasher movies, but Chucky is one of the most famous characters of the genre and Chucky quotes make for some memorable horror lines. Chucky was first introduced in Tom Holland’s 1988 horror film called Child’s Play. Chucky is created after the fictional serial killer Charles Lee Ray is shot by pursuing police. As he dies, he transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll using forbidden magic.

Child’s Play sparked a franchise that has resulted in a total of eight movies to date, including the 2019 reboot of the same name. A television series set after the events of the movies has run for three seasons on SyFy. The series has helped to flesh out the background of some of the biggest characters in the franchise, like Chucky (Brad Douriff) himself and his long-time love Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly). The series has only helped to add to Chucky's iconic quotes in the franchise.

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“We're Friends ‘Til The End!”

Repeated Line In The Franchise

A closeup of the Chucky doll in Child's Play

With the Good Guys dolls being children's toys, they came with certain catchphrases built-in that would appeal to kids. Several of Chucky’s catchphrases are memorable, but one of the most iconic, present in almost all the movies, is “we’re friends ‘til the end”.

It's such a chilling Chucky quote because, while it can be taken as a heartfelt message to a child, it also takes on a much more sinister meaning. Everybody who has seen the movies knows that the end will probably come sooner rather than later.

“Don’t Worry, Andy. You’re Going To Thank Me When She’s Gone.”

Child’s Play

Though the later movies and the television series in the Child’s Play franchise make it clear that Chucky has a soft spot for kids, the original Child’s Play (and its sequel) does not make that idea clear. It seems like Chucky just wants Andy as a vessel for his soul. This is the only hint that Chucky sees something in Andy in the first movie.

Chucky tells Andy “You’re going to thank me when she’s gone,” because he’s ready to dispose of every authority figure in Andy’s life from babysitters to teachers to his mother. That’s initially a means to an end for Chucky, who wants access to Andy without any adults getting in his way. It’s also because he wants to be able to have the freedom to do whatever he wants and give Andy the illusion of that freedom as well.

“Peek-A-Boo!”

Child’s Play 2

Chucky in the back seat of a car in Childs Play 2

This particular Chucky quote is an innocent enough phrase, usually said when playing a game with small children who don’t yet recognize that someone doesn’t just disappear when they hide their face. For Chucky, however, the phrase is suitably creepy.

He says it while hiding in the car of an executive who works for the same toy company that makes his particular line of dolls. The company has just decided to continue making the dolls, despite concerns from the public about the Chucky dolls being tampered with. He then kills the toy company executive after he has him drive him for a little while, because Chucky kills almost anyone he encounters.

“You Know What They Say. ‘You Just Can’t Keep A Good Guy Down.’”

Child’s Play 3

Justin Whalin as Andy in front of a Chucky doll bathed in a yellow light in Childs Play 3

Chucky’s creepy quotes aren’t just one-liners or threats. Sometimes, they’re puns associated with the character being a doll. In this case, Chucky appropriates the old adage of not keeping a good guy down.

You just can't keep a Good Guy down.

The joke, of course, is that he’s a Good Guy doll, but also that Andy truly believed he and his foster sister Kyle killed him eight years earlier. Andy spent eight years believing he was safe from Chucky, only for Chucky to turn up at the military school where he was sent at 16.

“I Love You.”

Bride Of Chucky

Chucky proposes to Tiffany in Bride of Chucky

Telling someone “I love you” shouldn’t be a creepy line, but here, it is. Bride Of Chucky really expands the franchise, bringing Chucky’s former girlfriend Tiffany into the mix. Though the two argue quite a bit, they also find kindred spirits in one another, and Chucky expresses his love for Tiffany after she creatively kills a pair of newlyweds.

In any other movie, reunited lovers reconnecting would be romantic. In Bride Of Chucky, it’s definitely creepy as their spirits are both in dolls, and they reconnect over dead bodies.

“I’m Not A Monster, Jake.”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 2 “Give Me Something Good To Eat”

The Chucky television series acts as a follow-up to the movies, and it continues the tradition of Chucky, in doll form, latching onto a kid he can use. This time around, Chucky is in the company of Jake, a teenager and budding artist with an affinity for using vintage doll parts in his work. When he finds Chucky at a yard sale, however, Jake’s world changes drastically.

Chucky initially gets into Jake’s head because he understands Jake’s frustration with his father and his bullies at school. Jake, who is gay and unaccepted by his father, finds it strange that Chucky, a serial killing doll, is entirely accepting of his gender-fluid kid. For all the bad in Chucky, he’s able to do something the people in Jake’s life can’t.

“You Act Like You’ve Never Seen A Dead Body Before!”

