V for Vendetta (film) Quotes

V for Vendetta (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . V for Vendetta stopped airing in 1970.

It features plainlist, * Joel Silver; Grant Hill (producer); The Wachowskis as producer, Dario Marianelli in charge of musical score, and Adrian Biddle as head of cinematography.

V for Vendetta (film) is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The cast includes: Hugo Weaving as V, Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, Stephen Fry as Gordon Deitrich, Tim Pigott-Smith as Creedy, Natasha Wightman as Valerie, Stephen Rea as Finch, Sinéad Cusack as Delia Surridge, Rupert Graves as Dominic, Roger Allam as Lewis Prothero, John Standing as Lilliman, and Ben Miles as Dascomb.

V for Vendetta (film) Quotes

Stephen Fry as Gordon Deitrich

• (Sutler) "Ah. Warm milk, there's nothing better."
• (Stephen Fry) "I understand you enjoy a glass every night, chancellor."
• (Sutler) "Since I was a boy."

• (Stephen Fry) "We threw out the censor-approved script and shot a new one that I wrote this morning."
• (Natalie Portman) "Oh, my God --"

• (Stephen Fry) "You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond

• (Natalie Portman) "V, yesterday I couldn't find my ID. You didn't take it, did you?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Would you prefer a lie or the truth?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Did you have anything to do with -- that?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes, I killed him."
• (Natalie Portman) "You? Oh god."
• (Hugo Weaving) "You're upset."
• (Natalie Portman) "I'm upset? You just said you killed Lewis Prothero."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I might have killed the fingerman who attacked you, but I heard no objection then."
• (Natalie Portman) "What?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Violence can be used for good."
• (Natalie Portman) "What are you talking about?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Justice."
• (Natalie Portman) "Oh. And are you going to kill more people?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes."

• (Natalie Portman) "Are you a Muslim?"
• (Stephen Fry) "No, I'm in television."

• (Natalie Portman) "But is it worth it? I mean if they found that here --"
• (Stephen Fry) "I told you, you'll be the least of my worries."

• (Natalie Portman) "I can't feel anything anymore."

• (Natalie Portman) "You mean, after what you've done? God, what have I done? I Maced that detective. Why did I do that?"

• (Natalie Portman) "She was real. She's beautiful. Did you know her?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "No. She wrote the letter just before she died, and I delieverd the letter to you as it had been delivered to me."
• (Natalie Portman) "Then it really happened, didn't it?"

• (Natalie Portman) "Are you a Muslim?"
• (Stephen Fry) "No. I'm in television."

• (Natalie Portman) "Are you like a -- crazy person?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I'm quite sure they will say so."

• (Natalie Portman) "She's lying."
• (Hugo Weaving) "How do you know?"
• (Natalie Portman) "She blinks a lot when she's reading a story she knows is false."

• (Natalie Portman) "No. I shouldn't have done that. I must have been out of my mind."

• (Natalie Portman) "I don't even know what you really look like."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Evey, please. There is a face beneath this mask but it's not me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it or the bones beneath them."
• (Natalie Portman) "I understand."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Thank you."

• (Natalie Portman) "It's delicious. God, I haven't had real butter since I was a little girl. Where did you get it?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "A government supply train on its way to Chancellor Sutler."
• (Natalie Portman) "You stole this from Chancellor Sutler?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes."
• (Natalie Portman) "You're insane."

• (Natalie Portman) "I wish I believed that was possible. But every time I've seen this world change, it's always been for the worse."

• (Natalie Portman) "I can't believe you watch that s***."
• (Fred) "What? Laser Lass is bangin'."

• (Natalie Portman) "God is in the rain."

• (Natalie Portman) "I wish I wasn't afraid all the time, but -- I am."

• (Natalie Portman) "Does it have a happy ending?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "As only celluloid can deliver."
• (Natalie Portman) "OK. Put the sword away."

• (Natalie Portman) "Tell me -- do you like music, Mr. Finch?"

• (Natalie Portman) "I worried about myself for a while -- but then one day I was a market and a friend, someone I'd worked with at the BTN, got in line behind me. I was so nervous that when the cashier asked me for my money, I dropped it. My friend picked it up and handed it to me. She looked at me right in the eyes -- didn't recognize me."
• (Natalie Portman) "I guess whatever you did to me worked better than I imagined."

