The Wiz Live! (2015 TV Movie)

Queen Latifah: The Wiz

Quotes 

• The Wiz : If you don't know where you're going, how do you expect me to take you there?

• The Wiz : Scarecrow, you say you got no brain? Well, the surest sign you're talkin' to a dummy is when he tells you he knows it all! Takes a quality mind to know that there's always more to learn. You, my friend, are of that brainiac persuasion.

  Scarecrow : So, knowing that I know nothing means that I know something? Well, what d'ya know!

• Dorothy Gale : [persuading the Wiz to fly her to Omaha in her balloon]  Let her be. She got a right to choose the way she wants to live. Maybe she don't want no friends and family. Maybe she don't care about the wonderful world just beyond those doors.

  The Wiz : Yeah!

  Dorothy Gale : Maybe she don't miss conversatin' and sharin' a laugh with folks. Maybe she don't need to feel a warm hug, or a friendly handshake, or a loving kiss ever again.

  The Wiz : Yeah...

  Dorothy Gale : Maybe she wants to live stuck here, alone in the dark 'til the end of her days.

  The Wiz : Layin' it on a little thick, ain't ya? All right, all right. Ya made your point.

• The Wiz : Oh, girl. The places you wind up when you don't look where you're going. Back in Omaha, I had me a job as a magician's assistant. The Amazing Alfred and Company. I was the "and Company". At night, we'd do magic shows, but during the day, we'd give folks rides in a hot air balloon. That was the part I liked. I loved flying, but unfortunately I hated Alfred. One day, he just pushed me too far. I hopped into that hot air balloon and I took off for the sky. And I wasn't planning to disappear, I just wanted to teach mean old Alfred a lesson. Next thing I know, came a storm with winds and rains so strong it was all I could do to stay inside that thing. I hunkered down and I hid my eyes for what felt like forever, and when I landed, here I was. Folks came running from every which way to find out what had blown in on the wind. I didn't wanna disappoint nobody. I quickly threw ole Alfred's black top and cape and did my best to give the folks a magic show. Next thing I know, they slap fancy threads on me and set me up in these digs and proclaim me the all-powerful Wizard of Oz.