Emma Thompson movie quotes

“- Maggie Chester: You slept with Sarah, I know you did!
- Peter Morton: Oh, my dear, the Archbishop of Canterbury has slept with Sarah! And that was years ago.”

Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester
Stephen Fry - Peter Morton

“It makes me think, you're only interested in me sexually.”

Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“Kidnappers always screw up. It's part of their make-up as a species.”
Emma Thompson - FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins

“- Edward Ferrars: Your friendship has been the most important of my life.
- Elinor Dashwood: You will always have it.”
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Captain Amelia: You've met my first officer, Mr. Arrow? Sterling, tough, dependable, honest, brave and true.
- Mr. Arrow: Please, Captain...
- Captain Amelia: Oh, shut up, Arrow. You know I don't mean a word of it.”
Emma Thompson - Captain Amelia
Roscoe Lee Browne - Mr. Arrow

“Mrs Jennings is a wealthy woman with a married daughter. She has nothing to do but marry off everyone else's.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Dr. Diana Reddin: What do you mean, what am I doing here? It's my baby, not yours!
- Dr. Larry Arbogast: Hey. I put it in there.
- Dr. Diana Reddin: It's my egg!
- Dr. Larry Arbogast: Yeah, just 'cause your egg's in some guy doesn't make you the mother!”
Emma Thompson - Dr. Diana Reddin
Danny DeVito - Dr. Larry Arbogast

“- Elinor Dashwood: I have nothing to tell.
- Marianne: Nor I. Neither of us have anything to tell. I because I conceal nothing and you because you communicate nothing.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“To muse and blabber about a treasure map in front of this particular crew, demonstrates a level of ineptitude that borders on the imbecilic! And I mean that in a very caring way.”

Emma Thompson - Captain Amelia

“- Dexter King: Please? Just dinner? Let me explain: I was a complete, total, utter idiot! I have learned my lesson completely, totally, utterly!
- Kate: Just dinner?
- Dexter King: Promise!
- Kate: What? No sex at the end?
- Dexter King: Well, maybe - sex? Yes! Alright, if you insist!”
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King
Emma Thompson - Kate

“- Elinor Dashwood: What will your duties be?
- Edward Ferrars: Sword fighting, obviously, administering rum and swabbing.
- Elinor Dashwood: Which of those duties will take precedence?
- Edward Ferrars: Swabbing, I imagine.”

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars

“All these years, I have known all along that my life with you was limited. Lytton, you're the only person who I ever had an all-absorbing passion for. I shall never have another. I couldn't, now. I had one of the most self-abasing loves that a person can have. It's too much of a strain to be quite alone here, waiting to see you, or craning my...” (continue)(continue reading)

Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Lytton Strachey: The truth is, I've always been better at living than I ever was at writing.
- Dora Carrington: What's wrong with that?”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“- Miss Kenton: Mister Stevens! Am I to take it that after all the years I have been in this house you have nothing else to say to me?
- Stevens: You have my warmest congratulations.”

Emma Thompson - Miss Kenton
Philip Anthony Hopkins - James Stevens

- Elinor Dashwood: I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him, that I... greatly esteem him... I like him.
- Marianne: "Esteem him"? "Like him"? Use those insipid words again and I shall leave the room this instant.
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“- Andrew: How did he do it?
- Maggie Chester: Threw himself off a building.
- Andrew: Eek.
- Maggie Chester: Couldn't even do that properly. It was only a three-story building. He would have survived, only a car ran him over.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew
Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester

“- Susan Stanton: Isn't that the thing experience teaches you? Not to get burned?
- Henry Burton: Does anyone ever learn that?
- Susan Stanton: Not the best people.”
Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton
Adrian Lester - Henry Burton

“Marianne, please try... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please, I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... Please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Marianne: Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
- Elinor Dashwood: What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?”
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Dexter King: All these weeks I've been coming here, I've been wanting to ask you something. What I really want to know is... er, what's your name?
- Kate: Kate... Lemmon. Horrid name!
- Dexter King: No, no, not at all. Could have been worse. Could have been called Hitler, Tampon, or something.”
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King
Emma Thompson - Kate

“This is my own body. I can do what I like. I can gain weight if I like, and I can cut my own hair.”
Emma Thompson - Frances

“When you've been married for as long as six weeks, you have no idea how pleasant it is to get away on your own.”
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington

“Are you going to walk me home? Or should I just get murdered on my own?”
Emma Thompson - Kate

“That's how history is made, Henry: by the first-timers.”
Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton

“- Dexter King: How was your day?
- Kate: Not great. A nurses's day is always pretty grisly. A woman I was with gave birth to a baby in a lift.
- Dexter King: Well, that was okay, er?
- Kate: It would have been, but her husband slipped on the afterbirth and broke his collarbone.”
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King
Emma Thompson - Kate