Saving Mr. Banks Quotes
Ralph: Hey, sun came out again.
P.L. Travers: You say it as if you're surprised, as if the sun were particular about for whom it appears. It seems you think I am responsible for its miraculous dawning every day. For heaven's sake, it's California.
Ralph: Certainly is!
P.L. Travers: I'd so much rather be accountable for the rain.
Ralph: Oh, that's sad.
P.L. Travers: Sad is entirely the wrong emotion. I shan't bother explaining why. It would just... Zip!
Ralph: Huh. Okey-dokey.
P.L. Travers: The rain brings life.
Ralph: So does the sun.
P.L. Travers: Be quiet!
Ralph: Yes, ma'am.
P.L. Travers: You say it as if you're surprised, as if the sun were particular about for whom it appears. It seems you think I am responsible for its miraculous dawning every day. For heaven's sake, it's California.
Ralph: Certainly is!
P.L. Travers: I'd so much rather be accountable for the rain.
Ralph: Oh, that's sad.
P.L. Travers: Sad is entirely the wrong emotion. I shan't bother explaining why. It would just... Zip!
Ralph: Huh. Okey-dokey.
P.L. Travers: The rain brings life.
Ralph: So does the sun.
P.L. Travers: Be quiet!
Ralph: Yes, ma'am.
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P.L. Travers: The rumor is that this is to be your Mr. Van Dyke, is it?
Richard Sherman: We hope so.
P.L. Travers: Hmm. We'll see about that, he's totally wrong. Totally and utterly.
Robert Sherman: Dick is one of the greats!
P.L. Travers: Dick Van Dyke? Robert, my dear, Olivier is one of the greats. Burton, Guinness, greats without question. I can assure you...
P.L. Travers: [speaking into the tape recorder]... Dick Van Dyke is *NOT!*
Richard Sherman: We hope so.
P.L. Travers: Hmm. We'll see about that, he's totally wrong. Totally and utterly.
Robert Sherman: Dick is one of the greats!
P.L. Travers: Dick Van Dyke? Robert, my dear, Olivier is one of the greats. Burton, Guinness, greats without question. I can assure you...
P.L. Travers: [speaking into the tape recorder]... Dick Van Dyke is *NOT!*
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P.L. Travers: Aren't you going to pour it for us?
Polly: You're perfectly capable of pouring it your self.
P.L. Travers: She's quite the worst maid I've ever had.
Diarmuid Russell: So why do you keep her?
P.L. Travers: I don't know. She reminds me of me.
Polly: You're perfectly capable of pouring it your self.
P.L. Travers: She's quite the worst maid I've ever had.
Diarmuid Russell: So why do you keep her?
P.L. Travers: I don't know. She reminds me of me.
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Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built and empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom.
P.L. Travers: And don't you?
Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I have suckered up to a stubborn, cranky dame like you for twenty years? No, I'd have saved myself an ulcer.
P.L. Travers: And don't you?
Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I have suckered up to a stubborn, cranky dame like you for twenty years? No, I'd have saved myself an ulcer.
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P.L. Travers: [on finding a first name for Mrs. Banks]I will not have her called Cynthia, absolutely not. It feels unlucky. It should be something warm, a bit sexy. How about Mavis?
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Walt Disney: [preparing tea]And a spoonful of sugar?
P.L. Travers: No, I think I'll have whiskey.
P.L. Travers: No, I think I'll have whiskey.
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[last lines][the authentic recordings of the rehearsals are being played on tape]P.L. Travers: Now, who's reading? And go slowly.
Don DaGradi: You start and I'll take over.
Robert Sherman: Autumn. In the early part of the 20th century, 1910. London. At Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, the Banks household is in an uproar.
P.L. Travers: Hold it. Now, I see that Cherry Tree Lane as not too townified on one side of the park. And we'll get you a photograph of 50 Smith Street, in order to see that the house is really quite like that. But it has more of a garden than my house had. But it might be useful and amusing to put it in as my house. You see?
Don DaGradi: Upstairs in the nursery, where Mary is measuring up the children with a long row of tape measure, Mary reads off the tape that Jane is... Well, first she says, What kind of material have we got to work with?
P.L. Travers: No, no. That, we cannot have. That would be quite un-English.
Richard Sherman: Mrs. Travers, basically what we want to do here is use pretty much what you have in the book.
P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Now, I want this tape measure to be used, because it was a tape measure that my mother had when she was a little girl.
Richard Sherman: Mmm-hmm.
P.L. Travers: And I think it would be very nice.
Don DaGradi: At the end of the chorus...
P.L. Travers: Read me all that, now.
Don DaGradi: We were going to.
P.L. Travers: Read it. No, no. You read it.
