Nanny McPhee 2005 quotes

25 quotes · 6 characters
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Characters
Nanny McPhee Emma Thompson · 8 quotes
Simon Brown Thomas Brodie-Sangster · 7 quotes
Cedric Brown Colin Firth · 4 quotes
Aunt Adelaide Angela Lansbury · 3 quotes
Mrs. Quickly Celia Imrie · 3 quotes
Chrissie Brown 2 quotes

Nanny McPhee quotes

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Evangeline
(cane cracking, music begins playing)

Oh, Nanny McPhee, I'm so nervous.

Nanny McPhee

Deep breaths.

Evangeline

I don't look much like a bride, do I?

Nanny McPhee

You will.

Nanny McPhee
(magical breeze fizzes and tinkles)

How's the reading coming along?

Evangeline

It's much better. But I still haven't got to the end of the story.

Nanny McPhee

No need. You are the end of the story.

Nanny McPhee
(the rattle reappears in one piece and falls on Aggie's lap) (narrating)

There is something you should understand about the way I work. 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.

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Mr. Brown

Nanny McPhee! Now she can't take the donkey, so what have you done?

Nanny McPhee

I have done nothing, sir. The children have decided amongst themselves.

Mr. Brown

Decided what?

Great Aunt Adelaide
(off in distance)

There you are, my dear.

Mr. Brown

Not little Chrissy. (runs from the house) Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide
(in the carriage)

Now, then, you'd better tell me your name, little girl.

Mr. Brown
(bolts down the road)

Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide

Don't be shy, my dear. What is your name?.

Mr. Brown
(in the forest)

Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide

Sit up straight, and tell me your name.

Mr. Brown
(the carriage fades in the distance)

NO! Christianna!

Christianna

Papa! Papa!

Mr. Brown
(races into her father's arms and hugs him)

Oh, thank... (the other children run up to him) Oh... Then who is?.

Evangeline
(raises head for Aunt Adelaide to see)

Evangeline... My name is Evangeline.

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Mr. Brown

Nanny McPhee...

Nanny McPhee

Yes, Mr Brown?

Mr. Brown

She will be all right, won't she?, Evangeline, I mean.

Nanny McPhee

I can't help being concerned.

Mr. Brown

Aunt Adelaide can be so, erm... Well, you saw.

Nanny McPhee

She will certainly be all right.

Mr. Brown

Good, I suppose she volunteered to go, did she?, couldn't wait to be shot of us, I imagine.

Nanny McPhee

Not quite, It was Simon's idea, he knew Evangeline might like to educate herself and that her going would save Christianna.

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Mr. Wheen
(on the concept of his unruly children)

We always told you, Mr. Brown...

Mr. Jowls

It's not funerals you should be working with...

Cedric
(nodding, miming along)
Both

It's christenings! (uproarious laughter)

Cedric
(sighs, before laughing along with them)
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Nanny McPhee

There is something you should understand about the way I work. 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. It's quite sad really but there it is.

Simon

We will NEVER want you!

Nanny McPhee

Then I will never go.

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Cedric Brown
[first lines]

We must begin our story, sad to say with an empty chair. If it were not empty, we would not have a story. But it is. And we do. And it is time to tell it. This is the story of my family, of my seven children who were all very clever, but all very, very, very, naughty. [the 17th nanny screaming] This is nanny Weinstone. The 17th nanny I had hired to look after my children. She was the strictest, the toughest, and the most fearless nanny in all the land. As I went to work that day, at the funeral parlor, I was confident in the knowledge that there was nothing, absolutely nothing that my children could do to upset her. [she comes in and tells him something] (Nanny Weinstone: They've eaten the baby!!!) Except that.

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