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"This is the circus of Dr. Lao. We show you things that you don't know. Oh, we spare no pains and we spare no dough. Oh, we want to give you one hell of a show! And youth may come and age may go, But no more circuses like this show."
"Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."
"Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing."
"Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery."
"You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come."
"My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of."
"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."
"Now, come on, Doc! What kind of oriental hocus-pocus is going on around here? A circus with no wagons, no animals, no cages? A crazy old magician? What's it all about?"
"All those stories about me, they're lies. I'm not a bank robber or a cattle rustler, and I've never kicked a woman in the stomach even once, really!"
"Apollonius of Tyana: I only read futures; I don't evaluate them."
"Merlin: Tricks? Gadzooks, Madam, these are not tricks! I do magic. I — I create, I transpose, I transubstantiate, I break up, I recombine — but I never trick!"
"Enter The Fabulous World of Dr. Lao... Whose Wonders Never Cease!"
"Bolt the doors! Lock the windows! Dr. Lao's coming to town!"
"Which face will the wily doctor reveal to you?"
"Tony Randall — Dr. Lao, Apollonius of Tyana, many other roles"
"Barbara Eden — Angela Benedict"
"Kevin Tate — Mike Benedict"
"Arthur O'Connell — Clint Stark"
"John Ericson — Ed Cunningham"
"Lee Patrick — Mrs. Cassin"
"Frank Cady — Mayor James Sargent"
"Royal Dano -- Lucas. Stark's henchman"
"Dal McKennon — Lean Cowboy"
"Chubby Johnson — Fat Cowboy"
"Douglas Fowley — Toothless Cowboy"
"[whistling] All aboard! Let's go!"
"[Puffing up the hill] I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! I… Think… I… Can! I… [Going down the other side of the hill] Thought I could! I thought I could! I thought I could! I thought I could! Woohoo!"
"[To the elephants, while scaring them] So you like to pick on little guys, huh? Well, why don't ya pick on me?!"
"[To Dumbo] Well, that's more like it! Y'know, your mother ain't crazy; she's just broken-hearted. Ain't nobody's fault you got them big ears… oops, I stepped in the mud that time. Aw, gee, Dumbo! I think your ears're beautiful! Sure! 's a matter of fact, I think they're decorative! Y'know, lots of people'd think your ears're famous! All we gotta do is build an act! Make y' a star! A headliner! Dumbo the Great! [Beat] The Great What? [Beat] Y'know, Dumbo, we gotta think of an idea. Not just any idea; something colossal!"
"Remember, you come of a proud race. Why, you're a...a pachyderm, and pachyderms don't cry. What does crying get you, anyhow? Nothing but the hiccups!"
"[As Dumbo falls off the platform, losing the feather on the way] Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears! The magic feather was just a gag! You can fly! Honest, you can! Hurry, open them up! PLEASE! [At the last moment, Dumbo opens his ears and soars over the crowd] WHEE! We did it! We did it! Let's show them, Dumbo! Power dive!"
"Narrator: Through the snow and sleet and hail...through the blizzard, through the gale...through the wind and through the rain...over mountain, over plain...through the blinding lightning flash...and the mighty thunder crash...ever faithful, ever true...nothing stops him! He'll get through!"
"Lion: [yawning] Oh, dear... [cut to three tigers relaxing]*"
"NOTE: This entire circus parade scene is originally edited (and intended for) from a 1939 Silly Symphony cartoon about circus antics."
"Walt Disney's Latest...Most Lovable...Funable Characters!"
"The One...The Only...The FABULOUS..."
"Dumbo Jumbo Junior is the mute title character"
"Edward Brophy - Timothy Q. Mouse"
"Charles Stidwell - Casey Jones Junior"
"Sterling Holloway - Mr. Stork"
"Cliff Edwards - Dandy Jim Crow"
"Verna Felton - Elephant Matriarch"
"Dorothy Scott - Giddy"
"Sarah Selby - Prissy"
"Noreen Gammill - Catty"
"Verna Felton - Dumbo Jumbo Senior"
"Hall Johnson - Deacon Crow"
"James Baskett - Fats Crow"
"Nick Stewart - Specks Crow"
"Jim Carmichael - Dopey Crow"
"John McLeish - Narrator"
"Herman Bing - Ringmaster W.D.P."
