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Nanny McPhee (2005)

Emma Thompson: Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

Emma Thompson credited as playing...

Nanny McPhee

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Quotes13

  • Nanny McPhee: There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go. It's rather sad, really, but there it is.
  • [Nanny McPhee turns around to walk out of the room, but stops once she hears Simon]
  • Simon Brown: We will never want you!
  • Nanny McPhee: Then I will never go.
  • Nanny McPhee: How's the reading coming along?
  • Evangeline: Oh... all right. I still haven't gotten to the end of the story, though.
  • Nanny McPhee: There's no need. You are the end of the story.
  • [repeated line]
  • Nanny McPhee: I did knock.
  • Simon Brown: [Nanny McPhee appears only after he taps her wand into the ground, he nervously quotes her] I-I *did* knock...
  • Nanny McPhee: I know. I heard you.
  • [Repeated line]
  • Nanny McPhee: The person you need is Nanny McPhee.
  • Simon Brown: You must feel at such a disadvantage, Nanny McPhee.
  • Nanny McPhee: In what way?
  • Simon Brown: We know your name... but you don't know ours.
  • [holds out hand]
  • Simon Brown: Pleased to make your acquantence, I'm Oglinton Fartworthy.
  • [Children giggle whilst making farty noises]
  • Nanny McPhee: [Shakes Simon's hand] How d'you do.
  • Simon Brown: That's F-A-R-T, Fartworthy.
  • Tora: Booger McHorsefanny.
  • Lily: Knickers O'Muffin.
  • Eric Brown: Sandra.
  • Christianna: Bum.
  • Sebastian: I'm Bum!
  • Christianna: Oh, Bosoms.
  • [Children giggle out loud]
  • Baby Agatha: Bum.
  • Christianna: You can't be Bum, Aggie! Sebastian's Bum. You're Poop.
  • Baby Agatha: Poop Bum.
  • Sebastian: You can't be Poop and Bum!
  • Mr. Brown: Nanny McPhee! Now she can't take the donkey, so what have you done?
  • Nanny McPhee: I have done nothing, sir. The children have decided amongst themselves.
  • Mr. Brown: Decided what?
  • Great Aunt Adelaide: [off in distance] There you are, my dear.
  • Mr. Brown: Not little Chrissy. it's Evangeline
  • [runs from the house]
  • Mr. Brown: Evangeline!
  • Great Aunt Adelaide: [in the carriage] Now my dear, tell me your name.
  • Mr. Brown: [bolts down the road] Evangeline!
  • Nanny McPhee: Tell me your name.
  • Mr. Brown: [in the forest] Evangeline!
  • Great Aunt Adelaide: Sit up straight, and tell me your name.
  • Mr. Brown: [the carriage fades in the distance] NO! Evangeline!
  • Christianna: Papa! Papa!
  • [races into her father's arms and hugs him]
  • Mr. Brown: Oh thank...
  • [the other children run up to him]
  • Mr. Brown: all of you? Oh... Then who is?
  • Evangeline: [raises head for Aunt Adelaide to see] Evangeline... My name is Evangeline.
  • Nanny McPhee: Please, Mr. Brown, go back to your newspaper.
  • [repeated line]
  • Nanny McPhee: Hmm...
  • [repeated line given after making a sudden appearance]
  • Nanny McPhee: I did knock.
  • Nanny McPhee: [after using a winking donkey to rescue the children from their Great Aunt] One of you is going to have to go and it can't be the donkey.
  • [last lines]
  • Vicar: Dearly beloved, we are gathered together to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony. Make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise.
  • Nanny McPhee: [narrating, as she nods to the empty chair of the Brown family matriarch then walks away into the countryside] There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go.
  • Nanny McPhee: Not at all.

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