Dr. Sanderson Quotes in Harvey (1950)

Dr. Sanderson: Think carefully, Dowd. Didn't you know somebody, sometime, someplace by the name of Harvey? Didn't you ever know anybody by that name?

Elwood P. Dowd: No, no, not one, Doctor. Maybe that's why I always had such hopes for it.

Dr. Sanderson: I think that your sister's condition stems from trauma.

Elwood P. Dowd: From what?

Dr. Sanderson: Uh, trauma. Spelled t-r-a-u-m-a. It means shock. There's nothing unusual about it. There's the "birth trauma" - the shock of being born...

Elwood P. Dowd: That's the one we never get over.

Dr. Sanderson: It sounds funny, but I'll miss this place. I guess I'll miss a lot of things around here.

Miss Kelly: You will?

Dr. Sanderson: You won't laugh?

Miss Kelly: Of course not.

Dr. Sanderson: You know how it is working around people day after day. You sort of get attached to them.

Miss Kelly: I know, Lyman.

Dr. Sanderson: It may be ridiculous, but I'm gonna miss every one of the psychos, and the neuros, and the schizos in the place.

Miss Kelly: Well what shall I say to Mr. Dowd? What do I do? He'll probably be so furious he'll refuse to come down here.

Dr. Sanderson: Look, Miss Kelly. He's probably fit to be tied, but he's a man, isn't he?

Miss Kelly: I guess so. His name's *Mister*!

Dr. Sanderson: Well, then, go into your old routine. You know, the eyes, the swish, the works. I'm immune to it, but I've seen it work on some people, some of the patients out here. Now, you get him down here, Kelly, if you have to do a striptease!

Veta Louise Simmons: Doctor, everything I say to you is confidential, isn't it?

Dr. Sanderson: I am not a gossip, Mrs. Simmons. I am a psychiatrist.

Dr. Sanderson: Oh, no! Kelly! Kelly, do you realize what you've done! This man, Dowd, can sue us for false commitment. He can own the whole sanitarium and I'll be kicked out of here faster than you can say stupid, incompetent and inefficient!

Miss Kelly: Oh, I'll tell Dr. Chumley you had nothing to do with it! It was all my fault. You're the last person in the world I'd ever want anything like this to happen to. You know that, don't you, Dr. Sanderson?

Dr. Sanderson: Miss Kelly, this is hardly the time or the place to go into the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Miss Kelly: ...Doctor. There's never any time or place!

Dr. Sanderson: Please, sit down.

Elwood P. Dowd: After Miss Kelly.

Miss Kelly: Oh, no, really, Mr. Dowd. I couldn't. I'm in-and-out all the time.

Dr. Sanderson: You know, people are people no matter were you go.

Elwood P. Dowd: That is very often the case.

Dr. Sanderson: Under the circumstances, I'd commit my own Grandmother.

Elwood P. Dowd: Oh, does your Grandmother drink too?

Dr. Sanderson: Its just an expression.

Dr. Sanderson: Dr. Chumley, I'm afraid there's been a serous error.

Dr. Chumley: Dr. Sanderson, we don't permit errors in this institution.

Dr. Sanderson: Now, what happened after you introduced Dr. Chumley to Harvey?

Elwood P. Dowd: Well, Harvey suggested that I buy him a drink. And knowing that he doesn't like to drink alone, well, I suggested that Dr. Chummy join him.

Dr. Sanderson: Yes?

Elwood P. Dowd: We joined him.

Dr. Sanderson: Go on.

Elwood P. Dowd: We joined him again.