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Charlie Callas and Sean Marshall in Pete's Dragon (1977)

Jim Dale: Dr. Terminus

Pete's Dragon

Jim Dale credited as playing...

Dr. Terminus

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Quotes7

  • 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?

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