National Velvet (1944)

Elizabeth Taylor: Velvet Brown

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• Mr. Hallam : So you're to win the gelding, are you Velvet?

  Velvet : Oh, of course I'm to win.

  Mr. Hallam : There are ways of arranging it, aren't there? And your father's a clever man...

  Velvet : Oh, I didn't bother him, Mr. Hallam. I just arranged it with God.

• Velvet Brown : I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

• Velvet : He's beautiful, Mr. Ede. What's his name?

  Farmer Ede : Name? He's a murderous pirate, not deserving of a name.

  Velvet : Oh no, not pirate. He's a gentle one. I'll just call him Pi.

• Mr. Herbert Brown : [Velvet is pretending she's riding The Pi]  Who's this Pi? A new one?

  Velvet Brown : Oh, Father, you should see him, he's beautiful. He never puts a foot wrong.

  Mr. Herbert Brown : Who?

  Velvet Brown : Mr. Ede's new horse. I'm in love with him.

  Mr. Herbert Brown : You're a fickle woman. I've heard you say that about other horses.

• Mrs. Brown : Win or lose, it's all the same. It's how you take it that counts, and knowing when to let go; knowing when it's over and time to go on to the next thing.

  Velvet Brown : The next thing?

  Mrs. Brown : Things come suitable to the time, Velvet. Enjoy each thing, then forget it and go on to the next. There's a time for everything. There's a time for having a horse in the Grand National, being in love, having children; yes, even for dying. All in proper order at the proper time.

• Velvet Brown : Who's been in my box?

  Donald Brown : Me.

  Edwina Brown : [correcting him]  "I."

  Donald Brown : You, too?

• [Mi is trying to tell Velvet the "tricks" for the Grand National] 

  Velvet Brown : Don't, Mi! No matter what you say or do everyone else out there will know more than me. It's no use, Mi.

  Mi Taylor : Do think a race like this is won by luck?

  Velvet Brown : No, by knowing the Pi can win and telling him so!