Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Natalie Portman: Queen Amidala, Padmé

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• Anakin : Are you an angel?

  Queen Amidala : What?

  Anakin : An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.

  Queen Amidala : You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?

  Anakin : I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you know, and someday I'm going to fly away from this place.

• Queen Amidala : You're a slave?

  Anakin : I'm a person and my name is Anakin.

• Padmé : Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know? The Queen will not approve.

  Qui-Gon Jinn : The Queen does not need to know.

  Padmé : Well, I don't approve.

• Queen Amidala : I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.

• Queen Amidala : I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee!

• Queen Amidala : Senator, this is your arena. I feel I must return to my mine. I have decided to go back to Naboo.

  Senator Palpatine : Go back? But, your Majesty, be realistic. They'll force you to sign the treaty.

  Queen Amidala : I will sign no treaty, Senator. My fate will be no different to that of our people.

• Queen Amidala : Although we do not always agree, Your Honor, our two great societies have always lived in peace. The Trade Federation has destroyed all that we have worked so hard to build. If we do not act quickly, all will be lost forever. I ask you to help us... no, I beg you to help us.

  [Amidala drops to her knees in front of the Gungan assembly] 

  Queen Amidala : We are your humble servants.

  [One by one, everyone in Amidala's party gets on one knee in front of the Gungan assembly] 

  Queen Amidala : Our fate is in your hands.

  Boss Nass : Hmmmmm.

  [rubs his chin in thought] 

• C-3PO : Hello, I am C-3PO, human cyborg relations. How might I serve you?

  Padmé : He's perfect.

  C-3PO : Oh. "Perfect."

• Queen Amidala : [speaking to Chancellor Palpatine]  It is clear to me now that the Republic no longer functions. I pray you will bring sanity and compassion back to the Senate.

• Queen Amidala : Our people are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the Federation.

  Senator Palpatine : To be realistic, your Majesty, I think we are going to have to accept Federation control for the time being.

  Queen Amidala : That is something I cannot do.

• Queen Amidala : The Federation has gone too far this time.

• Qui-Gon Jinn : Your Highness, under the circumstances, I suggest you come to Coruscant with us.

  Queen Amidala : Thank you, Ambassador. But my place is with my people.

  Qui-Gon Jinn : They will kill you if you stay.

  Governor Sio Bibble : They wouldn't dare.

  Captain Panaka : They need her to sign a treaty to make this invasion of theirs legal. They can't afford to kill her.

• Anakin : I don't know if I'll ever see her again, I wanted to say goodbye.

  Queen Amidala : We will tell her for you. We are sure her heart goes with you.

• Anakin : [showing C-3PO to Padme]  Isn't he great? He's not finished yet.

  Padmé : He's wonderful.

  Anakin : You really like him? He's a protocol droid to help Mom. Watch.

  C-3PO : [being switched on, with just one photoreceptor affixed]  Oh. Oh. Where is everybody?

• Queen Amidala : How did you end up here with us?

  Jar Jar Binks : I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and grabbin that Jedi and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared!

• Anakin : I had a dream I was a Jedi. I came back here and freed all the slaves. Have you come to free us?

  Qui-Gon Jinn : No, I'm afraid not.

  Anakin : I think you have. Why else would you be here?

  Qui-Gon Jinn : I can see there's no fooling you, Anakin. We're on our way to Coruscant, the central system in the Republic, on a very important mission.

  Anakin : How did you end up out here in the Outer Rim?

  Padmé : Our ship was damaged, and we're stranded here until we can repair it.

  Anakin : I can help. I can fix anything.

  Qui-Gon Jinn : I believe you can. But first we must acquire the parts we need.

  Jar-Jar Binks : With no-nutten mula to trade.

  Padmé : These junk dealers must have a weakness of some kind.

  Shmi Skywalker : Gambling. Everything here revolves around betting on those awful races.

• Qui-Gon Jinn : [entering Mos Espa]  Moisture farms, for the most part. Some indigenous tribes and scavengers. The few spaceports like this one are havens for those that don't wish to be found.

  Padmé : Like us.

• Padmé : You assume too much.

• Queen Amidala : Get to your ships!

• Queen Amidala : If this Body will not act, I propose a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum's leadership.

• Queen Amidala : Jar-Jar, I don't mean to hold you up...

• Jar-Jar Binks : Gungans get pasted too, eh?

  Queen Amidala : I hope not.

• Sabé : I am Queen Amidala of the Naboo. I come before you in peace.

  Boss Nass : Ah, Naboo biggen. Yousa bringen da Mackineeks. Yousa all bombad.

  Sabé : We have searched you out because we wish to form an alliance.

  [Padme steps forward] 

  Queen Amidala : You honor.

  Boss Nass : Whosa dis?

  Queen Amidala : I am Queen Amidala.

  [points to Sabé] 

  Queen Amidala : This is my decoy, my protection... my loyal bodyguard.

• Queen Amidala : I can't allow my people to suffer and die while you discuss this War in a Committee!

• Queen Amidala : Jar Jar Binks?

  Jar Jar Binks : Mesa, your Highness?

  Queen Amidala : Yes. I need your help.