Colin Firth Quotes

Henry Dashwood I think I owe you a rather large apology.

Bill Haydon As I said, you may fuck me but you still have to call me "Sir" in the morning.

Princess Elizabeth ] speaking] What's he saying?

King George VI I don't know but... he seems to be saying it rather well.

King George VI You give a very noble account of yourself.

Lionel Logue Make inquiries. It's all true.

King George VI Inquiries have been made. You have no idea who I have... breathing down my neck. I vouched for you. And you have no... credentials.

Lionel Logue But lots of success! I can't show you a certificate. There was no training then. Everything I know, I know from experience, and ] was some experience. My plaque says, "L. Logue, Speech Defects", not "Doctor". There are no letters after my name. Lock me in the Tower.

King George VI I would, if I could.

Lionel Logue On what charge?

King George VI Fraud. With war looming you've saddled this nation with a voiceless... king! You've destroyed the happiness of my family, all for the sake of ensnaring a star patient you couldn't... possibly hope to assist! It'll be like ]. Only... Mad King George The Stammerer. Who let his people down so badly in their hour of need- What are you doing? Get up! Y-you can't sit there! GET UP!

Lionel Logue Why not? It's a chair.

King George VI T-that... that is not "a chair", that is ]'s chair!

Lionel Logue People have carved their names on it.

King George Y-y-you... That is the seat on which every king and queen-

Lionel Logue It's held in place by a large rock.

King George Th-that is the ]! You are t-trivializing everything...! You trivialize-

Lionel Logue I don't care how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair.

King George VI L-listen to me... listen to me!

Lionel Logue Listen to you? By what right?

King George VI By divine right, if you must. I am your King!

Lionel Logue No, you're not. You just told me you didn't want it. Why should I waste my time listening to you?

King George VI Because I have a right to be heard! I HAVE A VOICE!

Lionel Logue Yes, you do. You have such perseverance, Bertie. You're the bravest man I know. You'll make a bloody good king.

Henry Dashwood Remember when I told you how groovy I used to be?

Mr. Brown Nanny McPhee...

Nanny McPhee Yes, Mr. Brown?

Mr. Brown She will be all right, won't she?, Evangeline, I mean.

Nanny McPhee I can't help being concerned.

Mr. Brown Aunt Adelaide can be so, um... Well, you saw.

Nanny McPhee She will certainly be all right.

Mr. Brown Good, I suppose she volunteered to go, did she?, couldn't wait to be shot of us, I imagine.

Nanny McPhee Not quite. It was Simon's idea. He knew Evangeline might like to educate herself and that her going would save Christianna.

Bill Haydon Karla said you were very good, the one we had to worry about. But you do have a blind spot. And if I was known to be Ann's lover, you wouldn't be able to see me straight. And he was right, up to a point.

Valmont You want me to seduce a little girl, who's seen nothing, who knows nothing, who'll probably flop on her back out of simple curiosity? You don't need me for that. Anyone can do that.

Henry Dashwood I'm not explaining this very well, am I?

Mr. Brown Nanny McPhee! Now she can't take the donkey, so what have you done?

Nanny McPhee I have done nothing, sir. The children have decided amongst themselves.

Mr. Brown Decided what?

Great Aunt Adelaide (off in distance) There you are, my dear.

Mr. Brown Not little Chrissy. (runs from the house) Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide (in the carriage) Now, then, you'd better tell me your name, little girl.

Mr. Brown (bolts down the road) Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide Don't be shy, my dear. What is your name?.

Mr. Brown (in the forest) Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide Sit up straight, and tell me your name.

Mr. Brown (the carriage fades in the distance) NO! Christianna!

Christianna Papa! Papa!

Mr. Brown Oh, thank... (the other children run up to him) Oh... Then who is...?

Evangeline (raises head for Aunt Adelaide to see) Evangeline. My name is Evangeline.

Great Aunt Adelaide (chuckles) And what a pretty name it is too.

Mr. Brown (disbelief) Evangeline... Oh...

