NANNY McPHEE [2005]

You'll Learn To Love Her. 

Warts And All.


They're the worstest, nastiest, horriblest.It'll be snow in August before this family's straightened out.
~Mrs. Blatherwick

Evangeline: Lily, what's this word?
Lily: Lovingly.
"He took her lovingly by the hand."
Tora: What's your book about, Evangeline?
Lily: It's about the daughter of a nice man who remarries after his wife dies 
and the stepmother's horrid to her.
Evangeline: Why doesn't the man stop her from being horrid?
Simon: Fathers all turn bad once their wives die.
They don't care anymore.
Evangeline: Simon, yours does.
Simon: No, he doesn't.
Does he read to Chrissie or play cricket with us like he used to?
He doesn't even sing loola-bye to Aggy.
We hardly see him.
Evangeline: He loves you, Simon, you know that.
He's just had a lot on his mind since...
Simon: Since Mother died.
Evangeline: You used to be as close as anything.
Simon: Not anymore.
All he cares about now is getting himself a nice new wife.
Evangeline: Well, I don't know if that's true or not, but perhaps it might be nice to have a new mother.
Lily: Don't you know anything about the world, Evangeline?
Whoever he marries will be vile and treat us like slaves.
Evangeline: You don't know that.
Eric: Plenty of hard evidence for it.
There isn't one single stepmother in there who's even halfway decent.
They're an evil breed.
Anyway, who ever likes other people's children?
Evangeline: I like you.
Eric: Yes, but you're a servant. You're paid to like us. That doesn't count.

Nanny McPhee: I understand you have extremely ill-behaved children.
Mr. Brown: No, no, no. Good grief, what a suggestion.
Nanny McPhee: What are your main concerns?
Mr. Brown: Concerns?
Mr. Brown: Do they go to bed when they're told?
Mr. Brown: Well, no, not er... No.
Nanny McPhee: Do they get up when they're told?
Mr. Brown: Er, well, no, not exactly.
Nanny McPhee: Do they get dressed when they're told?
Mr. Brown: Now, that's a good question. 
Nanny McPhee: Do they say "please" and "thank you"?
Mr. Brown: In what context?
Nanny McPhee: That will do to be going on with.
Your children need me.

May I just remind you of something?
We got rid of the last 17 nannies.
We're getting rid of this one, too.
~Simon

Nanny McPhee: There is something you should understand about the way I work.
When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay.
When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go.
It's rather sad, really, but there it is.
Simon: We will never want you!
Nanny McPhee: Then I will never go.

Mr. Brown: What are your terms?
Nanny McPhee: Your children require 5 lessons.
Lesson1, to go to bed when they're told, is complete.
As for my terms, I take Sunday afternoons off.

I shall be sure to give them exactly what they need.
~Nanny McPhee

Lesson 2, to get up when they're told, is complete.
~Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee: I think you will find that lesson 3, to get dressed when they're told, is complete.
Mr. Brown: Just to get dressed when they're told?
I think they have learned a great deal more than that.
Nanny McPhee: I have 5 lessons to teach.
What lessons they learn is entirely up to them.

Nanny McPhee: Children, your father has asked me to tell you 
there's Mrs. Quickly coming for tea tomorrow.
Sebastian: Nanny McPhee...
Nanny McPhee: Yes, sweetheart?
Sebastian: Can you stop Papa from marrying a horrible stepmother?
Nanny McPhee: I'm afraid not.
Chrissie: Even if you wanted to?
Nanny McPhee: Even if I wanted too.
I cannot interfere with affairs of the heart.

Mr. Brown: There's no time to mince words.
I can't support my own family. I never have been able to.
There are so many of you.
But you're all so delicious.
When Aggy came along and your mother was so ill, I said, "We may have to stop now, dear."
and she said, "I know."
The fact of the matter is, your great-aunt Adelaide has been supporting us for years with a monthly allowance.
A little while ago, she told me that I had to remarry or the allowance would stop.
This woman today was my last chance.
Our last chance.
Simon: Ours?
Mr. Brown: When the money stops, the house will be taken. 
Some of you will perhaps be put into the workhouse.
Some will be put into the care... into the care of others.
I don't know how many of you will be allowed to stay together.
I'm sorry to have failed you, children.
You deserve so much better.

