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