Cinderella (2015) - Quotes

Acceptance of Love and Identity

Kit: Who are you?

Ella: [to Kit] I’m Cinderella. Your Majesty... I'm no princess. I have no carriage... no parents... no dowry. I do not even know if that beautiful slipper will fit, but... if it does... Will you take me as I am? A good honest country girl who loves you.

Kit: Of course I will. But only if you'll take me as I am: An apprentice still learning his trade. Please...

Drizella: [apologetically] Cinderella!

Anastasia: Ella!

Drizella: My dear sister! I'm sorry.

Anastasia: [they curtsy to Ella and Kit, with the Grand Duke following suit] So very sorry!

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Authority and Defiance in Family Dynamics

Captain: Miss, you're requested and required to present yourself to your King.

Lady Tremaine: I forbid you to do this!

Captain: And I forbid you to forbid her. Who are you to stop an officer of the King? Are you an empress? A saint? A deity?

Lady Tremaine: I am her mother!

Ella: You have never been... and you never will be my mother.

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The Cost of Kindness and Love

Lady Tremaine: Are you looking for this? There must be quite a story to go with it won't you tell me. No? All right then I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl who married for love and she had two loving daughters all was well but one day her husband the light of her life died the next time she married for the sake of her daughters but that man too was taken from her and she was doomed to look every day upon his beloved child she had hoped to marry off one of her beautiful stupid daughters to the prince but his head was turned turned by a girl with glass slippers and so I lived Unhappily Ever After my story would appear to be ended now tell me yours

Ella: It was given to me.

Lady Tremaine: It to you given to you nothing is ever given for everything you must pay and pay

Ella: That’s kindness is free love.

Lady Tremaine: Free love is not free.

Lady Tremaine: Now, here is how you will pay me, if you were to have what you desire. No one will believe you, a dirty servant girl without a family, if you lay claim to the Prince's heart. But with a respectable gentlewoman to put you forward, you will not be ignored. When you are married, you will make me the head of the royal household. Anastasia and Drizella we will pair off with wealthy lords, and I shall manage that boy.

Ella: But he's not a boy.

Lady Tremaine: And who are you? How would you rule a kingdom? Best to leave it to me. That way we all get what we want.

Ella: No.

Lady Tremaine: No?

Ella: I was not able to protect my father from you, but I will protect the prince and the kingdom... no matter what becomes of me.

Lady Tremaine: [shatters Cinderella's glass slipper using a wall] Well, that is a mistake.

Ella: [horrified] NO! Why... Why are you so cruel? I don't understand it... I've tried to be kind to you-

Lady Tremaine: [scoffs] You? Kind to me?

Ella: Yes! And though no one deserves to be treated as you have treated me! Why do you do it? WHY?!

Lady Tremaine: [angry; struggles; breaks off suddenly, then storms out of the room, locking the door] Why? Because you are young, and innocent, and... good! And I-!

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Love Over Advantage in Marriage Choices

Kit: [as the King is dying] Father, don't go.

King Frederick: [pause] I must. You needn't be alone. Take a bride. The Princess Chelina. What if I commanded you to do so?

Kit: I love and respect you, but I will not. I believe that we need not look outside of our borders for strength or guidance. What we need is right before us, and we need only have courage and be kind to see it.

King Frederick: Just so. You've become your own man. Good. And perhaps, in the little time left to me, I can become the father you deserve. You must not marry for advantage. You must marry for love. Find that girl. Find her. The one they're all talking about. The forgetful one...

Kit: Who loses her shoes.

King Frederick: [laughs] Loses her shoes...

King Frederick: Be cheerful, boy.

Kit: Thank you, Father.

King Frederick: I love you, Kit.

Kit: I love you, Father.

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Mutual Admiration in a Crowded Room

Ella: They're all looking at you.

Kit: Believe me, they're all looking at you.

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Embracing Identity Amidst Uncertainty

Ella: Mr. Lizard, I'm scared. I'm only a girl, not a princess.

Lizard Footman: And I'm only a lizard, not a footman. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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Transformation of a Dress

Ella: Fairy godmother?

Fairy Godmother: Yes, what?

Ella: My dress. I can't go in this dress. Can you mend it?

