"No, those aren't songs, they're recitations. She's not a giddy woman. She doesn't jig about. I mean, singing is frivolous. It is whole unnecessary in a governess, an educatress. No, it would s-simply ruin it. I won't have her turned into one of your silly cartoons."

"I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family."

"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? [throws the script out the window] No weight, Mr. Disney."

"George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."

"[sadly looks around at her home] I wanted to keep my house."

"Where her book ended, their story began."

"Behind the beloved book is a story beyond words."

"Katie Couric — herself"

"Michael Rapaport — Pete the Bartender"

"Sam Huntington — Jeff Kolodjay"

"Wayne Bastrup — Brian Kelly"

"Molly Hagan — Doreen Welsh"

"Max Adler — Jimmy Stefanik"

"Valerie Mahaffey — Diane Higgins"

"Jerry Ferrara — Michael Delaney"

"Jeff Kober — L. T. Cook"

"Autumn Reeser — Tess Soza"

"Ann Cusack — Donna Dent"

"Holt McCallany — Mike Cleary"

"Anna Gunn — Dr. Elizabeth Davis"

"Mike O'Malley — Charles Porter"

"Tom Hanks — Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger"

"The untold story behind the miracle on the Hudson."

"Aaron Eckhart — Jeff Skiles"

"Laura Linney — Lorraine Sullenberger"

"No one warned us. No one said, "You are going to lose both engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history. But be cool, just make a left turn for LaGuardia, like you are going back to pick up the milk." This was dual engine loss at twenty-eight hundred feet, followed by immediate water landing with one hundred fifty-five souls on board. No one has ever trained for an incident like that. No one."

"Jamey Sheridan — Ben Edwards"

"Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time."

"This is the captain. Brace for impact."

"[Looks at the co-pilot 10 seconds before ditching] Any ideas?"

"Dub Taylor - the First Dealer"

"Midge Ware - Mrs. Slade"

"Cab Calloway - Yeller"

"Jeff Corey - Hoban"

"Theodore Marcuse - Felix"

"Jack Weston - Pig"

"Tuesday Weld - Christian Rudd"

"Joan Blondell - Lady Fingers"

"Rip Torn - Slade"

"Milton Selzer - Sokal"

"Karl Malden - Shooter"

"HIGH FURY AND GNAWING FEAR!!"

"Steve McQueen - Eric "The Kid" Stoner"

"Edward G. Robinson - Lancey "The Man" Howard"

"He'd take on anyone, at anything, anytime ....it was only a matter of who came first!"

"A RAMBLING - GAMBLING MAN!"

"Ann-Margret - Melba"

"Karl Swenson - Mr. Rudd"