Peter Pan (1960 TV Movie)

Maureen Bailey: Wendy, Jane

Quotes 

• 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!

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : Some say that as we grow up, we become different people at different ages, but I don't believe this. I think we remain the same throughout, merely passing in these years from one room, to another, but always in the same house. If we unlock the rooms of the far past, we can look in and see ourselves beginning to become you and me.

  Wendy , John : [dressed up like their parents and dancing]  One-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three.

• Peter Pan : [singing]  You're ready?

  Wendy : Ready!

  John : Ready!

  Michael : Ready!

  Peter Pan : [singing]  Don't forget, don't be slow/ready set, here we go/Wendy, Michael, John... Tinkerbell, come on/Hurry up after me for soon I will be gone, I'm flying!

• 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.

• 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!

• Wendy : Liza, We're pretending we're Mother and Father and we're going to the ball tonight, come play!

  Liza : Always playing games? I have much more important things to do than play make believe and *dahn*-cing.

• Mrs. Darling : What are you doing in my old hat?

  Wendy : We're doing an act.

  John : Yes, we're playing you and Father, I'm Father. A little less noise there, a little less noise!

  Michael : Mother, they never let me play Father, and they never let me dance.

  Mrs. Darling : Well, we'll soon fix that.

  [takes John's hat off and puts it on Michael] 

  Mrs. Darling : There. May I have this dance, Mr. Darling?

• 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.

• Wendy : You won't forget to come for me, Peter. Please - please don't forget.

• Peter Pan : There oughta be a fairy for every girl and boy.

  Wendy : Oughta be? Isn't there?

  Peter Pan : Oh, no. Children know such a lot now. Soon they don't believe. And every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies", there's a fairy someplace that falls down dead.

• All the Lost Boys : [indistinctly, after the "Wendy" number ends]  Wendy lady, be our mother!

  Wendy : [delighted]  Oh, I'd *love to be your mother! Provided that Peter will be the father.

  Peter Pan : [takes John's top hat]  Oh, all right, as long as it's only make-believe!