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Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Quotes

Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Nicholas Nickleby completed its run in 1970.

It features John Hart; Jeffrey Sharp; Simon Channing Williams as producer, Rachel Portman in charge of musical score, and Dick Pope (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) is 132 minutes long. Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) is distributed by MGM Distribution Co..

The cast includes: Barry Humphries as Mr. Crummles, Charlie Hunnam as Nicholas, Nicholas Rowe as Lord Verisopht, Christopher Plummer as Ralph Nickleby, Kevin McKidd as John Browdie, Anne Hathaway as Madeline Bray, Jamie Bell as Smike, Nathan Lane as Vincent Crummles, Barry Humphries as Mrs. Crummles, Alan Cumming as Mr. Folair, Juliet Stevenson as Mr. Squeers, Tom Courtenay as Newman Noggs, Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers, Jim Broadbent as Wackford Squeers, Stella Gonet as Mrs. Nickleby, and Heather Goldenhersh as Fanny Squeers.

Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Quotes

Christopher Plummer as Ralph Nickleby

  • (Christopher Plummer) "I will put his ruin ahead of my own business. I will listen to every rumour, every rumble until I can strike him. And then I will strike him, until he can be struck no more."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "I will strike him. I will strike him, until he can be struck no more."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Stop parroting me."
  • (Tom Courtenay) "I wish I was a parrot. Then I would fly away."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "I wish you were a parrot, too. I'd wring your neck."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "There he is. He's the man with one eye. Though popular prejudice runs in favor of two."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Are you threatening now to tell others of whatever you learned when you were my clerk? To be plain, Mr. Brooker, the world already knows what sort of man I am and I do not grow poorer. You cannot stain a black coat."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "He was stolen, right from under you?"
  • (Jim Broadbent) "Not to be literal about it, and I'm not sure if this will dissipate your various strong emotions on the subject, but he was actually stolen right from over me."

Tom Courtenay as Newman Noggs

  • (Tom Courtenay) "Are you at home?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Yes."
  • (Tom Courtenay) "To anybody?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Yes."
  • (Tom Courtenay) "To the tax gatherer?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "No."

Kevin McKidd as John Browdie

  • (Kevin McKidd) "He's in the schoolmaster's room, next to Tilda's and my room."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "What is the way in?"
  • (Kevin McKidd) "You must go through the inn, but the schoolmaster is sitting in the front room just by the stairs."
  • (Tom Courtenay) "Oh dear. It's impossible."
  • (Kevin McKidd) "I could distract the schoolmaster, you could slip past and go to my room, there is a door adjoining the schoolmaster's, go through it, get the lad. I'll watch the stairs and again try to disrtact him when you come out."
  • (Tom Courtenay) "If I could offer an opinion in regards to this scheme? It seems, uh, foolhardy, riddled with danger, and doomed to failure. Otherwise I can find no fault with it. It is for Smike."
  • (Kevin McKidd) "I stuck up for thee. He said thee weren't fit to live with pigs. I said thee were."
  • (Kevin McKidd) "Wait. I say Wait. I've come from the schoolhouse. Mr Squeers says he was attacked. Beaten, and nearly sensless. When he said it was thee who did it, I knew thee must nor be allowed to leave --"
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "We will not be stopped."
  • (Kevin McKidd) "-- without my shaking your hand and saying to thee, "Job well done". Give us thee hand, will you?"

Barry Humphries as Mr. Crummles

  • (Barry Humphries) "But there is tragedy in the family."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "The pony's family?"
  • (Barry Humphries) "Yes -- the father drank. Ended up in the circus, drinking port wine with the clowns. Got greedy, couldn't quit and choked on the bottle."
  • (Barry Humphries) "At any rate, I'd Iove to bring you and your friend out."
  • (Barry Humphries) "In every life, no matter how full or empty one's purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it but to delight in it when it comes. And to add to other people's store of it. What happens if too early we lose a parent, that party on whom we rely for only everything? What did these people"
  • (Barry Humphries) "do when their families shrank? They cried their tears but then they did the vital thing. They built a new family, person by person. They came to see that family need not be defined merely as though with whom they share blood, but as those for whom they would give their blood."
  • (Barry Humphries) "Ladies and gentlemen, based on the receipts Mrs. Crummles has shown me, Liverpool has little relish for high-minded theatrical entertainments properly conducted. We must give them our pity. Now, we must give them something they will pay to see. 'Romeo and Juliet.'"
  • (Barry Humphries) "But we have no Romeo. Mr. Leadville's leg is broke."
  • (Mr. Leadville) "I don't mind. I can manage."
  • (Barry Humphries) "Old friend, it may be time for you to move on from Romeo."
  • (Mr. Leadville) "Move on?"
  • (Mr. Leadville) "To what?"
  • (Barry Humphries) "Lear?"
  • (Barry Humphries) "Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
  • (Barry Humphries) "And this is the infant phenomenon. She is but 10 years old."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Not -- older?"
  • (Barry Humphries) "Not a day."
  • (Barry Humphries) "Whatever you write, could you please include a washtub as I've just bought one at a sale."

