Penelope (2006)

James McAvoy: Johnny, Max

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• Max : All Halloween I've been running into someone I used to know.

  Penelope : [wearing a pig mask]  This someone - she meant a lot to you?

  Max : Yes, yes she did.

  Penelope : What happened?

  Max : I couldn't give her what she wanted.

  Penelope : What did she want?

  Max : To be free.

• Penelope : There are three hundred and twenty-six first editions in that room. Of those, three hundred are worth over fifty thousand, a dozen or so are worth over twenty-five thousand and I'm afraid there's only one that's valued under a hundred.

  Max : Only one, huh?

  Penelope : A little novel, written by a little nobody that never amounted to anything.

  Max : You don't say, under a hundred?

  Penelope : I'm afraid so, and I'm afraid that means that it's time for

  [interrupted] 

  Max : But your favorite just the same.

• Penelope : Used to? You don't do that anymore? What are you doing instead?

  Max : [after a pause]  Beating you at chess.

  Penelope : I warned you I'd kill her.

  Max : Well that's great, because, you know what? As soon as my guys hear what you've done...

  Penelope : The game will be over, your Queen'll be dead.

  Max : My King's still pretty... active. You know?

  Penelope : Once the Queen is dead, the King is useless.

  Max : What's that about?

  Penelope : I don't know. Maybe he's too depressed to fight. He really loved her, you know.

• Max : Good God, he licked me.

  Lemon : Edward.

  Edward Vanderman Jr. : What?

  Lemon : Don't lick Max.

• Wanda : Wait! He's still a blue-blood! He can break the curse.

  Penelope : Max, I know this face repulses you... And I wouldn't, I wouldn't dream of asking you to accept it.

  Max : No... No... No...

  Penelope : But this isn't me, the real me is inside here somewhere just waiting to get out and you can make that happen and once the curse is broken I'll be just like anybody else.

  Max : What if the curse doesn't get broken? What if the curse can never be broken?

  Penelope : Then I'll kill myself. I promise, I promise I will.

  Penelope : Marry me, Max. Marry me.

  Max : I can't.

  Penelope : Get out.

  Max : I'm...

  Wanda : Get out. Get out.

• Max : Y'know you inspired me, doing what you did, going off on your own like that.

• Lemon : Did you have to gamble all night?

  Max : Yeah... still had chips left.