35 Tinker Bell Quotes to Help You Believe
Updated November 14, 2023
Tinker Bell has been around for a long time, and even though she started out not saying a single word, she has developed over the years to where we now have Tinker Bell quotes.
Let us know which one is your favorite in the comment section below.
Tinker Bell, who made her debut in 1904, is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan.
She reappeared in its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy.
Geraldine McCaughrean, commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital (which was granted the rights to the characters and writings by Barrie in 1929), wrote a sequel to Barrie’s novel in 2006.
Tinker Bell is also in the novel Peter Pan in Scarlet.
In the original 1953 Disney version of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell doesn’t really say anything.
She expresses herself by adorably stomping her feet and waving her hands.
If looks could kill, Tinker Bell could have wiped out half the characters with a single snarky glance.
Her facial expressions were on point!
Tinker Bell talks in several other films adapted for the character.
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Tinker Bell quotes from the movie Tinker Bell
1. “Guess what? I’ve decided, I’m not gonna be a tinker fairy anymore.” — Tinker Bell
2. “Well, I was thinking. Why do I have to be a tinker? Just because some silly hammer glowed? I mean, who’s to say it wasn’t just some big mistake? Maybe I can just switch my talent!” — Tinker Bell
3. “You all do things that are beautiful and magical and… and important. But me… there’s gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I’m asking you is that you give me a chance.” — Tinker Bell
4. Tinker Bell: “The mouse’s name is Cheese?”
Bobble: “Must be. He always comes when we yell it.”
5. Terence: “Well, I don’t know. I’m just the dust-keeper guy. I’m not exactly seen as the most important fairy in Pixie Hollow.”
Tinker Bell: “Terence… what are you talking about? You’re probably the most important one there is. Without you, no one would have any magic! Why your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it! I mean…”
6. “Um, you’re a pollen-izer? Um, pollen-ator. Pollen picker? Pollen plucker…” — Tinker Bell
7. “If you could teach me your talent-any of them- maybe I can show the queen that I can work with nature too! *smacks bug, flicks it away* And then she’d let me go to the mainland for spring!” — Tinker Bell
8. “Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and… and important. But me… there’s gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I’m asking you is that you give me a chance.” — Tinker Bell
9. “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. Dreams are forever.” — Tinker Bell
10. “Yes. Because I’m a tinker. It’s who I am. And tinkers fix things.” — Tinker Bell
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Tinker Bell quotes from the movie Hook
11. “Say it, Peter. Say it and mean it.” — Tinker Bell
12. “You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you… Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” — Tinker Bell
13. “If you can’t imagine yourself being Peter Pan, you won’t *be* Peter Pan, so eat up.” — Tinker Bell
14. “That’s right, Peter, second star to the right and straight on till morning. Neverland!” — Tinker Bell
15. “The smell of someone who has ridden the back of the wind, Peter. The smell of a hundred fun summers, with sleeping in trees and adventures with Indians and Pirates. Oh, remember, Peter? The world was ours. We could do everything or nothing. All it had to be was anything ‘cause it was always us.” — Tinker Bell
16. “Every time someone says ‘I do not believe in fairies’, somewhere there’s a fairy that falls down dead.” — Tinker Bell
17. “I drank poison for you! You called me Tink.” — Tinker Bell
18. “I believe in you, Peter Pan.” — Tinker Bell
19. “If less is more, there’s no end to me, Peter Pan.” — Tinker Bell
20. “Well, whoever you are it’s still you, ‘cause only one person has that smell.” — Tinker Bell
21. “You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you… Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” — Tinker Bell
Quotes from Peter Pan to Tinker Bell from the movie Hook
22. “I believe in fairies.” — Peter
23. “What’s the deal? Where’s the real food?” — Peter
24. “Eat what? There’s nothing here. Gandhi ate more than this.” — Peter
25. “You’re a… you’re a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother, and I don’t know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs, and you’re a very nice tiny person and what am I saying, I don’t know who my mother was; I’m an orphan, and I’ve never taken drugs because I missed the sixties, I was an accountant.” — Peter
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26. “You don’t have to understand. You just have to believe!” — Lizzy
27. “Almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.” — J.M. Barrie
28. “There is no fairy who does not love children.” — Tinkerbell
29. “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” — Peter Pan
30. “Never give in to the sorrows of life; always smile as much as possible and remain happy.” — Peter Pan
31. “Think of the happiest things, it’s the same as having the wing.” — Tinkerbell
32. “When life makes you cry a hundred times, you have to smile a thousand times. This way, you will be able to overcome your sorrow and be happy forever.” — Tinkerbell
33. “After all, tinker fairies learn from their mistakes.” — Fairy Mary
34. “Great to have friends who will help you out, huh?” — Tinkerbell
35. “Well, with any luck, I’ll do better this time.” — Tinkerbell
Which of these Tinker Bell quotes is your favorite?
Tinker Bell also appears in most of the opening credits of Disney animated films as the unofficial mascot of the company.
She might not be a Disney princess, but she has an entire series of movies dedicated to her!
So far, there are eight films in the franchise.
Some of my favorite quotes from Tinker Bell come from the movie Hook.
You just can’t go wrong with Robin Williams as Peter Pan and the incomparable Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell.
No matter which version of Tinker Bell you are referring to, she has a critical message to deliver to children and adults alike.
Believe in things that you can’t see, like love and magic.
You can do anything with a little imagination and a dream.
It is little wonder that fans all around the world view her as a symbol of magic.
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