Emma Thompson movie quotes

“- Captain Amelia: Mr. Arrow, I've checked this miserable ship from stem to stern and as usual it's spot on. Can you get nothing wrong?
- Mr. Arrow: You flatter me, Captain.”
Emma Thompson - Captain Amelia
Roscoe Lee Browne - Mr. Arrow

“- Bridget Jones: What about the first scan? Would that show when conception took place?
- Dr. Rawlings: No. Ring this number and fix a date. And do bring along the father if you can work out which one he is.”
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones
Emma Thompson - Dr Rawlings

“- Porter: Would you like me to unpack for you, ma'am?
- P.L. Travers: Young man, if it is your ambition to handle ladies' garments, may I suggest you take employment in a launderette?”
Michael Swinehart - Porter
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Karen Eiffel: What's this?
- Penny Escher: It's literature on the nicotine patch.”

Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel
Queen Latifah - Penny Escher

“- P.L. Travers: You are the only American I have ever liked.
- Ralph: May I ask why?
- P.L. Travers: No.”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers
Paul Giamatti - Ralph

“- Lytton Strachey: I'm so busy nowadays. I've been learning German, as well. I must say its the most disagreeable language.
- Dora Carrington: Then why learn it?
- Lytton Strachey: Oh, my dear... suppose they win?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Walt Disney: I think life disappoints you, Ms. Travers. I think it's done that a lot. And maybe Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't.
- P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
- Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a nighttime...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“Why should I be upset! You lie to me. You... steal from me. You engage in a utterly selfish, immoral, arrogant stunt without any regard for my feelings whatsoever. What am I supposed to be, grateful? This is just so male!”

Emma Thompson - Dr. Diana Reddin

“My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room, it will magically do it by itself! This entire script...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Walt Disney: We can't make the picture without the color red. The film is set in London, for Pete's sake!
- P.L. Travers: And?
- Walt Disney: Well, there's buses and mailboxes and guard's uniforms and things - Heck, the English flag!
- P.L. Travers: I understand your predicament, Mr. Disney. I do. It's just - I don't know what it is, I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Maggie Chester: I went upstairs and threw my clothes off.
- Carol Benson: That's direct. What'd he say?
- Maggie Chester: He said he wasn't in the vagina business.
- Carol Benson: That's direct too... Has Peter ever been in the vagina business?
- Maggie Chester: Yes. He slept with Sarah!”

Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester
Rita Rudner - Carol Benson

“True love lasts a lifetime.”
Emma Thompson - Karen

“It is blasphemy to drink tea from a paper cup.”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Colonel Brandon: What can I do?
- Elinor Dashwood: Colonel, you have done so much already...
- Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.”
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air.”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

- Ralph: "Albert Einstein, Van Gogh, Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo" - What is this?
- P.L. Travers: They all had difficulties. Jane can do anything that anyone else can do, do you understand? Look on the back.
- Ralph: "Walt Disney".
- P.L. Travers: Deficiencies in concentration and hyperactive behavior. Explains everything!

Paul Giamatti - Ralph
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“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 papier maché lobster head.”
Emma Thompson - Karen

“- P.L. Travers: Will the child be a nuisance? It's an 11-hour flight.
- Woman with Infant: Uh...
- P.L. Travers: Jolly good.”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers
Laura Waddell - Woman with Infant

“- Colonel Brandon: Your sister seems very happy.
- Elinor Dashwood: Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.”
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“Don't be fooled by the grim exterior. It's a good deal grimmer inside.”

Emma Thompson - Kate

“Ralph said you were nervous lest I'd feel I have some sort of claim on you, and that all your friends wondered how you could have stood me so long, as I didn't understand a word of literature. That was wrong. For nobody, I think, could have loved the Ballards, Donne, and Macaulay's Essays and, best of all, Lytton's Essays, as much as I. You...” (continue)(continue reading)

Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Walt Disney: Let's make something wonderful.
- P.L. Travers: Well, let's see if that's at all possible.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache.
- P.L. Travers: So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image?
- Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Elinor Dashwood: The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
- Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon

“- Elinor Dashwood: Did he tell you that he loved you?
- Marianne: Yes. No. Never absolutely. It was everyday implied but never declared.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood