Emma Thompson movie quotes

“Your grandfather was a great man. Jack Stanton could also be a great man, if he wasn't such a faithless, thoughtless, disorganized, undisciplined shit.”

Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton

“- Dr. Diana Reddin: Do you have your own room?
- Dr. Alex Hesse: Yes. Why?
- Dr. Diana Reddin: Well, call me old-fashioned, but I'll be damned if I'm having a child with a man I've never even slept with.”
Emma Thompson - Dr. Diana Reddin
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Dr. Alex Hesse

“- Elinor Dashwood: You have no confidence in me.
- Marianne: This reproach from you. You who confide in no-one.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“- Sadie Hawkins: Fill me in.
- Dave Friedman: That remark could be misconstrued as sexual harassment, Agent Hawkins.”
Emma Thompson - FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Alan Rickman - Detective David Friedman

“- Edward Ferrars: I wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.
- Elinor Dashwood: Oh. No. No, um, she's quite wrong, um, for I believe it is in Belgium.
- Edward Ferrars: Belgium. Surely not, I think you must be thinking of the Volga.”

Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“- Frances: Time has come for me to embrace my years, don't you think, mother? Welcome them, not fight them anymore.
- Elspeth: Why should you embrace your years? No one else does.”
Emma Thompson - Frances
Phyllida Law - Elspeth

“Why, Mr. Stevens, why do you always have to hide what you feel?”
Emma Thompson - Miss Kenton

“- Dora Carrington: I was just thinking about that disgusting old man with the beard.
- Mark Gertler: Well, I really shouldn't brood about it, if I were you. After all, he is a bugger.
- Dora Carrington: What?
- Mark Gertler: Lytton. He's a bugger.”
Emma Thompson - Dora Carrington
Rufus Sewell - Mark Gertler

“- Carol Benson: I was married to a bisexual.
- Maggie Chester: What happened?
- Carol Benson: He left me. For another woman, the ultimate put down.”
Rita Rudner - Carol Benson
Emma Thompson - Maggie Chester

“- Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father.
- Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then?
- Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith.”
Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon