Emma Thompson
- Highest Rated: Henry V (1989)
- Lowest Rated: Survivor (2015)
- Birthday: Apr 15, 1959
- Birthplace: Paddington, London, England, UK
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One of the first ladies of contemporary British stage and cinema, Emma Thompson has won equal acclaim for her work as an actress and a screenwriter. For a long time known as Kenneth Branagh's other half, Thompson was able to demonstrate her considerable talent to an international audience with Oscar-winning mid-1990s work in such films as Howards End and Sense and Sensibility. Born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, West London, Thompson grew up in a household well-suited for creative expression. Both of her parents were actors, her father, Eric Thompson, the creator of the popular TV series The Magic Roundabout, and her actress mother, Phyllida Law, a cast member of This Poisoned Earth (1961), Otley (1968) and several other films. Thompson and her sister, Sophie (who also became an actress), enjoyed a fairly colorful upbringing; as Emma later said, "I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals." She excelled at school, was well liked, and went on to enroll at Cambridge University in 1978. It was at Cambridge that Thompson started performing as part of the legendary Footlights Group, once home to various members of Monty Python, who provided a huge inspiration to the fledgling comedienne. Unfortunately, Thompson's studies and her work with fellow Footlights members Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were interrupted when her father had a debilitating stroke. Thompson went home for a few months, where she taught him how to speak again. After her return to Cambridge, she graduated in 1980 with a degree in English, and she got her first break working for a short-lived BBC radio show. Personal tragedy struck for Thompson in 1982 when her father died of a heart attack. Ironically, it was in the wake of this turmoil that her professional life began to move forward: she got a job touring with the popular satire Not the Nine O'Clock News and worked with co-conspirators Fry and Laurie on the popular BBC comedy sketch show Alfresco. This led to Thompson's biggest break to date when she was picked for the lead in a revised version of the musical Me and My Girl. Coincidentally featuring a script by Fry, the show proved popular and established Thompson as a respected performer. She stayed with the show for over a year, after which she got her next big break when she was cast as one of the leads in the miniseries Fortunes of War (1988). The other lead happened to be Kenneth Branagh, and the two were soon collaborating off-screen as well as on. Following Thompson's BAFTA Award for her work on the series (as well as a BAFTA for her role on the TV series Tutti Frutti), she helped Branagh form his own production company, Renaissance Films. In 1989, the same year that she starred in the nutty satire The Tall Guy (which teamed her with Black Adder stalwarts Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Mel Smith)and in a televised version of Look Back in Anger with Branagh, she appeared as the French queen in Branagh's acclaimed adaptation of Henry V. Following the success of Henry V, Thompson had a droll turn as a frivolous aristocrat in Impromptu (1990) and then collaborated with Branagh on the noirish suspense thriller Dead Again in 1991. The film proved a relative hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and it further established the now-married Branagh and Thompson as the First Darlings of contemporary British theatre. The following year, Thompson came into her own with her starring role in Merchant Ivory's Howards End. She won a number of awards, including an Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe for her portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, and she found herself an international success almost overnight.After a turn in the ensemble comedy Peter's Friends that same year, Thompson starred as Beatrice opposite Branagh's Benedict in his adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in 1993. That year proved an unqualified success for the actress, who was nominated for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars, the former for her portrayal of a r
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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Cruella | Actor | — | 2021 | |
Dolittle | Polynesia | — | 2020 | |
47% | Last Christmas | Producer Adelia Screenwriter | — | 2019 |
80% | Late Night | Katherine Newbury | — | 2019 |
23% | Men in Black International | Actor | — | 2019 |
89% | Missing Link | The Elder | — | 2019 |
Mysteriet om herr Länk | The Elder | — | 2019 | |
83% | How to Build a Girl | Actor | — | 2019 |
37% | Johnny English Strikes Again | Prime Minister | — | 2018 |
73% | The Children Act | Fiona Maye | — | 2018 |
91% | King Lear | Goneril | — | 2018 |
93% | The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) | Actor | — | 2017 |
71% | Beauty and the Beast | Mrs. Potts | $504M | 2017 |
58% | Alone in Berlin | Anna Quangel | $19.9K | 2017 |
67% | Sea Sorrow | Actor | — | 2017 |
78% | Bridget Jones's Baby | Una Alconbury Dr. Rawlings Screenwriter | $24.1M | 2016 |
56% | Sold | Executive Producer | — | 2016 |
62% | Barney Thomson (The Legend of Barney Thomson) | Cemolina | $0.2M | 2016 |
28% | Burnt | Dr. Rosshilde | — | 2015 |