"Malcolm Hutton - Smitty the Bully"
"Billy Sheets - Joe"
"Candy Candido - Lions Roaring at Mr. Stork"
"Fred Shields - Lion in Circus Parade (archive recording)"
"Clarence Nash - Gorilla (archive recording)"
"[shows Mace his top-secret creation] I call this the hot dog tree, because...Well, it's a hot dog tree."
"[sings] Pee-wee Herman had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!"
"[milks cow, tastes its milk] Mmm, chocolatey!"
"Look, Vance! The calilillies are in bloom again."
"I'm a very important man. I've got a tower."
"We often confuse what we wish for with what is."
"NOOOO, I DON'T WANNA BE A WAITER!!!"
"Look! An idiot!"
"My mum always said: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. I think it would be best if you just leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum. She bought me from a man..."
"We just have to try the key in every single lock we pass, and when we find the one the key opens, we'll know that 10,000 bloody years have passed!!"
"We'll do things that rich people do. We'll bathe in... fish. And eat our weight in chocolate buttons!"
"I shall slip unnoticed throught the darkness, like a dark, unnoticed, slippy thing."
"Mrs. Bagwell: I remember I said to him: 'Mr Bagwell, how can a mask know what you need?' And he said: 'Cynthia, remember I don't know what I'm talking about.'"
"Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real."
"An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance."
"Stephanie Leonidas - Helena Campbell / The Princess"
"Jason Barry - Valentine"
"Rob Brydon - Morris Campbell / the White Queen's majordomo"
"Gina McKee - Joanne Campbell / The Queen of Shadows / The Queen of Light"
"They have one shot to get back home."
"To the greatest mom on Earth! (Mother is Day tagline)"
"[from trailer] six years ago, they disappeared without a trace. Next summer, they finally resurface."
"[from trailer] From DreamWorks Animation, your favorite castaways become Europe's most wanted."
"[from trailer] Next summer, getting home is going to be a circus."
"[from trailer] The world goes mad summer 2012."
"[from trailer] This summer, they will do whatever it takes to get back home."
"Ben Stiller - Alex"
"Chris Rock - Marty"
"David Schwimmer - Melman"
"Jada Pinkett Smith - Gloria"
"Sacha Baron Cohen - King Julien XIII"
"Cedric the Entertainer - Maurice"
"Andy Richter - Mort"
"Tom McGrath - Skipper and the first Policeman"
"Frances McDormand - Captain Chantel DuBois"
"Jessica Chastain - Gia"
"Bryan Cranston - Vitaly"
"Martin Short - Stefano"
"Chris Miller - Kowalski"
"Christopher Knights - Private"
"John DiMaggio - Rico"
"Conrad Vernon - Mason and the second Policeman"
"Paz Vega - The Andalusian Triplets"
"Vinnie Jones - Freddie the dog"
"Steve Jones - Jonesy the dog"
"Nick Fletcher - Frankie the dog"
"Frank Welker - Sonya"
"Danny Jacobs - Croupier and Circus Master and King Julien XIII"
"Daniel O'Connor - Casino Security and Mayor of New York City"
"Eric Darnell - Comandante, Zoo Official and Zoo Announcer"
"Stephen Kearin - 4th Policeman"
"Emily Nordwind - Zoo Official"
"Asucena Jimenez - Kid in Crowd"
"John Larroquette - 3rd Policeman"
"No one will get her... no one but me!"
"There is a time for fear, Nanon... and a time for hate... and a time for love."
"You are a riddle, Nanon. You shrink from me... yet you kiss my flowers when I am gone."
"You are right, Alonzo... brute strength does not mean everything to all women. Alonzo, all my life men have tried to put their beastly hands on me... to paw over me. I have grown so that I shrink with fear when any man even touches me."
"Lon Chaney — Alonzo the Armless"
"Norman Kerry — Malabar the Mighty"
"Joan Crawford — Nanon Zanzi"
"Nick De Ruiz — Antonio Zanzi"
"John George — Cojo"
"Frank Lanning — Costra"
"I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
"No thanks. Bad luck. Three on a midget."
"You're like a beautiful chandelier. I'd like to be around when you get lit up."
"It's the biggest dope ring in years. And Jardinet is the head dope!""
"I have an agreement with the houseflies. They don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling."
"[to Mrs.Dukesbury] Write me a check for ten thousand dollars and everybody will be happy,including the gorilla. And I DO mean you!"
"The last time I was on the ceiling was at a lodge meeting. The Chairman had the floor."
"You know what I say. Whenever you got business trouble the best thing to do is to get a lawyer. Then you got more trouble, but at least you got a lawyer."
"I ain't got nothing, but you can always have half!"
"Keep the world laughing!"
"Groucho Marx — J. Cheever Loophole"
"Harpo Marx — Punchy"
"Chico Marx — Antonio 'Tony' Pirelli"
"Florence Rice — Julie Randall"
"Kenny Baker — Jeff Wilson"
"Margaret Dumont — Mrs. Susanna Dukesbury"
"Eve Arden — Peerless Pauline"
"James Burke — John Carter"
"Nat Pendleton — Goliath the Strongman"
"Jerry Marenghi — Little Professor Atom"
"Fritz Feld — Jardinet"
"Barnett Parker — Whitcomb"
"Charles Gemora — Gibraltar the Gorilla"
"So, you finally got wise to yourself, did ya? It's a funny thing about you women. Most of you don't get wise soon enough! You wait until you're so old, nobody wants ya."
"That's it, that's it. Go ahead and laugh. It's funny, ain't it? Yeah. Women are funny, ain't they? They're all tramps, ain't they? Yeah. Except when you can get money from them!"
"You dirty, slimy, freaks! Freaks, freaks, freaks! You fools! Make me one of you, will you?"
"How many times have I told you not to be frightened. Have I not told you, God looks after all his children!"
"We didn't lie to you folks. We told you we had living, breathing, monstrosities. You laughed at them, shuddered at them. And, yet, but for the accident of birth, you might be one as they are. They did not ask to be brought into the world. But, into the world they came. Their code is a law unto themselves: offend one and you offend them all."
"Can a full grown woman truly love a Midget?"
"The Story of the Love life of the Sideshow"
"Wallace Ford — Phroso"
"Leila Hyams — Venus"
"Olga Baclanova — Cleopatra"
"Rosco Ates — Roscoe"
"Henry Victor — Hercules"
"Harry Earles — Hans"
"Daisy Earles — Frieda"
"Rose Dione — Madame Tetrallini (final film role)"
"Daisy and Violet Hilton — the Siamese twins"
"Schlitzie — himself"
"Josephine Joseph — Half Woman-Half Man"
"Johnny Eck — Half Boy"
"Frances O'Connor — Armless girl"
"Peter Robinson — Human skeleton"
"Olga Roderick — Bearded lady"
"Koo Koo — herself"
"Prince Randian — The Living Torso"
"He slapped me, Marie. I would have killed him, but they laughed - laughed as if I were a clown."
"You forget, gentlemen - this is a circus - love must wait - - the performance must go on!"
"I say serious things - and people laugh at me!"
"How stupid people are - to laugh at a clown who lets himself be slapped."
"Over a hundred slaps last night, HE - you lucky fellow! Soon you'll be getting famous! But you know what they like - there's nothing makes people laugh so hard as seeing someone else get slapped!"
"In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best..."
"Laughter - the bitterest and most subtle death to hope..."
