Little Women (1994)

Christian Bale: Laurie

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• Laurie : I have loved you since the moment I clapped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you?

  Jo March : We'd kill each other.

  Laurie : Nonsense!

  Jo March : Neither of us can keep our temper-...

  Laurie : I can, unless provoked.

  Jo March : We're both stupidly stubborn, especially you. We'd only quarrel!

  Laurie : I wouldn't!

  Jo March : You can't even propose without quarreling.

• Amy : I don't wanna die. I've never even been kissed. I've waited my whole to be kissed, and what if I miss it?

  Laurie : I tell you what. I promise to kiss you before you die.

• Laurie : Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him. And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch.

• Laurie : I'm quite taken by that one.

  Jo : That's Meg!

  Laurie : Meg.

  Jo : That's my sister. She's completely bald in front.

• Amy : Do you hear from Jo? She has befriended a German professor.

  Laurie : Yes, well, no doubt he's showing her the ways of the world.

  Amy : I do not wish to be courted by someone who is still in love with my sister!

  Laurie : I'm not in love with Jo.

  Amy : Then how do you explain your jealousy?

  Laurie : I envy her happiness. I envy his happiness. I envy John Brooke for marrying Meg. I hate Fred Vaughn. And if Beth had a lover I would despise him too. Just as you have always known that you would never marry a pauper, I have always known I should be part of the March family.

  Amy : I do not wish to be loved for my family.

  Laurie : Any more than Fred Vaughn wishes to be loved for his 40,000 a year!

• Laurie : Fellow artists, may I present myself as an actor, a musician, and a loyal and very humble servant of the club.

  Jo March : We'll be the judge of that.

  Laurie : In token of my gratitude and as a means of promoting communication between adjoining nations, shouting from windows being forbidden, I shall provide a post office in our hedge, to further incourage the bearing of our souls and the telling of our most appalling secrets. I do pledge never to reveal what I recieve in confindence here.

  Meg : Well, then. Do take your place Rodrigo.

  Jo March : Sir Rodrigo.

• Jo : If I weren't going to be a writer I'd go to New York and pursue the stage. Are you shocked?

  Laurie : Very.

• Laurie : Hello! Jo! Come over here. You too, Meg. It's dull as tombs around here.

• Laurie : Meg?

  Meg : Please don't tell Jo how I've behaved.

  Laurie : As long as you won't tell anyone how I've behaved.

  Meg : I was just playing a part. To see what it felt like to be Belle Gardiner with four proposals and 20 pairs of gloves.

  Laurie : You're worth ten of those girls.

  Boston Matron : Did you see the way that March girl has gone after the Laurence heir?

  Boston Matron : Best thing that could happen to the Marches.

  Meg : This ridiculous dress, I've been tripping over it all night.

  Laurie : Tie something around your neck where it can do you some good.

• Jo : Teddy? Oh, this is magic!

  Laurie : Jo, you are absolutely

  Jo : Covered in flour! Oh dear.

• Dr. Bangs : There is nothing to be done. If I bleed her, it would finish her. Best send for the mother.

  Laurie : Forgive me. I have already done so. Mrs. March arrives on the train this night.