- La Volpe: [Describing his plan to swindle Pinocchio out of his gold coins] You'll find there a beautiful big oak tree, except instead of green leaves you'll see thousands of pieces of gold growing there.
- Pinocchio: Oh how wonderful, but is it really true?
- La Volpe: Why of course.
- Il Gatto: Of course!
- La Volpe: Of course it's true, do I look like someone who tells lies?
- Il Gatto: Of course!
- [Volpe hits him his cane]
- Il Gatto: Ow!, I mean no, no, no!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Once upon a time, there was...
- Children: A king!
- Narrator: That's what I thought you'd say. No, children, not a king. Once upon a time, there was a piece of wood. It wasn't any special wood, but a simple piece of firewood. The kind that in winter, you put in the stove to light the fire and heat the room. After many adventures that I won't relate to you, this piece of wood fell into the hands of an old woodcarver named Geppetto, who wanted to make a marvelous puppet out of it. A puppet who would know how to dance, wield a sword and do somersaults. With this puppet, Geppetto planned to tour the world to earn a morsel of bread and a glass of wine. So one day, in his humble little room, Master Geppetto began to carve out this puppet.