Child’s Play 2

Chucky holding a knife in front of broken glass in Childs Play 2

When Chucky finds Andy in the first movie sequel, no one around Andy believes that the doll is alive. The new foster family that Andy is staying with while his mother is hospitalized finds out the doll is alive the hard way: he kills them. After tripping Andy’s foster father on the basement stairs and then killing him, Andy freezes, upset, and waiting to see what Chucky will do next.

Chucky breaks the moment with this line. It’s meant to be a funny line in the movie that interrupts the violence, but it’s also a bit of a heartbreaking line because at that point, Andy has seen quite a few dead bodies - and no one has believed his stories about them.

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“It’s A Hobby, Really. It Helps Us Relax.”

Seed Of Chucky

Tiffany and Chucky dolls talking to an unseen Glen doll in Seed of Chucky

Glen is introduced in Seed of Chucky as the doll offspring of Chucky and Tiffany. Glen has led a hard life before getting to know his parents, and he doesn’t know much about them. When he discovers that they’re serial killers, he’s saddened because he’s a much gentler soul (at first).

When he tries to ask Chucky and Tiffany why they kill people, which is the same question many people have about those who kill, the duo doesn’t have an answer right away. Chucky finally admits it relaxes him. It’s a disturbing thought, but one that certainly fits his character.

“Nothing Like A Strangulation To Get The Circulation Going.”

Child’s Play 3

Chucky uses a yo-yo to strangle the executive in Child's Play 3
Executive in Child's Play 3 

Much like Child’s Play 2, Child’s Play 3 begins with Chucky targeting one of the executives at the toy company that makes the Good Guy dolls. This time, Chucky isn’t in a car with the executive, but in his office/apartment, using other toys to unnerve the man before finally going after the man himself.

Ultimately, Chucky strangles him with a yo-yo. It’s his first kill of the movie, and he’s clearly got a fondness for strangulation as it seems to make him feel alive again.

“You Of All People Should Know, Some People Deserve To Die.”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 2 “Give Me Something Good To Eat”

In the first season of Chucky, Jake’s bully is the mayor’s daughter, Lexy. Lexy only bullies Jake because she’s unhappy and he’s an easy target as the cousin of her boyfriend. She doesn’t actually dislike Jake, but it’s easy for her to cover up her unhappiness with snark and be mean to others so that people don’t see how much she’s hurting.

Jake initially accepts Chucky as a friend and agrees to let Chucky help him kill Lexy, only to change his mind. Despite how much Lexy has hurt him, he doesn’t want to see her dead or suffer even more. He recognizes that she’s in pain, but Chucky throws this line at him when Jake changes his mind, set on going after Lexy himself.

“Presto! You’re Dead!”

Child’s Play 3

Chucky in front of a Good Guy box in the storage area in Childs Play 3

One military officer who works at the academy Andy is sent to at 16 is responsible for making sure all the “soldiers” have a regulation haircut. One of the first things Andy has to do when he arrives is get a haircut, and the session ends with, “presto, you’re bald,” even though Andy still has some hair. That’s the catchphrase of sorts from the officer.

Chucky witnesses that after spending some time around the officer. When the officer spots the Good Guy doll in his room, he’s ready to give the doll a trim as well. Before he can, however, Chucky kills him and offers up this quote as he does, making fun of his catchphrase.

“He’s The Most Promising Killer I’ve Ever Seen.”

Seed Of Chucky

A closeup of the doll Glen in Seed of Chucky

Parents tend to be proud of their kids when they follow in their footsteps. Usually, that’s because they’ve chosen a similar career path or made strides to be even better than their parents at a particular skill. For Chucky, his pride comes from Glen showing the makings of a killer.

What’s interesting, however, is that in Seed Of Chucky, Glen makes it very clear that he isn’t really interested in killing anyone. He just wants to be accepted by his parents. When he accidentally kills someone on a “boys night out” with Chucky, Chucky thinks he improvised a great murder, and is so excited to explain it to Tiffany when the truth is revealed.

“Sorry, Kid. You Got Me. I’m BAD.”

Child’s Play 3

Chucky talking to Tyler in Childs Play 3

In the early movies of the franchise, Chucky doesn’t necessarily like to admit that he’s the bad guy. Instead, he sees his killing as just a part of who he is. He tries to trick the kids he initially targets into believing he really does want to be their friend until the end. Chucky just doesn’t tell them right away that he plans on contributing to the end.

When he befriends Tyler in Child’s Play 3, he plans to use him as his new vessel, finding getting to Andy difficult. Andy repeatedly tells Tyler not to trust anything the doll says to him, but it takes multiple people being injured or killed before Tyler realizes that it’s the doll that’s the villain.