King George VI In this grave... hour... perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send... to every household of my... a-peoples, both at home... and overseas... this message... spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross... your threshold and speak to you... myself. For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at... at war. Over and over again, we have tried to find... a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now... our enemies. But it has been... in vain. We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilised order... in the world. Such a principle, stripped of all... disguise, is surely the mere... primitive doctrine that might... is right. For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet... the challenge. It is to this... high purpose that I now... call my people, at home, and my people across... the seas, who will make our cause their own. I ask them to stand calm, and firm, and united in this time of trial. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war... can no longer be... confined... to the battlefield. But we can only do the right... as we see the right, and reverently... commit our cause... to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful... to it, then... with God's help, we shall... prevail.

Madame de Tourvel Look, sometimes my friends tell me I'm naive, but... I'm not so silly that I don't see what you want.

Valmont Yes? What do I want?

Madame de Tourvel If you don't stop talking that way, we can't be friends.

Control Would you witness this for me?

Percy Alleline I wish I could've done more, Control.

Control You did all you could, Percy. Well, a man should know when to leave the party.

Toby Esterhase What about Smiley?

Control Smiley is leaving with me.

Bill Haydon You little prick, Esterhase!

King George VI Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait.

Valmont You are confusing bets and marriages, madame. One must always honor a bet.

Lord Wessex How is this to end?

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

Henry Dashwood You like Co-co Pops?

Bill Haydon I had to pick a side, George. And the West has become so very ugly...

Lionel Logue Myrtle!

King George VI It's all right.

Lionel Logue Bertie, over here.

King George VI Are you all right, Logue?

Lionel Logue Yes.

King George VI Well, shouldn't we go through? What is it?

Myrtle Logue You're... You're..!

Queen Elizabeth It's "Your Majesty" the first time. After that, it's "ma'am." As in "ham." Not "mum" as in "palm.

Lionel Logue I haven't told her about us. Sit down, relax.

Queen Elizabeth I'm told that your husband calls my husband "Bertie," and my husband calls your husband "Lionel." I trust you won't call me "Liz?

Myrtle Logue Your Majesty, you may call me "Mrs. Logue," ma'am.

Queen Elizabeth Very nice to meet you, Mrs. Logue.

King George VI Logue, we can't stay here all day.

Lionel Logue Yes we can. I have to choose the right moment.

King George VI Logue, you're being a coward.

Lionel Logue You're damn right.

King George VI Get out there, man!

Lionel Logue Hello, Myrtle, darling. You're early. I believe you two have met. But I don't think you know... King George VI.

King George VI It's very nice to meet you.

Myrtle Logue Will their Majesties be staying to dinner?

Queen Elizabeth We would love to, such a treat, but alas... a previous engagement. What a pity.

King George VI If I am King, where is my power? Can I form a government? Levy a tax? Declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority because they think that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak.

Lionel Logue You still stammered a bit on the "w".

King George VI Well, I had to throw in a few so they knew it was me.

Henry Dashwood No, in Clarissa's case it's more like an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart It is very very complex, these laws. A lot of time and thought has been put to them, and some of these here... well, you notice all the SS. They have little idea what is lawful, and no respect for what they do know.

Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger No, certainly not these gentlemen. To them, laws are like ice cream: easily melted. I sus-- I suspect that is why this meeting, which is under my department after all, is being called by the SS. Do you know?

Stuckart Only what the invitation suggested.

Kritzinger They always want to meet. The SS love to meet. And they always want something more. Though they have everything.

King George VI We're not a family, we're a firm.

Sergeant Sanders Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield, sir.

General Erinmore Which one of you is Blake?

Blake Sir.

General Erinmore You have a brother, a lieutenant in the Second Devons?

Blake Yes, sir. Joseph Blake; is he--?

General Erinmore Alive. As far as I know. And with your help, I'd like to keep it that way. Sanders tells me you're good with maps. That true?

Blake Good enough, sir.

General Erinmore So... We are here. The Second Devons are advancing here. How long will it take you to get there?

Blake I don't understand, sir.

Schofield Sir, that land is held by the Germans.

General Erinmore Germans have gone. Don't get your hopes up. It appears to be a strategic withdrawal. They seem to have created a new line, nine miles back here by the look of it. Colonel Mackenzie is in command of the Second. He sent word yesterday morning he was going after the retreating Germans. He is convinced he has them on the run, that if he can break their lines now, he will turn the tide. He is wrong. Colonel Mackenzie has not seen these aerials of the enemy's new line. Come around here, gentlemen.