• (Natalie Portman) "My father was a writer. You would've liked him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."
• (Hugo Weaving) "A man after my own heart."

• (Natalie Portman) "I don't see any instruments."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Your powers of observation continue to serve you well."

• (Natalie Portman) "What is that you're making?"
• (Stephen Fry) "We call it "eggie in the basket". My mum used to make them."
• (Natalie Portman) "This is weird."
• (Stephen Fry) "What?"
• (Natalie Portman) "The first morning I was with him, he made me eggs just like this."
• (Stephen Fry) "Really?"
• (Natalie Portman) "I swear."
• (Stephen Fry) "That is a strange coincidence. Although, there's an obvious explanation."
• (Natalie Portman) "There is?"
• (Stephen Fry) "Yes, Evey. I am V. At last you know the truth. You're stunned, I know. It's hard to believe isn't it, that beneath this wrinkled, well-fed exterior there lies a dangerous killing machine with a fetish for Fawkesian masks. ¡Viva la revolución."
• (Natalie Portman) "That is not funny, Gordon."
• (Stephen Fry) "Yeah, I know. I'm useless without a studio audience."

• (Natalie Portman) "I remember them arguing at night. Mum wanted to leave the country. Dad refused. He said if we ran away, they would win. Win, like it was a game."

• (Natalie Portman) "Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."

• (Natalie Portman) "You were in the cell next to her. That's what it's all about -- you're getting back at them for what they did to her -- and to you."
• (Hugo Weaving) "What was done to me created me. It's a basic principle of the Universe that every action will create an equal and opposing reaction."
• (Natalie Portman) "Is that how you see it? Like an equation?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "What was done to me was monstrous."
• (Natalie Portman) "And they created a monster."

• (Unnamed) "I am instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that unless you are ready to offer your cooperation you are to be executed. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Yes."
• (Unnamed) "Are you ready to cooperate?"
• (Natalie Portman) "No."
• (Unnamed) "Very well. Escort Ms. Hammond back to her cell. Arrange a detail of six men and take her out behind the chemical shed and shoot her."
• (Guard) "It's time."
• (Natalie Portman) "I'm ready."
• (Guard) "Look all they want is one little piece of information, just give them something, anything."
• (Natalie Portman) "Thank you, but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds."
• (Guard) "Then you have no fear any more. You're completely free."

• (Natalie Portman) "I thought about keeping this, but it didn't seem right, knowing you wrote it."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I didn't."

• (Guard) "Look, all they want is one little piece of information. Just give them something -- anything."
• (Natalie Portman) "Thank you -- but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds."
• (Guard) "Then you have no fear anymore. You're completely free."

• (Natalie Portman) "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici."
• (Hugo Weaving) "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe."
• (Natalie Portman) "Personal motto?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "From "Faust"."
• (Natalie Portman) "That's about trying to cheat the devil, isn't it?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "It is."

• (Natalie Portman) "What is that?"
• (Stephen Fry) "It's a copy of the Quran, 14th century."

• (Natalie Portman) "Is everything a joke to you, Gordon?"
• (Stephen Fry) "Only the things that matter."

• (Natalie Portman) "I can't stay here."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I know. Well, you won't find any more locked doors here."

• (Natalie Portman) "Where did you get all this stuff?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Oh, here and there, mostly from the Ministry of Objectionable Materials."
• (Natalie Portman) "You stole them?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Oh, heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor; I merely reclaimed them."
• (Natalie Portman) "God, if they ever find this place --"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I suspect if they do find this place, a few bits of art will be the least of my worries."

• (Natalie Portman) "Home. I have to go home."

• (Natalie Portman) "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot -- But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them -- but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it -- ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love -- And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man -- A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget."

• (Natalie Portman) "I have friends. I could stay with them."

Stephen Rea as Finch

• (Stephen Rea) "Who was he?"
• (Natalie Portman) "He was Edmond Dantés -- and he was my father. And my mother -- my brother -- my friend. He was you -- and me. He was all of us."

