
Little Women (2019)
Florence Pugh: Amy March
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Quotes
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Amy March : I believe we have some power over who we love. It isn't something that just happens to a person.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : I think the poets might disagree.
Amy March : Well, I'm not a poet. I'm just a woman. And as a woman, there's no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living or support my family. And if I had my own money, which I don't, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Don't marry him.
Amy March : What?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Don't marry him.
Amy March : Why?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : You know why...
Amy March : No, Laurie, that's mean, it's just mean of you...
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Why?
Amy March : I have been second to Jo my whole life in everything and I will not be the person you settle for just because you cannot have her. I won't do it, not when, not when I've spent my entire life loving you.
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Amy March : I'm making a mold of my foot for Laurie to remind him I have nice feet.
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Amy March : I'm sorry, Jo.
Marmee March : Amy...
Amy March : It's just that the only thing you care about is your writing so it's not as if I could hurt you by ruining one of your dresses. And I really did want to hurt you. I am the most sorry for it now. I'm so sorry.
Marmee March : Jo, don't let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive her. Help each other, and you begin again tomorrow.
Jo March : She doesn't deserve my forgiveness. I will hate her! I will hate her forever!
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Amy March : My nose will simply not look refined.
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John Brooke : [Laurie standing on a chair, looking out the window] Please. You have to learn this. I can't afford to lose this position. Just return to the Cicero.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : There's a girl out there!
John Brooke : No, there is not.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Yes, Mr. Brooke. There's a girl.
John Brooke : No, there is not.
[Laurie moves a stool over for Mr. Brooke, who stands on it]
John Brooke : Oh. There is a girl.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : That's a girl.
[Yelling to Amy]
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Hello there. Are you hurt?
Amy March : I'm Amy!
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Hello Amy, I'm Laurie.
Amy March : I know. You brought my sister back from the dance. I would never have sprained my ankle. I have lovely small feet, the best in the family. But I can never go home again, because I'm in such trouble. Look!
[Holding up her hand]
Amy March : Mr Davis hit me.
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Amy March : I want to be great or nothing.
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Amy March : Aren't you ashamed of a hand like that?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : No, I'm not.
Amy March : It looks like it's never done a day of work in its life. And that ring is ridiculous.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Jo gave me this ring.
Amy March : I feel sorry for you, I really do. I just wish you'd bear it better.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : You don't have to feel sorry for me, Amy. You'll feel the same way one day.
Amy March : No, I'd be respected if I couldn't be loved.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : And what work have you done lately, oh great "artiste" - or have you been too busy imagining how you'll spend Fred Vaughn's fortune? FRED VAUGHN, ladies and gentlemen!
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Amy March : You old vanity, with all these good things to enjoy, you can find nothing to do but dawdle.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : I'll be good for you, Saint Amy, I'll be good!
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Amy March : Laurie, dress for festivities! Top hats and silks!
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : I will! I'll wear my best silk.
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Meg March : I wish I had heaps of money and plenty of servants, so I never had to work again.
Jo March : You could be a proper actress on the boards. They aren't all fallen women.
Meg March : I can't be an actress.
Amy March : I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and do fine pictures, and to be the best painter in the world.
Beth March : That's what you want too, isn't it Jo? To be a famous writer?
Jo March : Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it.
Amy March : Why be ashamed of what you want?
Jo March : I'm not.
Beth March : My wish is to have us all to be together with Father and Mother in this house. That's what I want.
Amy March : Beth is perfect.
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Amy March : Doesn't Laurie just seem so romantic? He's half Italian.
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School Girl : My father says the war is a waste, and we should just let them keep their labor.
Amy March : Susan, it is immoral.
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Amy March : He's a real boy!
Meg March : We don't want any boys. This is a club for ladies.
Amy March : Yes!
Beth March : I think we should to do it.
Amy March : Why?
Beth March : Even if we are afraid.
Amy March : Why?
Beth March : I say yes. It's Laurie!
Amy March : No!
Meg March : It will change everything!
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Amy March : I'm a failure.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : That's quite a statement to make at twenty.
Amy March : Well, Rome took all the vanity out of me. And Paris made me realize I'd never be a genius. So, I'm giving up all my foolish artistic hopes.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : I understand queens of society can't get on without money. Although it does sound odd from the mouth of one of your mother's girls.
Amy March : I've always known I would marry rich. Why should I be ashamed of that?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : There's nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you - love him.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Now that you've given up all your foolish artistic hopes, what are you going to do with your life?
Amy March : Polish up all my other talents and become an ornament to society.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : What women are allowed into the club of geniuses anyway?
Amy March : The Brontes?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : That's it?
Amy March : Yes, I think so.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : And who always declares genius?
Amy March : Men, I suppose.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : You have so much talent and energy.
Amy March : Talent isn't genius. And no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I will not be some common-place dauber.
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Amy March : How do I look? Do I look all right?
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : You look beautiful. You are beautiful.
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Marmee March : Where did you get the money?
Jo March : I only sold what was my own.
[removes her hat to reveal her long hair is gone]
Meg March : Jo!
Beth March : Your hair!
Amy March : Your one beauty!
Hannah : You look like a boy.
Jo March : It doesn't affect the fate of the nation, so don't wail.
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Amy March : I'm Amy March. You remember that name. I'm going to come find you one day in London.
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Beth March : Marmee said that...
Amy March : Marmee told us to do lots of things, but we can't possibly do them all.
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Beth March : I think the deep purple is very fitting for Mr. Laurence, do you agree Amy?
Amy March : Quite. And the design is very cunning.
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Aunt March : If you are very good, one day this ring will belong to you.
Amy March : Really?
Aunt March : If you keep being a proper young lady, just see if it doesn't. You are your family's hope now. Beth is sick, Jo is a lost cause, and I hear Meg has had her head turned by a penniless tutor. So, it'll be up to you - to support them all, and your indigent parents in their old age. So you must marry well - and save your family.
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Aunt March : That Laurence boy was just here.
Amy March : He was?
Aunt March : What a disappointment he's turned out to be. It must be the Italian in him.
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Amy March : Beth was the best of us.
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Amy March : I have never seen you so happy! What else is love?
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Jo March : Who would be interested in a story of - domestic struggles and joys? It doesn't have any real importance.
Amy March : Maybe we don't see those things as important because people don't write about them.
Jo March : No, writing doesn't confer importance, it reflects it.
Amy March : I don't think so. Writing them will make them more important.
Jo March : When did you become so wise?
Amy March : I always have been, you were just too busy noticing my faults.
Meg March : Which weren't there, of course.