Quotes from Karl Swenson movies and TV shows

Merlin: There! You see? I'm an ugly, horrible, grouchy old man.

Merlin: Now, now, Mim, Mim, no... no dragons, remember?
Madame Mim: Did I say no purple dragons? Did I?

Arthur: I'm in an awful pickle. I'm king.
Archimedes the Owl: Ooo, he pulled a sword from the stone.
Merlin: Ha ha! Of course, of course. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Arthur: Round table?
Merlin: Oh, uh, w-would you rather have a square one?
Arthur: Oh, no. Round will be fine.

Merlin: Don't take gravity too lightly or it'll catch up with you.
Arthur: What's gravity?
Merlin: Gravity is what causes you to fall.
Arthur: Oh, like a stumble or... or a trip?
Merlin: Yes, it's like a stumble or a... No, no, no, no, no. It's the force that pulls you downward, the... the phenomenon that any two material particles or bodies, if free to move, will be accelerated toward each other.

Arthur: Oh, Merlin! You're back from Ber... Ber... Ber.
Merlin: Bermuda? Yes, back from Bermuda and the 20th century, heh-heh. And, believe me, you can have it. One big modern mess.

Arthur: Merlin! Merlin, I-I swallowed a bug.
Merlin: Oh, well, what's wrong with that? After all, my boy, you ARE a fish. Instinct, you know.
Arthur: But you said I have no instinct.
Merlin: Yes! Oh... oh, I did? Well that's-that's neither here nor there.

Arthur: You were really great, Merlin, but... but you could've been killed.
Merlin: It was worth it, lad, if you learned something from it.
Arthur: Knowledge and wisdom is the real power.
Merlin: Right you are, Wart, so stick to your schooling, boy.
Arthur: Oh, oh, don't worry. I will, sir. I will. Oh, I really will.

Merlin: He should be here in, I'd say, half an hour.
Archimedes the Owl: Who? Who? I'd like to know who.
Merlin: I told you, Archimedes, I am not sure. All I know is that someone will be coming. Someone very important.
Archimedes the Owl: Oh, pinfeathers.
Merlin: Fate will direct him to me, so that I, in turn, may guide him to his rightful place in the world.