“Get Off My Knife.”

Bride Of Chucky

Chucky and Tiffany dolls in Seed of Chucky

Out of context, this particular Chucky quote sounds a little silly. In context, however, it’s incredibly creepy and right in character for Charles Lee Ray.

While fighting with Tiffany, Chucky and his bride turn their weapons on one another. Chucky stabs right through Tiffany’s doll form, and then admonishes her for being “on his knife” because he wants to get to his next victim. It’s a moment that shows how dark his character is.

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“Everybody’s A Killer If You Push Them Far Enough.”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 3 “I Like To Be Hugged”

One of the aspects of Chucky that has long perplexed the audience is just why Chucky is so intent on getting the children he befriends to kill someone. Season one pushes that narrative as well, but the kids in question, like Jake, actually start to wonder why Chucky wants them to kill instead of just doing everything himself.

Chucky offers up this quote when Jake decides he isn’t a killer. He believes everyone can be pushed, and he does manage to eventually get another teenager to kill for him. As it’s eventually revealed, this isn’t actually Chucky’s belief, but Chucky needs an “innocent” to kill in order to have more than one version of himself running around. To split his soul up instead of transferring it from one doll to the next, he needs help. Chucky eventually gets that help from Junior instead of Jake.

“Sit Back And Watch The Sparks Fly.”

Child’s Play 3

Chucky attacking Silva in Childs Play 3

This quote from Chucky sounds like it’s just someone wanting their companion to enjoy a show. The show in this case is bullets being swapped out for paintballs during a training exercise at a military school though, which makes the quote pretty creepy.

The line is also said to a teenage girl that he’s holding a knife to while waiting to confront Andy and Tyler, so he can have a new vessel for his soul. There’s nothing the girl can do to warn her classmates without Chucky killing her, so she really has to sit back and watch until she has an opportunity to get the upper hand.

“They’ll Remember My Name”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 8 “An Affair To Dismember”

Though the first few Chucky movies indicate that Charles Lee Ray is trying to stay under the radar, the Chucky series demonstrates that he’s not interested in lying low anymore. Chucky wants to be well-known. He wants his name uttered in the same conversations as John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer.

Jake tries to tell Chucky that no one is going to remember what he did in one neighborhood in New Jersey, because no one is going to believe that a doll is responsible for the deaths of so many people, and though Chucky runs around in a crowded theater, Jake is the one who is right since his cousin ends up blamed for the deaths Chucky causes.

“Go Ahead And Shoot! I’ll Be Back. I Always Come Back!”

Bride Of Chucky

Bride Of Chucky is the fourth Chucky movie, and at that point in the franchise, it’s pretty clear that nothing is going to get rid of Charles Lee Ray using a doll to hide himself. So, when Jade points a gun at Chucky, wanting to be rid of him, Chucky tells her he’ll be back.

He’s admitted in multiple installments of the franchise that the injuries he suffers and his multiple deaths are painful, but he’s more than willing to keep dying if his soul can keep being placed into a new doll - which is exactly what happens.

“I Helped.”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 3 “I Like To Be Hugged”

A young Charles Lee Ray using a knife on his cake in Chuckey season 1 flashback

The television series offers a lot of new backstory for Charles Lee Ray that really helps to flesh out his character beyond the serial killer whose soul ended up in a doll. Season 1, episodes 3 and 4 in particular give a window into Chucky’s childhood and show that the darkness was already there at a young age.

I helped.

When a serial killer breaks into the Ray home and is in the middle of murdering Charles’ father, he and his mother hide in a closet. Charles, however, decides to help the serial killer instead of his mother. When the serial killer finds them in the closet, Charles has already killed his mother, and proudly proclaims, “I helped.” The serial killer gives Charles a knife to keep and moves along, sparing his life since he sees that the child is just like him. It’s one very dark part of Chucky’s history.

“This Is Life Giving You The Second Chance To Be The Man You Want To Be.”

Chucky: Season 1, Episode 4 “Just Let Go”

Chucky reading in the Chucky television series

This Chucky quote sounds like a motivational line, but Chucky actually says it to Jake when Jake has an opportunity to allow Lexy to die, and he doesn’t. Instead, Jake pulls Lexy to safety, disappointing Chucky.

Chucky thinks that Jake is meant to be a serial killer like he is because he’s an outsider, someone others don’t understand, and because he has a lot of anger. Jake, however, has a lot more empathy than Chucky and actually feels guilt when he does things that end up hurting other people, which is part of the reason he and Lexy end up becoming friends after he saves her life.