47% | A Walk In The Woods | Catherine Bryson | $19.2M | 2015 |
8% | Survivor | Actor | $0.2M | 2015 |
42% | Effie Gray | Screenwriter Lady Eastlake | — | 2015 |
28% | Annie | Screenwriter | $58.7M | 2014 |
33% | Men, Women & Children | Narrator | $0.6M | 2014 |
27% | The Love Punch | Kate | $1.2M | 2014 |
79% | Saving Mr. Banks | P.L. Travers | $53.3M | 2013 |
47% | Beautiful Creatures | Mrs. Lincoln/Sarafine | $19.5M | 2013 |
78% | Brave | Queen Elinor | $237.3M | 2012 |
68% | Men in Black III | Agent O | $179.1M | 2012 |
96% | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 | Professor Sybil Trelawney | $381.1M | 2011 |
The Song of Lunch | Actor | — | 2010 | |
76% | Nanny McPhee Returns | Executive Producer Screenwriter Nanny McPhee | $29M | 2010 |
61% | Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) | Charlotte | $8.1M | 2009 |
94% | An Education | Headmistress | $12.6M | 2009 |
71% | Last Chance Harvey | Kate Walker | $14.9M | 2009 |
The Journey | Narrator | — | 2009 | |
62% | Brideshead Revisited | Lady Marchmain | $6.4M | 2008 |
Alfresco | Actor | — | 2008 | |
68% | I Am Legend | Dr. Krippen -- uncredited | $256.4M | 2007 |
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out | Actor | — | 2007 | |
78% | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Sybil Trelawney | $292M | 2007 |
73% | Stranger Than Fiction | Kay Eiffel | $40.2M | 2006 |
70% | POV | Actor | — | 2006 |
73% | Nanny McPhee | Nanny McPhee Screenwriter | $47.2M | 2006 |
31% | Imagining Argentina | Cecilia Rueda | — | 2004 |
90% | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Professor Sybil Trelawney | $249.4M | 2004 |
64% | Love Actually | Karen | $59.4M | 2003 |
69% | Treasure Planet | Capt. Amelia | $38.2M | 2002 |
We Know Where You Live | Actor | — | 2001 | |
83% | Wit | Dr. Vivian Bearing Screenwriter | — | 2001 |
50% | Maybe Baby | Druscilla | — | 2000 |
43% | Judas Kiss | Agent Hawkins | — | 1998 |
81% | Primary Colors | Susan Stanton | — | 1998 |
65% | The Winter Guest | Frances | — | 1997 |
98% | Sense and Sensibility | Elinor Dashwood Screenwriter | — | 1995 |
52% | Carrington | Dora Carrington | — | 1995 |
36% | Junior | Dr. Diana Reddin | — | 1994 |
Fortunes of War | Actor | — | 1994 | |
14% | My Father, the Hero | Isabelle (uncredited) | — | 1994 |
94% | In the Name of the Father | Gareth Pierce | — | 1993 |
95% | The Remains of the Day | Miss Kenton | — | 1993 |
90% | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | — | 1993 |
71% | Peter's Friends | Maggie | — | 1992 |
94% | Howards End | Margaret Schlegel | $0.2M | 1992 |
83% | Dead Again | Grace/Margaret Strauss | — | 1991 |
76% | Impromptu | Duchess D'Antan | — | 1991 |
89% | The Tall Guy | Kate | — | 1990 |
100% | Henry V | Princess Katherine | — | 1989 |
Look Back in Anger | Alison Porter | — | 1989 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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Saturday Night Live
1975
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Host |
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89% |
Years and Years
2019
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Vivienne Rook |
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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Guest |
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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Guest |
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Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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Guest |
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The View
1997
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Guest |
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The Graham Norton Show
2007
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Guest |
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Live From Lincoln Center
2000
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Mrs. Lovett |
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Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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Guest |
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Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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Guest |
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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Guest |
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Masterpiece
1971-2014
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She |
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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Guest |
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POV
1988
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Appearing |
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92% |
Angels in America
2003
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Angel The Angel/Emily/Homeless Woman |
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Ellen
1994-1998
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Cheers
1982-1993
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Guest Nanny Gee |
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QUOTES FROM Emma Thompson CHARACTERS
- Beatrice
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
- P.L. Travers
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If you so much as step foot in here with that trolley, I shall scream. One cannot live on cake alone!