Nanny McPhee: Lesson 4 is complete.
Mr. Brown: Lesson 4?
Nanny McPhee: To listen.

Lesson number 5.
You must do exactly what you're told.
~Nanny McPhee




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LOVE ACTUALLY [2003]

Love Actually Is All Around

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport.
General options makes out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that.
Seems to me that love is everywhere.
Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy but it's always there.
Fathers and sons, mother and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.
When the planes hit the Twin Towers,
none of the phone calls from people on board were messages of hate or revenge, 
they were all messages of love.
If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
~The Prime Minister

 Prime Minister: Hello, Natalie.
Natalie: Hello, David... I mean, sir...
Shit, I can't believe I've just said that.
And now I've gone and said 'shit'. Twice. I'm so sorry, sir.
Prime Minister: You could've said 'fuck' and we'd have been in real trouble.
Natalie: Thank you, sir.
I had a premonition I was gonna fuck up on my first day.
Oh, piss it! [embarassed]

I am Colin, God of Sex.
I'm just on the wrong continent, that's all.
~Colin

Billy: Christmas is a time for people with someone they love in their lives.
Michael: And that's not you?
Billy: That's not me, Michael.
When I was young and successful, I was greedy and foolish,
and now I'm left with no one, wrinkled and alone.

He said I was getting fat.
He said no one'd fancy a girl with thighs the size of 3 trunks.
Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.
~Natalie

Hiya, kids.
Here's an important message from your Uncle Bill... don't buy drugs.
Become a pop star and they give you them for free.
~Billy Mack

I love that word 'relationship'.
Covers all manner of sins, doesn't it?
I fear that this has become a bad relationship.
A relationship based on the President taking what he wants 
and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to... Britain.
We may be a small country but we're a great one, too.
The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, The Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter.
David Beckham's right foot, David Beckham's left foot come to that.
And a friend who bullies us is no longer a friend.
And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger.
And the President should be prepared for that.
~The Prime Minister

[on the phone]
Prime Minister: I'm very busy and important, how can I help you?
Karen: Have you gone completely insane?
Prime Minister: You can't always be sensible.
Karen: 'You can if you're Prime Minister.'

The trouble with being The Prime Minister's sister is it puts your life into perspective.
What did my brother do today?
He stood up for his country.
What did I do?
I made a papier-mache-lobster head.
~Karen

Harry: What is this we're listening to?
Karen: Joni Mitchell.
Harry: I can't believe you still listen to Joni Mitchell.
Karen: I love her and true love lasts a lifetime.
Joni Mitchell is the woman who taught your cold English wife how to feel.
Harry: Did she?
Oh, well, that's good, I must write to her and say thanks.

Aurelia: Later you'll drive me home?
Jamie: Sure. It's my favorite time of day, driving you.
Aurelia: It's the saddest part of my day, leaving you.

[on the phone]
Harry: Are you gonna give me something?
Mia: I thought I made it clear last night.
When it comes to me, you can have everything.
Harry: So, what do you need?
Something along the stationery line? Are you short of staplers?
Mia: No, I don't want something I need.
I want something I want. Something pretty.

The thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end.
~Sam

Billy: I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love.
And I realized that, as dire chance and fateful cockup would have it, here I am, 
mid-fifties, and without knowing it, I've spent most of my adult life with a chubby employee.
And much as it grieves me to say it, it might be that the people I love is, in fact, you.
Joe: This is a surprise.
Billy: I left Elton's and a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open
in order to hang out with you at Christmas.
It's a terrible, terrible mistake, chubs, 
but you turn out to be the fucking love of my life.
And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life.
Joe: Thank you, it's been an honor. I feel very proud.

Karen: Tell me, if you were in my position, what would you do?
Harry: What position is that?
Karen: Imagine your husband bought a gold necklace 
and, come Christmas, gave it to somebody else.
Harry: Oh, Karen...
Karen: Would you wait around to find out if it's just a necklace or if it's sex and a necklace,
or if, worst of all, it's a necklace and love?
Would you stay?
Knowing life would always be a little bit worse?
Or would you cut and run?
Harry: Oh, God.
I am so in the wrong. A classic fool.
Karen: Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me.
You've made the life I lead foolish, too.

