A character in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo quotes from Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

Uma Thurman

Most-quoted character in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003): in 26 of its 55 quotes
Most scenes with: O-Ren Ishii (4), Hattori Hanzo (2)

A line from The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

As I said before, I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him [Bill] in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.

More lines from The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

16 quotes
The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

But lucky for O Ren Iishii, the Boss was a pedophile.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that, I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn **** thing you've done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is going to change that.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

So, O-Ren … any more subordinates for me to kill?

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo
[Punctuating each word by smacking the flat of her sword on a boy's butt]

This is what you get for **** around with Yakuzas! Go home to your mother!

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

Those of you lucky enough to still have your lives, take them with you! But leave the limbs you have lost. They belong to me now.
[Shouting] Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo
[On Gogo Yubari]

What she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other that, not only does God exist, you're doing his will.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo
[To O-Ren in Japanese]

You and I have unfinished business.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

You know, for a second there … yeah, I kinda did.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo
[about O-Ren]

O-Ren Ishii was born on an American military base in Tokyo, Japan. The half-Japanese, half-Chinese American army brat made her first acquaintance with death at the age of 9. It was that age she witnessed the death of her parents at the hands of Japan's most ruthless Yakuza boss, Boss Matsumoto. She swore revenge. Luckily, for her, Boss Matsumoto was a pedophile. At 11, she got her revenge. By 20, she was one of the top female assassins in the world. At 25, she did her part in the killing of 9 innocent people, including my unborn daughter, in a small wedding chapel in El Paso, Texas. But on that day, four years ago, she made one big mistake. She should've killed 10.

The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

O-REN ISHII! Shoubu wa mada tsuicha inai yo! [calling out O-Ren in Japanese: "You and I have unfinished business!"]

Scenes with The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo

9 scenes
The Bride

Our reputations precede us.

Gogo Yubari

Don't they?

The Bride

Gogo, I know you feel you must protect your mistress. But I beg you, walk away.
Gogo (laughs): You call that begging? You can beg better than that.

What do you want with Hattori Hanzo?

The Bride

I need Japanese steel.

Why do you need Japanese steel?

The Bride

I have vermin to kill.

You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo's steel.

The Bride

Huge.

You didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?

The Bride

You know, for a second there … yeah, I kinda did.

For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize.

The Bride

Accepted.

The Bride
[Long pause while both catch their breath]

Ready?

Come on.

Vernita

You have every right to want to get even.

The Bride

No. No. To get even? Even Steven? I would have to kill you, go up to Nikki's room, kill her, then wait for your husband, the good Dr. Bell, to come home and kill him. That would be even, Vernita. That'd be about square.

Sushi Bar Assistant
[in Japanese]

What'd ya want?

The Bride
[in English]

I beg your pardon?

[in English]

Oh … "drink" [makes drinking motion with hand]

The Bride
[in English]

Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please.

[in English]

Warm sake? Very good. [in Japanese] One warm sake.

Sushi Bar Assistant
[in Japanese]

Sake? In the middle of the day?

[in Japanese]

Day, night, afternoon, who gives a damn? Get the sake.

Sushi Bar Assistant
[in Japanese]

How come I always have to get the sake? You listen well … for thirty years, you make the fish, I get the sake. If this were the military, I'd be General by now.

[in Japanese]

Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd still get the sake. So shut up and get the sake. [in English] Do you understand?

[in English]

Your instrument is quite impressive. [in Japanese] Where was it made?

The Bride
[in English]

Okinawa.

[in Japanese]

Whom in Okinawa made you this steel?

The Bride
[in English]

This is Hattori Hanzo steel.

[in Japanese]

YOU LIE! [the Bride shakes her head and turns her sword, showing Hattori Hanzo's stamp] Mmm-hmm. Swords, however, never get tired. I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't... You might not last five minutes. But as last looks go, you could do worse.

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