"A strange thing, the heart of a man - that loves, suffers, and despairs - yet has courage to hope, believe - and love - again."
"Years had passed - Paul Beaumont was forgotten - but the laugh was still his. For the brilliant scientist had, with a supreme gesture of contempt, made himself a common clown - In a little circus near Paris, he amused the idle, the ignorant and vicious, with an act of his own fancy - under the expressive name of "HE - Who Gets Slapped" - Five years before, Tricaud had hired the strange clown who desired only to be slapped - and now each night he proudly counted his slaps - and the laughs..."
"Paul Beaumont lived - to laugh at life. He laughed at his wife and the Baron - and left them to the doubtful joy of each other's society."
"What is it in human nature that makes people quick to laugh when someone else gets slapped - whether the slap be spiritual, mental, or physical?"
"Victor Seastrom's production of the famous stage play by Leonid Andreyev."
"Lon Chaney — Paul Beaumont"
"Norma Shearer — Consuelo"
"John Gilbert — Bezano"
"Tully Marshall — Count Mancini"
"Marc McDermott — Baron Regnard"
"Ford Sterling — Tricaud"
"Harvey Clark — Briquet"
"Paulette Duval — Zinida"
"What did he hide behind his painted smile?"
"Lon Chaney — Tito/Flik"
"Loretta Young — Simonetta"
"Nils Asther — Count Luigi Ravelli"
"Bernard Siegel —"
"Cissy Fitzgerald — Giacinta"
"Gwen Lee — Lucretia"
"Innocent as a newborn baby - baby rat, that is."
"Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / Bruno the Bear / Colonel Korny"
"Brutus, stop playing about with that knife. You'll end up hurting somebody."
"Oh, Asterix! He called me "Fatty!""
"[to Dumbo] Alright, Dumbo, give me a showstopper."
"[V.A. Vandevere: Is that a monkey in your desk?] Just for emergencies."
"[to Max Medici] You have something very rare! You have wonder! You have mystique! You have... nature! Come with me! Together, we can soar on that elephant’s wings!"
"[as he sees Dumbo flying] Just when I thought I'd seen everything."
"Hmm, charming."
"[to Holt] Your children need you to believe in them."
"[to Holt] The very best journey, dear friend - the road that leads home. Welcome home."
"[meeting Dumbo for the first time] He doesn't look like magic to me."
"Colin Farrell as Holt Farrier"
"Michael Keaton as V.A. Vandevere"
"Danny DeVito as Max Medici"
"Eva Green as Colette Marchant"
"Nico Parker as Milly Farrier"
"Finley Hobbins as Joe Farrier"
"Roshan Seth as Pramesh Singh"
"DeObia Oparei as Rongo"
"Joseph Gatt as Neils Skelling"
"Sharon Rooney as Miss Atlantis"
"Miguel Muñoz Segura as Ivan"
"Zendaia Alcade as Catherine"
"Ragevan Vasan as Pritam Singh"
"Frank Bourke as Puck"
"Michael Buffer as Baritone Bates"
"Lucy DeVito as Coat-check Girl"
"Jo Osmond as Circus Cook"
"Edd Osmond as Dumbo performer"
"Quiet flame, bright flame, quiet flame, night cries."
"Do you remember how beautiful it was, Zampanò? Watching the rain from the window that day?"
"Come here. There should be something here to fit you. I want you to look elegant. I don't want to see you in rags. My women have always looked smart."
"Do only what I tell you to."
"[reciting his act by rote before a crowd] Here we have a piece of chain that is a quarter of an inch thick. It is made of crude iron, stronger than steel. With the simple expansion of my pectoral muscles, or chest, that is, I'll break the hook. [collecting money from the crowd] Thank you, thank you. Now, to do this feat, I must fill myself up like a tire. If a blood vessel should break, I would spit blood. For instance, in Milan a man weighing 240 pounds lost his eyesight doing this trick. That is because the optical nerves take a beating, and once you lose your eyes, you are finished. If there's any delicate person in the audience, I would advise him to look away 'cause there could be blood. [with seemingly great effort, he breaks the chain]"
"What a funny face! Are you a woman, really? Or an artichoke?"
