Memorable Quotes from Tilda Swinton
28 quotesMeeting in Narnia: Tumnus and Edmund
Mr. Tumnus
If... If you're not going to eat that... I'd get up, but... but my legs.
Edmund
Mr. Tumnus.
Mr. Tumnus
What's left of him. You're Lucy Pevensie's brother.
Edmund
I'm Edmund.
Mr. Tumnus
Yes. Yes, you have the same nose. Is your sister all right? Is she safe?
Edmund
I don't know.
White Witch
My police tore that dam apart. Your little family are nowhere to be found. Where did they go?
Edmund
I don't know!
White Witch
Then you're of no further use to me.
Edmund
Wait! The beaver said something about Aslan!
White Witch
Aslan? Where?
Edmund
I...
Mr. Tumnus
He's a stranger here, Your Majesty. He can't be expected to know anything.
White Witch
I said, where is Aslan?
Edmund
I... I don't know. I left before they said anything. I wanted to see you!
White Witch
Guard!
Guard
Your Majesty.
White Witch
Release the faun. Do you know why you're here, faun?
Mr. Tumnus
Because I believe in a free Narnia.
White Witch
You're here because he turned you in for sweeties. Take him upstairs and ready my sleigh. Edmund misses his family. Those coats anymore.
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Power Dynamics in a Confined Environment
Mason
He won't come here. He won't leave his engine.
Curtis
We're gonna rip you into little pieces. He still won't come? Well, we control the water. We turn that off, he'll have to come.
Mason
Turn off the water? Well, you'll only be condemning your own people. The water comes from the front. The nose of the train, it breaks up the snow and ice and-and turns it into water. It's like an elephant's trunk. The water comes in the mouth. Not in the bum, Curtis. Yes, Wilford knows you well, Mr. Curtis Everett. He's been watching you. And we know you won't harm your own people. Too bad you couldn't save your second in command. What was his name? Edgar?
[seeing him react]
Curtis
Shut the fuck up!
Mason
Curtis, Curtis, I can help you.
Curtis
You can fucking die is what you can do.
Mason
Wilford won't come here. He's not coming. You've got to go to him. And I can take you. I know the train. I can guarantee you safe passage.
Curtis
Why the fuck would I trust you?
Mason
Because I want to live.
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Lost Documents and Signature Verification
Marty Bach
Oh, for chrissake. Don Jeffries signed this? That's really his signature?
Karen Crowder
M-hm.
Marty Bach
Where's the original?
Karen Crowder
We had a warehouse fire five years ago. We lost a number of documents.
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Questioning Intelligence and Perception Among Siblings
White Witch
Tell me, Edmund. Are your sisters deaf?
Edmund
No.
White Witch
And your brother. Is he unintelligent?
Edmund
Well, I think so. But Mum says...
White Witch
Then HOW DARE YOU COME ALONE?!
[gets up from her throne, furious]
Edmund
I tried!
White Witch
Edmund, I asked so little of you.
Edmund
They just don't listen to me!
White Witch
You couldn't even do that.
Edmund
I did bring them halfway. They're at the little dam with the Beavers.
White Witch
Well. I suppose you're not a total loss then, are you?
Edmund
Well, I was wondering, could I maybe have some more Turkish delight now?
White Witch
Our guest is hungry!
[to Ginarrbrik]
Ginarrbrik
This way for your num-nums.
White Witch
Maugrim? You know what to do.
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Consequences of Choices and Beliefs
John Constantine
Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?
Gabriel
You're going to die young because you smoked 30 cigarettes a day since you were 15… and you're going to go to hell because of the ] you took. You're fucked.
[[life; pause, Gabriel leans in]
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Misplaced Optimism of the Doomed
Mason
My friend, you suffer from the misplaced optimism of the doomed.
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Confronting the Unseen Future
The Ancient One
I've spent so many years peering through time, looking at this exact moment. But I can't see past it. I've prevented countless terrible futures, and after each one, there's always another, and they all lead here but never further.
Strange
You think this is where you die.
The Ancient One
You wonder what I see in your future?
Strange
No. Yes.
The Ancient One
I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You've always excelled, but not because you crave success, but because of your fear of failure.
Strange
It's what made me a great doctor.
The Ancient One
It's precisely what's kept you from greatness. Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
Strange
Which is?
