“Four Weddings and a Funeral” quotes
(1994)
Mike Newell
directed this movie
in 1994
Title Four Weddings and a Funeral
Year 1994
Director Mike Newell
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Year 1994
Director Mike Newell
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – Charles is an interesting character, funny and lively spirited. Many women are crazy about him, but he cannot commit himself to marriage. He is asked to be the best man at many of his friends' weddings. At one of the weddings, Charles meets Carrie, a beautiful and elegant American woman. The two are attracted to each other and have a brief love affair. He is shocked by the intensity of the rendezvous and then he goes back to his bachelor life. More weddings take place and Carrie decides to marry Hamish, a rich forty-year-old, to Charles great disappointment. During the reception, the older and eccentric Gareth, a friend of Charles, suddenly dies. Influenced by Gareth's eulogy, given by his long term partner Matthew, Charles decides to get married and chooses as his bride a woman who has been in love with him for a very long time.
All actors – Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Bower, Charlotte Coleman, Andie MacDowell, Timothy Walker, Sara Crowe, Ronald Herdman, Elspet Gray, Philip Voss, Rupert Vansittart, Nicola Walker, Paul Stacey, Simon Kunz, Rowan Atkinson, Robin McCaffrey, Michael Mears, Kenneth Griffith, David Haig, Sophie Thompson, Corin Redgrave, Donald Weedon, Nigel Hastings, Emily Morgan, Amanda Mealing, Melissa Knatchbull, Polly Kemp, Anna Chancellor, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Bernice Stegers, Robert Lang, Jeremy Kemp, Rosalie Crutchley, Ken Drury, Struan Rodger, Lucy Hornak, Randall Paul, Pat Starr, Tim Thomas, Neville Phillips, Susanna Hamnett, John Abbott, Richard Butler, David Wright, Ray Uren, Gordon Blackwell, Ron Griffiths, Richard Allen, Mark James, Jason Bruer, Simon Wallace, Jason McDermid, Bryn Burrows, Paulette Ivory, , Christine Hewett, Juliette James, Duncan Kenworthy, Dexter Koh, Guy Standeven
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- Carrie: Why do you think it's called "honeymoon"?
- Charles: Um, I don't know... I suppose it's, uh, "honey" because it's sweet as honey, and "moon" because it's the first time a husband got to see his wife's bottom.“- Bernard: How's it going, Lyds?
- Lydia: Bloody awful.
- Bernard: Oh dear, what's the problem?
- Lydia: I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.
- Bernard: Well, I mean, if you fancy anything, I could always...
- Lydia: Oh, don't be...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Charles: Yes, it's odd, isn't it? All these years we've been single and proud of it and never noticed that two of us were, in effect, married all this time.
- Tom: Traitors in our midst.”“Well, let's face the facts. If you weren't certain you wanted to marry her today, of all days - i.e., your wedding day - then it must have been the right decision, mustn't it?”
“First of all, l'd like to thank all of you who've flown in from the States. I'm really touched. As for the rest of you, l'd have thought that lots of frightful Americans flying in was an excuse for staying away, so I thank you, too.”
“The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.”
“- Young Bridesmaid: What's bonking?
- Scarlett: Well, it's kinda like table tennis, only with slightly smaller balls.”“- Henrietta: I thought U2 was a type of submarine.
- Charles: In a way, you were right. Their music has a naval quality.”“I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.”
“- Fiona: It's rather like the first time one has sex, I suppose.
- Father Gerald: I suppose so.
- Fiona: Only not as messy, and far less cause for condoms.”“Scarlotta! Fabulous dress. The ecclesiastical purple and the pagan orange symbolizing the mystical symbiosis in marriage between the heathen and Christian traditions?”
I don't know, Charlie. Unlike you, I never expected "the thunderbolt." I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look of me didn't make her physically sick, then pop the question and, um, settle down and be happy. It worked for my parents. Well, apart from the divorce and all that.
“Excuse me. I think I had better be where other people are not.”
“- Charles: Let me ask you one thing. Do you think - after we've dried off, after we've spent lots more time together - you might agree not to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?
- Carrie: I do.”“- George the Boor at The Boatman: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am as a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Gareth: Good point.”“I remember the first time I saw Gareth on a dancefloor. I feared lives would be lost.”
“- Charles: Basically you're saying marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation.
- Gareth: The definitive icebreaker.”“You're turning into a kind of serial monogamist. One girlfriend after another, yet you never really let anyone near you. On the contrary... You're affectionate to them and sweet to them. Even to me, although you thought I was an idiot.”
“- Charles: Why am I always at, uh, weddings, and never actually getting married, Matt?
- Matthew: It's probably 'cause you're a bit scruffy. Or it could also be 'cause you haven't met the right girl.
- Charles: Ah, but you see, is that it? Maybe I have met the right girls. Maybe I meet the right girls all the time. Maybe it's me.”“They say rubber's mainly for perverts. Don't know why. Think it's very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it.”
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