Fairy Godmother: Mend it? No-no, I'll turn it into something new.

Ella: Oh no, please don't. This was my mother's, and... and I'd like to wear it when I go to the palace. It's almost like - taking her with me.

Fairy Godmother: I understand. But I don't think she'd mind if I - gee it up a bit? Wouldn't mind a nice blue?

Ella: [whispering] No.

Fairy Godmother: [smiles in satisfaction] There.

Ella: It's beautiful! She'd love it.

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A Dispute Over Attire and Royalty

Ella: it was my mother's, it's cute don't you think? and I adjusted it myself

Lady Tremaine: Hi, I don't even feel it the dance Who wants a maid like wife after all i've done. I don't want to ruin anything for you, I don't want to see to the prince at least and you will not do it because there is no doubt that you will not go.

Ella: But... All the ladies in the land are invited. By order of the king.

Lady Tremaine: It is "the king" I'm thinking of. It would be an insult to the royal personage to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.

Ella: Rags? This was my mother's.

Lady Tremaine: [She tugs harshly at the sleeve of Ella's dress, then rips it] Oh... Sorry to have to tell you, but your mother's taste was questionable. This "thing" is so old-fashioned, it's practically falling to pieces.

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Name-Calling Among Stepsisters

Drizella: Cinder Wench!

Anastasia: [chuckles briefly] Dirty Ella!

Drizella: Cinderella! That's what we'll call you!

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A Conversation on Dreams and Reality

Lady Tremaine: What on Earth have you've been doing?

Ella: Dreaming, that's all.

Lady Tremaine: Well, then wake up.

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Stepmother's Demands and Ella's Response

Lady Tremaine: no more tears.

Ella: Yes, stepmother.

Lady Tremaine: You needn't call me that. Call me Madam. For all your clothes then more have little Anastasia and Drizella always affectionate shared room they are so affectionate and I would like not to Sometimes I would like to leave you without a nose.

Ella: I think their bedroom is more biggest that's it after my father. Now than they get used to it. Mine is the biggest. Share it if you want.

Lady Tremaine: What a wonderful idea you are such a girl gentle.

Ella: I will stay then entic elastic?

Lady Tremaine: yes.

Ella: Ah it will be temporary?

Lady Tremaine: Of course, in the finish redecorating the entire house elastic is fresh and big and you can sleep better away from the annoying noise. We will make it more welcoming if you take it all these old objects up.

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The Connection Between Humans and Animals

Ella's Mother: Do you still believe that they understand you?

Ella: Don't they, Mother?

Ella's Mother: Oh yes. I believe that animals listen and speak to us if we only have the ear for it. That's how we learn to look after them.

Ella: Who looks after us?

Ella's Mother: Fairy Godmothers, of course...

Ella: And do you believe in them?

Ella's Mother: I believe in everything...

Ella: Then I believe in everything, too!

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Courage and Kindness Bring Magic

Ella's Mother: [to young Ella] I want to tell you a secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer. Have courage, and be kind. Ella, you have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body... Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And where there is goodness, there is magic.

Goose Coachman: I can't drive. I'm a goose.

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A Tale of Belief and Kindness

Fairy Godmother: And so Kit and Ella were married. And I can tell you, as her fairy godmother, that they were counted to be the fairest and kindest rulers the kingdom had known. And Ella continued to see the world not as it is, but as it could be, if only you believe in courage, and kindness, and occasionally, just a little bit... of magic.

A New Beginning for Cinderella's Future

Fairy Godmother: Forgiven or not, Cinderella's stepmother and her daughters would soon leave with the Grand Duke, and never set foot in the kingdom again.

A Subtle Acknowledgment of Improvement

Fairy Godmother: [after transforming into her true form] That's better.

Fairy Godmother's Playful Introduction

Fairy Godmother: I'm your Hairy Dogfather. I mean, Fairy Godmother!

A Bargain for a Ball and a Princess

Grand Duke: I think we might have made a bargain: A ball for the people, and a princess for the prince.

Concerns About the Kingdom's Future

Grand Duke: How many divisions will this "good, honest country girl" provide us? How will she make the kingdom stronger? We are a small kingdom amongst great states, Your Royal Highness. And it's a dangerous world.