Poppins Quotes in You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Poppins Quotes:
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Poppins: The die is cast. I'm a lily!
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Have some popcorn.
-- Poppins -
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: How would you like to come over to our house and work on your gadgets?
Poppins: Your house? Well I don't know, thank you.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Oh go on, you'll love it. Everybody at over at our place does just what he wants to do.
Poppins: Really?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Mmm-hmmmm.
Poppins: That must be wonderful. But how would I live?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: The same way we do.
Poppins: The same way? Well who takes care of you?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: The same One that takes care of the lilies of the field, Mr. Poppins, except that we toil a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun. If you want to, come on over and become a lily too.
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Poppins: Why shouldn't Ed print up something about the fireworks and put them in the candy boxes? That would advertise the Revolution, wouldn't it?
Paul Sycamore: Say..."Watch for the Revolution, it's coming soon!" How's that?
Ed Carmichael: "Watch for the Revolution, it's coming soon"? Now I can use my big type.
DePinna: We've got plenty of these red flags, you can write about that.
Ed Carmichael: "The Red Flag will sweep the country, get your Red Flags from Sycamore!"
-- Poppins -
Penny Sycamore: Were you ever in a monestery, Mr. Poppins?
Poppins: In a monastery?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: What's the matter, Penny, stuck?
Penny Sycamore: Yes, I've sort of got myself in the monastery and I can't get out.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: It'll come to you, remember how you got out of that jail.
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Do you like this?
Poppins: Like it?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: This work that you're doing?
Poppins: Oh, no, my goodness, no. Land sakes, what am I saying.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Then, why do you do it?
-- Poppins -
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Everybody over at our place does just what he wants to do.
Poppins: Really? That must be wonderful. - But how would I live?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: The same way we do
Poppins: The same way. Well, who takes care of you?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: The same one that takes care of the lilies of the field, Mr. Poppins. Except that we toy a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun.
-- Poppins
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Characters on You Can't Take It with You (1938)
- Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff
- Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
- Penny Sycamore
- Anthony P. Kirby
- Rheba
- Tony Kirby
- Essie Carmichael
- Boris Kolenkhov
- Alice Sycamore
- Henry - the Head Waiter
- Lord Melville
- Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
- Bill Hughes
- John Blakely
- Mrs. Schmidt
- Paul Sycamore
- Ed Carmichael
- DePinna
- Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent
- Jailed Prostitute