Pete's Dragon (1977)

Jim Dale: Dr. Terminus

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• Dr. Terminus : I hate Pa - pa - Pastahazootie, or whatever the name of this town is.

  Hoagy : Quoddy.

  Dr. Terminus : Yeah. I don't want to cure anybody here. They all deserve to have whatever they have.

• Dr. Terminus : [talking to the Gogans after Elliott crashed their boat and they fell into the water and now they're sick]  Excuse me folks, I witnessed what happened today and I'm completely sympathetic with you.

  Grover : [offensively]  What's "sympathetic" mean?

• Pete : I can't sell you Elliot. I don't own him.

  Hoagy : Well what did you do, rent him?

  Dr. Terminus : Well who owns him?

  Pete : Well, nobody, I guess. He just came to me. He only goes to those who need him.

  Dr. Terminus : *I* need him!

  Nora : Listen Doc, I don't know what you're up to but you better forget about this. He's not for sale.

  Dr. Terminus : [passing Pete's brush over to Nora]  Nora, go paint your lighthouse. Pete, my boy, you're conversant with Elliot! Now talk to him. Tell him how much I need him! Look, deliver Elliot to me the fiver is yours, plus a bottle of my medicine that's guaranteed to bring on puberty two years ahead of time. And that's better than a dragon!

• Dr. Terminus : Why do I hear a bell ringing?

  Hoagy : School must be out.

  Dr. Terminus : It's too early, stupid.

• Hoagy : [trying to tell Dr. Terminus about seeing Elliott for the first time] 

  [stutters scarily] 

  Hoagy : El- El- Dra- Dra...

  Dr. Terminus : What is an "El- El-, Dra- Dra-"?

• Dr. Terminus : [explaining the plan to capture Elliott to Hoagy]  Got it?

  Hoagy : Got it. What I don't got is, how are you gonna get that monster, that hideous beast, that nightmare sent by the devil to come here?

  Dr. Terminus : Easy, we get someone he knows to bring him here.

  Hoagy : Who'd be crazy enough to do that?

  [Dr. Terminus stares at Hoagy] 

  Hoagy : [screams]  NOOOOO! NOOOOOO!

  Dr. Terminus : He knows you, he trusts you!

  Hoagy : He scares me! He hates ME!

• Dr. Terminus : [learning of Elliot's existence]  Do you think this kid Pete would sell it?

  Hoagy : Money talks.

  Dr. Terminus : First there's a dragon, now he tells me money talks. Will miracles never cease?