The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Maureen O'Hara: Esmeralda

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• Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : I never realized till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful... I'm not a man! I'm not a beast! I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon! I'm deaf, you know, but you can speak to me by signs.

  Esmeralda : Why did you save me?

  Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : You ask me why I saved you? Oh, I tried to carry you off, and the next day you gave me a drink of water and little pity.

• Gringoire : Your hands are like ice. You're not afraid are you?

  Esmeralda : Not now oh Gringoire, Why did I ever come to Paris?

  Gringoire : Don't cry darling

  Esmeralda : I keep thinking and thinking How I came here to soften the king heart towards my people until my silly heart betrayed me for that I deserve to die.

  Gringoire : You will not! I will get you free

  Esmeralda : You will look out after my people when I am gone

• Frollo : What are you doing in Notre Dame?

  Esmeralda : I'm praying.

  Frollo : You can not pray here, you are a heathen.

  Esmeralda : Who are you? You're not a priest. Yet you look like one.

  Frollo : I am what I wish to be. Get up and leave this church. You desecrate the very stones on which you kneel.

• Esmeralda : [to Follo]  Your hand. There's the mark of the devil on it. Mother of God, don't let them hang me! Protect me! Protect me!

  Frollo : Praying won't help you. You come from an evil race.

  Esmeralda : You don't know anything about my people.

  Frollo : Honest people don't live by witchcraft and magic.

  Esmeralda : If we really had the power of magic, do you think we'd choose to be outcasts, to be poor and persecuted always? Surely we'd use it for our own benefit.

  Frollo : All gypsies should be destroyed by fire and sword.

  Esmeralda : You mustn't talk like that in here. The Mother of God is listening.