The Painted Veil (2006 film) Quotes

The Painted Veil (2006 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Painted Veil stopped airing in 1970.

It features Sara Colleton as producer, Alexandre Desplat in charge of musical score, and Stuart Dryburgh as head of cinematography.

The Painted Veil (2006 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in China. Each episode of The Painted Veil (2006 film) is 125 minutes long. The Painted Veil (2006 film) is distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.

The cast includes: Edward Norton as Walter Fane, Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane, Diana Rigg as Mother Superior, Liev Schreiber as Charlie Townsend, Anthony Wong Chau Sang as Colonel Yu, Toby Jones as Waddington, Yan Lü as Wan Xi, and Naomi Watts as Kitty Garstin.

The Painted Veil (2006 film) Quotes

Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane

• (Naomi Watts) "Men are incalculable. I thought you were just like everybody else, and now I feel I don't know the first thing about you."

• (Naomi Watts) "I was wondering if you could tell me when the post comes through. It's for Shanghai."
• (Toby Jones) "Unfortunately, since the cholera the cowards won't venture past the river port. But leave it with me. A local trader I know is making the trip on Friday."
• (Toby Jones) "Townsend. Charlie Townsend?"
• (Naomi Watts) "Yes. He's an acquaintance of my husband. Do you know him?"
• (Toby Jones) "Years ago. We were both assigned to the consulate in Shanghai. Charming wife."
• (Naomi Watts) "Yes. They're very popular, aren't they?"
• (Toby Jones) "He'd made a science of popularity."
• (Naomi Watts) "So you know his family?"
• (Toby Jones) "Well, well enough. I like Dorothy."
• (Naomi Watts) "Yes, I understand they're quite the devoted couple."
• (Toby Jones) "Oh, he had his little flirtations."
• (Naomi Watts) "Nothing serious."
• (Toby Jones) "I once heard her say that she found it most unflattering that the women who fell for her husband were so consistently second-rate."
• (Naomi Watts) "Well, enjoy the record."
• (Toby Jones) "Mrs. Fane? The letter."
• (Naomi Watts) "Right. Yes, it suddenly occured to me that Friday's much too late. Thanks all the same."

• (Naomi Watts) "For God's sake, Walter, will you stop punishing me? Do you absolutely despise me?"
• (Edward Norton) "No. I despise myself."
• (Naomi Watts) "Why?"
• (Edward Norton) "For allowing myself to love you once."

• (Naomi Watts) "I had no idea you had so much affection for her."
• (Toby Jones) "What makes you think I do?"
• (Naomi Watts) "I can see it in your eyes. I wonder what she sees in you."
• (Toby Jones) "What do you see in me?"
• (Yan Lü) "You're a good man."
• (Toby Jones) "She says I'm a good man."
• (Naomi Watts) "As if a women has ever loved a man for his virtue."

• (Naomi Watts) "Please, Mother. The idea that any women should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric."

• (Naomi Watts) "Silly, really. They'll die in a week; it's hardly worth the cost"
• (Naomi Watts) "What do you think?"
• (Walter Junior) "I think they're quite nice."
• (Naomi Watts) "Really?"
• (Naomi Watts) "I think you're right."

• (Naomi Watts) "It's raining cats and dogs."
• (Naomi Watts) "I said it's raining cats and dogs."
• (Edward Norton) "Yes, I heard you."
• (Naomi Watts) "You might have answered."
• (Edward Norton) "I suppose I'm not used to speaking unless I've something to say."
• (Naomi Watts) "If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech."

• (Naomi Watts) "As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue."

Edward Norton as Walter Fane

• (Edward Norton) "Do you like flowers?"
• (Naomi Watts) "Not particularly, no. Well, I mean yes, but we don't really have them around the house. Mother says, "Why purchase something you can grow for free?" Then, we don't really grow them either. It does silly really. To put all that effort into something that's just going to die."

• (Edward Norton) "It was silly of us to look for qualities in each other that we never had."

• (Edward Norton) "I knew when I married you that you were selfish and spoiled. But I loved you. I knew you only married me to get as far away from your mother as possible. And I hoped that one day -- there'd be something more. I was wrong. You don't have it in you."
• (Naomi Watts) "If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him then it's his fault not hers."
• (Edward Norton) "Either way. Tomorrow morning we are to leave for Mei-tan-fu, or I shall file my petition."
• (Naomi Watts) "Walter, you can't be serious about taking me into the middle of a cholera epidemic."
• (Edward Norton) "Do you think that I'm not?"
• (Naomi Watts) "My God. That's what you want isn't it? Do you really think Charlie will let you do this?"
• (Edward Norton) "I don't think Charlie has very much to say about it."
• (Naomi Watts) "Everything you said is true. Everything. I married you even though I didn't love you. But you knew that. Aren't you as much to blame for what's happened as I?"

Toby Jones as Waddington

• (Toby Jones) "You must be the doctor's wife. I've just met your husband and invited myself to dinner. I've kept the Watsons' cook for you; she's not bad. She'll have to do for your amah as well. We're a little short-handed here."
• (Toby Jones) "Sorry, my name is Waddington."

Liev Schreiber as Charlie Townsend

• (Liev Schreiber) "Are you enjoying it?"
• (Naomi Watts) "I've never seen anything like it."
• (Liev Schreiber) "Every gesture has a meaning. See how she covers her face with the cloth? She is mourning her misfortune."
• (Naomi Watts) "What happened to her?"
• (Liev Schreiber) "She was sold into slavery. Condemned to a life of drudgery and despair in a strange land far from home. See the chains? They represent the heavy bondage of her poor, trapped soul from which there is no escape, and so she weeps. She weeps for the lively, vivacious girl she once was, the lonely woman she has become -- and most of all -- she weeps for the love she'll never feel, for the love she'll never give."
• (Naomi Watts) "Is that really what she's saying?"
• (Liev Schreiber) "Actually I haven't a clue what she's on about. I don't speak Chinese."

• (Liev Schreiber) "Women are always under the impression that men love them more that they really do."
• (Naomi Watts) "I wouldn't delude myself for a second that you were in love with me."
• (Liev Schreiber) "Now there you're wrong."

Anthony Wong Chau Sang as Colonel Yu

• (Anthony Wong Chau Sang) "He said no."
• (Edward Norton) "He doesn't speak any English, does he?"
• (Edward Norton) "Tell him that's the most ridiculous suit that I've ever seen."
• (Anthony Wong Chau Sang) "This Doctor respects you greatly, and you are right. It is quite a mess, this epidemic. But my superior said if your men cannot control it, then our army will be happy to come out here and help you."
• (Anthony Wong Chau Sang) "After seeing this place, it's so overwhelming, I'm afraid once our soldiers are here, they won't want to leave."

• (Anthony Wong Chau Sang) "I think China belongs to Chinese people, but the rest of the world seems to disagree."
• (Edward Norton) "Yes, but that's got nothing to do with me. I didn't come here with a gun, you know. I came here with a microscope."

• (Anthony Wong Chau Sang) "I think China belongs to the Chinese people, but the rest of the world seems to disagree."

Diana Rigg as Mother Superior

• (Diana Rigg) "When love and duty are one, grace is within you."

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