General Erinmore Three miles deep, field fortifications, defenses, artillery the like of which we've never seen before. The Second are due to attack the line shortly after dawn tomorrow. They have no idea what they're in for. And we can't warn them; as a parting gift, the enemy cut all our telephone lines. Your orders are to get to the Second at Croisilles Wood, one mile southeast of the town of Écoust. Deliver this to Colonel Mackenzie. It is a direct order to call off tomorrow morning's attack. If you don't, it will be a massacre. We will lose two battalions, sixteen hundred men, your brother among them. Do you think you can get there in time?

Blake Yes, sir.

General Erinmore Any questions?

Blake No, sir.

General Erinmore Good. Over to you, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Gordon Supplies, gentlemen. Maps, torches, grenades and, uh... a couple of little treats. Leave immediately, take this trench west, up on Sauchiehall Street, then northwest on Paradise Alley at the front. Continue along the front line until you find the Yorks. Give this note to Major Stevenson. He's holding the line at the shortest span of no man's land. You'll cross there.

Schofield It'll be daylight, sir. They'll see us.

General Erinmore No need to be concerned. You should meet no resistance.

Blake Sir, is-- is it just us?

General Erinmore ] Wouldn't you say, Lieutenant?

Lieutenant Gordon Yes, sir, I would.

General Erinmore Good luck.

King George VI In this... grave hour fuck fuck fuck perhaps the most fateful in our history bugger shit shit I send to every household of my... you see "P" is always difficult, even when I'm singing.

Lionel Logue Bounce onto it. "apeoples".

King George VI Ape... apeoples, Household of my apeoples both at home and overseas...

Lionel Logue Beautiful.

King George VI ...this message doo dah, Spoken with the same depth of feeling doo dah day for each one of you, as if I were able to shit FUCK Bugger cross your threshold and speak to you...

Lionel Logue In your head now, I have a right to be bloody well heard.

King George VI Bloody well heard, bloody well heard, bloody well heard, Bloody Well Heard, BLOODY WELL HEARD MYSELF!

Lionel Logue Now waltz, move, get continuous motion.

King George VI For the second time in the lives of most of us we are at...

Lionel Logue We are, take a pause.

King George VI : Lionel, I can't do this.

Lionel Logue Bertie, you can do it. Have a look at the last paragraph.

Queen Elizabeth Bertie, it's time.

King George VI All that work down the drain. My own brother, I couldn't say a single word to him in reply.

Lionel Logue Why do you stammer so much more with David than you ever do with me?

King George VI Cos you're b... bloody well paid to listen.

Lionel Logue Bertie, I'm not a geisha girl.

King George VI St... stop trying to be so bloody clever.

Lionel Logue What is it about David that stops you speaking?

King George VI What is it about you that bloody well makes you want to go on about it the whole bloody time?

Lionel Logue Vulgar, but fluent; you don't stammer when you swear.

King George VI Oh, bugger off!

Lionel Logue Is that the best you can do?

King George VI Well... bloody bugger to you, you beastly bastard.

Lionel Logue Oh, a public school prig could do better than that.

King George VI Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!

Lionel Logue Yes!

King George VI Shit!

Lionel Logue Defecation flows trippingly from the tongue!

King George VI Because I'm angry!

Lionel Logue Do you know the f-word?

King George VI F... f... fornication?

Lionel Logue Oh, Bertie!

King George VI Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!

Lionel Logue Yes...

King George VI Balls, balls...

Lionel Logue You see, not a hesitation!

King George VI ...fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and... tits.

Logue's son Dad, what's going on?

Peter Guillam You got clearance for that?

Bill Haydon Well, I'm not bloody chaining it up outside. Mind you, probably no better off in here with this bunch of bloody cut-throats, they'll have the gold out of your teeth!

Henry Dashwood For me, it's just a stop on the campaign trail, and for Glynnis it's a chance to launch Clarissa on society.

Lord Wessex Is she obedient?

Sir Robert de Lesseps As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.

Lord Wessex I like her!

King George VI Is the nation ready for two minutes of radio silence?

Danceny Sir. It would be embarrassing for me to fight you in your condition.

Valmont So what do we do, send for our harps?