Emma Thompson movie quotes

View Quote Mr. Arrow, I've checked this miserable ship from stem to stern, and, as usual, it's... spot on. Can you get nothing wrong?

View Quote [her eulogy for Mr. Arrow] Mr. Arrow was a... [clears throat] fine spacer. Finer than most of us could ever hope to be. But he knew the risks, as do we all. Resume your posts. We carry on.

View Quote [after Jim warns her and Doppler about the crew's mutiny] Pirates on my ship?! I'll see they all hang!

View Quote [throws a plush Mickey Mouse off her bed] You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.

View Quote [sees a Winnie the Pooh doll in her room] Poor A. A. Milne.

View Quote No, those aren't songs, they're recitations. She's not a giddy woman. She doesn't jig about. I mean, singing is frivolous. It is whole unnecessary in a governess, an educatress. No, it would s-simply ruin it. I won't have her turned into one of your silly cartoons.

View Quote Like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method.

View Quote This is a story about a man named Harold Crick. And his wristwatch.

View Quote Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations and incredibly few words.

View Quote [to Daniel] Get a grip, people hate sissies. No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.

View Quote Now which doll shall we give Daisy's little friend Emily? The one that looks like a transvestite or the one that looks like a dominatrix?

View Quote The trouble with being the Prime Minister's sister is it does put your life into rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a paper-mach? lobster head.

View Quote I have 5 lessons to teach. What lessons they learn is entirely up to them. Goodnight, Mr Brown.

View Quote I did knock.

View Quote When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. If you want me, but no longer need me then I have to go.

View Quote Mrs. Potts:[to Belle] The Master's not as terrible as he appears. Somewhere deep in his soul, there's a prince... of a fellow who just waiting to be set free.

View Quote [The Beast lays dying with Belle at his side]
Beast: [weakly as he holds Belle’s hand, breathing heavily] You came back.
Belle: [tearfully] Of course I came back. I’ll never leave you again.
Beast: I’m afraid it's my turn to leave.
Belle: We’re together now. It’s going to be fine.
Beast: At least I got to see you one last time.
[The last petal falls and the Beast dies]
Belle: No. Please, no. [starts crying] Come back.
[the last petal falls, the Beast dies, and the servants began to freeze up; at the entrance the servants celebrate after chasing the mob out]
Lumière: We did it, Plumette! Victory is ours! [realizes she has frozen up into a feather duster] Plumette? Plumette! Oh, my darling Plumette... [sadly sets her down]
[Maestro Cadenza and Madame de Garderobe share their final moments]
Madame de Garderobe: Oh, Maestro... You were so brave... Goodbye, my love... [reverts to a wardrobe]
Maestro Cadenza: Amore?... No! Don't leave me... [he struggles to speak and the effects of the spell overtake him, reverting him to a harpsichord]
[Frou-Frou barks at the now inanimate Wardrobe and Harpsichord, as he lets out a final cry, turning into a footstool. Mrs. Potts frantically jumps around in search for Chip]
Mrs. Potts: Chip? Chip! Have you seen Chip? He ran off! [sobs as she frantically panics unaware of what will happen] Where is my little boy...?! [her faces slowly fades from the teapot as she freezes up, as Chip emerges from the castle]
Chip: Mama!
Cogsworth: Oh, no.
Chip: Mom! [he and his saucer flip upside down as they fly up and fall to the ground. The saucer crashes into the ground as Chapeau barely catches him and places him besides his mother as they both make their final transformation into inanimate objects]
[Lumière and Cogsworth are the only ones left. Knowing their time is up, they share their final goodbyes]
Cogsworth: Lumière, I... I can't speak...!
Lumière: [sadly] It's alright, Cogsworth.
Cogsworth: I can't... Lumière, my friend... it was an honor to serve... with you. [freezes up, into a mantel clock]
Lumière: The honor... was mine. [freezes up, into a candelabra. His flames extinguish.]
[Agathe comes in the West Wing]
Belle: [crying over the Beast's death] Come back. Please don't leave me. I love you. [kisses him]

