Zac Efron credited as playing...
Phillip Carlyle
- Phillip Carlyle: They come to see you... *Your* crazy ideas, *your* new acts. The unusual...
- P.T. Barnum: Well then how about you show them a smile? That'd be unusual.
- P.T. Barnum: [hands Phillip his top hat] This is for you.
- Phillip Carlyle: What will *you* be doing?
- P.T. Barnum: Watch my girls grow up. The show must go on.
- Phillip Carlyle: I can't just run off and join the circus.
- P.T. Barnum: Why not? You clearly have a flair for show business.
- [after Barnum becomes 50/50 partners with Phillip Calyle]
- Phillip Carlyle: The only thing is I don't know how we are ever going to afford a building.
- P.T. Barnum: Right.
- [Long and deep sigh]
- P.T. Barnum: We don't need a building. Real estate in Manhattan is a terrible investment. Why, I can get land down by the docks for almost nothing. All we need is a tent!
- Mr. Carlyle: Philip, have you no shame? Associating yourself with the Barnum business is one thing, but parading around with the help!
- [Anne leaves, humiliated]
- Phillip Carlyle: Anne! Anne!
- Phillip Carlyle: [turns coldly to his father] How dare you speak to her like that.
- Mrs. Carlyle: You forget your place, Philip.
- Phillip Carlyle: My place? Mother if this is my place, then I don't want any part of it.
- P.T. Barnum: [seeing Jenny for the first time] Who's that?
- Phillip Carlyle: The opera singer?
- P.T. Barnum: Singer, huh?
- Phillip Carlyle: She's the most famous performer in all of Europe. She sold out La Scala a dozen times. Not to mention the French Opera.
- P.T. Barnum: Ah.
- [he grabs Phillip's arm and leads him forward]
- Phillip Carlyle: What are you doing?
- P.T. Barnum: Following you, so you can introduce me to Ms. Lynd.
- Phillip Carlyle: Introduce you?
- P.T. Barnum: Yeah.
- Phillip Carlyle: I don't know her.
- P.T. Barnum: Everybody knows her. You just said so yourself.
- Phillip Carlyle: Yeah, exactly. You don't just march up to someone like this.
- P.T. Barnum: Why not? We're personable. She's a person.
- Phillip Carlyle: Before I met you, I had a name, an inheritance, and an invitation to every party in town. Now thanks to you, all that's gone. All I have is love, friendship, and a work that I adore. You brought joy into my life.
- Lettie Lutz: Into all our lives.
- Lord of Leeds: Hear, hear!
- P.T. Barnum: If only the bank would take joy as collateral.
- Phillip Carlyle: Well they might not, but I will. I own 10% of the show. Knowing who I was working for, I had the good sense to take my cut weekly.
- P.T. Barnum: Phillip, I can't let you gamble it on me.
- Anne Wheeler: Sure you can!
- Lettie Lutz: Don't turn sensible on us now!
- Phillip Carlyle: Partners. 50/50.
- Phillip Carlyle: Anne, they're small minded people. Why do you care what they think?
- Anne Wheeler: It's not just them. You've never had anyone look at you the way your parents just looked at me. The way everyone would look at us.