Christoph Waltz credited as playing...
Count Volpe
- Count Volpe: I think you misunderstand our relationship, my little fire hazard. I am the puppeteer, you are the puppet. I am the master, you are the slave! And you will do as I command, until your wooden body rots and I use you to warm my furnace! You may have no strings, but I control you. You obey ME! Capisce?
- [while waiting, Count Volpe is startled by a knock at the door. He rushes to it and opens it]
- Count Volpe: [brandishing his sword in a panic] Who is it? What do you want in the middle of the...?
- [He starts a little when he sees Pinocchio on the stairs]
- Count Volpe: My beloved star!
- [He sheaths his sword and approaches Pinocchio, glancing around as he does so]
- Count Volpe: How can I be of assistance?
- Pinocchio: If I work for you, will you forget the money money you want from my papa?
- Count Volpe: [bounding down the steps of his trailer] Oh, absolutely, my dear boy.
- Pinocchio: And will you send him my share of the profits?
- Count Volpe: [drawing a circle in the dirt] Clear accounting all the way.
- [He draws a line across it]
- Count Volpe: Fifty-fifty, down the middle.
