Jeremy Northam movie quotes

“The truest friend does not doubt... but hope.”
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“- Ben Emmerson: Why did you keep her in a state of distress for a year before you brought charges?
- Ken Macdonald: The services wanted to make an example of her. If we'd dropped the case any earlier, what kind of messages would that have sent?
- Ben Emmerson: Do me a favour, Ken. Go and fish somewhere else.”
Ralph Fiennes - Ben Emmerson
Jeremy Northam - Ken Macdonald

- Jack: God, we're pathetic, aren't we? We're here. We're sitting on the most perfect beach in the world, and all we can think about is...
- Angela: "Where I can hook up my modem"?
- Jack: Yeah, exactly.
Jeremy Northam - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Angela

“- Jack: Computers are your life, aren't they?
- Angela: Yes. The perfect hiding place.”
Jeremy Northam - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Angela

“- Sir Robert Chiltern: Do you know, Arthur, I sometimes wish I were you.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Do you know, Robert, sometimes I wish you were too. Except that you would probably make something useful out of my life, and that would never do.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“If the lion knows its own strength, no man could control it.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Thomas More

“- Morris Weissman: How do you manage to put up with these people?
- Ivor Novello: Well, you forget, I make my living impersonating them.”
Bob Balaban - Morris Weissman
Jeremy Northam - Ivor Novello

“- Sir Robert Chiltern: I will give you any sum of money you want.
- Mrs. Laura Cheveley: Even you are not rich enough to buy back your past, Sir Robert. No man is.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley

“- Sheriff Chappy Dent: I guess like everybody I'm scared of bein', you know, rejected.
- Harry Sawyer: There's no way, man. You're a real catch, you're a man's man, a nice guy. You've got your health. And everybody knows what a turn-on that uniform is.”
William H. Macy - Chappy
Jeremy Northam - Harry

“- Sir Robert Chiltern: You could always get married.
- Lord Arthur Goring: It's the always bit that alarms me.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“- Sir Robert Morton: I wept today because right had been done.
- Catherine Winslow: Not justice?
- Sir Robert Morton: No, not justice. Right. Easy to do justice. Very hard to do right.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow

“I've never had a desire to be famous.”
Jeremy Northam

“I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.”
Jeremy Northam

“I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.”
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“Men of sense, whatever you may say, do not want sillywives!”
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, you still pursue your feminist activities?
- Catherine Winslow: Oh yes.
- Sir Robert Morton: Pity. It's a lost cause.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow

“- Emma Woodhouse: The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage.
- Mr Knightley: I do not comprehend it because it is madness.”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Woodhouse
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another.”
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“- Mrs. Laura Cheveley: I want to talk to you about a great political and financial scheme, about this Argentine Canal Company, in fact.
- Sir Robert Chiltern: What a tedious, practical subject for you to talk about Mrs. Cheveley!
- Mrs. Laura Cheveley: I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people.”
Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern

“- Harry Sawyer: So we're gay. How hard can that be?
- Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr.: It might not be hard for you, Rock Hudson, but I have got heterosex...
- Harry Sawyer: What?
- Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr.: 'Not gay' written all over me.”
Jeremy Northam - Harry
Steve Zahn - Wayne

“- Emma Woodhouse: People said Mr. Weston would never marry again, and what a triumph!
- Mr Knightley: Triumph? You made a lucky guess!
- Emma Woodhouse: Have you never known the triumph of a lucky guess? Had I not promoted Mr. Weston's visits and given encouragement where encouragement was needed, we might not have had a wedding today.
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Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Woodhouse
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley
Denys Hawthorne - Mr Woodhouse

“Now what you have to understand Bobby is that three bad shots and one good shot still make par. You see, golf is the game of recovery.”
Jeremy Northam - Walter Hagen

“They say that women change. 'Tis so, but you are ever-constant in your changefulness. Like that still thread of falling river, one from source to last embrace, in the still pool ever-renewed and ever-moving on, from first to last, a myriad water-drops.”
Jeremy Northam - Randolph Henry Ash

“- Morris Weissman: You're providing a lot of entertainment for nothing.
- Ivor Novello: Morris... I'm used to it.”

Bob Balaban - Morris Weissman
Jeremy Northam - Ivor Novello