Natalie Portman credited as playing...
Mathilda
- Mathilda: Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you.
- [Leon chokes on his milk]
- Mathilda: It's the first time for me, you know?
- Léon: [wiping himself off] How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
- Mathilda: 'Cause I feel it.
- Léon: Where?
- Mathilda: [stoking her stomach] In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there and now... it's gone.
- Léon: Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache any more. I don't think it means anything.
- Mathilda: You killed my brother.
- Stansfield: I'm sorry. And you want to join him?
- Mathilda: No.
- Stansfield: It's always the same thing. It's when you start to become really afraid of death that you learn to appreciate life. Do you like life, sweetheart?
- Mathilda: Yes.
- Stansfield: That's good, because I take no pleasure in taking life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it.
- Mathilda: [Mathilda, crying about her brother's murder and her stepmother] I was more of a mother to him than that goddamn pig ever was!
- Léon: Hey, don't talk like that about pigs. They're usually much nicer than people.
- Mathilda: But they smell like shit.
- Léon: Not true. As a matter of fact, right now I have one in my kitchen that's very clean and smells very nice.
- Mathilda: You don't have a pig in your kitchen.
- Léon: Yes, I do.
- Mathilda: I was just in there and I didn't see any goddamned pig.
- Léon: Don't move. I'll get him.
- [Léon goes into the kitchen]
- Léon: Piggy? Piggy? Where are you?
- Léon: [oinking noises are heard in the kitchen] Oink, oink! Ah, there you are.
- Léon: [more oinking, then a cartoon pig pot holder sticks its 'head' around the corner] Hi, Mathilda.
- Mathilda: [she smiles] Hi, piggy.
- Mathilda: I hope you're not lying Leon. I really hope that deep down there's no love in you. And if there is, I think in a few minutes you'll regret you never said anything. I love you Leon.
- Mathilda: I am writing here the name of a girl in the class who makes me sick. If things get hot, she'll take the heat.
- Orphanage Headmistress: Now tell me what happened to you.
- Mathilda: OK. My family they got shot down by D.E.A. officers because of a drug problem. I left with the greatest guy on earth. He was a hitman, the best in town, but he died this morning. And if you don't help me, I'll be dead by tonight.
- Stansfield: [catching Mathilda in the bathroom with food bags] Special delivery huh... Let me guess... Chinese? Thai, maybe? Ahh, I've got it. Italian food
- [pops a pill and pulls out a gun]
- Stansfield: What's your name angel...
- [Mathilda answers]
- Stansfield: ... Mathilda, I want you to put the sack on the floor... good... Now, I want you to tell me everything you know about Italian food, and don't forget the name of the chef who fixed it for me.
- Mathilda: Nobody sent me.I do business for myself.
- Stansfield: Ahh... so this is... something... personal?... What filthy peice of... shit... did I do now?
- Mathilda: You killed my brother.
- [to receptionist after being asked about her father (Leon)]
- Mathilda: He's not my father. He's my lover.
- Léon: There was someone a long time ago. Before I came to the States. Her father didn't want her to see me. She was from a very respectable family. Mine was, you know, not so respectable. Her dad went nuts every time she'd take off to see me.
- Mathilda: But she still snuck off to see you, right?
- Léon: Right.
- Mathilda: You see, nothing can stop love, Léon.
- Mathilda: Do you "clean" anyone?
- Léon: No women, no kids, that's the rules.
- Mathilda: How much would it cost to hire someone to get those dirtbags who killed my brother?
- Léon: Five grand a head.
- Mathilda: Wow. How about this: I work for you; in exchange, you teach me how to clean. Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes. Is it a deal?