Jeremy Northam quotes
- From the movie: Emma
“The truest friend does not doubt... but hope.”
- From the movie: Official Secrets
“- 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.” - 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.“- Jack: Computers are your life, aren't they?
- Angela: Yes. The perfect hiding place.”- From the movie: An Ideal Husband
“- 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.” - From the TV Series: The Tudors
“If the lion knows its own strength, no man could control it.”
- From the movie: Gosford Park
“- Morris Weissman: How do you manage to put up with these people?
- Ivor Novello: Well, you forget, I make my living impersonating them.” - From the movie: An Ideal Husband
- From the movie: Happy, Texas
“- 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.” - From the movie: An Ideal Husband
“- Sir Robert Chiltern: You could always get married.
- Lord Arthur Goring: It's the always bit that alarms me.” - From the movie: The Winslow Boy
“- 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.” - La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“I've never had a desire to be famous.”
- La trovi in Actors in real life
- From the movie: Emma
- From the movie: The Winslow Boy
“- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, you still pursue your feminist activities?
- Catherine Winslow: Oh yes.
- Sir Robert Morton: Pity. It's a lost cause.” - From the movie: Emma
“- 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.” - From the movie: Emma
“Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another.”
- From the movie: Emma
“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”
- From the movie: An Ideal Husband
“- 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.” - From the movie: Happy, Texas
- From the movie: Emma
“- 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.
- Mr...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
“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.”
- From the movie: Possession
- From the movie: Gosford Park
“- Morris Weissman: You're providing a lot of entertainment for nothing.
- Ivor Novello: Morris... I'm used to it.”
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