Lorena Gale credited as playing...
Rita • Ghost of Christmas Present
- Rita: [commenting on her Christmas bonus] I could call it a lot of things but I wouldn't call it generous.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: [in a moving driverless car on Christmas Day] Feel that air!
- [sound of church bells]
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Listen to that music! All over the city... music! Bells... bells are my favorites. *Ring those bells!* And people singing and laughing and happy! Mmmmmm, and those smells! Evergreen trees and chestnuts roasting and pies baking!
- Ebbie: I suppose you think I should be baking Christmas pies.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: You might give it a try, boss. Bake a pie... sing a song... wish somebody a happy holiday and mean it. We make our own happiness.
- Ebbie: [talking about Tim Cratchit] He's not going to die, though?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Everybody dies, boss.
- Ebbie: Yes, but he's just a child!
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Well, too many people in the world anyways. Isn't that what you said?
- Ebbie: I didn't mean him!
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Didn't you? Oh, which ones did you mean?
- Ebbie: [pause, then] I wasn't thinking.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Yup, there's a lot of that going around these days.
- Ebbie: [Christmas Present is showing her her neice's party] These are all a lot of people I could never be comfortable with. I mean, I could never fit in here.
- Chost of Christmas Present: Feeling a little left out, are you?
- Ebbie: I was invited! I was always invited.
- Ebbie: [she's been shown Paul and his wife] She's lovely, Paul. Oh, such a fool... it could have been me with him.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Well, who's to say? Maybe it wouldn't have been the best thing, you know? I got to admit... he's a pretty darn nice guy. Time's up... gotta go.
- [She prepares to take them away]
- Ebbie: [stops Christmas Present] Paul... I want to be happy... I just don't know how to be happy.
- Ebbie: [she's being shown Ignorance and Poverty] Are they yours?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: They belong to all of us... but they cling to me. The one is Ignorance... the other is Poverty. Beware them... they can destroy the world.
- Ebbie: They're children... they need security and love! They need loving parents like my niece! Isn't there someone to care for them? Some place?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Aren't there orphanages? Aren't there shelters?