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Film Quotes by Philip Abbott

7 quotes
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
Dr. Bannerman: In certain intolerable situations, a man's unconscious mind can be the instrument of self-destruction.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
Dr. Tom Merrinoe: As a matter of fact, I had an exceptionally full, stimulating if I may say so, usful day at the computer.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
Dr. Tom Merrinoe: He's already ten years old, and he can't even play a decent game of chess.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
Dr. Tom Merrinoe: In order to equal the number of neuronic circuits in my own cerebral cortex we'd be obliged to build something slightly larger than the planet Jupiter.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
Timmie: What's a computer?
Dr. Tom Merrinoe: ...simply an electronic adding-and-remembering machine... a completely accurate and lighning-fast idiot with a lead pencil.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)
Sweet Bird of Youth
Year: 1962

Director:
Richard Brooks
Sweet Bird of Youth
Chance Wayne: George, George. You're the only grown man I know that still says "gee" and "golly" and "gosh."
Dr. George Scudder: Well, I'm not as sophisticated as you.
-- Philip Abbott (as Dr. George Scudder) in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
The Invisible Boy
Year: 1957

Director:
Herman Hoffman
The Invisible Boy
[last lines]
Robby the Robot: Pardon me, sir. My basic directive.
Dr. Tom Merrinoe: Have an apple, Timmie. - Robbie.
-- Philip Abbott in The Invisible Boy (1957)