The Ancient One
It's not about you. When you first came to me, you asked me how I was able to heal Jonathan Pangborn. I didn't. He channels dimensional energy directly into his own body.
Strange
He uses magic to walk.
The Ancient One
Constantly. He had a choice, to return to his own life or to serve something greater than himself.
Strange
So I could have my hands back again. My old life?
The Ancient One
You could, and the world would be all the lesser for it. I hated drawing power from the Dark Dimension, but as you well know, sometimes, one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good.
Strange
Mordo won't see it that way.
The Ancient One
Mordo's soul is rigid and unmovable, forged by the fires of his youth. He needs your flexibility, just as you need his strength. Only together do you stand a chance of stopping Dormammu.
Strange
I'm not ready.
The Ancient One
No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, and your time is short. You'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand…just so that I can watch the snow.
[Takes his hand]
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Conflict Over Money and Boundaries
Karen Crowder
You don't want the money?
Michael Clayton
Keep the money. You'll need it.
Don Jefferies
Is this fellow bothering you?
Michael Clayton
Am I bothering you?
Don Jefferies
Karen, I've got a board waiting in there. What the hell's going on? Who are you?
Michael Clayton
I'm Shiva, the God of death.
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The Limits of Healing and Obsession
Palmer
Maybe it's time to consider stopping.
Strange
No, no, this is exactly the time not to stop. Because, you see, I'm not getting any better!
Palmer
But this isn't medicine anymore, this is mania! Some things just can't be fixed.
Strange
Life without my work --
Palmer
-- is still life. This isn't the end. There are other things that can give your life meaning.
Strange
Like what? Like you?
Palmer
This is the part where you apologize.
Strange
This is the part where you leave.
Palmer
Fine. I can't watch you do this to yourself anymore.
Strange
What, too difficult for you, is it?
Palmer
Yes, it is. It breaks my heart to see you this way.
Strange
No. Don't pity me.
Palmer
I'm not pitying you.
Strange
Oh, yeah? Then what are you doing here? Bringing cheese and wine like we're old friends going for a picnic? We are not friends, Christine. We were barely lovers. You just love a sob story, don't you? Is that what I am to you now? "Poor Stephen Strange, charity case. He finally needs me." Another dreg of humanity for you to work on. Patch him up and send him back into the world, hearts just humming. You care SO MUCH, don't you?!
Palmer
Goodbye, Stephen.
The Ancient One
You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole. You've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole. To see more. To know more. And now on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine, you reject the possibility.
Strange
No, I reject it because I do not believe in fairy tales about chakras or energy or the power of belief. There is no such thing as spirit! We are made of matter and nothing more. We're just another tiny, momentary speck in an indifferent universe.
The Ancient One
You think too little of yourself.
Strange
Oh, you think you see through me, do you? Well, you don't. But I see through you!
Strange
What did you just do to me?!
The Ancient One
I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.
Strange
What's in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?
The Ancient One
It's just tea. With a little honey.
Strange
What just happened?
The Ancient One
For a moment, you entered the astral dimension. A place where the soul exists apart from the body.
Strange
Why are you doing this to me?
The Ancient One
To show you just how much you don't know. Open your eye!
The Ancient One
You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is "real"? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts form reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number. Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life-giving, others filled with malice and hunger. Dark places where powers older than time lie, ravenous and waiting. Who are you in this vast multiverse, Mr. Strange?
The Ancient One
Have you seen that before in a gift shop?
Strange
Teach me.
[After a long beat]
The Ancient One
No.
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Controlling Information in a Crisis Discussion
Karen Crowder
You, you have to contain this.
Mr. Verne
Contain?
Karen Crowder
Right. Well, that's my question. What are the—what's the option that we're looking at, along those lines?
Mr. Verne
You're talking about the paper, the data? I don't…
Karen Crowder
Well, I'm wondering if there is some other option. I mean, something I'm not thinking of?
Mr. Verne
We deal in absolutes.
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Betrayal and Alliances in Narnia's Winter
Ginarrbrik
It's so warm out. I'll go and check the sleigh.
Wolf
Your Majesty. We found the traitor. He was rallying your enemies near the Shuddering Woods.
White Witch
Ah. Nice of you to drop in. You were so helpful to my wolves last night. Perhaps you can help me now.
