About Time (2013) - Quotes

Enduring Love and Commitment

Theme song: How long will I want you? As long as you want me to And longer by far…

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Eternal Love and Commitment

Theme song: [[love; [stars] How long will I ] you? As long as ] are above you And longer if I can…

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Discussion on Future Family Plans

Mary: What do you think about the kids?

Tim: What about them?

Mary: Not many of them, are there?

Tim: What?!

Mary: Well, I mean, two?

Tim: It's more than the Chinese are allowed.

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Navigating Expectations of Time Travel

Tim: It's just... I though with the time thing...

Dad: [[Life; [Jesus; [God] No, I never said we could fix things. I specifically never said that. ]'s a mixed bag, no matter who you are. Look at ]: he was the son of a ], for God's sake and look how that turned out.

Tim: I know... You must see I feel a bit cheated.

Dad: [[fact] Don't. In ], feel the opposite. The only people who give up work at 50 are the time travelers with cancer who want to play more table tennis with their sons.

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Misunderstandings About Bad News

Mary: Okay. I have some bad news.

Tim: You're dying?

Mary: No, not that bad.

Tim: I'm dying?

Mary: No. My parents are in town. They're visiting and they're coming around.

Tim: Oh, God. Parents? American parents?

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A Playful Exchange About Pajamas

Mary: I'm going to go into the bedroom and put on my new pajamas.

Tim: Right.

Mary: And then in a minute you can come in and take them off.

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The Joy of Reading for a Living

Tim: So, what do you do?

Mary: I'm a reader at a publisher.

Tim: No! You read for a living?

Mary: Yes. That's it, I read.

Tim: Oh, that's so great. It's like someone asking, "What do you do for a living?" "Well, I breathe. I'm a breather. I get paid for breathing." How did you get that job?

Mary: Okay, smart-ass, what do you do?

Tim: [[lawyer] I am a ]. Sort of… Sort of.

Mary: [[sexy] That's ].

Tim: Is it?

Mary: I mean, I think so. In a suit, in a court, saving people's lives. Kinda sexy.

Tim: I guess it is. Although it's not as sexy as reading. Sitting there in an office in a little chair reading. Ooh!

Mary: [[books; [responsibility] Okay, stop. Just wait right there mister, because you know a lot of ] get submitted to my publisher. So it's an immense ].

Tim: [they both laugh; [prostitutes; [worry] I bet it is. But when you're doing normal reading, is it ruined because it's your job? You know, like ]? I always ] that when they stop being prostitutes that they can't enjoy sex anymore.

Mary: You always worry about that?

Tim: No, I sometimes worry about that.

Mary: Oh, okay, good. Because someone who always worried about that would be a bit of a worry.

Tim: When you read a newspaper do you think, "Forget this, it's work"?

Mary: Have you interviewed a lot of prostitutes?

Tim: When you read a menu, do you think, "No, I'm not reading this, unless you pay me hard cash"?

Mary: How many prostitutes will you need to talk to before this issue is solved?

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A Family Secret About Time Travel

Dad: [[moment] This is an odd ] for me because I had the same moment with my father when I'd just turned 21, and after it, my life was never the same so I approach it pretty, um, nervously.

Tim: [[mysterious] Okay. When you're ready. It's all very ].

Dad: [[fact; [strangeness; [secret; Tim stares at him; [future] Uh... Right. Tim, my dear son, the uh... The simple ] is the men in this family have always had the ability to... This is going to sound strange, be prepared for ]. Get ready for spooky time, but there's this family ]. And the secret is that the men in this family can travel in time. Well, more accurately travel back in time. We can't travel into the ].

Tim: [[joke] This is such a weird ].

Dad: It's seriously not a joke.

Tim: So you're saying that you and granddad, and his brothers could all travel back in time?

Dad: Absolutely.

Tim: And you still do?

Dad: [[life; [remember; [Hitler; [w:Helen of Troy|Helen of Troy] Absolutely. Although it's not as dramatic as it sounds. It's only in my own ]. I can only go to places where I actually was and can ]. I can't kill ] or shag ], unfortunately.

Tim: [sighs] Okay, stop. Um... If it's true, which it isn't —

Dad: Although it is.

Tim: [[obviously] Although it isn't, ]. But if it was, which it's not —

Dad: Which it is.

Tim: Which it isn't.

Celebrating Love Over Wedding Formalities

Harry: [''asked for an autograph''] No. No. I'm at a wedding for God's sake. I'm here to celebrate true love not scribble my illegible signature on stupid bits of paper that you can flog on eBay so that at the next wedding you can wear a less hideous hat.

Proud Fatherhood and the Value of Kindness

Dad: Later on I may tell you about Tim's many failings as a man and as a table tennis player. But, important first is to say the one big thing. I've only loved three men in my life. My dad was a frosty bugger so that only leaves dear Uncle Desmond, B.B. King, obviously, and this young man here. I'd only give one piece of advice to anyone marrying. We're all quite similar in the end. We all get old and tell the same tales too many times. But try and marry someone kind. And this is a kind man with a good heart. I'm not particularly proud of many things in my life, but I am very proud to be the father of my son.

Embracing the Present in Everyday Life

Tim: [[end; [think; [learned; [time; [father; [truth; [now; [day; [live; [life] And in the ] I ] I've ] the final lesson from my travels in ]; and I've even gone one step further than my ] did: The ] is I ] don't travel back at all, not even for the ], I just try to ] every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary ].