Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)

Tom Selleck: Peter

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Quotes 

• Peter Mitchell : [Mary is upset about leaving New York for England]  Close your eyes. Can you see us?

  Mary : [she has her eyes closed]  No.

  Peter Mitchell : Well, you're not looking hard enough. Look harder. Way in the back. Can you see us now?

  Mary : Yeah.

  Peter Mitchell : Ok what are we doing?

  Mary : Michael's drawing, Jack's looking in the mirror, and you're watching basketball on TV yelling at Jack for not cleaning up the kitchen!

  Peter Mitchell : Well, that sounds about right to me!

• Peter Mitchell : [Also said in _Three Men and A Baby (1987)_]  I'll give you $1,000 if you do it.

• Peter Mitchell : [gets shocked by television]  Ohhh shit!

  Mary : You said the "S" word!

  Peter Mitchell : No I didn't.

  [gets shocked again] 

  Peter Mitchell : Ohhh shit!

• Mary : What a crock.

  Sylvia : Mary! Where did you hear that?

  Peter Mitchell : [On the phone]  What a crock!

• Jack Holden : You love Sylvia and she loves you.

  Peter Mitchell : She loves me?

  Jack Holden : Yes!

  Peter Mitchell : Then why is she marrying Edward?

  Jack Holden : Because you never asked her.

• Michael Kellam : [Peter is trying to unplug Mary's TV]  Pete, are you listening to me?

  Peter Mitchell : No, I'm electrocuting myself!

• Peter Mitchell : Marry me.

  Sylvia : Why Peter? For Mary's sake? You don't have to do that now. I'm moving back to New York and living there and you can see as much of Mary as you like.

  Peter Mitchell : It's not for Mary I'm doing this. I'm doing it for me. I love you.

  Sylvia : No you don't.

  Peter Mitchell : Yes I do. I love you. I love the way you walk, I love the way you laugh, I love the way when you get nervous you bite your bottom lip just like you're doing now, I love the way you love Mary,

  [to the congregation] 

  Peter Mitchell : I even love her liver mousse. I love you and if there were no Mary, if there was nothing else I would still love you. And I want to make Mary all over again with you.

• Sylvia : Someone going to come to the airport to help me pick up my mother?

  Peter Mitchell : Jack can you do it?

  Jack Holden : Oh damn, I got that kidney operation this afternoon! What about you, Peter?

  Peter Mitchell : Michael, I'll give you $1,000 if you'll do it!

• Peter Mitchell : [on the phone]  We're building an office block for 15,000 people, we can't put a bathroom on every other floor.

  [pause] 

  Peter Mitchell : Well, what if they don't go before come to work?

• Michael Kellam : [after Mary's penis comment at the restaurant]  You're overreacting.

  Peter Mitchell : Yeah, what's a genital here and there?

• Sylvia : You are a selfish bastard!

  Peter Mitchell : I'm selfish? At least I didn't leave my baby on a doorstep when she was six months old!

  [Sylvia slaps Peter] 

• Jack Holden : You love Sylvia, don't you?

  Peter Mitchell : Why do you say that?

  Jack Holden : Don't you. Oh come on Peter, just say how you feel.

  Peter Mitchell : All right, I love her.

  Jack Holden : Yes! Man, I wish there was a category like this on Jeopardy, I'd clean up. So why don't you tell her?

  Peter Mitchell : I'm scared.

  Jack Holden : Of what? Getting married again?

  Peter Mitchell : Yes. I love Sylvia. There, I've said it. I love her, I love her so much it hurts. But I'm scared, I'm scared of hurting her and Mary and you and Michael. And me.

• Peter Mitchell : I think she knows that actors are just like regular people.

  Jack Holden : [Enters dressed as Dracula]  Good afternoon.

• Peter Mitchell : Where are you gonna live?

  Sylvia : London.

  Jack Holden : London, England?

  Michael Kellam : [Sarcastically]  No, London, New Jersey.

• Sylvia : I think we need drinks.

  Peter Mitchell : I think we need shovels.

• Peter Mitchell : [pointing to a set of armor]  How do you take a leak in one of these things?

  Barrow, Edward's Butler : Carefully, very carefully.

• Peter Mitchell : The primary school is...

  Peter Mitchell , Michael Kellam , Jack Holden : ...the first watershed in a child's life.

  Peter Mitchell : Have I said that before?

  Peter Mitchell : Not in the last five minutes, Pete.

• Sylvia : If you think about it, if Mary and I hadn't moved in a taken up a part of your live, you'd all be in very different situations right now.

  Michael Kellam : We'd be married.

  Peter Mitchell : We'd be divorced! You've saved us a fortune.

• Peter Mitchell : [seeing a knight]  Ah, a medieval version of permanent press.

• Peter Mitchell : [to a farmer]  Do you have a car we could borrow?

  [farmer shakes his head] 

  Peter Mitchell : A horse? Anything that moves?

• Peter Mitchell : Time to fish or cut bait.

  Jack Holden : Oh that's really romantic. Honey it's time to fish or cut bait.

• Peter Mitchell : [at the airport]  Welcome, Mrs. Bennington.

  Vera Bennington : Oh, Michael.

  Peter Mitchell : Peter.

• Michael Kellam : [Peter, Michael, and Jack are discussing potential suitors for Sylvia]  What about Edward?

  Peter Mitchell : He's English.

  Michael Kellam : So is Sylvia!

  Jack Holden : Oh, no, that's an actor/director thing. They never last.

• Jack Holden : Do you want to marry me?

  Peter Mitchell : Jack!

  Jack Holden : [to Sylvia]  Wanna sleep on it?

  Michael Kellam : She did that once before, Jack!

  Jack Holden : Hey, shut up!

  [turns back to Sylvia] 

  Jack Holden : Do you want to marry me?

  Sylvia : No... but thank you for asking.

• Michael Kellam : [Mrs. Bennington has just arrived]  Couldn't you stay a little longer, Vera?

  Peter Mitchell : I tried to change her mind.

  Jack Holden : Did someone open a window in here? Burrr!

• Edward Hargreave : [to Sylvia, who's looking out a window]  What's the matter, darling?

  Sylvia : I'm concerned about Mary.

  Edward Hargreave : Oh, she'll come around. You'll see.

  Sylvia : And I'm nervous about tomorrow.

  Edward Hargreave : Don't you want to get married?

  Sylvia : Yes, of course I do. I think so. I mean... yes, yes I do. But why do you ask?

  Edward Hargreave : Everything's going to be fine. I promise you...

  Peter Mitchell : [Peter and Michael come rushing in]  You sonofabitch! You're planning on sending Mary to that boarding school!

  Edward Hargreave : What are you talking about!

  Michael Kellam : We went to Pileforth this afternoon.

  Peter Mitchell : He's planning to send Mary there!

  Sylvia : In five or six years, that's a possibility, yes...

  Peter Mitchell : No, not in five or six years. Next term.

  Edward Hargreave : That's not true.

  Peter Mitchell : He's lying to you.

  Edward Hargreave : Rubbish.

  Michael Kellam : Then why was Miss Lomax measuring Mary?

  Sylvia : Was she?

  Michael Kellam : For a uniform.

  Edward Hargreave : A gift. She asked me if she could give Mary a blazer.

  Peter Mitchell : Why?

  Edward Hargreave : Because she said that with all the presents Sylvia and I were going to get, Mary might feel left out.

  Sylvia : I think that's a very sweet thought.

  Edward Hargreave : Yes, I thought so.

  Peter Mitchell : What a crock!