Emma Thompson movie quotes

“- Ralph: Welcome, Mrs. P.L. Travers, to the city of angels.
- P.L. Travers: It smells... of...
- Ralph: Jasmine?
- P.L. Travers: Chlorine, and sweat.”
Paul Giamatti - Ralph
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- P.L. Travers: I'd so much rather be accountable for the rain.
- Ralph: Oh, that's sad.
- P.L. Travers: Sad is entirely the wrong emotion. I shan't bother explaining why. It would just... Zip!
- Ralph: Huh. Okey-dokey.
- P.L. Travers: The rain brings life.
- Ralph: So does the sun.
- P.L. Travers: Be quiet!”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers
Paul Giamatti - Ralph

“- Lytton Strachey: I tend to be impulsive in these matters like the time I asked Virginia Woolf to marry me.
- Dora Carrington: She turned you down?
- Lytton Strachey: No, she accepted. It was ghastly.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“Get a grip, people hate sissies. No-one's ever gonna shag you if you cry all the time.”
Emma Thompson - Karen

“- Karen Eiffel: Excuse me, where are the dying people? Most of these people are sick or injured. Is there any way to see the people who aren't going to get better? I'd like to see the dead-for-sure ones.
- Head ER Nurse: I'm sorry, are you suffering from anything?
- Karen Eiffel: Just writer's block.”
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel
Cheryl Lynn Bruce - Head ER Nurse

“- Margaret Schlegel: I deny it's madness.
- Henry Wilcox: But you said yourself...
- Margaret Schlegel: It's madness when I say it, but not when you say it.”

Emma Thompson - Margaret Schlegel
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Henry Wilcox

“- Penny Escher: I suppose you smoked all these cigarettes?
- Karen Eiffel: No, they came pre-smoked.”
Queen Latifah - Penny Escher
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel

“Just thinking of you now makes me cry so I can't see this paper. Once you said to me, that Wednesday afternoon in the sitting room, you loved me as a friend. Could you tell it to me again. Yours, Carrington.”

Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Penny Escher: What are we doing here?
- Karen Eiffel: You told me I needed visual stimulation.
- Penny Escher: I meant a museum or something.
- Karen Eiffel: I don't need a museum. I need the infirm.
- Penny Escher: You are the infirm.”

Queen Latifah - Penny Escher
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel

“- Dolores Umbridge: Predict something.
- Sybil Trelawney: Erm. You... are in great danger!
- Dolores Umbridge: Lovely!”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge
Emma Thompson - Sybil Trelawney

“- Lytton Strachey: There must be some compensation for having friends in high places.
- Dora Carrington: Don't you like Ottoline?
- Lytton Strachey: I'm devoted to Ottoline. She's like the Eiffel Tower. She's very silly, but, she affords excellent views.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Elinor Dashwood: Marianne, you must change. You will catch a cold.
- Marianne: What care I for colds when there is such a man.
- Elinor Dashwood: You will care very much when your nose swells up.
- Marianne: You are right. Help me, Elinor.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“- Maggie Chester: I was kind of seeing someone. An author.
- Andrew: And what happened?
- Maggie Chester: He committed suicide.
- Andrew: Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't...
- Maggie Chester: It's alright. Honestly. Really. I didn't really like him very much. I liked him even less after he committed suicide.”
Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew

“Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?”
Emma Thompson - Karen

“- Carol Benson: Maggie, you are a very pretty girl.
- Maggie Chester: No, I'm not.
- Carol Benson: Yes, you are.
- Maggie Chester: No, I'm not.
- Carol Benson: Yes! But you make Mother Teresa look like a hooker.”
Rita Rudner - Carol Benson
Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester

“Will you stay? Won't you spoil me? Just this once? Tonight?”

Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Elinor Dashwood: You will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.
- Edward Ferrars: Perhaps Margaret is right.
- Elinor Dashwood: Right?
- Edward Ferrars: Piracy is our only option.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars

“- Sadie Hawkins: You've never worked under a female superior before. I got to where I am by pushing paper and playing nice - I've never actually fired a gun before, I'm only in this job to prove to my father I'm not a coward. I give decent head, so I got promoted before all the worthy candidates, all of them men, all of them equally gifted at...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Alan Rickman - Detective David Friedman

“My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid.”
Emma Thompson - Nurse Emily

“Fill me with your little babies!”

Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester

“- Dora Carrington: Lytton, I love being with you. You're so cold and wise. These last few months, whenever I know I'm going to see you I get so excited inside. If you want to kiss me again, I don't think I'd mind at all.
- Lytton Strachey: You know, its a strange thing, but, I'd rather like to.”
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies.”
Emma Thompson - Margaret Schlegel

“Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death.”
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel

“- Mark Gertler: Haven't you any self-respect?
- Dora Carrington: Not much.
- Mark Gertler: But he's a disgusting pervert!
- Dora Carrington: You always have to put up with something.”

Rufus Sewell - Mark Gertler
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Elinor Dashwood: Margaret has always wanted to travel.
- Edward Ferrars: I know. She's, eh, heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I am to be very badly treated.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars