Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Lee Pace: Michael

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Quotes 

• Michael : Ice pick?

  Delysia : It's in the drawer. Somewhere! Ice in the Fridgedair?

  Michael : I want the pick for murder, not ice.

• Delysia : However did you get in?

  Michael : One picks up a few tricks in prison, you know, breaking and entering being one of them.

• Michael : Pure and simple, I want you to marry me, and it's a one word conversation Delysia.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Don't you think, that on such a momentous occasion, a little time should be allowed?

  Michael : Oh, stalling tactic. Is it because I'm not rich enough for her?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Certainly not.

  Michael : Well, it's true. I'm wearing most of my worldly possessions. I could never afford this kind of blackmail.

  [gestures around Nick's flat] 

  Delysia : Oh, and who pays you for playing the piano, huh? Are you telling me you give Nick his money back after every show?

  Michael : No, and every damned shilling I take hurts me to the bone, which is why it's got to change Delysia. Money or love, that's the question I'm asking. Here's the deal: I'll play for you today, Delysia, and for the rest of your life if you'll marry me. Never again if you don't.

• [after Delysia has refused to sing] 

  Michael : She said no.

  Nick : What, and she does what you say?

  Michael : Never once, as a matter of fact, but that's not the point.

• Michael : After an hour of waiting for her, I broke open the champagne.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Oh, dear.

  Michael : Then floating past the Tower of London, I had a brain wave. Decided the ring I had wasn't good enough for her. And when a man wants a diamond, what better place to get it?

• Delysia : Is the offer still open?

  Nick : Get up!

  [Michael stands and nick knocks him back down with a punch to the nose] 

  Delysia : Well, is it a yes or is it a no?

  Michael : What?

  Delysia : Well will you doggone marry me or will you doggone not?

  [he grins in delight, scrambles up, socks Nick square in the jaw, and pulls Delysia to her feet] 

  Michael : Yes. God help me, yes!

  [they kiss fervently]