"What if I asked you to come with me? I'll teach you to walk the tightrope, way up in the air, with all the lights on you. I have a car. We'd be traveling all the time. We'd have a world of fun. Would you like that? But no. "Nothing." You have to stay with Zampanò and perform his ridiculous stunts and let him beat you like a donkey. Such is life."
"She's not like Rosa. But she's a good girl, poor thing. She'll do what she's told. She just came out a little strange. But, if she eats every day, maybe she'll get better."
"You want to go with Zampanò and take Rosa's place? He'll teach you a trade. You'll earn some money. And one less mouth to feed around here wouldn't be bad."
"Gelsomina, Zampanò's a good man. He'll treat you well. You'll travel the world. You'll sing and dance. And look what he gave me: 10,000 lire! I have it here, 10,000 lire! We can fix the roof and these poor things can eat. Why did your father ever leave us?"
"Widow: For three nights I've been up at 1:00am to cook. Think I'm tired? If I felt like it, I could dance all night long. Us older women are better than young girls."
"This is the picture YOU'VE HEARD about!"
"Already, word has come from the world's film centers - a great picture is coming...unique in its elemental story and setting...rare in the earthy, human magnificence of its portrayals."
"Giulietta Masina - Gelsomina"
"Anthony Quinn - Zampanò"
"Richard Basehart - Il Matto, the fool"
"Aldo Silvani - Il Signor Giraffa, the circus owner"
"Marcella Rovere - La Vedova, the widow"
"Livia Venturini - La Suorina, the nun"
"[to Holly, as his blood is being transfused into Brad] If he should make love well after this, pay no attention - it will be me."
"[while Buttons is doing first aid] Buttons! If that detective sees you doing this, he won't need fingerprints!"
"Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license."
"Narrator: [first lines] We bring you the circus, pied piper whose magic tunes greet children of all ages, from six to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter and whirling thrills; of rhythm, excitement and grace; of blaring and daring and dance; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars. But behind all this, the circus is a massive machine whose very life depends on discipline and motion and speed. A mechanized army on wheels, that rolls over any obstacle in its path, that meets calamity again and again, but always comes up smiling. A place where disaster and tragedy stalk the big top, haunt the backyard, and ride the circus train. Where death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear. A fierce, primitive fighting force that smashes relentlessly forward against impossible odds. That is the circus. And this is the story of the biggest of the big tops, and of the men and women who fight to make it "The Greatest Show on Earth.""
"Midway barker: [last lines] That's all, ladies and gentlemen, that's all. Come again to the greatest show on earth. Bring the children. Bring the old folks. You can shake the sawdust off your feet, but you can't shake it outta your heart. Come again, folks. The Greatest Show on Earth. Come again."
"Mightiest of Motion Pictures!"
"Thrill to Cecil B. DeMille's pageantry and excitement!"
"Love! Laughter! Thrills! Wonders! Suspense! Spectacle! Heart!"
"The motion picture for everyone!"
"Betty Hutton - Holly"
"Cornel Wilde - The Great Sebastian"
"Charlton Heston - Brad Braden"
"James Stewart - Buttons the Clown"
"Dorothy Lamour - Phyllis"
"Gloria Grahame - Angel"
"Henry Wilcoxon - FBI Agent Gregory"
"Lawrence Tierney - Mr. Henderson"
"Lyle Bettger - Klaus"
"Bob Carson - Ringmaster"
"John Ridgely - Assistant Manager"
"Frank Wilcox - Circus doctor"
"Brad Johnson - unnamed reporter"
"John Kellogg - Harry"
"Julia Faye - Birdie"
"Lillian Albertson - Buttons' mother"
"Edmond O'Brien - Narrator"