The Greatest Showman

Jenny Lind:
Well, Mr. Barnum. This...is...to making dreams come true.

P. T. Barnum:
Thank you, Jenny. It's two hours to curtains.

Jenny Lind:
I've given you the world, haven't I?

P. T. Barnum:
I, I should go. I have become a distraction. I'm sorry, Jenny. You should finish your tour without me.

Jenny Lind:
What? You're leaving?

P. T. Barnum:
The itinerary is well in hand.

Jenny Lind:
So that's it.

P. T. Barnum:
What do you mean?

Jenny Lind:
I'm just another one of your acts.

P. T. Barnum:
Jenny.

Jenny Lind:
I'm done.

P. T. Barnum:
Jenny, Jenny, please. You have to finish the tour.

Jenny Lind:
Must I?

P. T. Barnum:
It will ruin me.

Jenny Lind:
When you're careless with other people, Mr. Barnum... you bring ruin upon yourself.

Jenny Lind:
I have risked everything.

P. T. Barnum:
Well, so did I.

Jenny Lind:
And seems we've both lost.

Jenny Lind:
You are the American. I believe I might have heard of you.

P. T. Barnum:
Oh, well, If you've heard of me all the way over here, I must have been doing something right.

Jenny Lind:
That, or something very wrong.

P. T. Barnum:
In the world of publicity there is hardly any difference.

Jenny Lind:
I believe those are the words of a scoundrel, Mr Barnum.

P. T. Barnum:
A showman, Miss Lind, just a showman. The best on my side of the Atlantic.

Queen Victoria:
You're even smaller than I imagined!

Tom Thumb:
Well you're not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart.

P. T. Barnum:
Hey sweetie, who's that young man over there?

Charity Barnum:
Oh that's Phillip Carlyle. A bit of a scandal, they say. His last play was a hit in London.

P. T. Barnum:
Play? Pay good money to watch people stand around and talk for two hours and they call me a conman.

Phillip Carlyle:
I can’t just run off and join the circus.

P. T. Barnum:
Why not? I mean you clearly have a flair for show business.

Phillip Carlyle:
The show business?

P. T. Barnum:
Mm-hmm.

Phillip Carlyle:
I’ve never heard of it.

P. T. Barnum:
Because I just invented it.

Phillip Carlyle:
You’re risking everything you’ve built.

P. T. Barnum:
Well how do you think I built it...

Phillip’s Mother:
You forget your place, Phillip.

Phillip Carlyle:
My place? Mother, if this is my place, then I don't want any part of it.

Philip Carlyle:
Mr. Barnum, I can not just run off and enter into the circus.

P. T. Barnum:
Why not? Sounds thrilling, isn't it?

Philip Carlyle:
Let's just say that I find it much more comfortable...admiring your show from afar.

P. T. Barnum:
Comfort, the enemy of progress.

Philip Carlyle:
Do you understand that just associating with you could cost me my inheritance?

P. T. Barnum:
Oh, it could cost you more than that. You'd be risking everything. But, on the other hand, well, you just might find yourself a free man.

Philip Carlyle:
Sir, it looks like you have yourself a junior partner.

P. T. Barnum:
What I have is an overcompensated apprentice.

P. T. Barnum:
Jenny, this is my wife Charity and our girls.

Jenny Lind:
Of course, and I've heard so much about you. And your father tells me you are a fan of the ballet.

Caroline Barnum:
Yes, I'm studying ballet.

Jenny Lind:
Oh, are you?

Caroline Barnum:
Of course I am.

P. T. Barnum:
Of course she is.

Jenny Lind:
And what about you, Helen?

Helen Barnum:
You look like a princess, ma'am.

P. T. Barnum:
This isn't the life I promised you.

Charity Barnum:
But I have everything I want.

P. T. Barnum:
What about the magic?

Charity Barnum:
What do you call those two girls?

Anne Wheeler:
And what is your act, Mr. Carlyle?

Philip Carlyle:
I don't have an act.

Anne Wheeler:
Everyone has got an act.

P. T. Barnum:
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

P. T. Barnum:
The noblest art is that of making others happy

P. T. Barnum:
[singing] Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for/Been searching in the dark, your sweat soakin' through the floor/And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore/Taking your breath, stealing your mind/And all that was real is left behind...

P. T. Barnum:
Everyone is special and nobody is like anyone else. That’s the point of my show.

P. T. Barnum:
Hyperbole isn't the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.

P. T. Barnum:
Sir I, I know I don't come from much but I will take care of your daughter and I will give her a life as grand as this one.

P. T. Barnum:
They don't understand it, but they will.

P. T. Barnum:
Oh, I am counting on it.

P. T. Barnum:
Yeah, we are going to change that name. I think you're Irish.

Charity Barnum:
You don’t need everyone to love you. Just a few good people.

Charity Barnum:
Father is sending me to finishing school.

Charity Barnum:
I don't know what my future will be.

Charity Barnum:
I wish...for happiness like this forever.

Charity Barnum:
For you and you...and for your father.

Charity Barnum:
Yes, I do, indeed. Refunds are available at front box office.

Charity Barnum:
God, no. But I've seen the crowds. People leave your show happier than when they came in.

Charity Barnum:
Which is much more than I can say from my play.

Charity Barnum:
Who is that?

Charity Barnum:
I guess I'll just have to tell the queen either all of us go or none of us will.

Charity Barnum:
It is hard to understand wealth and privilege when you're born to it.

Charity Barnum:
I gave most of my earnings to charity,Mr Barnum...to orphans and widows.

Charity Barnum:
I sometimes don't feel like I belong here.

Charity Barnum:
I was born out of wedlock and that brought shame upon my family.

Charity Barnum:
And life always manages to remind me that I don't deserve a place in this world.

Charity Barnum:
And that leaves a hole that no ovation can ever fill.

Charity Barnum:
Are we all invited?

Charity Barnum:
Mr. Barnum said he left a ticket for me.

Charity Barnum:
I've always wanted to go to the theater.

Charity Barnum:
Never had somebody look at you the way your parents looked at me. The way everyone would look at us.