Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Rex Harrison: Dr. John Dolittle
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Quotes
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Dr. Dolittle : I do not understand the human race/Has so little love for creatures with a different face./Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace./I do not understand the human race.
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Polynesia : I speak over two thousand languages, including Dodo and Unicorn.
Dr. Dolittle : Unicorn?
Polynesia : I had a classical education.
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Dr. Dolittle : [consulting a medical book] This fellow obviously knows what he's talking about.
Matthew : Who wrote the book, Doctor?
Dr. Dolittle : [suddenly realizing] Er... oh, *I* did.
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Emma Fairfax : I promise to ask for no special privileges.
Dr. Dolittle : I promise to grant none
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Emma Fairfax : If I were his nephew instead of his niece...
Dr. Dolittle : If you were his nephew, you'd hardly be called Emma Fairfax.
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Dr. Dolittle : [talking about learning goldfish] These fish languages, they really only work underwater. It's fascinating! The basic system is mouth movements and bubbles signals. At the moment, I can only make big bubbles and they keep on telling me I'm shouting.
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Emma Fairfax : General Bellowes...
Dr. Dolittle : He certainly does.
Emma Fairfax : General Bellowes is my uncle.
Dr. Dolittle : I'm sorry.
Emma Fairfax : Is that an apology?
Dr. Dolittle : I'm sorry he's your uncle.
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Dr. Dolittle : Oh it's from Long Arrow.
Matthew : Who's he when he's at home?
Dr. Dolittle : An old friend of mine. He's a Red Indian gentleman.
Matthew : With a name like "Long Arrow" I didn't think he'd be Irish.
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Dr. Dolittle : Well, it's true/We do not live in a zoo/But Man is an animal too./So why can't you, like me/Like animals?
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Emma Fairfax : What are you trying to say?
Dr. Dolittle : What?
Emma Fairfax : I mean, why don't you say what you mean?
Dr. Dolittle : What do you mean, say what I mean?
Emma Fairfax : [singing] For a month or more/I have listened and dreamed/While the moon has glistened and a million stars have gleamed/Waiting/
Dr. Dolittle : Waiting?
Emma Fairfax : Waiting/
Dr. Dolittle : What for?
Emma Fairfax : What for!/For a man I know who is clever and kind/But a man who never, ever seems to know his mind/Waiting/Waiting/Waiting for you to say you like me/Or hate me/Or miss me/Or kiss me/Or something/But nothing!/Nothing do you say at all!/Little wonder I feel sorely/Neglected/Unwanted/Rejected/And small/Little more than two feet tall!
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Dr. Dolittle : Did you know that an ant has more intelligence than a hippopotamus? And that a grasshopper, in relation to his size, has more power in his hind legs than a kangaroo. Absolutely, fascinating! There's no doubt about it, animals are much more interesting than people.
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Dr. Dolittle : Oh, look, it's a llama. Come on, boy, Come on, boy. I think he's nervous. Open up the other end and give him a push, Mathew.
Matthew : [Opens the other end of the shipping crate] There's another one at this end. There's two of them!
Dr. Dolittle : Two llamas. How thoughtful of somebody. Really, people are awfully nice.
Tommy Stubbins : What are you going to do with them?
Matthew : Well, we could make ourselves a couple of nice overcoats, for a start.
Dr. Dolittle : Come on, boy. Come on, boy.
Matthew : This way, lad. Come on. That's a good fella.
Dr. Dolittle : I don't believe it. It can't be! It is! It is!
Matthew : What? What? What? What? What?
Dr. Dolittle : It's a Pushmi-pullyu. Look!
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Tommy Stubbins : What do you want us to do? Go to the North Pole?
Dr. Dolittle : Unfortunately, there isn't time. It isn't pleasant up there.
Tommy Stubbins : But, the North Pole hasn't been discovered yet?
Dr. Dolittle : Not officially. And I never say anything about it; because, I promised the polar bears I wouldn't.
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Dr. Dolittle : What are we going to do with her if she stays?
Emma Fairfax : You make me sound like a stray cat.
Dr. Dolittle : A cat would be most welcome.
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Emma Fairfax : Well, where are we going?
Tommy Stubbins : To hunt for the great pink sea snail.
Emma Fairfax : And where do you expect to find it?
Dr. Dolittle : I haven't the faintest idea. But, as one place is as good as another, it is high time we decided. Otherwise, when we get there, we won't know we've arrived.
Matthew : Good thinking, Doctor.
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Dr. Dolittle : We'll play a little game I invented. One of us opens the atlas at random, sticks a pin in the open page, wherever it lands, that's where we go.
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Dr. Dolittle : It must be a near perfect civilization.
Matthew : Oh, then, what are we doing in prison?
Willie Shakespeare : Purely a precaution, old boy. A sort of quarantine. You see, most of the white men who have come here in the past, usually started killing people before they've been introduced. Extraordinary.
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Dr. Dolittle : I think I'll start planning my next voyage.
Emma Fairfax : Where are you going this time? The moon?
Dr. Dolittle : Very, probably, yes.
Emma Fairfax : You're not serious?
Dr. Dolittle : Oh, yes!
Emma Fairfax : How?
Dr. Dolittle : On the giant lunar moth! Magnificent creature. He flies backwards and forth every year to the moon. When it reaches one, it is attracted by the light of the other, and flies back again! Willie tells me there's one on the island. Now, my idea is to build some kind of saddle arrangement, very secure, so I don't fall off half way.