- P.L. Travers
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What is wrong with his leg?
- Richard Morton Sherman
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He got shot.
- P.L. Travers
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That's hardly surprising. Can I expect anymore drama from anyone else?
- P.L. Travers
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Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
- P.L. Travers
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It's blasphemy, you know. Tea in a paper cup.
- Mrs. Lincoln
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Well, slap my ass and call me Sally!
- P.L. Travers
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i feel very anti red
- P.L. Travers
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i feel very anti red.
- Ralph
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Welcome, Mrs. P.L. Travers, to the city of angels.
- P.L. Travers
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It smells... of...
- Ralph
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Jasmine?
- P.L. Travers
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Chlorine, and sweat.
- P.L. Travers
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(Woman wheels in with cart full of pastries; P.L. Travers looks over) "If you so much as step into the room with that thing, I'll scream!"
- P.L. Travers
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If you so much as step into the room with that thing, I'll scream!
- P.L. Travers
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Poor A. A. Milne.
- P.L. Travers
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It is honored Mr. Disney....
- Walt Disney
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Oh Walt you got to call me Walt!!!!
- Maggie
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Fill me with your little babies!
- Captain Amelia
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(to Delbert) You have the most beautiful eyes.
- Captain Amelia
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You have the most beautiful eyes.
- Doctor Doppler
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She's lost her mind!
- Walt Disney
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Where did she come from?
- P.L. Travers
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Mary Poppins and the Banks, their family to me
- P.L. Travers
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Mary Poppins and the Banks, their family to me .
- P.L. Travers
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Mary Poppins and the Banks, they're family to me .
- Walt Disney
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Mary Poppins was a real person? So it's not the children she comes to save. It's their father. It's your father.
- Walt Disney
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You know you haven't been to Disneyland and it's the happiest place on earth
- Walt Disney
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You know you haven't been to Disneyland and it's the happiest place on earth.
- P.L. Travers
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No no no please.
- P.L. Travers
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No, no, no please.
- Walt Disney
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Well when does anyone get to go to Disneyland with Walt Disney himself?
- P.L. Travers
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I won't let her turn into one of your cartoons
- P.L. Travers
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I won't let her turn into one of your cartoons.
- Walt Disney
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Says the woman who sent a flying nanny with a talking umbrella to save the children
- Walt Disney
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Says the woman who sent a flying nanny with a talking umbrella to save the children.
- P.L. Travers
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You think Mary Poppins has come to save the children.... My Dear
- P.L. Travers
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You think Mary Poppins has come to save the children.
- P.L. Travers
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Stop! Mary Poppins is not for sale
- P.L. Travers
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Stop! Mary Poppins is not for sale.
- P.L. Travers
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I know what he's going to do to her, she'll be converting and twinkling.
- Walt Disney
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Well you can't imagine how excited I am to finally meet you.
- P.L. Travers
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Would you mind my name is Mrs. Travers, Mr. Disney
- P.L. Travers
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Would you mind my name is Mrs. Travers, Mr. Disney.
- Walt Disney
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Walt now you gotta call me Walt
- Walt Disney
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Walt now you gotta call me Walt.
- Don DaGradi
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Introducing the creator of our beloved Mary.
- P.L. Travers
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Poppins. Never ever just Mary. Now where is Mr. Disney?
- Walt Disney
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The boys have come up with an idea! I think it's gonna make you happy!
- P.L. Travers
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You didn't bring me all the way here to tell me that?
- Walt Disney
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Oh, no. I had a wager I couldn't get you on a ride. I just won twenty bucks!
- Sarafine
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Macon macon macon, that was a very naughty move, well done,
- Sarafine
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Macon macon macon, that was a very naughty move, well done.
- Merida
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I want my freedom!
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?
- Merida
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Our fate lives in us. You only have to be brave enough to see it.
- Headmistress
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nobody does anything worth doing without a degree
- Headmistress
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Nobody does anything worth doing without a degree.
- Helen
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nobody does anything worth doing with a degree. no woman, anyway
- Helen
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Nobody does anything worth doing with a degree. No woman, anyway.
- Professor Trelawney
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You may be young in years, but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid's! Your soul as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave.
- Hermione Granger
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[Storms out]
- Professor Trelawney
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Have I said something?
- Nanny McPhee
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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."
- Nanny McPhee
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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.
- Simon Brown
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We will never want you.
