[Dr. Lao is fishing in a dried-up riverbed.]
I hate to tell you this, Doctor, but there aren't any fish in that river. In fact, there isn't any river.
That's okay. Me no use bait.
Dr. Lao
Tony Randall · 14 quotes
Clint Stark
Arthur O'Connell · 5 quotes
Ed Cunningham
John Ericson · 5 quotes
Mike
Kevin Tate · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Dr. Lao & Mike (4), Dr. Lao & Ed Cunningham (2)
7 Faces of Dr. Lao quotes
Page 2 of 2All those stories about me, they're lies. I'm not a bank robber or a cattle rustler, and I've never kicked a woman in the stomach even once, really!
Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand.
My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of.
Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery.
This is the circus of Dr. Lao.
We show you things that you don't know.
Oh, we spare no pains and we spare no dough.
Oh, we want to give you one hell of a show!
And youth may come and age may go,
But no more circuses like this show.
Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing.
You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come.