Charlie Hunnam as Nicholas

  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Father, I know I am stronger than when you left, but not strong enough to lose Smike. If this is what that strength is for, then I do not want it."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Not Smike."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Your curse has no power over me. The structures you raised all through your misspent life are crumbling into dust. This day, this very day, 10000 pounds of your hoarded wealth are gone in one great crash. Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "You will do better when I am gone."
  • (Jamie Bell) "Gone? When are you going?"
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "I would go tomorrow if I could."
  • (Jamie Bell) "Tell me, is the world as bad as this place?"
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Oh no."
  • (Jamie Bell) "Should I ever meet you there?"
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Well, yes I'm sure at --"
  • (Jamie Bell) "No, no tell me. Tell me that I should be sure to find you."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "You would and I would help you and aid you. I would not bring fresh sorrow on you as they have done here."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Tis a family drama."
  • (Barry Humphries) "Those are always popular."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "I am your equal in education and birth and, I trust, your superior in everything otherwise."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "My father told me that the great journey of my life would be to find such a person. But, I am nearly 20 years of age and I fear he may be wrong."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "See I cannot save you. For I need saving too."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Does your friend think I'm in love with her?"
  • (Tilda) "Does she think so? Of course."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "But I have made no such declaration."
  • (Tilda) "Your eyes said what your mouth could not."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust."

Heather Goldenhersh as Fanny Squeers

  • (Heather Goldenhersh) "Dear Mr. Knuckleboy, sir, my pa requests me to write to you. The doctor's considering it doubtful whether he will ever recover the use of his legs, which prevents his holding a pen."

Anne Hathaway as Madeline Bray

  • (Anne Hathaway) "Nicholas, I feel you know what it's like to be without happiness -- but do you know what it's like to be afraid of it? To see the world as so conniving, you cannot take pleasure in the appareance of something good -- because you suspect -- it is only a painted drop behind which other troubles lie. That has been my life. Every good thing has been a trick. Until you."

Nicholas Rowe as Lord Verisopht

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Alan Cumming as Mr. Folair

  • (Alan Cumming) ""Infant Phenomenon"? Infant Humbug is more to the point. She has been 10 years old for the past eight years. They keep her on a diet of gin and water to holdback her growth."

Jamie Bell as Smike

  • (Jamie Bell) "Now. Now I can say it. I am happy."
  • (Jamie Bell) "Tomorrow where will you go?"
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?"
  • (Jamie Bell) "You are my home."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Smike."
  • (Jamie Bell) "Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me."

Stella Gonet as Mrs. Nickleby

  • (Stella Gonet) "We feel he died of a broken heart."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Pooh, there's no such thing."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Indeed, if you have no heart to break."

Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers

  • (Juliet Stevenson) "I hate him, that's how I like him. He's a nasty, stuck-up monkey. He needs his pride brought down."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "I don't believe there's a woman in all England that can bring a person's pride down as quick as you can, my love."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "Oh, thank you Squeeries."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "Is every boy here? Get back. You too Nickleby."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "And you. Have you anything to say?"
  • (Jamie Bell) "Please, sir, spare me."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "I'll spare you. I'll flog you to within an inch of your life, and I'll spare you then."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Stop. This must not go on. I will not allow it."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "You dare to challenge my authority. Stay back."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "Touch him at your peril. I will not stand by and see it done."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "You will do as you're told."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "If you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall on your own head. Once I begin, God help you."
  • (Juliet Stevenson) "Stop. No, please, wait."
  • (Charlie Hunnam) "I do not know why, but I am going to show you what you have never shown any boy in this room -- Pity."

Nathan Lane as Vincent Crummles

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