- Nanny McPhee
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Then I will never go.
- Merida
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I want my freedom!
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost you?
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?
- Queen Elinor
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A princess does not put her weapons on the dining table!
- Merida
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Oh Mum....
- Merida
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Oh Mum...
- Merida
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Mom, you have changed.
- Queen Elinor
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[laughs] We both have.
- Queen Elinor
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Legends are lessons. They ring with truths
- Queen Elinor
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Legends are lessons. They ring with truths.
- Captain Amelia
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I'm Captain Amelia. Late of a few run-ins with the Procyon Armada, nasty business, but I won't bore you with my scars. You've met my first officer, Mr. Arrow? Sterling, tough, dependable, honest, brave and true.
- Mr. Arrow
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Please, Captain.
- Captain Amelia
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Oh shut up, Arrow. You know I don't mean a word of it.
- Queen Elinor
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(Feeling unwell) Arr, what on earth was in that cake!
- Queen Elinor
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[feeling unwell] Arr, what on earth was in that cake!
- Nanny McPhee
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I am Nanny McPhee. Small C, Big P.
- Queen Elinor
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sorry i dont speak bear
- Queen Elinor
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Sorry, I don't speak bear.
- Merida
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Sorry, I don't speak bear.
- Merida
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I want my freedom!
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost you?
- Queen Elinor
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(to Merida) Don't you dare loose another arrow!
- Queen Elinor
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[to Merida] Don't you dare loose another arrow!
- Vivian Bearing
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Queen Elinor
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Oh, Merida! It's marriage, it's not the end of the world.
- King Fergus
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Pretend i'm Merida.
- King Fergus
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Pretend I'm Merida.
- Queen Elinor
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ok.
- King Fergus
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I don't want to get married, I want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as I ride through the Glen, firing arrows into the sunset.
- King Fergus
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I don't want to get married i want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as i ride my horse shooting arrows into the sunset!
- Queen Elinor
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Merida, a princess does not place her weapons on the table.
- Merida
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(Whining) Mum, it's just my bow!
- Merida
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[whining] Mum, it's just my bow!
- Merida
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I want my freedom!
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your will freedom cost?
- Queen Elinor
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But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?
- Marianne Dashwood
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Fanny wishes to know where the key to the silver cabinet is kept.
- Elinor Dashwood
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Betsy has it I think. What does Fanny want with the silver?
- Marianne Dashwood
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One can only presume she wants to count it! What are you doing?
- Marianne Dashwood
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Presents for the servants. Have you seen Margaret by the way? I'm worried about her, she's taking to hiding in the oddest places.
- Marianne Dashwood
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Fortunate girl. At least she can escape Fanny, which is more than any of us is able.
- Elinor Dashwood
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You do your best. You've not said a word to her for a week.
- Marianne Dashwood
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I have. I've said, "Yes" and "No".
- Marianne Dashwood
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I have. I've said, 'Yes' and 'No'.
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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if only he knew that by wednesday he will die
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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If only he knew that by wednesday he will die.
- Harold Crick
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What?! did you who said that?
- Harold Crick
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What? Did you who said that?
- ER Orderly
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Are you suffering from something?
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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Just writer's block.
- Penny Escher
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And I supposed you smoked all these cigarettes.
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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[beat] No, they came pre-smoked.
- Penny Escher
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[deadpan] They said you were funny...
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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I don't need a nicotine patch, Penny, I smoke cigarettes.
- Ana Pascal
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[laughing at Harold's humor]
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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[narrating] Harold nervously made small talk.
- Harold Crick
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You have very...[gesturing] straight teeth.
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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[narrating] Very small talk.
- Ana Pascal
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Thanks. They're real. [nodding]
- Harold Crick
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"As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick." -Kay Eiffel
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.
- Margaret Schlegel
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Discussion keeps a house alive.
- Nanny McPhee
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"It's an odd thought, granted, but there it is."
- Nanny McPhee
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It's an odd thought, I grant you, but there it is.
- Elinor Dashwood
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
- Karen 'Kay' Eiffel
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This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words. And his wristwatch said even less. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would brush each of his thirty-two teeth seventy-six times. Thirty-eight times back and forth, thirty-eight times up and down. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would tie his tie in a single Windsor knot instead of the double, thereby saving up to forty-three seconds. His wristwatch thought the single Windsor made his neck look fat, but said nothing.
- Nanny McPhee
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I am Nanny McPhee. Small C, Big P.