• (Stephen Rea) "One thing is true of all governments; their most reliable records are tax records."

• (Stephen Rea) "If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand people -- would you really want to know?"

• (Little Glasses Girl) "I'll get it."
• (Unnamed) "Eric Finch?"
• (Stephen Rea) "Yeah."
• (Stephen Rea) "Bloody hell --"
• (Stephen Rea) "How many went out?"
• (Rupert Graves) "So far we count eight box cars: several hundred thousand at least."
• (Stephen Rea) "Christ."
• (Sutler) "I want anyone caught with one of those masks arrested."
• (Convenience Store V) "Give me the money. Give me the f***ing money."
• (Rupert Graves) "We're under siege here, the whole city's gone mad."
• (Stephen Rea) "This is exactly what he wants."
• (Rupert Graves) "What?"
• (Convenience Store V) "Anarchy in the UK."
• (Stephen Rea) "Chaos."

• (Stephen Rea) "The problem is, he knows us better than we know ourselves. That's why I went to Larkhill, last night."
• (Rupert Graves) "But that's outside quarantine."
• (Stephen Rea) "I had to see it. There wasn't much left. But when I was there it was strange. I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It's like I could see the whole thing, one long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see everything that happened, and everything that is going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realised we're all part of it, and all trapped by it."
• (Rupert Graves) "So do you know what's gonna happen?"
• (Stephen Rea) "No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then --"

Hugo Weaving as V

• (Hugo Weaving) "May I ask where?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain."

• (Hugo Weaving) "-- A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Did you like it?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Yeah. But it made me feel sorry for Mercedes."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Why?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Because he cared more about revenge than he did about her."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I told you, only truth. For 20 years, I sought only this day. Nothing else existed -- until I saw you. Then everything changed. I fell in love with you Evey. And to think I no longer believed I could."
• (Natalie Portman) "But I don't want you to die."
• (Hugo Weaving) "That's the most beautiful thing you could have ever given me."

• (Hugo Weaving) "We are oft to blame in this,; / 'Tis too much proved; that with devotion's visage/ And pious action we do sugar o'er/ The devil himself."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently -- but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus; the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history."
• (Stephen Rea) "Can you prove any of this?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Why do you think I'm still alive?"
• (Stephen Rea) "Right. We'd like to take you into protective custody, Mr. Rookwood."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Oh, I'm sure you would. But if you want that recording, you'll do what I tell you to do. Put Creedy under 24 hour surveillance. When I feel safe that he can't pick his nose without you knowing, I'll contact you again. Until then, cheerio."
• (Stephen Rea) "Rookwood. Why didn't you come forward before? What were you waiting for?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "For you, Inspector. I needed you."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Hello, Evey."
• (Natalie Portman) "You. It was you."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yeah."
• (Natalie Portman) "That wasn't real -- Is Gordon; ?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed."
• (Natalie Portman) "Oh God --"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Fortunately, I got to you before they did."
• (Natalie Portman) "You got to me? You did this to me? You cut my hair? You tortured me? You tortured me. Why?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way, but there wasn't."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I know you may never forgive me -- but nor will you understand how hard it was for me to do what I did. Every day I saw in myself everything you see in me now. Every day I wanted to end it, but each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't."
• (Natalie Portman) "You're sick. You're evil."
• (Hugo Weaving) "You could've ended it, Evey, you could've given in. But you didn't. Why?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Leave me alone. I hate you."
• (Hugo Weaving) "That's it. See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me -- just as it happened to you."
• (Natalie Portman) "Shut up. I don't want to hear your lies."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
• (Natalie Portman) "No."
• (Hugo Weaving) "What was true in that cell is just as true now. What you felt in there has nothing to do with me."
• (Natalie Portman) "I can't feel anything anymore."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life."
• (Natalie Portman) "I can't -- can't breathe. Asthma -- asthma. When I was little --"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Listen to me, Evey. This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it."
• (Hugo Weaving) "They took your parents from you. They took your brother from you."
• (Hugo Weaving) "They put you in a cell and took everything they could take except your life. And you believed that was all there was, didn't you? The only thing you had left was your life, but it wasn't, was it?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted -- you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Try to feel now what you felt then."
• (Natalie Portman) "Oh God -- I felt --"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes?"
• (Natalie Portman) "I'm dizzy. I need air. Please, I need to be outside."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I can assure you I mean you no harm."
• (Natalie Portman) "Who are you?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask."
• (Natalie Portman) "Well I can see that."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."
• (Natalie Portman) "Oh. Right."
• (Hugo Weaving) "But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Voilà. In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition."
• (Hugo Weaving) "The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
• (Natalie Portman) "Are you, like, a crazy person?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking?"
• (Natalie Portman) "I'm Evey."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Evey? E-V. Of course you are."
• (Natalie Portman) "What does that mean?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence. Are you hurt?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "There's no certainty; only opportunity."

