Willie Taylor: Son, you'll take good care of my baby, won't you?
Peter Piper: What a chance! She'll be teaching me the lockstep within a week.
[the doorbell rings]
Sidney Taylor: Who's that?
Peter Piper: Leave it to Mrs. Piper's boy to find out!


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow

Mrs. Piper: I'll be all alone, with so many things to remind me of my boy in the old home.
Peter Piper: Yeah, we've lived in our ancestral three rooms for going on two months now.


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow

Mrs. Piper: Pete, my poor boy. You're on the edge of a great and serious experience.
[It's the night before Pete's wedding]
Peter Piper: What's the matter? What are you talking about?
Mrs. Piper: Listen, Pete. In every man, in every boy even, there lurks a beast. A beast that can be aroused!
Peter Piper: [embarrassed] Oh for cat's sake, Ma.


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow

Penny Hale: Why is everything so mixed up?
Jeff Hale: Well, maybe this picture will help you understand.
[showing her a political cartoon of Uncle Sam in the newspaper]
Jeff Hale: You see all these people? They're all pulling on this one poor fellow.
Penny Hale: What has he done?
Jeff Hale: He's done everything he can, and it still isn't enough. He gives and he gives, and he tries to make everything right.
Penny Hale: Is he the president?
Jeff Hale: He's greater than the president. He's the most important man in the whole country, maybe in the world.
Penny Hale: Why doesn't somebody try to help Uncle Sam instead of pulling on him?
Jeff Hale: Lots of us try.


--Charles Farrell (as Jeff Hale) in Just Around the Corner

Sidney Taylor: I just saw you watching Betty, and the way you looked at her legs. You looked kind of funny.
Peter Piper: I can't help looking funny. I was born that way.
Sidney Taylor: Don't, Pete. I'm serious. I've thought about it often.
Peter Piper: About what?
Sidney Taylor: Listen, Pete. Why can't we have a - holiday together?
Peter Piper: A what?
Sidney Taylor: Why can't we go away somewhere together? We could come back, and no one would ever know.
Peter Piper: Say, what in the name of heaven are you...
Sidney Taylor: Wouldn't you?
Peter Piper: No, and neither would you. I hope I don't know what you're talking about, but I think I do. You wouldn't want to do anything like that, would you?
Sidney Taylor: No, I wouldn't. But I love you, Pete, and I know men are different.
Peter Piper: Different from what?
Sidney Taylor: From a girl. I mean, a nice girl.
Peter Piper: You poor little kid. Somebody's been telling you a lot about the difference in habits between men and women. Self-control. Maybe it's true, and then again maybe it's a lot of applesauce. As far as I'm concerned, if a person's on the level, it's got nothing to do with sex. Get me?
Sidney Taylor: I think so, but I just wanted you to know I'd do anything for you.
Peter Piper: Don't you think you have? Don't you worry your poor little head about me. I'm all right, and I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait for you until hell freezes over.


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow

Sidney Taylor: When we're married, you want me to have a baby, don't you?
Peter Piper: Sure.
Sidney Taylor: I mean you really want one, don't you?
Peter Piper: More than anything else in the world. To see you with a baby in your arms... it'll be - oh, I don't know - it'll be beautiful. Your baby and mine.
Sidney Taylor: That's what I wanted to hear you say. Pete, we're going to want our baby.
Peter Piper: Sure. But you're not going to get me to wheel any baby carriage around!


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow

Samuel G. Henshaw: Did you or did you not tell this child that I was responsible for the slump? And that I was responsible for business going to the dogs, for your troubles, my troubles, everyone's troubles? Including the blessed fact that you have to go away somewhere for two years!
Jeff Hale: Certainly not!
Penny Hale: Why, Daddy, didn't you say that when Uncle Sam got in trouble, the people got scared, and when the people got scared, business got bad, and when business got bad, there was a slump, and when that happened, nobody built any buildings?
Jeff Hale: Yes, but -
Penny Hale: Didn't you say that everyone ought to get together and help Uncle Sam instead of pulling on him?
Jeff Hale: Yes, dear, but let's get back to Mr. Henshaw here.
Penny Hale: But I am back to him. He's Uncle Sam, isn't he?
Jeff Hale: Him?
Samuel G. Henshaw: Me?
Samuel G. Henshaw, Jeff Hale: Uncle Sam?


--Charles Farrell (as Jeff Hale) in Just Around the Corner

Jeff Hale: You remember how hard I used to work before you went away to school? I was always planning buildings and putting them up. We hardly had any time at all to be together.
Penny Hale: And you were tired all the time.
Jeff Hale: That wasn't so good, was it? But it made money. We had money to live in a penthouse and have a car. But now it's awful hard to get jobs.


--Charles Farrell (as Jeff Hale) in Just Around the Corner

Liliom: [speaking about Louise] I wanted to make her laugh, and she wouldn't laugh! I wanted to make her like me, and she wouldn't like me! Oh, I've failed!


--Charles Farrell (as Liliom) in Liliom

Peter Piper: Listen, dumbbell - I went to school.
Sidney Taylor: No one would ever know it.
Peter Piper: Is that so? Want to hear me spell "eucalyptus"?


--Charles Farrell (as Peter Piper) in After Tomorrow