Peter Pan (1960 TV Movie)
Mary Martin: Peter Pan
Quotes
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Wendy : Peter, what are your exact feelings for me?
Peter Pan : Those of a devoted son, Wendy.
Wendy : [Annoyed] I thought so.
[She sits further away from him]
Peter Pan : You're so strange. Tinker Bell's just the same. There's something she wants to be to me, but she says it's not my mother.
[Tinker Bell replies "You silly ass" in fairy language]
Wendy : I almost agree with her!
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Peter Pan : [singing] I'm flying... / Look at me, / Way up high, / Suddenly, / Here am I, / I'm flying.
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Peter Pan : [singing] I gotta crow. / I'm just the cleverest fella / 'Twas ever my fortune to know.
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Captain Hook : [pausing, out of breath, during the duel with Peter] 'Tisn't fair! I say it as though it were my last breath - it isn't fair! Pan, who and what art thou?
Peter Pan : I am youth. I am joy. I am freedom!
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Captain Hook : Well if you are Captain Hook, then what am I?
Peter Pan : A codfish.
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Peter Pan : [Tinkerbell tells him what's happened] The Indians have been defeated? And Wendy and the boys have been captured by the pirates? I'll rescue her! I'll rescue her!
[Tinkerbell notices the poisoned medicine]
Peter Pan : What? That's just my medicine.
[Tinkerbell protests]
Peter Pan : Poison? Nonsense, who could've poisoned it? I promised Wendy I'd take that, and I'm going to just as soon as I sharpen my dagger.
[Tinkerbell drinks the medicine]
Peter Pan : Tink! You drunk my medicine!
[Tinkerbell flies about slowly and grows dim]
Peter Pan : What's the matter with you? It was poison, wasn't it? You drank it to save my life. Tink? Dear Tink! You're dying! Your voice is so low now I can hardly hear you. What's that? You believe that you could get well again... if children believed in fairies.
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Wendy : Peter, how old are you?
Peter Pan : I don't know. I ran away from home the day I was born.
Wendy : Ran away? Why?
Peter Pan : Because I heard father and mother discussing what I was to be when I became a man. I want to always be a little boy and have fun! So I ran away, and I've lived a long time among the fairies.
Wendy : Peter! You really know fairies?
Peter Pan : Yes, but they're nearly all dead now. You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the very first time, the laugh broke up into a thousand pieces of light, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. So now every time a new baby is born, its first laugh becomes a fairy.
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Wendy : Peter, why did you come to our nursery window?
Peter Pan : To hear a story. None of us know any stories.
Wendy : How perfectly awful.
Peter Pan : Wendy, your mother was telling you such a lovely story.
Wendy : Oh? Which story is it?
Peter Pan : It was about the prince... and he couldn't find the lady who wore the glass slipper.
Wendy : Ohhh... that was Cinderella, he found her, and they lived happily ever after.
Peter Pan : I'm glad!
[dashes to the window]
Wendy : Where are you going?
Peter Pan : To tell the other boys!
Wendy : Oh please don't go! I know lots of stories!
Peter Pan : Do you?
Wendy : Oh, the stories I could tell the other boys!
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Wendy : [about Neverland] Peter, what does it look like?
Peter Pan : It's an island, Wendy.
Wendy : A large one?
Peter Pan : No, quite small, and nicely crammed, so there's hardly any room between one adventure and the next.
Wendy : Oh, it sounds wonderful. Who else lives there, Peter?
Peter Pan : The Lost Boys.
Wendy : Who are they?
Peter Pan : They're the children that fall out of their carriages when the nurse is looking the other way. If they're not claimed in 7 days, they're sent far away to Neverland... I'm Captain.
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Peter Pan : [singing] I have a place where dreams are born / And time is never planned. / It's not on any chart / You must find it with your heart. / Never-Never Land. / It might be miles beyond the moon, / Or right there where you stand. / Just keep an open mind, / And then suddenly you'll find / Never-Never Land. / You'll have a treasure if you stay there / More precious far than gold. / For once you have found your way there / You can never, never grow old. / So that's my home where dreams are born / And time is never planned. / Just think of lovely things / And your heart will fly on wings / Forever... in Never-Never Land.
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Tiger Lily : Peter Pan is the sun and the moon and the stars!
[all cheer]
Tiger Lily : Peter Pan is the love of delight!
[all cheer]
Tiger Lily : Peter Pan is the bravest and strongest of all boys!
[all cheer]
Peter Pan : Yes, I know. I don't say it to boast, it's because I cannot tell a lie.
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Peter Pan : [singing; repeated lines] So naturally... /When I discover the cleverness of a remarkable me... /How can I hide it when deep down inside it just tickles me so?/Then I gotta let go... /And crow.
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Peter Pan : Hello, Wendy!
Wendy Grown-up : Peter!
Peter Pan : Where's John?
Wendy Grown-up : He's not here anymore.
Peter Pan : Is Michael asleep?
Wendy Grown-up : Yes! No! That's not Michael.
Peter Pan : Is it a new one?
Wendy Grown-up : Yes!
Peter Pan : Boy or girl?
Wendy Grown-up : It's a girl.
Peter Pan : What's her name?
Wendy Grown-up : Jane.
Peter Pan : Jane.
Wendy Grown-up : Peter, are you expecting me to fly away with you?
Peter Pan : Of course! That's why I came. Have you forgotten it's spring cleaning time?
Wendy Grown-up : I can't come. I've forgotten how to fly.
Peter Pan : I'll teach you again.
Wendy Grown-up : No, Peter! Don't waste your fairy dust on me.
Peter Pan : What's the matter?
Wendy Grown-up : I'll turn up the lights and you can see for yourself.
Peter Pan : No! Don't turn up the lights! What is it?
Wendy Grown-up : I'm old Peter.
Peter Pan : Old? What do you mean old?
Wendy Grown-up : I'm ever so much more than 20. I grew up a long time ago.
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Peter Pan : You promised not to.
Wendy Grown-up : I couldn't help it. I'm a married woman now.
Peter Pan : No, you're not! No, you're not!
Wendy Grown-up : Yes! And the little girl in that bed is my child.
Peter Pan : No, she's not! No, she's not!