Saoirse Una Ronan movie quotes

“I suppose marriage has always been an economic proposition. Even in fiction.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Jo March

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Jo March

I can't say "yes" truly, so I'm not going to say it at all.
Saoirse Una Ronan - Jo March

“It's normal to not touch a penis.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“I hate California, I want to go to the east coast. I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“- Julie Steffans: What about terrorism?
- Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Don't be republican.”
Beanie Feldstein - Julie Steffans
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it's a palindrome.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“- Marion McPherson: I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be.
- Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: What if this is the best version?”
Laurie Metcalf - Marion McPherson
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“Different things can be sad... it's not all war!”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“- Sister Sarah Joan: You clearly love Sacramento.
- Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I do?
- Sister Sarah Joan: You write about Sacramento so affectionately and with such care.
- Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I was just describing it.
- Sister Sarah Joan: Well it comes across as love.
- Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Sure, I guess I pay...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lois Smith - Sister Sarah Joan
Saoirse Una Ronan - Lady Bird McPherson

“- Mary Stuart: Just be wary of these men. Their love is not the same as their respect.
- Mary Fleming: Might I ask, since we’ve not known it ourselves, what is it like?
- Mary Stuart: To have a man?
- Mary Fleming: Mm-hmm.
- Mary Stuart: I have only lain with François. He shook terribly from fright. The poor boy did his best. But it was over...” (continue)(continue reading)
Saoirse Una Ronan - Mary Stuart
Maria Dragus - Mary Fleming

“- Mary Stuart: Are you afraid, Henry?
- Henry Darnley: No.
- Mary Stuart: Good. Because our swords are not just for show.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Mary Stuart
Jack Lowden - Henry Darnley

“We are two sisters bound by womanhood. Two princes on the same island. Ruling side by side, we must do so in harmony. And not through a treaty drafted by men lesser than ourselves. I wish us to make a treaty of two queens. I would acknowledge your rightful place on the English throne were you to name me your successor. I hope we might meet in...” (continue)(continue reading)

Saoirse Una Ronan - Mary Stuart

“- Mary Stuart: Do not play into their hands. Our hatred is precisely what they hope for. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you.
- Queen Elizabeth I: You would do well to watch your words!
- Mary Stuart: I will not be scolded by my inferior!
- Queen Elizabeth I: Your inferior?”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Mary Stuart
Margot Robbie - Queen Elizabeth I

“- Queen Elizabeth I: Your beauty, your bravery, now I see there's no cause for envy. Your gifts will be your downfall!
- Mary Stuart: Should you murder me, remember you murder your sister... and you murder your queen!”
Margot Robbie - Queen Elizabeth I
Saoirse Una Ronan - Mary Stuart

“The next time you tell me you love me, if there is a next time, I'll, I'll say I love you too.”

Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis

“- Briony Tallis, aged 13: If I fell in the river, would you save me?
- Robbie Turner: Of course.”

Saoirse Una Ronan - Briony Tallis aged 13
James McAvoy - Robbie Turner

“- Sheila: Why didn't you wear your blue dress?
- Eilis Lacey: Are you asking why I didn't make more of an effort?”
Nora-Jane Noone - Sheila
Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis

“- Eilis: Never again to America?
- Georgina: The mistake was coming home.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis
Eva Birthistle - Georgina

“You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out - you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that faint. And then you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past.”

Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis

“Even if the first date is a disaster, I'll give it another chance.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Eilis

“What's the worst word you can possibly imagine?”

Saoirse Una Ronan - Briony Tallis aged 13

“- Briony Tallis, aged 13: Why don't you talk to Robbie anymore?
- Cecilia Tallis: I do. We just move in different circles, that's all.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Briony Tallis aged 13

“Love is all very well, but you have to be sensible.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Briony Tallis aged 13