Fox
Forgive me, Your Majesty.
White Witch
Oh, don't waste my time with flattery.
Fox
Not to seem rude, but I wasn't actually talking to you.
White Witch
Where are the humans headed?
Edmund
Wait! No! Don't. The beaver said something about the Stone Table, and that Aslan had an army there.
White Witch
An army? Thank you, Edmund. I'm glad this creature got to see some honesty before he dies.
Edmund
No!
White Witch
Think about whose side you're on, Edmund, mine or theirs? Go on ahead, gather the faithful. If it's a war Aslan wants, it's a war he shall get.
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A Disdainful Exchange Between Two Characters
John Deakin
I don't think you know me at all, Muriel.
Muriel Belcher
No, I don't give a fuck, dear. You're a nasty little shit, Deakin. You're a waste of space and you bore me. Why don't you ponce somewhere else. This Hitler was more generous than you.
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A Call to Action in Narnia
White Witch
I have no interest in prisoners. Kill them all.
Mr. Beaver
Go on!
Peter
For Narnia and for Aslan!
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Heaven's Requirements: Sacrifice and Belief
Gabriel
You still trying to buy your way into Heaven? … How many times have I told you? That's not the way this works.
John Constantine
Why, haven't I served Him enough? What does He want from me?
Gabriel
Only the usual. Self-sacrifice, belief.
John Constantine
Oh, I believe, for Christ's sake!
Gabriel
No, no. You know. And there's a difference. You've seen.
John Constantine
I never asked to see. I was born with this curse.
Gabriel
A gift, John. One that you've squandered on selfish endeavors.
John Constantine
I'm pulling demons out of little girls. Who's that for?
Gabriel
Everything you've ever done, you've only ever done for yourself—to earn your way back into His good graces!
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Confrontation over Narnia's Sacred Laws
White Witch
You have a traitor in your midst, Aslan.
Aslan
His offense was not against you.
White Witch
Have you forgotten the sacred laws upon which Narnia was built?
Aslan
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written.
[snarling]
White Witch
Then you'll remember well that every traitor belongs to me. His blood is my property.
Peter
Try and take him, then.
White Witch
Do you think that mere force will deny me my right, little king? Aslan knows that unless I have blood, as the law demands, all of Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water. That boy will die on the Stone Table as is tradition. You dare not refuse me.
Aslan
Enough! I shall talk with you alone.
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Unconventional Relationships and Conflicted Desires
Sherry
I'm like your mistress, except you're not even married.
Penny
So, what the fuck do you want, Donnie?
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The Importance of Knowing Your Place
Mason
Order is the barrier that holds back the flood of death. We must all of us on this train of life remain in our allotted station. We must each of us occupy our preordained particular position. Would you wear a shoe on your head? Of course you wouldn't wear a shoe on your head. A shoe doesn't belong on your head. A shoe belongs on your foot. A hat belongs on your head. I am a hat. You are a shoe. I belong on the head. You belong on the foot. Yes? So it is. In the beginning, order was proscribed by your ticket: First Class, Economy, and freeloaders like you. Eternal order is prescribed by the sacred engine: all things flow from the sacred engine, all things in their place, all passengers in their section, all water flowing. all heat rising, pays homage to the sacred engine, in its own particular preordained position. So it is. Now, as in the beginning, I belong to the front. You belong to the tail. When the foot seeks the place of the head, the sacred line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
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Consequences of Rituals and Hypocrisy
The Ancient One
Master Kaecilius, that ritual will only bring you sorrow.
Kaecilius
Hypocrite!
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Legal Crisis Amidst Scandalous Circumstances
Karen Crowder
This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?
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Struggles of Parental Expectations and Intelligence
Michael Cobb
You know, it was almost easier when he was always fucking up.
Audrey Cobb
Yeah?
Michael Cobb
It's like he thinks he's smarter than me.
Audrey Cobb
Well, maybe that's the way it goes.
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Custodial Guardians Under Scrutiny by Social Services
Walt Bishop
Our daughter's been abducted by one of these beige lunatics!
Social Services
You two are the most appallingly incompetent custodial guardians Social Services has ever had the misfortune to encounter in a TWENTY-SEVEN year career!
[to Scout Master Ward and Captain Sharp]
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Introductions Among Friends in a Bar
Francis Bacon
Everybody, this is George. This is Muriel, Isabel, the beautiful Henrietta, and Deakin. Introduce yourselves. George is a little shy.
George Dyer
Hello...
John Deakin
So... who's Arthur and who's Martha?
Muriel Belcher
Oh, piss off, Deakin! I'm really sick of it!
John Deakin
I'll talk to you after you've had a shave...
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A Cautionary Encounter with Time Travel
The Ancient One
I'd be careful going that way. We just had the floors waxed.
Bruce Banner
I'm looking for Doctor Strange.
The Ancient One
You're about...five years too early. Stephen Strange is currently performing surgery about twenty blocks that way. What do you want from him?
Bruce Banner
That, actually. (He points towards the Eye of Agamotto)
The Ancient One
Ah! I'm afraid not.
Bruce Banner
Sorry, but I wasn't asking.
The Ancient One
You don't want to do this.
The Ancient One
Let's start over, shall we?
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The Consequences of Time Manipulation
The Ancient One
I'm sorry, I can't help you, Bruce. If I give up the Time Stone to help your Reality, I'm dooming my own.
Bruce Banner
With all due respect, I'm not sure the science really supports that.
The Ancient One
The Infinity Stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one stone and that flow splits. Now, this may benefit your reality, but my new one… not so much. In this new branched Reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world will be overrun. Millions will suffer. So tell me Doctor, can your science prevent all that?
[conjures a long ray, denoting the flow of time with the Infinity Stones circling around it; pulls out one of the Stones, which causes a black stream indicating a point of divergence to appear]
Banner
No, but we can erase it. Because once we are done with the stones, we can return each one to its own timeline at the moment it was taken. So, chronologically, in that reality, they never left.
The Ancient One
But you are leaving out the most important part. In order to return the stones, you have to survive.
Banner
We will. I will. I promise.
The Ancient One
I can't risk this Reality on a promise. It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Stone.
Banner
Then, why the hell did Strange give it away?
The Ancient One
What did you say?
[Surprised]
Banner
Strange, ].
[[Avengers: Infinity War|he gave it away. He gave it to Thanos]
The Ancient One
Willingly?
Banner
Yes.
The Ancient One
Why?
Banner
I have no idea. Maybe he made a mistake.
The Ancient One
Or I did. Strange is meant to be the best of us.
[Reunites Banner's spirit with his body]
Banner
So he must have done it for a reason.
The Ancient One
I fear you might be right.
[Gives Bruce the Time Stone]
Banner
Thank you.
The Ancient One
I'm counting on you, Bruce. We all are.
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The White Witch's Declaration of Power
White Witch
Tonight, the Deep Magic will be appeased. But tomorrow, we will take Narnia... forever!
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Introduction to Michael Clayton's Background
Karen Crowder
Who's this guy they're sending here? Clayton? I never heard of him.
Maude
Michael Raymond Clayton. Born September 9, 1959, St. Joseph's Hospital, Bronx, New York. Father is NYPD patrolman Raymond Xavier Clayton. Mother, Alice Mary Clayton. Graduates Washingtonville Central High School, Orange County, New York in 1977. Graduates St. Johns University 1980. Fordham Law, 82. Eighty-two through Eighty-six, he's ADA with the Queens District Attorney's office. And 1986, he's with the Joint Manhattan Queens Organized Crime Task Force. And then, in 1990, he starts with Kenner Boch and Ledeen.
Karen Crowder
So he's a partner?
Maude
No. He's listed as "special counsel". Says he specializes in wills and trusts.
Karen Crowder
He goes from criminal prosecution to wills and trusts? He's been there seventeen years, and he's not a partner? This is the guy they send? Who is this guy?
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Sustainable Balance in a Closed System
Mason
You people are very lucky. This is only served twice in a year. In January and July.
[as sushi is prepared]
Tanya
Why? Not enough fish?
Mason
Oh, enough is not the criterion. Balance. You see, this aquarium is a closed ecological system. And, um, the number of individual units must be very closely, precisely controlled. In order to maintain the proper sustainable balance.
Curtis
No. You eat this. You know what that's ]? Dig in.
[[W:cockroach|made of]
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Desire and Rest Before Breakfast
Sal
Now get some sleep, I may wish to have sex again before we eat breakfast.
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