• (Hugo Weaving) "It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto, in honor of the holiday that she seems to have taken from these parts, and in recognition of the impostor that stands in her stead. Tell me Evey, do you know what day it is?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Um, November the 4th."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Not anymore. Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."

• (Hugo Weaving) "My turn."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I'm sorry, but I can't take that risk."

• (Hugo Weaving) "There is no court in this country for men like Prothero."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Is that what you really think, or what they would want you to think?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "Conceal me what I am, and be my aid For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I promise you it will be like nothing you have ever seen."

• (Hugo Weaving) "And thus I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ/And seem a saint when most I play the devil."

• (Hugo Weaving) "May I inquire as to how you escaped detection?"
• (Natalie Portman) "A fake ID works better than a Guy Fawkes mask."

• (Hugo Weaving) "We're oft to blame, and this is too much proved, that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar on the devil himself."
• (Baldy Fingerman) "What does that mean?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Spare the Rod."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I thought we could mark this November the 5th a day that is, sadly, a day that is no longer remembered by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and, for those who will listen, the ennunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy? And we both know why. After I destroy Parliament, his only chance will be to offer them someone else. Some other piece of meat. And who will that be? You, Mr. Creedy. A man as smart as you has probably considered this. A man as smart as you probably has a plan. That plan is the reason Sutler no longer trusts you. It's the reason why you're being watched right now, why there are eyes and ears in every room of this house and a tap on every phone."
• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Bollocks."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Oh, a man as smart as you, I think, knows otherwise."
• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "What do you want?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Sutler. Come now, Mr. Creedy, you knew this was coming. You knew that one day, it'd be you or him. That's why Sutler's been kept underground, for "security purposes". That's why there are several of your men close to Sutler. Men that could be counted on. All you have to do is say the word."
• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "What do I get out of this deal?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Me."
• (Hugo Weaving) "If you accept, put an "x" on your front door."
• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Why should I trust you?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "'Cause it's the only way you're ever going to stop me."

• (Hugo Weaving) "The time has come for me to meet my maker and to repay him in kind for all that he's done."

• (Hugo Weaving) "More than 400 years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."

• (Hugo Weaving) "You did what you thought was right."

• (Hugo Weaving) ""The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him"
• (Hugo Weaving) "disdaining fortune/with his brandish'd steel, which smoked with bloody execution?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "Penny for the Guy?"

• (Hugo Weaving) "Would you -- dance with me?"
• (Natalie Portman) "Now? On the eve of your revolution?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."

• (Hugo Weaving) "May I inquire as to how you have avoided detection?"
• (Natalie Portman) "A fake ID works better than a Guy Fawkes mask."

• (Hugo Weaving) "Wait. Here comes the crescendo."

• (Hugo Weaving) "There are 872 songs on here. I've listened to them all -- but I've never danced to any of them."
• (Natalie Portman) "Did you hear me?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes."
• (Natalie Portman) "I can't stay here."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I know."

• (Hugo Weaving) "I'm afraid that won't work either. Now, you have to understand, Evey. I don't want this for either of us, but I couldn't see any other way. You were unconscious, and I had to make a decision. If I had left you there, right now, you'd be in one of Creedy's interrogation cells. They'd imprison you, torture you, and, in all probability, kill you in the pursuit of finding me. After what you did, I couldn't let that happen, so I picked you up and carried you to the only place I knew you'd be safe: here, to my home."