 

Daniel: Tell her, then.
Sam: Tell her what?
Daniel: That you love her.
Sam: No way. Anyway, they fly tonight.
Daniel: Even better.
Sam, you've got nothing to lose and you'll always regret it if you don't.
I never told your mum enough.
I should have told her every day because she was perfect every day.
You've seen the films, kiddo. It ain't over till it's over.
Sam: Okay, dad, let's do it.
Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.

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BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY [2001]

All Women Keep Score... 

Only The Great Ones Put It In Writing

It is a truth universally acknowledged that 
when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces

[Bridget]

Resolution #1: Uggg - will obviously lose 20 lbs. 

#2: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. 

Equally important: will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. 

Will especially stop fantasizing about a particular person who embodies all these things. 

[Bridget]

I've been going crazy. 
I can't stop thinking about you, and thinking about what an idiot I've been. 
Christ, is that blue soup? 

[Daniel Cleaver]

[Daniel Cleaver]: First, have some more wine, and then tell me the story about practicing French kissing with the art girls at school, because it's a very good story. 

[Bridget]: It wasn't French kissing. 

[Daniel Cleaver]: Don't care, make it up. That's an order, Jones. 

[Daniel Cleaver]: Come on Bridget, we belong together - you, me, poor little skirt. 

If I can't make it with you then I can't make it with anyone. 

[Bridget]: That's not a good enough offer for me. 

[Mark Darcy]: All right Cleaver, outside.

[Daniel Cleaver, half laughing]: I'm sorry? Outside? 

Should I bring my dueling pistols or my sword?

[Mark Darcy]: I like you, very much.

[Bridget]: Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, the vulgar mother and... ah, the verbal diarrhea.

[Mark Darcy]: No, I like you very much. Just as you are. 

[Bridget]: I owe you an apology about Daniel. 

He said you ran off with his fiancée and left him brokenhearted.

[Mark Darcy]: No, it was the other way around. My wife. My heart.

[Bridget]: I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it. 

Well, I meant it, but I was so stupid that I didn't mean what I meant... 

After all, it's only a diary. 

Everyone knows diaries are just... full of crap.

[Mark Darcy]: Yes, I know that. I was just buying you a new one.

[Mark Darcy]: Bridget!

[Bridget]: Mark... What are you doing here? 

[Mark Darcy]: I was just wondering if you were available for Bar Mitzvahs and Christenings in addition to Ruby Weddings.

[Bridget]: I thought you were in America. 

[Mark Darcy]: Well I was... but I realized I had forgotten something here. 

[Bridget]: Which was...? 

[Mark Darcy]: Well, I realized that I had forgotten to... kiss you goodbye, do you mind? 

[Bridget]: Umm... not really, no. So... does this mean you're 'not' going to America? 

[Mark Darcy]: No... not. 

[Bridget]: Does this mean you're staying here? 

[Mark Darcy]: It would seem so...

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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE [1998]

Love Is The Only Inspiration

[William Shakespeare]: I'm done with theater. 

The playhouse is for dreamers. 

Look what the dream brought us. 

[Viola de Lesseps]: It was we ourselves did that. 

And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise. 

[William Shakespeare]: I have a wife, yes, 
and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. 

You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed. 

[Viola de Lesseps]: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet. 

[William Shakespeare]: I was the more deceived. 

[Viola de Lesseps]: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you. 

Love knows nothing of rank or river bank.

[William Shakespeare]

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

[William Shakespeare]

Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words? 

[Viola de Lesseps]

This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season. 

[Viola de Lesseps] 

I love you, Will, beyond poetry. 

[Viola de Lesseps]

The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. 

But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. 

We must show them that we are men of parts. 

Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours. 

[Richard Burbage]

My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.

[Lord Wessex] 

[Lord Wessex]: How is this to end?

[Queen Elizabeth]: As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.

I don't know. It's a mystery.

[Philip Henslowe]

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