Emma Fairfax : Can I come?
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Dr. Dolittle : Good Morning. Me Doctor Dolittle. Search for great pink sea snail. Small boy, late for school. Here, very cold. They all go home "Puddleby," yes?
Willie Shakespeare : [in perfect English] What a funny accent.
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Dr. Dolittle : If one place is as good as any other, it's high time we decided. Otherwise when we get there, we won't know we've arrived.
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Dr. Dolittle : Tell me, Stubbins... what would you do if you had two heads?
Tommy Stubbins : I'd join a circus, sir!
Dr. Dolittle : Exactly.
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Dr. Dolittle : [singing about why he's a vegetarian] I stay away from deviled ham on principle/I wouldn't eat roast duckling if I could/Willpower has made me invincible!/My word, those sausages look good...
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Dr. Dolittle : [to the pig] Gub-Gub, will you please stop making that infernal noise! A few pork sausages and a bit of bacon. The way you're carrying on here, I would think we were cooking your entire family.
[to the chimpanzee]
Dr. Dolittle : Chee-Chee make him behave.
Matthew : I don't know, but, you can hardly blame him for being a bit upset, Doctor. I mean, I'd be a bit upset me-self if you started frying Irishmen.
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Tommy Stubbins : How did you become a veteran?
Dr. Dolittle : Stubbins, the word is veterinarian. To say, animal doctor, is just pretentious.
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Sarah Dolittle : There are pigeons in the linen cupboard!
Dr. Dolittle : Oh, yes, I thought it'd be warmer for them.
Sarah Dolittle : You knew?
Dr. Dolittle : Yes, I put them there. It gets so terribly chilly in the roof at night.
Sarah Dolittle : And two tortoises in the guest room!
Dr. Dolittle : Oh, that's where they are. I wondered where they'd gone to.
Sarah Dolittle : And white mice in your chest-of-drawers!
Dr. Dolittle : That's right and the grass snakes are in the roll top desk under the envelopes.
Sarah Dolittle : Grass snakes!
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Dr. Dolittle : I've come to the conclusion, with the possible exception of yourself, I have nothing in common with the human race.
Matthew : You know, the trouble with you Doctor Dolittle, is you prefer animals to people.
Dr. Dolittle : But, animals are so much more fun than people!
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Dr. Dolittle : Good heavens! I speak pig!
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General Bellowes : There he is. We've caught him red-handed. Emma, you're a witness.
Dr. Dolittle : A witness to what?
General Bellowes : The most flagrant display of organized animal stealing in the history of Puddleby crime.
Dr. Dolittle : Organized? I beg your - ? I'm a doctor, sir.
General Bellowes : You are a horse thief, sir. That is my plow horse.
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Dr. Dolittle : There are times when the English are rather tiresome.
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Emma Fairfax : Don't keep interrupting me!
Dr. Dolittle : I'm sorry. What did you wish to say?
Emma Fairfax : Oh, I've forgotten!
Dr. Dolittle : Very well. Furthermore, I would deem it a favor if, in the future, you and your bloodthirsty relatives would avoid coming here and upsetting the animals.
Emma Fairfax : In any case, I find it hard to believe that a grown man can waste his entire life playing with animals, in the first place.
Dr. Dolittle : And I, madame, find it equally hard to believe that a grown woman would spend her entire life doing absolutely nothing.
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Dr. Dolittle : [singing] Autumn comes, Summer dies, I see the passing of the years in your eyes, And when we part, they'll be no tears, no good-byes, I'll just look into your eyes...
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Dr. Dolittle : No. No. You don't understand, at all. She wasn't a woman. She was a seal!
General Bellowes : A seal?
Dr. Dolittle : Yes.
General Bellowes : Dressed in a bonnet and shawl?
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Emma Fairfax : I must admit, the Sahara is one place I'm praying we just won't go!
Dr. Dolittle : You know, that's absolutely typical of a woman.
Emma Fairfax : [singing] There are so many fabulous, faraway places to see...
Dr. Dolittle : She eats one seaweed pie and goes mad!
Emma Fairfax : [singing] Such as Mexico, Sweden, Hawaii, Japan and Capri...
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Dr. Dolittle : Sea Star Island! Oh, it's that floating island! It moves all over the world, like a ship. It's a freak of nature.
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Emma Fairfax : I promise to ask for no special privileges.
Dr. Dolittle : I promise to grant none. The ship has no place for woman.
Emma Fairfax : Well, the simple answer then is to treat me like a man.
Dr. Dolittle : I intend to.
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Dr. Dolittle : Anyway, we're all safe. That's the main thing. At least, we will be as soon as we find Miss Fairfax.
Matthew : Poor Fred.
Dr. Dolittle : I said all along a ship was no place for a woman. Heaven knows I did my best to make the voyage pleasant for her. You can't spend your life running after a woman, waiting on her hand and foot, when there's important work to be done. I think under the circumstances, I treated her very well. Probably, too well. I spoiled her, in fact. I tied her very securely to that raft. I hope she's alright, that's all.
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Emma Fairfax : Saved all your books, I see.
Dr. Dolittle : Yes, most fortunate.
Emma Fairfax : Lost all my dresses!
Dr. Dolittle : Eh, yes, most unfortunate. I saw your trunk floating amongst the wreckage. However, that outfit you're wearing this morning is the nicest thing I've seen you in since you left England.
Emma Fairfax : This is my underwear!
Dr. Dolittle : Oh. Anyway, it suits you.
