The Greatest Showman (2017) quotes
Director
Michael Gracey.
Cast
Hugh Jackman.
Michelle Williams.
Zac Efron.
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
You don’t need everyone to love you, Phin. Just a few good people!
– Charity Barnum
[singing] When the sharpest words wanna cut me down/Gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out/This is brave, this is bruised, this is who I’m meant to be/This is me.
– Lettie Lutz
Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.
– P.T. Barnum
You don’t get it, Barnum. It’s not about the money. Our own mothers were ashamed of us, they hid us our whole lives.
– Lettie Lutz
They come to see you… *Your* crazy ideas, *your* new acts. The unusual…
– Phillip Carlyle
Well then how about you show them a smile? That’d be unusual.
– P.T. Barnum
Trust me, they don’t know it yet, but they’re going to love you.
– P.T. Barnum
You’re even smaller than I imagined!
– Queen Victoria
Well you’re not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart.
– Tom Thumb
It is hard to understand wealth and privilege when you’re born to it.
– Jenny Lind
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
– P.T. Barnum
Everyone’s got an act.
– Anne Wheeler
They’re small minded people.
– Phillip Carlyle
I can’t just run off and join the circus.
– Phillip Carlyle
Why not? You clearly have a flair for show business.
P.T. Barnum
My father was treated like dirt. I was treated like dirt. My children won’t be.
– P.T. Barnum
Don’t start acting sensible now.
– Lettie Lutz
How did you get out?
– Young Barnum
The window.
– Young Charity