Burt Fabelman
We've gone too far in our story to actually say "the end."
Played by Paul Dano 
The Fabelmans (2022) · 22 quotes
The Fabelmans (2022) · 22 quotes
We're never not going to know each other, Sammy.
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Burt Fabelman
You can't just love something, you also have to take care of it.
Scenes with Burt Fabelman
2 scenes Burt Fabelman
[driving on Christmas]
The lights change how everything looks. It's hard to find our house.
Younger Sammy Fabelman
Ours is the dark house with no lights.
Younger Sammy Fabelman
[Mitzi laughs]
That's what I want for Hanukkah.
Mitzi Fabelman
What?
Younger Sammy Fabelman
Christmas lights!
Mitzi Fabelman
When I was a girl and I felt sad, I’d go to the zoo and I’d watch the monkeys.
Monica Sherwood
They made you laugh?
Mitzi Fabelman
Yeah, the monkeyshines. But there was more to it than that, it was...They understand what we’ve done to them, with the cages and the people pointing. We share that with them, the truth of how cruel people are. But if you watch them for long enough, you can tell they know stuff we can’t begin to imagine, important stuff. And they’re not going to let us in on it. Because it belongs to them, it’s their own monkey business, theirs. It’s not ours. It’s, oh I dunno...
Burt Fabelman
Self-possession.
Mitzi Fabelman
[Mitzi looks at him, an instant of deep connection. She gives him a sad smile.]
Right. They belong to themselves.
Hadassah Fabelman
If it belongs to itself, let it go back to where it came from.
Mitzi Fabelman
Anyway, that’s how come I got a monkey.
Natalie Fabelman
And a therapist.
Lisa Fabelman
He throws his poop.
Monica Sherwood
The therapist?
Lisa Fabelman
No the monkey.
Hadassah Fabelman
That’s why I’m staying in a hotel.
Burt Fabelman
You don’t have to. We have plenty of room -
Hadassah Fabelman
My rabbi in New Jersey says a monkey in the house isn’t Kosher.
Mitzi Fabelman
That’s why we’re not going to eat him.
Burt Fabelman
Did you schedule him for his polio vaccine?
Monica Sherwood
They can get polio?
Burt Fabelman
Well, they’re susceptible to pretty much everything humans are, so yes.
Mitzi Fabelman
Pass the peas. He hates going to the vet. You see, Monica, in this family, it’s the scientists versus the artists. Sammy’s on my team, he takes after me, except he’s got real talent.
Sammy Fabelman
Mom.
Natalie Fabelman
And he’s completely terrible at science.
Reggie Fabelman
And algebra.
Natalie Fabelman
And sports.
Sammy Fabelman
Will you please stop!
Monica Sherwood
He showed me his camera.
Natalie Fabelman
[To Monica]
Is he good at kissing?
Monica Sherwood
[To Natalie]
I’ll tell you later.
[the girls giggle]
