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Daniel Mays Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Daniel Mays

7 quotes
1917
Delayed Expectations Amidst Harsh Conditions
Blake Is there any news, Sarge?
Sergeant Sanders News of what
Blake The big push. It was supposed to happen weeks ago. They told us we'd be home by Christmas.
Sergeant Sanders Yes, well, sorry to disrupt your crowded schedule, Blake, but the Brass Hats didn't fancy it in the snow.
Blake More's the pity, Sarge. I could have done with some turkey.
Sergeant Sanders Well, I'll be sure to relay your displeasure to Command.
Blake So, what's on the cards then, Sergeant?
Sergeant Sanders The Hun are up to something.
Blake Any idea what?
Sergeant Sanders No, but it's about to ruin our weekend. Now, listen. Erinmore is inside, so tidy yourselves up. Never know. Might be mentions in dispatches for this one... if you don't bugger it up.
[Sanders stops in front of a dugout entrance and turns around to face Blake and Schofield]
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Mr. Nobody
Reflections on Mortality and Obsolete Experiences
Nemo aged 118 I've got nothing to say to you. I'm Mr. Nobody, a man who doesn't exist.
Young journalist Do you remember what the world was like before telomerization? Quasi-immortality? What was it like when humans were mortals?
Nemo aged 118 There were cars that polluted. We smoked cigarettes. We ate meat. We did everything we can't do in this dump and it was wonderful! Most of the time nothing happened... like a French movie.
Young journalist And, um, sexually? Before sex became obsolete.
Nemo aged 118 Ha, ha! We screwed! Everybody was always screwing. We fell in love... we fell in love.
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Exploring the Land of Poo
Celia Where are we?
Cyril We're in the land of poo. Duck poo, hen poo, cow poo, goat poo. Poo as far as the eye can see.
Blenkinsop Here we are then. Out you get.
Cyril In fact, it's a British museum of poo.
Celia Have you gone completely insane, Blenkinsop? Mummy would never send me to a place like this. Take me home. You see?! They are savages. I refuse to leave the car!
[Screams as Vincent frightens her]
Cyril Oh, put a sock in it, Cels! We've got no choice.
Celia Take me home right now!
Cyril And you know why we haven't got a choice too. So let's just stop pretending we're here because of bombs.
Cyril Greetings, all covered-in-poo people. Do you speak English?
Norman You're early.
Cyril Yes, poo man. We've come from far away. Far. From the land of soap and indoor toilets.
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Vera Drake
Understanding Consequences and Compassion in Crisis
Sid How could she do that?
Stan I know you think she done a bad thing. But God knows, she's gonna get punished enough for what she done. We can't let her down.
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Pearl Harbor
Choosing Action Over Captivity in War
Pilot What if we have to bail out over Japan?
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what to do.
Rafe What would you do, colonel?
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle I wasn't built to be a prisoner... so I would have my crew bail out. I'd find the sweetest military target I could and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it and kill as many of those bastards as I possibly could.
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Mr. Nobody
The Meaning of Life's Choices
Young journalist Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place and another at the same time. Of all those lives, which one is the right one?
Nemo aged 118 Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.
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1917
Brotherly Connection in Military Orders
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?
[indicates the British position on map; indicates an 'X' on map]
Blake I don't understand, sir.
[confused]
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?
[hands Blake a sealed envelope]
Blake Yes, sir.
General Erinmore Any questions?
Blake No, sir.
General Erinmore Good. Over to you, Lieutenant.
[to Lieutenant Gordon]
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.
[Blake and Schofield begin gathering supplies; hands Blake a note]
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?
[[Rudyard Kipling|"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne / He travels the fastest who travels alone."]
Lieutenant Gordon Yes, sir, I would.
General Erinmore Good luck.
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