• (Hugo Weaving) "There are no coincidences, Delia -- only the illusion of coincidence."

Tim Pigott-Smith as Creedy

• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Now that's done with. It's time to have a look at your face. Take off your mask."
• (Hugo Weaving) "No."

• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Not so funny now is it, funny man?"

• (Sutler) "Every day, gentlemen. Every day that brings us closer to November. Every day that man remains free is one more failure. 347 days, gentlemen. 347 failures."
• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Chancellor, we do not have the adequate force --"
• (Sutler) "We are being buried beneath the avalanche of your inadequacies, Mr. Creedy."

• (Tim Pigott-Smith) "Why should I trust you?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Because it's the only way you're ever going to stop me."

Ben Miles as Dascomb

• (Sutler) "Tonight, I will speak directly to these people and make the situation perfectly clear to them. The security of this nation depends on complete and total compliance. Tonight, any protester, any instigator or agitator, will be made example of."
• (Ben Miles) "Chancellor, there is a contingency that has not been addressed."
• (Sutler) "And what is that, Mr. Dascomb?"
• (Ben Miles) "Should the terrorist succeed?"
• (Sutler) "He won't."
• (Ben Miles) "I understand that it is highly unlikely, but if he does?"
• (Sutler) "If he does, and something happens to that building, the only thing that will change, the only difference that it will make, is that tomorrow morning, instead of a newspaper, I will be reading Mr. Creedy's resignation."

• (Ben Miles) "Do you have any idea how long it would take to rebuild this facility?"
• (Stephen Rea) "Do you have any idea what you're doing?"

Roger Allam as Lewis Prothero

• (Roger Allam) "I'll tell you what I know. I know this is not a man."
• (Roger Allam) "What is he?"
• (Roger Allam) "A man does not wear a mask."
• (Roger Allam) "What is he?"
• (Roger Allam) "A man does not threaten innocent civilians. He's what every gutless freedom hating terrorist is, a god**** coward."

• (Roger Allam) "This so called V and his accomplice Evey Hammond, neo-demagogues spouting their message of hate, a delusional and aberrant voice --"
• (Roger Allam) "Aberrant and abhorrent."
• (Roger Allam) "delivering a terrorist's ultimatum --"
• (Roger Allam) "Traitor."
• (Roger Allam) "An ultimatum that was met with swift, surgically precise justice."
• (Roger Allam) "No mercy."
• (Roger Allam) "The moral of this story ladies and gentleman is --"
• (Roger Allam) "Good guys win, bad guys lose, and as always, England prevails."

• (Roger Allam) "There will be no negotiation, Roger. When I arrive in the morning, the paddy will be gone. I'm looking at the tape right now, and he has no idea how to light me. My nose looks like Big freaking Ben."
• (Roger Allam) "Listen to me, you bleeding sod, England prevails because I say it does. And so does every lazy bum on this show, and that includes you. Find another DOP, or find yourself another job."

• (Roger Allam) "You -- it is you."
• (Hugo Weaving) "The Ghost of Christmas past."

• (Roger Allam) "So I read that the former United States is so desperate for medical supplies that they have allegedly sent several containers filled with wheat and tobacco. A gesture, they said, of good will. You wanna know what I think? Well, you're listening to my show, so I will assume you do -- I think it's high time we let the colonies know what we really think of them. I think its payback time for a little tea party they threw for us a few hundred years ago. I say we go down to those docks tonight and dump that crap where everything from the Ulcered Sphincter of Arse-erica belongs. Who's with me? Who's bloody with me?"
• (Roger Allam) "Did you like that? USA -- Ulcered Sphincter of Arse-erica, I mean what else can you say? Here was a country that had everything, absolutely everything. And now, 20 years later, is what? The world's biggest leper colony. Why? Godlessness. Let me say that again -- Godlessness. It wasn't the war they started. It wasn't the plague they created. It was Judgement. No one escapes their past. No one escapes Judgement. You think he's not up there? You think he's not watching over this country? How else can you explain it? He tested us, but we came through. We did what we had to do. Islington. Enfield. I was there, I saw it all. Immigrants, Muslims, homosexuals, terrorists. Disease-ridden degenerates. They had to go. Strength through unity. Unity through faith. I'm a God-fearing Englishman and I'm god**** proud of it."

