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The Railway Children (1970)

Sally Thomsett: Phyllis Waterbury

The Railway Children

Sally Thomsett credited as playing...

Phyllis Waterbury

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Quotes8

  • Bobbie Waterbury: It's Perks's birthday, he's 42, he says he got other things to keep than his birthday, not rabbits and secrets but the kids and the bloomin' missus.
  • Mrs. Waterbury: Wife and children Bobbie.
  • Bobbie Waterbury: Same thing isn't it?
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Bloomin' missus is a sort of a germ of endearment isn't it?
  • Mrs. Waterbury: Term of endearment Phil.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Apple pie for breakfast - we can't be poor after all!
  • Bobbie Waterbury: There's going to be a paperchase tomorrow.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Whippee!
  • Bobbie Waterbury: The boys from the grammar school are doing it.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Zippee!
  • Bobbie Waterbury: Perks says we can go by the ramp.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: What's a paperchase?
  • Phyllis Waterbury: I hope mother doesn't get too wet in Wakefield.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: It's like we're in a besieged castle, the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements.
  • Peter Waterbury: No, it's more like a great big garden squirt.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: You're a great big garden squirt.
  • Peter Waterbury: Thank you.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Why don't we ask the next train to take our love to Daddy?
  • Peter Waterbury: Trains don't carry people's love, they'd be above that.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Yes, they do if you tame them first. I wonder why Daddy hasn't written to us.
  • Bobbie Waterbury: Mummy says he's too busy. He'll write soon, she says.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: Well, why don't we wave anyway? Three waves won't matter. We won't miss them.
  • [so start waving]
  • Phyllis Waterbury: I don't think we're going to enjoy being poor, you know, being cold and all that.
  • Bobbie Waterbury: Phyllis try to imagine it as an adventure, all sorts of things might happen.
  • Phyllis Waterbury: I O N. There; 'Look out at the station'.
  • Bobbie Waterbury: One of your finest works, Michaelangelo.

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