“Beauty and the Beast” quotes

(1991)
Movie Beauty and the Beast
Kirk Wise directed this movie in 1991
Title Beauty and the Beast
Year 1991
Directors Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Genre Musical, Romance, Family, Fantasy, Animation
Plot – Bella goes to live in the Beast's castle in the place of her father. The monster was a prince once but, due to a curse, he's now trapped in a monstrous body. The two know each other and Bella realizes the Beast isn't as terrible as he seems. Furthermore, a lot of humanized objects turn her stay in the haunted castle very pleasant.
All actors – Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Pierce, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, Hal Smith, Jo Anne Worley, Mary Kay Bergman, Brian Cummings, Alvin Epstein, Tony Jay, Alec Murphy, Kimmy Robertson, Kath Soucie, Frank Welker, Jack Angel, Bruce Adler, Scott Barnes, Vanna Bonta, Maureen Brennan, Liz Callaway, Philip L. Clarke, Margery Daley, Jennifer Darling, Albert de Ruiter, George Dvorsky, Bill Farmer, Bruce Fifer, Johnson Flucker, Larry Hansen, Randy Hansen, Mary Ann Hart, Alix Korey, Phyllis Kubey, Hearndon Lackey, Sherry Lynn, Mickie McGowan, Larry Moss, Panchali Null, Wilbur Pauley, Jennifer Perito, Caroline Peyton, Patrick Pinney, Cynthia Richards-Hewes, Phil Proctor, Susan Napoli, Gordon Stanley, Stephen Sturk
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  • “- Maurice: I mean it this time! I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!
    - Belle: Yes you will, and you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow.
    [Maurice frowns]
    - Belle: And become a world famous inventor.
    - Maurice: You really believe that?
    - Belle: I always have.”

    Rex Everhart - Maurice
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
  • “- Gaston: [rudely flipping through Belle's book] How can you read this? There's no pictures!
    - Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.”

    Richard White - Gaston
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
  • “- Beast: [pounds on Belle's door yelling] I thought I told you to come down to dinner!
    - Belle: I'm not hungry!
    - Beast: You'll come out, or I'll... I'll... I'll break down the door!
    - Lumiere: Master, I could be wrong, but that might not be the best way to win the girl's affections.”

    Robby Benson - Beast
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
    Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
  • “- Lumiere: Impress her with your rapier wit.
    - Mrs. Potts: But be gentle.
    - Lumiere: Shower her with compliments.
    - Mrs. Potts: But be sincere.
    - Lumiere: And above all.
    - Lumiere, Mrs. Potts: You must control your temper!”

    Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
    Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts
    [Tag:temper, wooing]
  • “- Gaston: If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for this monster.
    - Belle: He's no monster Gaston. You are!”

    Richard White - Gaston
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
    [Tag:feeling, monster]
  • “- Gaston: Say you'll marry me!
    - Belle: I'm very sorry, Gaston but I just don't deserve you!”

    Richard White - Gaston
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
    [Tag:denial, marriage]
  • “- Beast: This castle is your home now, so you can go anywhere you like, except the West Wing.
    - Belle: What's in the West.
    - Beast: It's forbidden!”

    Robby Benson - Beast
    Paige O'Hara - Belle
  • “- Beast: I want to do something for her. But what?
    - Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep.”

    Robby Benson - Beast
    David Ogden Stiers - Cogsworth
    [Tag:lies, love]
  • “Enchanted? Ha ha ha ha! Who said anything about the castle being enchanted? Ha ha ha.
    [to Lumiere] It was you, wasn't it?”

    David Ogden Stiers - Cogsworth
    [Tag:magic, talking]
  • “You will join me for dinner... That's not a request!”
    Robby Benson - Beast
    [Tag:dinner, request]
  • “So you want me to throw her father into the asylum unless she agrees to marry you?
    [Lefou nods eagerly]
    Oh, that is despicable.
    [chuckling evilly]
    I love it!”

    Tony Jay - Monsieur D'Arque
    [Tag:badness, marriage]
  • “- Chip: Mama, there's a girl in the castle!
    - Mrs. Potts: Now Chip, I'll not have you making up such wild stories.
    - Chip: Really, Mama, I saw her!
    - Mrs. Potts: Not another word, into the tub.
    - Chip: [Mrs. Potts lifts Chip into the tub] But. What?
    - Featherduster: A girl! I saw a girl in the castle!”

    Bradley Pierce - Chip
    Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts
    Kimmy Robertson - Featherduster
    [Tag:girl, lies]
  • “It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.”
    Richard White - Gaston
  • “Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite to relax, let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents your dinner.”
    Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
  • “- Belle: What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?
    - Gaston: Plenty! Here, picture this: a rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, and my little wife massaging my feet, while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. We'll have six or seven.”

    Paige O'Hara - Belle
    Richard White - Gaston
    [Tag:children, dogs, dreams]
  • “- Beast: Christmas?! She's planning Christmas?!
    - Forte: Yes. Awful, isn't it.”

    Robby Benson - Beast
    [Tag:christmas]
  • “- Beast: She's so beautiful, and I'm. Well, look at me!
    - Mrs. Potts: Oh, must help her to see past all that.
    - Beast: I don't know how.
    - Mrs. Potts: Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable. Straighten up. Try to act like a gentleman.”

    Robby Benson - Beast
    Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts
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