Sybil (1976)

Sally Field: Sybil

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Quotes 

• Sybil Dorsett : Who dat?

  Richard J. Loomis : Who dat who say who dat?

  Sybil Dorsett : Who dat who say who dat who say who dat?

• Richard : By day, I'm a Central Park cowboy, but by night, a tone-deaf wandering minstrel - street musician. Say yes.

  Sybil : [Vicky, in Sybil's head]  Sybil can't say yes. Vanessa, you go. You like music. You may go, Vanessa.

• Richard : Did you know Matthew? He likes you.

  Sybil : [as Marsha]  He loves Vanessa.

  Richard : Not-not-not just Vanessa. He knew about all of you long before I ever did. I mean, he sensed it in a way. He said to me, "Daddy, Sybil is just stuffed with people."

• Richard J. Loomis : Yeah, love and hate; peanut butter and jelly. I used to hate my late wife, who I speak of with a certain irony so as to keep total collapse at a distance.

  [pause] 

  Sybil Dorsett : I... wish you wouldn't mock yourself.

  Richard J. Loomis : You wanna hear about it?

  [pause] 

  Richard J. Loomis : 'cause I'd like to tell you.

  Sybil Dorsett : You would? I'd like to hear; I just didn't think I should ask.

  [pause] 

  Richard J. Loomis : Beep, beep with the horn; choo, choo with the train; crash, crash with the car. 'All broke', as Matthew says when I drop a dish.

• Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : I'm going to let you hear yourself play the piano.

  Sybil : I can't play the piano anymore. I used to play. I can't play it anymore.

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Well, this is a part of you that calls herself Vanessa, and she can. She plays beautifully.

• Sybil : What if I can't cook dinner for Richard. I'm so worried about being embarrassed.

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : You're protected, Sweety. Vicky wouldn't let you be embarrassed. She'll call on one of the others. Vanessa's more comfortable with Richard than you are.

• Sybil Dorsett : Curiosity killed the cat, so don't wonder.

• Sybil Dorsett : [imitating mother; as vicky]  Don't you dare tell, or I'll fix it so you ain't got nothin' to tell with.

• Sybil : [as Vicky]  What's love?

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Sweety, don't you know?

  Sybil : [as Vicky]  No I don't. Please tell. We all want to know. All of us.

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Who's "all of us"?

  Sybil : [as Vicky]  Everybody that lives with Sybil.

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Who are the others, Vicky? Are there more besides you and then Sybil and Peggy?

• Sybil : How do you know these things? I don't tell you them. And who does those drawings?

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : You do. But you do them as other people. Do you understand. You do them as other parts of yourself.

• Sybil : [as Peggy]  I don't find happiness anywhere.

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : We'll find it, Peggy. It just got lost someplace.

• Sybil : [as Vanessa]  One time, we went to the park, you know, because we were gonna play catch, and one of the boys came out because he wanted to play catch and Richard thought it was me, so he went over to Mike and kissed him smack dab on the lips. He went "Mmwa" and Mike went "Bleah".

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Wait a minute. Do you mean some of the others are boys?

  Sybil : [as Vanessa]  I wasn't supposed to tell you that. Now Vicky's gonna be mad at me.

• Sybil Dorsett : [singing]  In your easter bonnet with all the frills upon it. I'll be the grandest fellow in the easter parade. Fifth avenue... uh-ah, uh-ah. Fifth avenue... uh-ah, uh-ah...

  [slumps down and begins crying like a child] 

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : Vanessa, what's the matter?

  Sybil Dorsett : [in Peggy's voice]  I'm not Vanessa!

  Dr. Cornelia Wilbur : I'm sorry, Peggy, but you popped out so fast.