Around the World in 80 Days 2004 quotes, page 2

35 quotes · 7 characters
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) poster
Characters
Phileas Fogg Steve Coogan · 19 quotes
Lord Kelvin Jim Broadbent · 13 quotes
Monique La Roche Cécile de France · 9 quotes
Colonel Kitchener Ian McNeice · 6 quotes
Lord Salisbury David Ryall · 5 quotes
Lord Rhodes Roger Hammond · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: Phileas Fogg & Monique La Roche (7), Lord Kelvin & Colonel Kitchener (6), Phileas Fogg & Passepartout (5)

Around the World in 80 Days quotes

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[A man is screaming in Chinese in the jail cell with Fogg, Passepartout and Monique who are also locked up]

What's he saying?

He's saying "please let me go, I'm bored".

Why is he in prison?

[Passepartout asks the man the question in Chinese, The man replies in Chinese]

Urinating in public.

Charming. At least he had the decency to be forthcoming about it. Is there anything you've told me that's even remotely true?

I really can sing. [sings Frere Jacques]

[After Inspector Fix's failed first attempt to stop Fogg]

Dang that nincompoop, Fix. What's the point in hiring a corrupt police officer if he can't even abuse the law properly?! Kitchener!

Tell Inspector Fix to pack his bags, he's going on a little trip.

[Looking at paintings in an art school]

That painting is highly inaccurate.

It's not supposed to be accurate. The artist views reality through imagination rather than simply recording it. It is called impressionism.

Well, um, I'm not "impressed". Trees are not violet, grass is not charcoal, and a man cannot...

[He is silent for a moment, gazing at Monique's painting of a nude man beside a bird in the sky]

...fly.

You feel something. You dream of flying. Or of naked men.

Sometimes.

[smiling]

Ah.

[stammering]

The flying! N-N-Not the men.

[about Passepartout hitting buildings and statues of Paris while hanging on the rope of the balloon]

Very impressive. I'd have let go by now.

[referring to General Fang]

A female General?! What sort of pathetic man takes orders from a woman? [The camera pans out to show a picture of Queen Victoria]

[upon seeing General Fang's knife shoe embedded in his red book of rules]

Yes, well... rules are made to be broken. Or... stabbed by a... spikey shoe.

And with this draft to develop new applications for copper wire, Dr Ramsey invented this. [displays a Slinky made of copper, then starts speaking with a dark voice] Needless to say, the Royal Academy of Science declared this crackpot "mentally incompetent" and he was duly dispatched to a lunatic asylum.

I am a British citizen, I have nothing to fear! [Gunshot goes off in background] Except bullets.

It's not supposed to be accurate. The artist views reality through imagination rather than simply recording it. It is called impressionism.

Oh, boo-hoo! So what if I did try to kill Phileas Fogg? What are you gutless peons going to do about it?! I hold all the power! I run everything! So which of you half-wits is going to stop me? You?! You?! You?! [Little girl: "The Queen!"] The Queen?! [laughing] Oh, the Queen! That inbred, antiquated old cow! [as Queen Victoria arrives behind him, looking unamused] The only way she could stop me is if she sat on me! With her big, fat royal bottom! [laughs more, then stops nervously] She's behind me, isn't she?

This is the Royal Academy of Science! We don't need to prove anything! Besides, by the time you get out of jail, you'll have lost this wager.