View Quote Cogsworth: Well, Master, I have had my doubts, but everything is moving like clockwork. True love really does win the day!
Beast: I let her go.
Cogsworth: You... what?!
Lumière: Master, how could you do that?
Beast: I had to.
Cogsworth: But why?
Mrs. Potts: Because he loves her.
Lumière: Then why are we not human?
Cogsworth: Because she doesn't love him and now it's too late.
Plumette: But, she might still come back.
Beast: No. I set her free. I'm sorry I couldn't do the same for all of you. Now, go. Our time is almost past.
[Plumette sighs]
Lumière: Come, my love.
[Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Plumette sadly leave the West Wing]
Beast: [sings] I was the one who had it all,I was the master of my fate.I never needed anybody in my life,I learned the truth too late.I'll never shake away the pain,I close my eyes but she's still there.I let her steal into my melancholy heart,It's more than I can bear.
Now I know she'll never leave me,Even as she runs away.She will still torment me,Calm me, hurt me,Move me, come what may.Wasting in my lonely tower,Waiting by an open door.I'll fool myself, she'll walk right inAnd be with me for evermore...
I rage against the trials of love,I curse the fading of the light.Though she's already flown so far beyond my reach,She's never out of sight.
Now I know she'll never leave me,Even as she fades from view.She will still inspire me,Be a part of everything I do.Wasting in my lonely tower,Waiting by an open door.I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in,And as the long, long nights begin,I'll think of all that might have been.Waiting here for evermore!

View Quote Elinor: Whatever his past actions, whatever his present course, at least you may be certain that he loved you.
Marianne: But not enough. Not enough.

View Quote Edward: Your friendship has been the most important of my life.
Elinor: You will always have it.

View Quote Elinor: Margaret has always wanted to travel.
Edward: I know, she's heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I will be very badly treated.

View Quote Young Merida: I missed...
Elinor: Go and fetch it, then. [turns to Fergus after Merida leaves] A bow, Fergus? She's a lady! [Fergus grabs her butt] Oh! You!

View Quote Merida: [looks up and sees Elinor has changed back into a human] Mum, you're back! You changed!
Elinor: [warmly] Oh, darling. We both have.
About Brave (2012 film)[edit]

View Quote Fergus: Oh, come on, now! Pretend I'm Merida, speak to me. What would you say?
Elinor: I can't do this!
Fergus: Sure, you can! [Elinor gives him a skeptical look] There, there! That's my queen! All right, here we go. [takes a deep breath and speaks in a shrilly voice, impersonating Merida] "I don't want to get married! I want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as I ride through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset!" [smiles and nods. Elinor smiles and takes a deep breath.]
Elinor: Merida, all this work, all the time spent preparing you, schooling you, giving you everything we never had. I ask you, what do you expect us to do?
Merida: [in the royal stables; taking care of Angus and rehearsing her own speech] Call off the gathering! Would that kill them? You're the queen. You can just tell the lords, "The princess is not ready for this. In fact, she might not ever be ready for this, so that's that. Good day to you. We'll expect your declarations of war in the morning."
Elinor: I understand this must all seem unfair. Even I had reservations when I faced betrothal. [Fergus looks up in surprise] But we can't just run away from who we are.
Merida: I don't want my life to be over. I want my freedom!
Elinor: But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?
Merida: I'm not doing any of this to hurt you.
Elinor: If you could just try to see what I do, I do out of love.
Merida: But it's my life, it's... I'm just not ready.
Elinor: I think you'd see if you could just...
Merida: I think I could make you understand if you would just...
Elinor: Listen.
Merida: Listen. [Angus whinnies at her] I swear, Angus, this isn't going to happen. [Angus touches her sympathetically and she pets him] Not if I have any say in it.

View Quote When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go.

View Quote These children require 5 lessons, Mrs. Green.

View Quote [showing off her medals] Courage, kindness, resolve, imagination, enthusiasm, basket-work, and leaps of faith.

View Quote Looks like I've found my new signature piece. How do you like it?

View Quote She has made it me or her. And I choose me.

View Quote Let me give you some advice. If you need to talk about power, you don't have it.

View Quote [after hearing of Gerry's father's death] Well, I think they ought to take the word 'compassion' out of the English dictionary.

