Nanny McPhee (2005)

Emma Thompson: Nanny McPhee

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Quotes 

• 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 : 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!

• 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.

• Nanny McPhee : Please, Mr. Brown, go back to your newspaper.

• 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.

• [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.