A Christmas Carol (2009)
Jim Carrey: Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge as a Young Boy, Scrooge as a Teenage Boy, Scrooge as a Young Man, Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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Quotes
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[from trailer]
Ebenezer Scrooge : What do you want with me?
Jacob Marley : You will be haunted by three spirits.
Ebenezer Scrooge : I'd rather not.
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Fred : A Merry Christmas to you, uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Fred : What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough.
Ebenezer Scrooge : BAH! Humbug!
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Fred : Don't be cross, Uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!
Fred : Uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.
Fred : But you don't keep it!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!
Fred : There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
[Cratchit applauds]
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Ebenezer Scrooge : Spirit! Hear Me! I'm not the man I was!
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[From trailer]
[upon meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [Looking with horror upon the children representing Ignorance and Want] Have they no refuse, no resource?
Adult Ignorance : [Suddenly morphing into an adult wielding a knife, and echoing Scrooge's words from earlier] Are there no prisons?
Adult Want : [Suddenly morphing into an adult, and echoing Scrooge's words from earlier] Are there no workhouses?
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[From trailer]
Ebenezer Scrooge : I'm light as a feather! Merry as a schoolboy!
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[first lines]
Ebenezer Scrooge : [upon viewing Marley in casket] Yes, quite dead. As a doornail.
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[From trailer]
[catching himself laughing like the Ghost of Christmas Present]
Ebenezer Scrooge : I've heard that laugh before.
[resumes laughing]
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [high pitch tone] You'll never catch me in here... Christmas Pudding no doubt.
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Ghost of Christmas Present : Come in, and know me better, man!
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [to Marley's ghost] There's more gravy about you than grave.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [catching Bob applauding to Fred's speech] Let me hear one word out of you, Cratchit, and you can keep Christmas by losing your position!
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Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : There is nothing on this earth more terrifying to me than a life doomed to poverty. May I ask, why do you condemn, with such severity, the honest pursuit of substance?
Belle : You fear the world too much, Ebenezer. You've changed.
Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : Changed? Perhaps grown wiser, but I have not changed toward you.
Belle : Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so. When it was made, you were another man.
Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : I was a boy!
Belle : I release you, Ebenezer.
Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : Have I ever sought release?
Belle : In words, no.
Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : In what, then?
Belle : In an altered spirit. In another atmosphere of life. In everything that made my love of any worth in your sight. Tell me, Ebenezer, if this contract had never been between us, would you seek me out now? No.
Scrooge as a Middle Aged Man : You think not.
Belle : I would gladly think otherwise if I could. But if you were free today, would you choose a dowerless girl? A girl left penniless by the death of her parents? You, who weighs everything by gain? I release you, Ebenezer. May you be happy in the life you've chosen.
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[after Marley's Ghost spooked him from door knocker]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Ha! Balderdash!
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Jacob Marley : You do not believe in me.
Ebenezer Scrooge : I don't?
Jacob Marley : Why do you doubt your senses?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Because a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are.
[Marley gets up, screaming at him]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Mercy! Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?
Jacob Marley : Man of worldly mind, do you believe in me or not?
Ebenezer Scrooge : I do! I must!
Jacob Marley : WOE! Woe is me!
Ebenezer Scrooge : You are fettered in chains. Why?
