Quotes from Emma Thompson movies and TV shows

Princess Merida: I want my freedom!
Queen Elinor: But are you willing to pay the price your freedom will cost?

Queen Elinor: A lady does not place her weapon on the table.

Baroness: Let me give you some advice. You can't care about anyone. Everyone else is an obstacle. You care about what an obstacle wants or feels, you're dead. If I cared about anyone or thing, I might have died like so many brilliant women with a drawer full of unseen genius and a heart full of sad bitterness. You have the talent for your own label. Whether you have the killer instinct is the big question.

Margaret Schlegel: I deny it's madness.
Henry Wilcox: But you said yourself.
Margaret Schlegel: It's madness when I say it, but not when you say it.

Margaret Schlegel: Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies.

Dr. Diana Reddin: Do you have your own room?
Dr. Alex Hesse: Yes. Why?
Dr. Diana Reddin: Well, call me old-fashioned, but I'll be damned if I'm having a child with a man I've never even slept with.

Dr. Diana Reddin: What do you mean, what am I doing here? It's my baby, not yours.
Larry: Hey. I put it in there.
Dr. Diana Reddin: It's MY EGG.
Larry: Yeah, just 'cause your egg's in some guy doesn't make you the mother.

Kate Walker: I think I'm more comfortable with being disappointed. I think I'm angry at you for trying to take that away.

Kate Walker: Excuse me, sir. I wonder if I could trouble you for two minutes of your time. Won't take a second.
Harvey Shine: No. I'm tired, you know?
Kate Walker: Yes, I do.

Kate Walker: You - You just dive in there, don't you just, whoosh, anywhere, deep end. And I'm not, I'm not a bloody swimming pool Harvey.

Molly Patel: You love me.
Katherine Newbury: No, I didn't say that.
Molly Patel: I mean not in those exact words but.
Katherine Newbury: No, I didn't say it in any of those words.

Katherine Newbury: I don't want to go.

Karen: Tell me, what would you do in my position?
Harry: What position is that?
Karen: Imagine your husband bought a gold necklace and come Christmas gave it to somebody else...
Harry: Oh, Karen...
Karen: Would you wait around to find out if it's just a necklace, or if it's sex and a necklace, or if worst of all it's a necklace and love? Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?
Harry: Oh, God. I am so in the wrong. The classic fool.
Karen: Yes, but you've also made a fool out of me, and you've made the life I lead foolish too.

Karen: The trouble with being the Prime Minister's sister is it does put your life into rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a papier-maché lobster head.

Kate: It's easy to say "I love you" while you're rolling around on expensive sheets. It's so much harder when they need washing.

Kate: You know I'm twice your age.
Jean-Baptiste Durain: What can I say? I like older women.
Kate: Why lie on your profile?
Jean-Baptiste Durain: I want women to see me as a mature man. Otherwise, I feel like a total cliche, you know? Young, rich, handsome, with a speedboat... So terribly predictable.

Kate: I think that liking them is much more important than loving them, actually. Love is easy to fall into. Liking is much harder. Think of your wedding as a driving test. You take it, you pass, and then you really start to learn how to drive. Or you crash.

Kate: Look, we're just a disgruntled employee and his pushy wife who want back what's theirs.
Richard: You didn't say ex-wife.

Agent O: Somehow history has been rewritten. There has to be a reason this is happening, and K seems to be in the centre of it.

Nanny McPhee: How's the reading coming along?
Evangeline: Oh... all right. I still haven't gotten to the end of the story, though.
Nanny McPhee: There's no need. You are the end of the story.