Richard Sherman Quotes in Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

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  • Richard Sherman: Room here for everyone / Gather around / The constable's "responstible!" / Now how does that sound?

    P.L. Travers: No, no, no, no, no! "Responstible" is not a word!

    Richard Sherman: We made it up.

    P.L. Travers: Well, un-make it up.

    Richard Sherman: [hides sheet music of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."]

  • [Travers sees Robert Sherman walk out of the room with a cane]

    P.L. Travers: What is wrong with his leg?

    Richard Sherman: He got shot.

    P.L. Travers: Hardly surprising.

  • P.L. Travers: [reading the script] 'Scene one, exterior, Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, Day.' Yes, that's good. That can stay.

    Richard Sherman: That's just a scene heading.

    P.L. Travers: Though I do think we should say 'Number Seventeen,' instead of just 'Seventeen.'

    Don DaGradiRobert Sherman: No one's going to see it!

    P.L. Travers: *I* will see it.

  • Walt DisneyRichard Sherman: [singing] My world was calm, well ordered, exemplary / Then came this person, with chaos in her wake /And now my life's ambitions go with one fell blow / It's quite a bitter pill to take.

    Walt Disney: Inspired by someone we know?

    Richard Sherman: [feigning innocence] You'd have to ask Bob.

  • P.L. Travers: The rumor is that this is to be your Mr. Van Dyke, is it?

    Richard Sherman: We hope so.

    P.L. Travers: Hmm. We'll see about that, he's totally wrong. Totally and utterly.

    Robert Sherman: Dick is one of the greats!

    P.L. Travers: Dick Van Dyke? Robert, my dear, Olivier is one of the greats. Burton, Guinness, greats without question. I can assure you...

    P.L. Travers: [speaking into the tape recorder] ... Dick Van Dyke is *NOT!*

  • [last lines]

    [the authentic recordings of the rehearsals are being played on tape]

    P.L. Travers: Now, who's reading? And go slowly.

    Don DaGradi: You start and I'll take over.

    Robert Sherman: "Autumn. In the early part of the 20th century, 1910. London. At Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, the Banks household is in an uproar."

    P.L. Travers: Hold it. Now, I see that Cherry Tree Lane as not too townified on one side of the park. And we'll get you a photograph of 50 Smith Street, in order to see that the house is really quite like that. But it has more of a garden than my house had. But it might be useful and amusing to put it in as my house. You see?

    Don DaGradi: "Upstairs in the nursery, where Mary is measuring up the children with a long row of tape measure, Mary reads off the tape that Jane is..." Well, first she says, "What kind of material have we got to work with?"

    P.L. Travers: No, no. That, we cannot have. That would be quite un-English.

    Richard Sherman: Mrs. Travers, basically what we want to do here is use pretty much what you have in the book.

    P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Now, I want this tape measure to be used, because it was a tape measure that my mother had when she was a little girl.

    Richard Sherman: Mmm-hmm.

    P.L. Travers: And I think it would be very nice.

    Don DaGradi: "At the end of the chorus..."

    P.L. Travers: Read me all that, now.

    Don DaGradi: We were going to.

    P.L. Travers: Read it. No, no. You read it.

    Don DaGradi: Do you want to bear us?

    [Chuckles]

    P.L. Travers: No. Go on.

    Don DaGradi: This is torture!

    [Chuckles]

    P.L. Travers: Now, go on. "At the end of the chorus..." There ought perhaps to have been people in this countryside, you see? Are you making note of it? And they would be the Pearly people. They'd be arriving and they'd come nearer and they'd see, "Ah. Hmm." They know they are not grand enough to eat at this table. Have you got this on tape? Because I think it's important. I'm not going to do this film unless I'm available for it.

    Robert Sherman: Well, there are these tapes also, you know.

    P.L. Travers: No, it's not enough.

    Robert Sherman: We, uh... We have to feel the impact of it.

    P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Well, anyway, it brings about whatever it is. Mr. Banks, um, is able. He has a tender, good heart, not a change of heart, because he's always been sweet, but worried with the cares of life.

    [the tape ends]

  • Tom MacKenzie: What blonde in the kitchen?

    Richard Sherman: Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!

  • Richard Sherman: Miss Morris, I'm perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours.

  • Richard Sherman: If Helen sent you to get a divorce.

    Tom MacKenzie: [incredulous] A divorce?

    Richard Sherman: [continuing] I absolutely refuse! I'll fight it in every court!

    Tom MacKenzie: [incredulous] She sent me for the paddle.

    Richard Sherman: [continuing; crazed] Because I can explain everything: the stairs, the cinnamon toast, the blond in the kitchen.

    Tom MacKenzie: [interrupts; incredulous] Wait! Wait a minute Dickey-Boy. What blond in the kitchen?

    Richard Sherman: [seething with contempt] Oh, wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!

  • Richard Sherman: There's gin and vermouth. That's a martini.

    The Girl: Oh, that sounds cool! I think I'll have a glass of that. A big tall one!

  • Richard Sherman: 'What happened at the office? Well, I shot Mr. Brady in the head, made violent love to Miss Morris and set fire to three hundred thousand copies of Little Women. That's what happened at the office.' What *can* happen at the office?