View Quote Milord, this alibi for Gerry Conlon was taken by Mr Dixon one month after Gerry Conlon was arrested. This note was attached to it when I found it in police files. It reads "Not to be Shown to The Defence". [she holds up the note, to gasps of disbelief from the gallery] I have one question to ask you, Mr Dixon. Why was the alibi for Gerry Conlon, who was charged with the murder of five innocent people...kept from the defence?

View Quote [to Robert Dixon at the appeal] Well then, would you be so kind as to read the statement that you took from him on the third of November 1974? A statement, Milord, which vindicates these people, all these innocent people. Someone, either that man, or his superior, or his superior's superior, ordered that these people be used as scapegoats by a nation that was baying for blood in return for the innocent blood spilled on the streets of Guildford! And by God, you've got your blood, Mr Dixon! You've got the blood of Giuseppe Conlon, you've got the lifeblood of Carole Richardson and you've got fifteen years of blood and sweat and pain from my client, whose only crime was he was bloody well Irish, and he was foolish and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time!

View Quote Poly: If the queen dies, the Treasury takes the deed and we lose this house.

View Quote Dab-Dab: [offscreen, confused] Uh, what just happened?
James: [flies in] Oh, broken hearts.
Poly: What the heck are you doing here?
James: Don't worry, guys, I got this. [cracks knuckles] We're both dragons. [flies to Ginko-Who-Soars] Hey, just wondering, y'know, dragon-to-dragon, if you wouldn't mind telling me where... [Ginko-Who-Soars sets him ablaze] OW! OW! OW! She's really mad! I'll wait for whoever survives outside. [flies out]

View Quote Poly: Okay, okay, enough with the pampering. You need to go and help the queen.
Dolittle: There are things I no longer do: work with humans or leave the house.
Jip: Or bathe. [covers his nose]
Yoshi: Oh, exercise.
Cub: Express emotional vulnerability.
Poly: Wake up, John! If the queen dies, the Treasury takes the deed and we lose this house.
Dolittle: You're talking out of your tail feathers, Poly. The deed was for life. Last time I checked, I was very much alive. [about to drink his tea]
Poly: The queen's life, John, not yours. [Dolittle spits his tea]
Dab-Dab: Look at that. It just rolls off my back. [she shakes the tea out of her feathers]
Dolittle: I knew I shouldn't have let monkeys proofread the contract. Elliot, Elsie, you are FIRED! [the monkeys gasp]
Poly: It gets worse. We'll be thrown out of these gates right in the middle of HUNTING SEASON!
Chee-Chee: WHAT?!
Dolittle: No no no. Breathe, Chee-Chee.
Dab-Dab: We get kicked out if the queen dies?
Chee-Chee: We're gonna be hunted!
Dolittle: Everybody calm down! [gives Chee-Chee a paper bag and Chee-Chee breathes in it] Look at the state of him now. Hmm!
Poly: Fear not, I have an inn at, uh, Regent's Park Zoo. Everyone pack your bags! [Chee-Chee's paper bag explodes]
Dolittle: Uh-uh!
Poly: You help the queen or we are leaving.
Dolittle: You're bluffing.
Poly: Don't make me count.
Dolittle: Don't make me count.
Poly: 1...
Dolittle: 3!
Poly: 2...
Dolittle: [frustrated] D'OH! Alright! I'll do it. [the animals cheer]
Dab-Dab: Right, let's get you ready to go, honey.
Dolittle: I'll go as I am.
Poly: [flies by] Not looking like that.
Dolittle: Just grab my doctor's bag.
Poly: [whispers offscreen] Get him!
Jip: [trips Dolittle] Apologies, Doc.
Chee-Chee: [catches Dolittle in his arms] Hold still now.
Dolittle: [angrily] Take your paws off me!

View Quote I think we may have a problem in London.

View Quote We are above the system, over it, beyond it. We are them, we are they, we are Men in Black.

View Quote Welcome to the circus, Agent M. You are no longer probationary. [hands M a neuralyzer]

View Quote I'll nail you to my dick.

View Quote Dick means penis? No Dick is our neighbor. Our neighbor is called penis?

View Quote You see, the truth lies buried like a sentence deep within a book, waiting to be read. But first, you must broaden your minds. First, you must look beyond.