Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)

Emily Blunt: Harriet

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Quotes 

• Dr. Alfred Jones : I don't know anyone that goes to church anymore.

  Harriet : I don't think I do.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : On Sundays we go to Tesco's.

• Harriet : Are you sure you won't have one

  [a glass of wine] 

  Harriet : ?

  Dr. Alfred Jones : At lunchtime?

  Harriet : Dr. Jones, I haven't spoken a word of Mandarin in about four years so I am celebrating even if you're not.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : I only drink alcohol on the weekend, and even then only after seven.

  Harriet : No exceptions.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : None that I can think of. Well yeah, I got married on a Friday but I think it was a, a, as I recall a bank holiday in Northern Ireland so I allowed myself, I think, a glass on a technicality.

  Harriet : [She just stares at him] 

  Dr. Alfred Jones : That was an attempt at a joke miss Chetwode-Talbot.

  Harriet : Oh! Heh-heh-heh. Right! Good one!

• [Harriet explains to Dr. Jones that salmon fishing in the Yemen is possible and wins the debate] 

  Dr. Alfred Jones : Water.

  Harriet : For the fish?

  Dr. Alfred Jones : No, for me.

  Harriet : Of course.

• Harriet : I knew you'd have a pond.

• Harriet : I'm so sorry, Fred.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : It was an extraordinary idea. It almost worked too.

  Harriet : I wasn't talking about the project.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : No. I'm not sure that I was.

• Harriet : I'm so sorry about what I said before. That is just unforgivable.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : The great thing about people with Asperger's is it's very difficult to hurt their feelings. So it's all right, you can say whatever you like.

• Harriet : Look, I'm not... I'm not coming into work, all right, because I need to stay here. I need to be here in case there's news. So, actually, anyone with a shred of understanding, or humanity, or simple feeling, who, frankly, wasn't suffering from some kind of Asperger's, would know that the last thing that I need is your bullying little phone call asking me to come into work so that you can update me on fish. You want to fill me in on fishing. Well, Dr. Jones, you can take your work and you can shove it up your unfeeling arse.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : I didn't come here to talk to you about work.

  Harriet : Then why are you here?

  Dr. Alfred Jones : I made you a sandwich.

• Harriet : So it's theoretically possible.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : Well, it's theoretically possible in the same way that a manned mission to Mars is theoretically possible.

• Dr. Alfred Jones : We don't need native river fish. We'll be all right with farmed salmon.

  Harriet : Oh.

  Dr. Alfred Jones : I know, I, I don't much like them but, well they will run. I know it. Ah! Yes, Your Excellency. Er, despite our moral and philosophical objections, farmed salmon will run. I'm absolutely sure of it.

  Sheikh Muhammed : You are tireless, Doctor. You have uncovered some new research? A new paper perhaps?

  Dr. Alfred Jones : No, I just know it.

  Sheikh Muhammed : You just know it. I see. Faith, Dr. Alfred?

  Dr. Alfred Jones : Damn it, yes. All right then, faith.