Peter Pan (1960 TV Movie)

Mary Martin: Peter Pan

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!

• Peter Pan : [singing]  I'm flying... / Look at me, / Way up high, / Suddenly, / Here am I, / I'm flying.

• Peter Pan : [singing]  I gotta crow. / I'm just the cleverest fella / 'Twas ever my fortune to know.

• 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!

• 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!

• Captain Hook : Well if you are Captain Hook, then what am I?

  Peter Pan : A codfish.

• Peter Pan : [Wendy's about to shoot the Indians]  Don't shoot! We're friends now.

  Children : [confused]  Friends?

  Peter Pan : I saved Tiger Lily's life in the forest, and she saved my life.

• 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.

• Peter Pan : [the boys present Peter with their "bird"]  Wendy! With an arrow in her heart! This is no bird, it's a lady!

  Children : A lady?

  Peter Pan : I was bringing her here to be your mother, and now you've killed her!

• 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 : [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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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!