Don DaGradi: Do you want to bear us? [Chuckles]
P.L. Travers: No. Go on.
Don DaGradi: This is torture! [Chuckles]
P.L. Travers: Now, go on. At the end of the chorus... There ought perhaps to have been people in this countryside, you see? Are you making note of it? And they would be the Pearly people. They'd be arriving and they'd come nearer and they'd see, Ah. H
Don DaGradi: You start and I'll take over.
Robert Sherman: Autumn. In the early part of the 20th century, 1910. London. At Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, the Banks household is in an uproar.
P.L. Travers: Hold it. Now, I see that Cherry Tree Lane as not too townified on one side of the park. And we'll get you a photograph of 50 Smith Street, in order to see that the house is really quite like that. But it has more of a garden than my house had. But it might be useful and amusing to put it in as my house. You see?
Don DaGradi: Upstairs in the nursery, where Mary is measuring up the children with a long row of tape measure, Mary reads off the tape that Jane is... Well, first she says, What kind of material have we got to work with?
P.L. Travers: No, no. That, we cannot have. That would be quite un-English.
Richard Sherman: Mrs. Travers, basically what we want to do here is use pretty much what you have in the book.
P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Now, I want this tape measure to be used, because it was a tape measure that my mother had when she was a little girl.
Richard Sherman: Mmm-hmm.
P.L. Travers: And I think it would be very nice.
Don DaGradi: At the end of the chorus...
P.L. Travers: Read me all that, now.
Don DaGradi: We were going to.
P.L. Travers: Read it. No, no. You read it.
Don DaGradi: Do you want to bear us? [Chuckles]
P.L. Travers: No. Go on.
Don DaGradi: This is torture! [Chuckles]
P.L. Travers: Now, go on. At the end of the chorus... There ought perhaps to have been people in this countryside, you see? Are you making note of it? And they would be the Pearly people. They'd be arriving and they'd come nearer and they'd see, Ah. H
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Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache.
P.L. Travers: [sarcastically]So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image?
Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?
P.L. Travers: [sarcastically]So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image?
Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?
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P.L. Travers: Why did you have to make him so cruel? He was not a monster!
Don DaGradi: Who are we talking about? I'm confused.
P.L. Travers: You all have children, yes? And do those children make letters for you? Do they write letters? Do they make you drawings? And would you tear up those gifts in front of them? It's a dreadful thing to do. I don't understand. Why must Father tear up the advertisement his children have made and throw it in the fireplace? Why won't he mend their kite? Why have you made him so unspeakably awful? In glorious Technicolor? For all the world to see? If you claim to make them live, why can't he... they live well? I can't bear it. Please don't. Please don't. I feel like I let him down again.
Don DaGradi: Who are we talking about? I'm confused.
P.L. Travers: You all have children, yes? And do those children make letters for you? Do they write letters? Do they make you drawings? And would you tear up those gifts in front of them? It's a dreadful thing to do. I don't understand. Why must Father tear up the advertisement his children have made and throw it in the fireplace? Why won't he mend their kite? Why have you made him so unspeakably awful? In glorious Technicolor? For all the world to see? If you claim to make them live, why can't he... they live well? I can't bear it. Please don't. Please don't. I feel like I let him down again.
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Walt Disney: Well, Pamela Travers! Oh, my dear gal, you can't tell how excited I am to finally meet you...
P.L. Travers: It's an honour, Mr. Disney.
Walt Disney: Oh, Walt, now, you gotta call me Walt.
P.L. Travers: It's an honour, Mr. Disney.
Walt Disney: Oh, Walt, now, you gotta call me Walt.
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P.L. Travers: [At the airport, seeing a sign that say Walt Disney presents P. L. Travers]Oh, he does, does he?
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Walt Disney: I think life disappoints you, Ms. Travers. I think it's done that a lot. And maybe Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't.
P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a nighttime comfort to a heck of a lot of people.
P.L. Travers: Then where is she when I need her? I open the door for Mary Poppins, and who should be standing there but Walt Disney!
P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a nighttime comfort to a heck of a lot of people.
P.L. Travers: Then where is she when I need her? I open the door for Mary Poppins, and who should be standing there but Walt Disney!
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Ralph: Are you All right, missus? Would you like me to drive you home?
P.L. Travers: All the way to England? Yes, please.
P.L. Travers: All the way to England? Yes, please.
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P.L. Travers: [Shoving plush dolls of Donald and Pluto into her hotel closet]Duck... dog... out!
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Don DaGradi: We were hoping to give you a little tour of the studio.
P.L. Travers: No, thank you.
Don DaGradi: Walt just wanted to show the place off.
P.L. Travers: No one likes a show-off.
P.L. Travers: No, thank you.