  • Elaine: [From Here To Eternity spoof, Elaine and Richard on the beach] What is this strange animal thing you have? lt bothers me. lt's bothered me since the first time l saw you. And it'll bother me always, from here to eternity.

    Richard Sherman: You must fight it, Elaine. Remember, l belong to another!

    Elaine: Richard!

    Richard Sherman: [Running off into the surf] This can never be. l have a devoted, trusting wife at home, and a freckle-faced little space cadet.

    Elaine: Richard!

  • The Girl: I just hope it's not some priceless antique or something.

    Richard Sherman: Forget it. Just early Sears, Roebuck.

  • [Reading the cover of his book]

    Dr. Brubaker: "Of Sex and Violence"?

    Richard Sherman: Well we had to spice up the title a little.

  • The Girl: Do you have any kids?

    Richard Sherman: No. None. No kids. Well, just one. Little one. Hardly counts.

  • Richard Sherman: Tell me doctor, are you very expensive?

    Dr. Brubaker: Very!

    Richard Sherman: I'm sure you occasionally make exceptions.

    Dr. Brubaker: Never!

    Richard Sherman: Well I mean, once in a while, a case must come along that really interests you.

    Dr. Brubaker: At fifty dollars an hour, all my cases interest me.

  • Richard Sherman: I know girls like this! They just can't keep their big mouths shut! This is gonna be all over New York... she's probably telling someone about it right now... yaddida yaddida yaddida...

    [cuts to The Girl gossiping about their crazy night]

    Richard Sherman: ... I knew it! I knew it! Big blabbermouth!

  • Richard Sherman: [In Richard's nightmare, Helen shoots him and he lays dying on the stairs] Helen... I'm going fast. Give me a cigarette!

    Helen Sherman: A cigarette? You know what Dr. Murphy told you about smoking!

  • Richard Sherman: Good old Rachmaninov. The Second Piano Concerto. Never misses.

  • Dr. Brubaker: When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.

    Richard Sherman: Last night I scratched.

  • The Girl: You sure have strong thumbs!

    Richard Sherman: I used to play a lot of badminton.

  • Richard Sherman: My wife. She found out about us and she shot me. Five times in the back and twice in the belly!

  • Richard Sherman: Miss, may I have the check, please?

    Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant: Oh, yes, sir. Now let's see... we had the number seven special, a soybean hamburger with french-fried soybeans... Soybean sherbet and peppermint tea.

    Richard Sherman: Don't forget I had a cocktail to start.

    Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant: Oh yes, we had the sauerkraut juice on the rocks, didn't we? You will be proud to know that your entire meal with the cocktail was only 260 calories.

    Richard Sherman: I am proud.

  • [Richard exhales after a long drag on a forbidden cigarette]

    Richard Sherman: All those lovely, injurious tars and resins.

  • Richard Sherman: It sort of cools the ankles, doesn't it?

  • The Girl: That's what's wonderful about a married man. No matter what, he can't ask you to marry him. He's married already. Right?

    Richard Sherman: Right... You certainly don't have to worry about me. Am I ever a married man! I'm the most married man you'll ever know. And I promise... I will never ask you to marry me, come what may.

  • Richard Sherman: Well, how about some music?

    The Girl: Fine.

    Richard Sherman: Let's see what we've got here. Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky... Hey, how about this one? Rachmaninoff, the "Second Piano Concerto." You look to me like a big Rachmaninoff girl.

    The Girl: I do? Funny, I don't know anything about music.

  • The Girl: [as she leaves his apartment] Good night... I think you're very nice.

    Richard Sherman: [now alone in his apartment, talking to himself] "Nice"! You're not nice. You're crazy, that's what you are. You're running amok. Helen's gone for one day and you're running amok. Smoking, drinking, picking up girls, playing "Chopsticks." You're not gonna' live through this summer. Not like this, you're not.

    Richard Sherman: [looking at himself in a mirror] Look at those bloodshot eyes. Look at that face, ravaged, dissipated, evil. One of these mornings you're gonna' look in the mirror and that's all, brother. "The Portrait of Dorian Gray."

  • Richard Sherman: Suppose this girl tells somebody about this? Oh, if she tells anybody about this, I'll kill her - I'll kill her with my bare hands!

    Dr. Brubaker: A possible solution... I submit, however, that murder is the most difficult of all crimes to commit successfully. Therefore, until you are able to commit a simple act of terror, I strongly advise you to avoid anything as complex as murder. One must learn to walk, before one can run. Thank you, and good bye.

  • Richard Sherman: [walking up to his New York townhouse building] I like this house. Why does Helen keep talking about moving into one of those big, enormous buildings that look like "Riot in Cell Block 11"?

    Richard Sherman: [as he enters the building] It's so much nicer here. Just three apartments: ours, the Kaufmans upstairs, and then those two guys on the top floor - "interior decorators" or something.

  • Richard Sherman: [Showing Dr. Brubaker a picture of The Girl in the "U.S. Camera" magazine yearbook] Here, Doctor. I brought this with me. I didn't want to leave it lying around the house. That's her. Her hair was a little longer then. It's called "Textures" because you can see the three different textures: The driftwood, the sand and her. It got "honorable mention."

    Dr. Brubaker: Splendid. I congratulate you on your good taste. Interesting driftwood formation, too.

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