Sinéad Cusack as Delia Surridge

• (Sinéad Cusack) "June 2nd. I kept wondering if these people knew how they might be helping their country, if they would act any differently. They're so weak and pathetic. They never look you in the eye. I find myself hating them."

• (Sinéad Cusack) "It's you, isn't it? You've come to kill me?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Yes."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "Thank God."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "After what happened. After what they did. I thought about killing myself. I knew that one day you'd come for me. I didn't know what they were going to do. I swear to you. Read my journal."
• (Hugo Weaving) "What they did was only possible because of you."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "Oppenheimer was able to change more than a course of a war. It changed the entire course of human history. Is it wrong to hold on to that kind of hope?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I've not come for what you've hoped to do. I've come for what you did."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "It's funny. I was given one of your roses today. I wasn't sure you were the terrorist until I saw it. What a strange coincidence that I should be given one today."
• (Hugo Weaving) "There are no coincidences, Delia. Only the illusion of coincidences."
• (Hugo Weaving) "I have another rose and this one is for you."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "You're going to kill me now?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "I killed you ten minutes ago -- while you slept."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "Is there any pain?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "No."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "Thank you. Is it meaningless to apologize?"
• (Hugo Weaving) "Never --"
• (Sinéad Cusack) "I'm so sorry."

• (Sinéad Cusack) "May 23rd. My first batch of subjects arrived today, and I have to admit that I am very excited. This could be the dawn of a new age. Nuclear power is meaningless in a world where a virus can kill an entire population and leave its wealth intact --"

• (Sinéad Cusack) "May 27th. Commander Prothero toured the lab with a priest, Father Lilliman, who I was told is here to monitor for rules and rights violations. It made me nervous, but the commander assured me there wouldn't be a problem."

John Standing as Lilliman

• (John Standing) "Oh please, have mercy."
• (Hugo Weaving) "Oh, not tonight Bishop -- not tonight."

Natasha Wightman as Valerie

• (Natasha Wightman) "It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Valerie."

• (Natasha Wightman) "I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much."

• (Natasha Wightman) "But America's war grew worse and worse and eventually it came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone."

• (Natasha Wightman) "I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care. I am me. My name is Valerie. I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography that I will ever write and God, I'm writing it on toilet paper. I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottle Brook and she used to tell me that God was in the rain. I passed my 11 Plus and went to girls' grammar. It was at school that I met my first girlfriend. Her name was Sarah. It was her wrists. They were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew. Sarah did. I didn't. In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me. He told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing. But I'd only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free. I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life and in 2015 I starred in my first film, The Salt Flats. It was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again. We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our window box and our place always smelt of roses. Those were the best years of my life."

• (Natasha Wightman) "They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I've never cried so hard in my life. It wasn't long till they came for me."

• (Natasha Wightman) "I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am me. My name is Valerie, I don't think I'll live much longer and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography I'll ever write, and god, I'm writing it on toilet paper. I was born in Nottingham in 1985, I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tuttlebrook, and she use to tell me that god was in the rain. I passed my 11th lesson into girl's grammar; it was at school that I met my first girlfriend, her name was Sara. It was her wrists. They were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that is was an adolescent phase people outgrew. Sara did, I didn't. In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me, he told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing. But I had only told them the truth, was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free. I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life, and in 2015 I starred in my first film, "The Salt Flats". It was the most important role of my life, not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed, I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again. We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our window box, and our place always smelled of roses. Those were there best years of my life. But America's war grew worse, and worse. And eventually came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone. I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening. While things like Norse Fire and The Articles of Allegiance became powerful, I remember how different became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I've never cried so hard in my life. It wasn't long till they came for me. It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie"

• (Natasha Wightman) "It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one."

Rupert Graves as Dominic

• (Rupert Graves) "What do you think will happen?"
• (Stephen Rea) "What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns."

• (Rupert Graves) "Pucker up, here comes a finger."

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