Don DaGradi: Walt just wanted to show the place off.
P.L. Travers: No one likes a show-off.
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P.L. Travers: Will the child be a nuisance? It's an 11-hour flight.
Woman with Infant: Uh...
P.L. Travers: Jolly good.
Woman with Infant: Uh...
P.L. Travers: Jolly good.
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Walt Disney: Pam, a man cannot break a promise he's made to his kids, no matter how long it takes for him to make it come true. Now, you kept me dangling all this time. But now, I gotcha.
P.L. Travers: Gotcha, indeed! Mr. Disney, if you have dangled, it is at the end of a rope you have fashioned for yourself. I was perfectly clear when you approached me 20 years ago that she wasn't for sale and I was clear again when you approached me the following year and clear again when you approached me every annum for the subsequent 18 years and quite honestly, I feel corralled!
P.L. Travers: Gotcha, indeed! Mr. Disney, if you have dangled, it is at the end of a rope you have fashioned for yourself. I was perfectly clear when you approached me 20 years ago that she wasn't for sale and I was clear again when you approached me the following year and clear again when you approached me every annum for the subsequent 18 years and quite honestly, I feel corralled!
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Ginty: [to Goff who has died after losing his battle with alcoholism]I dropped the pairs. I'm sorry daddy.
Aunt Ellie: Helen!
Ginty: [to Ellie]You said you'd FIX everything!
Aunt Ellie: Helen!
Ginty: [to Ellie]You said you'd FIX everything!
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P.L. Travers: [Being driven in a cart to Disney's office]I am perfectly capable of walking!
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P.L. Travers: My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room, it will magically do it by itself! This entire script is flim-flam! Where is its heart? Where is its reality? Where... is the gravitas? [She throws the script out the window]
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Ginty: [Ginty turns over in bed and sees Margaret staring at her coldly from outside her bedroom]Mother!
Margaret Goff: [Referring the hidden pain killers and Goff]I knew you give them to him. Take care of your sisters.
Ginty: [Shocked]No!
Margaret Goff: I know you love your father more. But one day you'll understand. [Turns away to kill herself]
Margaret Goff: .
Margaret Goff: [Referring the hidden pain killers and Goff]I knew you give them to him. Take care of your sisters.
Ginty: [Shocked]No!
Margaret Goff: I know you love your father more. But one day you'll understand. [Turns away to kill herself]
Margaret Goff: .
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[Dolly is relaying Mrs. Travers' notes to Disney]Dolly: She wants to know why Mr. Banks was given a moustache.
Walt Disney: [off-handedly]Oh, I asked for that.
Dolly: Yes, she wants to know why.
Walt Disney: [pointedly]Because *I* asked for it.
Walt Disney: [off-handedly]Oh, I asked for that.
Dolly: Yes, she wants to know why.
Walt Disney: [pointedly]Because *I* asked for it.
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Travers Goff: [the Travers have just arrived at their new home which is a rundown farm and it is obvious the family are in poverty but Goff tries to pretend otherwise]A Palace! Complete with mighty steed!
Ginty: And chickens!
Margaret Goff: [Shocked and disappointed]Oh my!
Travers Goff: [to Margaret]We'll make beautiful memories here my angel [Pecks his wife on the cheek and she pretends to smile]
Travers Goff: Girls, come on. In this house you get to share a room!
Ginty: And chickens!
Margaret Goff: [Shocked and disappointed]Oh my!
Travers Goff: [to Margaret]We'll make beautiful memories here my angel [Pecks his wife on the cheek and she pretends to smile]
Travers Goff: Girls, come on. In this house you get to share a room!
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Don DaGradi: A word of advice, Mrs. Travers, if I may.
P.L. Travers: You may. Whether I mind it or not will be another matter entirely.
Don DaGradi: Well, it's just that he can't stand being called Mr. Disney. We're all on a first name basis here.
P.L. Travers: You may. Whether I mind it or not will be another matter entirely.
Don DaGradi: Well, it's just that he can't stand being called Mr. Disney. We're all on a first name basis here.
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Walt Disney: Let's make something wonderful.
P.L. Travers: Well, let's see if that's at all possible.
Walt Disney: [after she walks away, under his breath]Whoa! Damn!
P.L. Travers: Well, let's see if that's at all possible.
Walt Disney: [after she walks away, under his breath]Whoa! Damn!
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P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins and the Banks - they are family to me.
Walt Disney: I understand that - I do.
Walt Disney: I understand that - I do.
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P.L. Travers: [to a mother]Will the child be a nuisance? It's an 11 hour flight! Jolly good! [after sitting down]
P.L. Travers: I hope we crash!
P.L. Travers: I hope we crash!
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